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David Vine found a $1 trillion Pentagon slush fund hiding in the federal budget. Yes, you read it right: TRILLION He breaks down the numbers in his latest @tomdispatch.bsky.social and @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/10/01/t...

Trump’s proposed budget hides $1 trillion in military spending from the public by spreading it across disparate government agencies.

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Any single bite of this word salad is cause for alarm!

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Trump’s proposed budget hides $1 trillion in military spending from the public by spreading it across disparate government agencies.

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The Pentagon’s Secret Budget Trump’s proposed budget hides $1 trillion in military spending from the public by spreading it across disparate government agencies. theintercept.com/2026/10/01/t...

Trump’s proposed budget hides $1 trillion in military spending from the public by spreading it across disparate government agencies.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 30/09/2026

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 30/09/2026

Despite support from other Democrats, the Senate voted 51-47 against a resolution to force U.S. probes on killings of Americans in the West Bank. theintercept.com/2026/09/30/i...

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 30/09/2026

ICE briefly posted eight of its 2025 death reviews online. Most of them raised issues of substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees. theintercept.com/2026/09/30/i...

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As I've said before, Hegseth's obsession with testosterone reveals the anxieties he harbors about himself and the military he leads. theintercept.com/2026/07/25/p...

Pete Hegseth’s Crisis of Masculinity

The secretary of war’s obsession with testosterone reveals the anxieties he harbors about himself and the military he leads.

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Styx&Stonz @clubsandrocks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No one can tell you exactly what’s in the bloated Pentagon budget and what it costs. Still, we know it’s larded up with terrible, lethal, wasteful expenditures. There are $2.2 million Tomahawk missiles — the type that killed more than 150 Iranian civilians, most of them school children. 🧵

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The disclosure comes amid a failed war in Iran, a “cover-up” of U.S. casualties from that conflict, and repeated refusals by CENTCOM to address questions about civilian deaths in Iran. theintercept.com/2026/08/24/p...

Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists

When pressed about the Iran war, a CENTCOM press official threatened to put an Intercept reporter on a “list of people to disregard.”

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The most successful attack by the "War Department" ever. It's such a joke that it undercuts any hope of parody.

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The Pentagon’s Secret Budget Trump’s proposed budget hides $1 trillion in military spending from the public by spreading it across disparate government agencies. theintercept.com/2026/10/01/t...

Trump’s proposed budget hides $1 trillion in military spending from the public by spreading it across disparate government agencies.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Those in attendance...received a book called “The War Department Field Manual,” a compilation of Hegseth’s past speeches. In a forward written by President Trump, the troops were told: “As your commander in chief, I will not ask you to fight dumb wars.” Perfect www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Five Takeaways From Hegseth’s Speech

The defense secretary gave a “State of the Force” address to hundreds of officers and enlisted servicemembers at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va.

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The U.S. military is finally driven out of Iraq...

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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York just rejected several of the Trump administration’s key rationales for withholding an Office of Legal Counsel opinion that it is using to justify its ongoing extrajudicial boat strike campaign, which has murdered more than 230 people.

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Add him to the list of people who want a data center in their neighborhood...

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We can't forget the long-lasting, negative impact of Martin Van Buren either...

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Meanwhile on Truth Social, Trump is posting this...

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 29/09/2026

The next chapter of DEPORTATION, INC., an investigative video series from @situ-research.bsky.social @lawfaremedia.org—and now @theintercept.com —is out now. CHAPTER 2: REMOVAL examines the network of flights shuffling migrants around and out of the US, & the shady deals behind 3rd country removals

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 29/09/2026

As I write in @theintercept.com today, 3rd country agreements in particular illustrate the Trump administration’s obfuscation, nondisclosure, and dealmaking of the backroom variety, as it invokes national security to justify shielding itself from public scrutiny and accountability.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meanwhile on Truth Social, Trump is posting this...

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As ceasefire negotiations faltered and U.S. casualties of the Iran war mounted, the Trump administration on July 7 announced the conclusion of Operation Epic Fury But since then, more U.S. military personnel have been injured and killed than in the 18 weeks of OEF theintercept.com/2026/09/28/i...