This is the part that keeps getting buried under the raw numbers. Hegseth spent months pressuring Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to remove four decorated colonels from the one-star promotion list. Two Black men. Two women. Driscoll refused, because their records demanded it. So

Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling is not mincing words. The former Commanding General of US Army Europe says these generals were purged because they stood up against Pete Hegseth’s push to turn the US military into a Christian nationalist crusade. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Randy

Reporter: “How many generals have you fired?” Hegseth: “I don’t know the number.” Reporter: “You don’t know the number? It’s eight. Why did you fire them?” Hegseth: “At the pleasure of the president.” The Secretary of Defense does not know how many generals he has fired.

Even we have to agree with this.

On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted. Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness. I know all of you and him and he

I knew this meme would come next.

The New York Times: In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencer accounts have emerged on social media

Trump Administration official refers to his own statements as “the dying gasps of a desperate regime.” Stopped clock is inadvertently right twice a day.

For WIRED, I spoke to a med student in India who made thousands of dollars duping MAGA fans by creating a blonde AI influencer named "Emily Hart." Here's how he did it.

What a truly evil way to treat people who risked their lives for the United States

Northern Virginia Democrats when the game is on the line:

THANK YOU VIRGINIA!

Let the whining from my Party begin about the fact the voters in Virginia unlike Texas (which started all of this gerrymandering mess) actually had a say in whether or not they wanted their congressional maps redrawn. In Texas, the Republican legislature just did it and not one

I wonder if something happened to radicalize NoVa last year

SCOOP: A report showing the effectiveness of the covid-19 vaccine that was previously delayed by the head of the CDC has now been blocked from being published in the agency’s flagship scientific journal, per sources. My latest. washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04…

This happened in Washington DC. If you don’t see a problem with this, you are part of the problem. Both MPD and Undercover Agents in Unmarked Cars jumped out on Jamari Khalif in broad daylight 10 deep for no reason. This shouldn’t be the norm in America……but it is smh

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

from a lamppost in Virginia, the state motto: