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Trump has threatened to deploy the military against the “enemy within” and has recently promoted the idea that “democratic socialism must be criminalized.” On top of current $1.1 trillion, the Pentagon has requested a separate $350 billion package.

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Today AI, tomorrow the world

By the time the public learns what the Autonomous Warfare Center actually does, it will have been doing it for years.

In the president’s warped world, his increasingly deranged demands are never the problem—only his underlings’ failures to meet them.

Fresh hell on the media front

I’ve studied MAGA rhetoric for a decade, and this is what I see in Hegseth’s boasts, action‑movie one‑liners and gloating over dominance

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