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One of the oddities of Donald Trump’s personnel choices in his second term is how often he has chosen failed GOP candidates for important positions. Indeed, the White House seems to be a jobs program for Republicans who’ve been rejected by voters, hiring so many failed candidates that Roll Call last year said the president had created a “Team of Losers.”

Oh yeah, he screwed up big rime... As he rushes to violate the indefinite ceasefire he himself extended, President Donald Trump is frantically trying to reframe public opinion on his widely unpopular war on Iran. Trump, 79, attacked two of his greatest projected media adversaries in a Truth Social post on Thursday, asserting that he is actually quite calm amid his string of panicked moves in the Middle East, which include Tuesday’s indefinite ceasefire extension, followed by his orders to “shoot and kill” any Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz just two days later.

From separating hundreds of highly trained transgender Americans from military service under the 2025 transgender ban to curtailing reproductive freedom for female troops to restricting shaving waivers despite medical and religious accommodations, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth certainly seems to prioritize politics in the form of the MAGA narrative over actual data-driven military readiness.

A man charged in a string of shootings near Atlanta that left three people dead, including a Department of Homeland Security employee who was walking her dog, died in jail Tuesday night, authorities said. Olaolukitan Adon Abel, 26, was found unresponsive in his cell, according to a statement from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office. Officials provided medical treatment to the U.S. Navy veteran, but he was later pronounced dead.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) waiting times for medical appointments – this should be easy to gather and analyze from the VA. However, it depends on what type of data is being provided

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A waste of taxpayers money... Trump and Navy Secretary John Phelan announced in December that the service would pursue a new battleship, which anchors the Trump administration’s pursuit of the Golden Fleet concept. Before announcing the battleship, Phelan cancelled the Constellation-class frigate program and has since said the Navy will buy a frigate based on the Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter built by HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Navy is finalizing a new study that is examining the Ford-class carrier to determine whether it should alter the design of the next two in the class, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan said on Tuesday. The sea service is assessing the design of CVN-82 and CVN-83, the next aircraft carriers the Navy is slated to purchase, to evaluate the platform’s cost and capabilities, Phelan told reporters Tuesday during a media roundtable at the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space symposium.

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Navy secretary is out amid Pentagon infighting

Update, most likely fired. Was also associated with Epstein... US Navy Secretary Phelan ousted as naval blockade of Iran continues

Sent to me today ... “That Cao guy is way off base,” Sam says. “There used to be a witches Meetup group but they haven’t met in a couple of years.” Sam estimates the number of witches at less than 0.5 of 1 percent of the local population. (A 2021 Pew Research report that estimated that 0.3 percent of U.S. residents identify as Wicca or Pagan.)

A Pentagon intelligence agency assessment says Iran still has significant military capabilities

Three sailors were injured in a fire aboard destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) at HII Ingalls Shipbuilding on Sunday, USNI News has learned. The ship fire was reported at approximately 9:45 p.m. while Zumwalt was pierside at the Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard, a Naval Surface Force spokesperson confirmed Wednesday in a statement to USNI News. The blaze was extinguished by the crew, the spokesperson said.

Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving the Trump administration, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. Under Secreatary of the Navy Hung Cao will now serve as the acting Navy Secretary. “Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately,” Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell wrote on X. “On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become Acting Secretary of the Navy.”

Iran's military more capable than Trump administration is publicly acknowledging, sources say

Shame on the trump administration... A U.S. aid worker said that the Afghans, who were evacuated to Qatar, would face a choice between moving to the Democratic Republic of Congo and living under the Taliban.

The U.S. Department of Justice withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Donald Trump sexually abused a minor, according to an NPR investigation and a California lawmaker. The NPR report comes amid scrutiny by journalists and lawmakers of more than 3 million pages of documents the DOJ released in late January related to the federal investigation into decades of sexual abuse by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and his network of associates.

Sad state of affairs in the VA... Aside from the director, currently all of the top officials at the Hampton VA system are temporary appointments including Interim Associate Director of Operations Lori Fox, Interim Chief of Staff Kenneth C. Goldberg and Acting Associate Director of Patient Care Services Tina McClendon. “It feels like we're being set up to fail,” said Stacy Shorter, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 2328, which represents employees at the Hampton VA.

Before anyone celebrates, the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio is at about 123%–137% for the 2025-2026 time frame. The focus should have been on reducing our debt because you and I, the taxpayer, are paying the large bills on interest alone - this needs to stop... The budget request is part of President Ttrump’s historic $1.5T topline (Humongous) provided for national defense submitted to Congress on April 3, that ensures the United States is able to maintain the world’s most powerful and lethal naval force.

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A 21-year-old Norfolk woman has been arrested following a Friday night crash at the Oceanfront that left multiple people injured and a shaken community searching for answers. Virginia Beach police say Ailani Roundtree is charged with reckless driving, endangering life, limb, or property, in connection with the crash at Murphy’s Irish Pub near 30th Street and Pacific Avenue.

Trump and Hegseth are unconstitutionally foregoing military doctrine as they transform the world’s most powerful secular force into a white Christian nationalist militia. In doing so, they are destroying our military’s legitimacy both domestically and abroad. As a matter of national security, they must be stopped.