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Fox News: Pete Hegseth says West Point professor who resigned over Trump admin education overhaul ‘will not be missed’

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A West Point professor’s resignation over education shifts brought, in part, by the Trump administration, drew a scathing comment from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. 

West Point philosophy professor Graham Parsons announced his resignation Thursday, following a 13-year tenure with the academy. Hegseth quickly took to social media, voicing his opinion after the departure.

“You will not be missed Professor Parsons,” Hegseth wrote in response to Parsons’ resignation.

This is quintessential Hegseth — no class, no tact, no sense of decency. Four more years of Hegseth will leave our military in shambles.

Pete Hegseth says West Point professor who resigned over Trump admin education overhaul ‘will not be missed’
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a scathing X post Thursday, said a West Point professor who resigned from the academy will not be missed.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/pete-hegseth-says-west-point-professor-who-resigned-over-trump-admin-education-overhaul-will-not-missed

Daily Beast: Bad News for Pete Hegseth as Pentagon Signal Probe Widens

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The Pentagon inspector general has reportedly expanded an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the encrypted messaging app Signal. Citing a congressional aide and a source familiar with the inquiry, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that acting Inspector General Steven Stebbins plans to widen his investigation to include a second Signal chat Hegseth made that included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer. Stebbins initially announced the launch of the investigation last month, and stated it would examine a Signal group chat Hegseth and other top officials were a part of. That chat became public after then-National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. The inquiry will now include a probe into the second group chat as well, and could pose trouble for Hegseth—who has repeatedly denied ever using the app to send classified information. Crediting their source, WSJ adds that Stebbins is concerned in part about “who took information from a government system for highly-classified information and put it into Hegseth’s commercial Signal app.”

Bad News for Pete Hegseth as Pentagon Signal Probe Widens
The Pentagon inspector general has reportedly expanded an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the encrypted messaging app Signal. Citing a congressional aide and a source familiar with the inquiry, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that acting Inspector General Steven Stebbins plans to widen his investigation to include a second Signal chat Hegseth made that included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer. Stebbins…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bad-news-for-pete-hegseth-as-pentagon-signal-probe-widens/ar-AA1E0Rw9

Politico: Hegseth attorney’s dual roles trip conflict of interest alarms

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Tim Parlatore is a personal attorney and top adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. At the same time, he’s suing the Navy and defending private clients against the U.S. government.

Parlatore, who represented Donald Trump in a criminal case two years ago and rejoined the Navy Reserve in March to aid Hegseth, was recently tapped to coordinate the leak investigation that led to chaos at the Pentagon. The probe was publicly tied to the firings of top advisers and preceded further revelations that Hegseth was careless with classified information. Parlatore was also reportedly in the Signal group with Hegseth’s wife and brother in which the Defense secretary shared details of a strike on Yemen.

Hegseth attorney’s dual roles trip conflict of interest alarms
Tim Parlatore’s close relationship with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — while representing legal clients facing off against the department — is drawing scrutiny.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hegseth-attorney-s-dual-roles-trip-conflict-of-interest-alarms/ar-AA1E64sP

Newsweek: Donald Trump’s New Order Sparks ‘Martial Law’ Concerns

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President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to increase the flow of military and national security equipment to local law enforcement, a move that has raised concerns about the militarization of policing across the United States.

Why It Matters

Research into militarized police forces has found the practice can erode public trust, escalate encounters between police and citizens and blur the distinction between military operations and domestic law enforcement.

This executive order specifically has increased fears around an encroachment toward martial law. The president has already called for his government to review the Insurrection Act, which would give more domestic power to the military, and now wants to provide regular law enforcement with militaristic material.

What To Know

The “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens” executive order, which the president signed on Monday, directs Attorney General Pam Bondi [Bimbo #3] and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, in consultation with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem [Bimbo #2] and other agency heads, to “increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions” within 90 days.

The directive gives the attorney general and the secretary of defense a three-month deadline to begin expanding the provision of military and national security resources to “assist state and local law enforcement.”

Donald Trump’s new order sparks “martial law” concerns
A new executive order has raised fears of “martial law” as it would facilitate an increase in military equipment for law enforcement.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-new-order-sparks-martial-law-concerns-2065618

Mediaite: Trump Orders Hegseth and Bondi [Bimbo #3] to ‘Determine How Military’ Can Be Used in Domestic Law Enforcement

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President Donald Trump directed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi [Bimbo #3] to determine how the U.S. military could be used for domestic law enforcement on Monday.

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The president also ordered Hegseth and Bondi [Bimbo #3] to “determine how military and national security assets” and personnel “can most effectively be utilized” to prevent crime:

The police state is coming, and the military side of it will be run by a drunken wife-beating O-3 washout turned Fox TV host turned Secretary of Defense Christian Nationalist.

Trump Orders Hegseth and Bondi to ‘Determine How Military’ Can Be Used in Domestic Law Enforcement
President Donald Trump directed Hegseth and Bondi to determine how the U.S. military could be used for domestic law enforcement on Monday.
Trump Orders Hegseth and Bondi to ‘Determine How Military’ Can Be Used in Domestic Law Enforcement

Salon: Pete Hegseth’s Orwellian purge leaves US military academies less free

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I was shocked and upset to learn recently that Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was, under orders of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, pulled from the shelves of Nimitz Library on the campus of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. As if the removal of this seminal text of American literature were not egregious enough, in this “DEI purge,” staff also jettisoned “Memorializing the Holocaust,” by Janet Jacobs’ and “Jack Johnson: Rebel Sojourner,” by Theresa Runstedtler. 

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Nearly four hundred other books were purged, prompting members of the House Armed Services Committee to demand that the Navy, “stop the removal of books from the service academy’s library.” Every American should make the same demand.  Moreover they should urge their representatives in Congress to also demand that Hegseth return the purged books to the library. 

Pete Hegseth’s Orwellian purge leaves US military academies less free
I was one of the few Black students at the Naval Academy in the 1970s, and had more freedom than students do now

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pete-hegseth-s-orwellian-purge-leaves-us-military-academies-less-free/ar-AA1DKRk2

The Dispatch: Trump’s Team of Losers

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The president has hired lots of people who couldn’t win their own elections.

He’s not alone. Hegseth is only one member of the second Trump administration to have been plucked from the pantheon of electoral duds and given a second lease on political life. From the Cabinet all the way to high-profile White House aides, there are failed candidates for major office who might have otherwise toiled for years in obscurity or, even worse, local politics if not for Trump’s magnanimity. Contrary to the president’s boasted affection for winners, it’s loyalty to Trump, sometimes even in the face of defeat, that remains the most valuable characteristic for a Republican looking to get ahead these days. Even the losers.

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So the pathway for aspiring MAGA politicians is clear: in order to get the Trump administration imprimatur to win a future race for office, try losing one first.

Trump’s Team of Losers
The president has hired lots of people who couldn’t win their own elections.
Trump’s Team of Losers

USA Today: ‘I run the country and the world,’ Donald Trump says in Atlantic interview

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President Donald Trump declared that he runs the world as he reflected on what’s different during his second White House go around in an interview with The Atlantic magazine.

“The first time, I had two things to do ‒ run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” Trump said in the interview, published April 28. “And the second time, I run the country and the world.”

Sorry, Trumpsy dearest. God runs the world. You’re here only to scrub the toilets.

‘I run the country and the world,’ Donald Trump says in Atlantic interview
President Trump said he’s having more fun the second time around and again teased an unconstitutional third term in an interview with The Atlantic.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-run-the-country-and-the-world-donald-trump-says-in-atlantic-interview/ar-AA1DMR56

Newsweek: Fired Pentagon Official Says He’s ‘Not Sure’ if Pete Hegseth Is OK

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Colin Carroll, a former top Pentagon official, said in an interview over the weekend that he’s “not sure” if Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is OK.

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Carroll described Hegseth’s leadership as “a tale of two Petes.” He praised the defense secretary’s ability to convince the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus to increase defense spending but criticized Hegseth’s fixation with “weird details” and tendency to get “very agitated” during meetings.

“He was very focused on the leaks and I think it kind of consumed the team a little bit,” Carroll told Kelly. “If you look at a pie chart of the secretary’s day, at this point, 50 percent of it is probably a leak investigation.”

Carroll was also asked about Hegseth’s contention in a recent interview when he said “disgruntled former employees are peddling things to try to save their a**.” Carroll told Kelly he thought Hegseth was unprepared for the questions but added that it doesn’t matter because the defense secretary has “an audience of one,” likely referring to President Donald Trump.

Fired Pentagon Official Says He’s ‘Not Sure’ if Pete Hegseth Is OK
Former Pentagon official Colin Carroll described Hegseth as fixated on “weird details and very agitated.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fired-pentagon-official-says-he-s-not-sure-if-pete-hegseth-is-ok/ar-AA1DNeQY

Reuters: US military says it will limit disclosing details on strikes in Yemen

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The U.S. military said on Sunday it will not reveal specific details about its military strikes in Yemen, citing what it called the need “to preserve operational security” while also saying the strikes had “lethal effects” on Houthi rebels.

Republican President Donald Trump ordered the intensification of U.S. strikes on Yemen last month, with his administration saying it will continue assaulting Iran-backed Houthi rebels until they stop attacking Red Sea shipping.

Recent U.S. strikes have killed dozens, including 74 at an oil terminal in mid-April in what was the deadliest strike in Yemen under Trump so far, according to the Houthi-run health ministry.

Rights advocates have raised concerns about civilian killings and three Democratic senators, including Senator Chris Van Hollen, wrote to Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth on Thursday demanding accounting for loss of civilian lives. Hegseth has also come under fire for using the unclassified messaging system Signal to discuss Yemen attack plans.

So now we’ll have a secret war blissfully unaware of the civilian casualties we are causing?

I can’t wait to see King Donald and Hegseth in the dock at the International Criminal Court alongside Benjamin Netanyahu.

US military says it will limit disclosing details on strikes in Yemen
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military said on Sunday it will not reveal specific details about its military strikes in Yemen, citing what it called the need “to preserve operational security” while also saying the strikes had “lethal effects” on Houthi rebels. Republican President Donald Trump ordered the intensification of U.S. strikes on Yemen last month, with his

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-military-says-it-will-limit-disclosing-details-on-strikes-in-yemen/ar-AA1DJ7Qf