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‪Alt National Park Service‬
‪@altnps.bsky.social‬
· 28s
There were several arrests today all involving MAGA individuals who attempted to assault peaceful protesters. Arrests were reported in Michigan, Oregon, Florida, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Additional incidents remain under investigation.

[dryrunguy]

My brother is visiting from San Francisco. He attempted to attend the No Kings Rally in Gettysburg, PA, but he got there too late. That said, he found where protesters had congregated after the rally and hung out with them for a bit. He had a good time. I was not able to join him.

[ponchi101]

Meaningless.
I am sorry to say that.
When in 2003-2004 Chavez was in the process of destroying Vennieland, we marched and marched and marched. There were marches in Caracas that had 500,000 people.
And as long as the army and the traitors in the government stood by his side, Chavez was safe in power. They stole the referendum in 2004, and they kept slowly clipping our rights.
The other thing that matters: the MAGA crowd does not show up for marches or anything. But they support his every move. So marching against him makes no dent because some people do want a king in America. And they are a large crowd.

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r/LeopardsAteMyFace
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Trump's FBI Director Kash Patel makes a post wishing everyone a Happy Diwali. The top comments from MAGA bluntly serve him the same hate and racism he supported and cultivated.

https://preview.redd.it/trumps-fbi-dire ... e97a92454e

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Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout

A new crop of conservative media and influencers — including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse — signed an agreement with the Defense Department.
Updated
October 22, 2025 at 4:33 p.m. EDT today

By Scott Nover
and
Drew Harwell

Nearly one week since a rash of Pentagon journalists turned in their press credentials after refusing to sign a new restrictive press policy, the Defense Department announced a “new media” press corps, largely hailing from right-wing outlets.

The 60 people from various news organizations represent, “a broad spectrum of new media outlets and independent journalists,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a statement Wednesday on X, adding that all of the publications agreed to the agency’s press policy.

According to a draft of the announcement obtained by The Washington Post ahead of Parnell’s tweet, the coalition of signatories includes the cable network Real America’s Voice, streaming service Lindell TV (started by MyPillow CEO and Trump ally Mike Lindell), the websites the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events, the National Pulse, and RedState. It also includes Turning Point USA’s media brand Frontlines, as well as influencer Tim Pool’s Timcast, and a Substack-based newsletter called Washington Reporter. The memo said that “many independent journalists” also signed, but did not specify who they were.

The Defense Department’s policy blocks journalists from soliciting information the department has not authorized for release — even unclassified details, a major shift in press outreach from the organization.

“New media outlets and independent journalists have created the formula to circumvent the lies of the mainstream media and get real news directly to the American people,” Parnell wrote on X. “Their reach and impact collectively are far more effective and balanced than the self-righteous media who chose to self-deport from the Pentagon.”

The Defense Department declined to offer additional comment or give the full list of signatories. Timcast, the National Pulse, and the Washington Reporter all confirmed to The Post that they had signed the policy. The Post Millennial, Just the News, Human Events, TPUSA Frontlines, Lindell TV, the Daily Signal and the Gateway Pundit all confirmed on X.

The introduction of a “new media” press corps follows a similar move earlier this year by the White House, which has held special briefings for influencers, upstart news outfits, and other nontraditional media. It has also had a new media seat in the briefing room, sometimes occupied by newer yet more mainstream outlets like Semafor and NOTUS.

Trump administration officials have defended their “new media” shift by suggesting they want to reach a broader and more diverse American audience, but many of the newest press corps entrants are small partisan outlets with low online engagement.

Only a few of the new entrants, including the Gateway Pundit and RedState, rank among the top 20 right-wing websites in the U.S., according to estimates from the online-data firm Similarweb cited by the political-content tracker TheRighting. The Gateway Pundit had 25 million visits in August to its website, while RedState had fewer than 10 million, the estimates said; the New York Times, by comparison, had nearly 600 million visits.

The Defense Department has made previous attempts to boost less-traditional media outlets, in February removing the New York Times and NPR from their dedicated office spaces in February in favor of the New York Post, Breitbart News, OAN and a left-wing outlet, HuffPost.

The resident Pentagon press corps, as it’s known, are the journalists — reporters, producers, photographers, videographers — who cover the Pentagon on a day-to-day basis. Of the Pentagon’s new press corps, only OAN was a regular presence before last week’s walkout.

But there’s little unity in conservative media over this policy.

Fox News, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s former employer, joined ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN in announcing it would not agree to the media policy. “Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements,” the joint statement read. “The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. ”

Other conservative outlets Newsmax, the Washington Times and the Washington Examiner — all of which have reporters who regularly cover the Pentagon from the building — also declined to sign, as did the Daily Caller.

The Post previously reported that only 15 people had signed the media policy as of Oct. 16, the day after the walkout. That list included OAN, the Federalist, and the Epoch Times, as well as a smattering of foreign outlets, freelancers and little-known independent journalists.

The outlets that have stepped in to take the old guard’s place are relatively scrappy and less well-known, and some have trafficked in conspiracy theories.

Tim Pool, CEO of Timcast, wrote in a statement that his plan is to have the outlet’s White House correspondent attend any press briefings the Pentagon may hold.

“Our access is mostly for general inquiries and interviews,” Pool wrote. “Should a story, for some reason, end up in our laps that may put us at odds with the Pentagon’s press policy, we will always prioritize the public’s right to know and transparency. However, given that we are not investigative reporters, we don’t expect to find ourselves in these circumstances.”

Pool, a popular YouTuber, previously worked for a group called Tenet Media that the Justice Department said in an indictment was operated by Russian government-funded RT. He previously posted on X, “I just read the DoW press memo and I dont understand wtf the media is complaining about,” referencing the Department of War, the Trump administration’s rebranding of the Defense Department.

Gateway Pundit, a popular right-wing website, filed for bankruptcy after facing a slew of lawsuits over its content. It settled one high-profile defamation lawsuit filed by Georgia election workers in 2024.

Human Events is the small right-wing news blog edited by Jack Posobiec, a right-wing podcaster who was invited to travel with Hegseth on an overseas trip to Europe earlier this year, though he did not attend. Posobiec recently criticized reporters for yelling questions at President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at an August summit. “Maybe I was raised a little differently,” he told Stephen K. Bannon on a podcast.

The National Pulse’s editor in chief, Raheem Kassam, confirmed that the outlet had signed the press policy, but declined to share details about future coverage. “It is correct,” Kassam wrote. “Much like The Washington Post, we do not intend to divulge our editorial decisions to external parties.”

Matthew Foldi, editor in chief of the Washington Reporter, confirmed that his outlet had raised its hand to sign the press policy. “The former press corps disgraced itself on a more or less daily basis with what they covered — and what they didn’t cover — and we at the Washington Reporter are eager to pick up their slack,” he told The Post.

Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson sat for an interview with Turning Point USA’s Frontlines channel last week. Turning Point USA was started by Charlie Kirk, the right-wing influencer killed at an event in Utah last month.

The interviewer, Monica Paige, had asked Wilson to clear up any “misconceptions” about the policy, a sympathetic setup for the Pentagon official: “What are maybe the mainstream media reporters getting wrong about this new policy?” Paige asked.

Wilson then made false claims that when Pentagon reporters could “go wherever they wanted in the building,” and said that the policy comprises “reasonable, common-sense asks.”

correction
A previous version of this article incorrectly said Jack Posobiec traveled with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on a trip to Europe this year. He was invited but did not attend.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... ing-media/

[dryrunguy]

And 40% of the US population won't see this for what it is. Pathetic.

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Trump says he will not seek authorization for cartel strikes.

President Trump said on Thursday that he would bypass Congress rather than seek its approval to carry out military strikes against drug cartels that traffic narcotics to the United States, even as he vowed to expand the operation from attacks at sea to targets on land.

“I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war,” Mr. Trump told reporters of his campaign of deadly strikes against vessels in the Caribbean Sea near Colombia and Venezuela. “I think we are going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK? We are going to kill them, you know? They are going to be, like, dead.”

He made the remarks during a news conference at the White House to promote the work of agencies that Mr. Trump said were working to “arrest, prosecute and permanently remove” people who were part of an elaborate drug cartel operation inside the United States.

They came as the president has talked about expanding the legally questionable military operation he has undertaken over the past several weeks, in which nine airstrikes at sea have resulted in 37 acknowledged deaths.

The Senate is expected to vote next week on a bipartisan resolution that would bar the United States from engaging in hostilities inside Venezuela without explicit authorization by Congress.

The Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war, but formal declarations are rare and have not been issued since World War II. Lawmakers have more often passed authorizations for the use of military force to grant the president permission to use force against specific targets.

The last time a president sought such a resolution was in October 2002, when President George W. Bush asked for authorization to use military force against Iraq. Congress approved that measure, and it has been cited for decades as the legal basis for military operations around the world carried out by subsequent administrations of both parties.

Though he repeatedly referred to the military operation targeting drug trafficking as a “war,” Mr. Trump said he would not seek any formal approval from lawmakers to continue striking boats or expand it to include airstrikes against countries like Venezuela, where he says the cartels originate.

“The cartels are waging war against America and just like I promised in the campaign, we are waging war against them,” he said in the White House state dining room flanked by members of his cabinet, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth; Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence; and Attorney General Pam Bondi.

“The land is going to be next,” he added.

Mr. Hegseth said the operation was aimed not only at deterrence but also elimination.

“Every boat we strike is 25,000 Americans whose lives were saved because of the drugs that were headed in our direction,” Mr. Hegseth said. “Our message to these foreign terrorists organizations is: We will treat you like we have treated Al Qaeda, we will find you, we will map your networks, we will hunt you down and we will kill you.”

Mr. Trump said that he “may go to the Senate” to inform lawmakers as the campaign shifts from maritime operations to land strikes, and told Mr. Hegseth to “go to Congress, you tell them about it.”

But he appeared to be referring to a briefing rather than any formal request for approval. He appeared confident that lawmakers would support the action — or at least shy away from criticizing it.

“What are they going to do? Say, ‘Gee, we don’t want to stop drugs pouring in?’” Mr. Trump said. “They’re killing 300,000 people a year.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/p ... =url-share

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‪Pat Fuller‬
‪@bannerite.bsky.social‬
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First the The Rose Garden, then The East Wing...
Add Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the list of beautiful things Trump is going to intentionally destroy.

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Kevin M. Kruse
‪@kevinmkruse.bsky.social‬
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

... called several African American politicians "low IQ," called all Democrats terrorists, insisted the 7 million Americans who protested his regime were all paid, showed a video of him flying a jet and dropping (expletive) all over them, sent $40 billion to Argentina to prop up a fellow (expletive) tyrant ...

... threatened to invade every state in the US, renewed his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and vowed his people would prevent it from happening "again," bragged about illegally slashing programs Democrats like, said he would send disaster relief to a state because it voted for him ...

... severed economic aid to Colombia in a tantrum, threatened to crack down on NYC, announced drug prices would be coming down "500 percent," claimed Pete Buttigieg tried to fix the air traffic system with "glass wire," and committed probably a dozen other crimes we've already forgotten about.

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‪Joe Reid‬
‪@joereid.bsky.social‬
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Who knew when Mira Nair was directing Hilary Swank in “Amelia” that she was nefariously planning to install her son as mayor of New York City in 15 years in order to ruin the lives of people who live in Long Island and Connecticut.