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Minnesota geek, fact based person, Pro Democracy, Pro Environment , Progressive, Immigrant Friendly Substack: substack.com/@stevemsnyder?r=fozh4&…

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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 7h
Bloomberg reports Pentagon officials plan to hold the Minab school strike report until after the Nov. 3 midterms. The February strike killed 150+ people, at least 123 of them children. The report has reportedly been nearly done for months. Search and rescue efforts in Minab:
Search and Rescue in Minab
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 16h
BREAKING: A senior White House official told Fox News that Katie Zacharia is "transitioning out" as Trump's press secretary. She was appointed Oct. 9. Her first briefing lasted about 15 minutes. Trump says he told her to reconsider. No on-record statement yet, "fired" is unconfirmed. One week.
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BREAKING: Trump's New Press Secretary Is Already "Transitioning Out"
She only lasted a week
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 19h
Feds searched Ilhan Omar's home Oct 12. DOJ calls it a criminal investigation. No charges. She denies wrongdoing. The "married her brother" claim? Fact-checkers have called it false for years. Trump, Vance, and Homan all talked up an investigation BEFORE the warrant.
Raid on Ilhan Omar’s DC residence
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
US House of Representatives member Ilhan Omar votes with the House's progressive wing almost without exception and backs Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and universal school meals. Her signature bills, like the Homes for All Act, have not advanced due to Republicans blocking her at every vote.
Ilhan Omar
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Moscow's airports went dark overnight. Departures and arrivals were canceled at Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Zhukovsky and Sheremetyevo. Moscow's mayor says 59+ drones were shot down. Meanwhile, monitoring channels report Yandex's Vladimir data center was targeted again.
Yandex Vladimir Data Center
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Fact-check on the Russian Yandex data center strikes: • Sasovo and Vladimir: shut down • Kaluga: partly knocked out, not destroyed • Ivanteevka and Mytishchi: no reported damage Claims they’re “running at 100%” or overheating? I couldn’t find a source stevemsnyder.substack.com/p/three-yand...
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Three Yandex Data Centers Left working, Three Different Problems: Kaluga, Ivanteevka and Mytishchi
One was hit, two haven’t been, and the gap between them says a lot about how fragile Russia’s cloud has become
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Breaking: The White House asked U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign. She stepped down Tuesday. The allegation: she asked a donor to pay her $100K credit card bill in exchange for access, per texts the WSJ reported. She denies wrongdoing.
US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ukrainian drones hit 3 Yandex data centres in 4 days (Oct 8-11). Two are fully offline, and the third lost several modules. 80+ Russian services were disrupted. NetBlocks shows Yandex Cloud connectivity falling from ~98% to ~33%. Cloudflare Radar shows requests from Yandex's network collapsing.
Yandex Vladimir data center after drone impact
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nearly 1,000 armed private guards are being deployed at 54+ USPS facilities weeks before the midterms, per Raw Story's FOIA-based reporting. The contractor is Prosegur. What's documented: the scale, the contract, the training gaps flagged in a 2022 USPS audit.
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rawstory is reporting that Stephen and Katie Miller have been hosting lavish MAGA parties and insiders are spilling the ugly truth about them. www.rawstory.com/stephen-and-...
rawstory.com
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
170 billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms. That's as of Aug 28. Two months before Election Day. The record for the whole 2022 cycle? $1B. Plus ~$600M in dark money from unknown sources. Up 53x since Citizens United, per ATF. It's just 0.04% of their wealth.
ATF 2000-2026 Billionaire US Election spending
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
During Operation Metro Surge, Minneapolis neighbors built a rapid-response network to track federal agents and look out for each other. A new 25-minute documentary, "They're Here," premiered at Venice, directed by Laura Poitras and Minnesota native Rachel Lauren Mueller.
They’re Here Documentary image
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That viral headline says a Russian plague lab got $800K from RFK Jr.'s HHS. The accurate version: • NIH gave ~$780K to the University of Illinois (2025-26), not to the Russian lab
• It funded a fox behavior study with a Russian genetics institute that has worked with the Irkutsk lab. NIH
NIH Clinical Campus in Bethesda Maryland
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
US soldiers wounded in Iran's March 1 drone strike in Kuwait told the AP the military's medical system left them to find care on their own. After a cargo flight to Germany, they learned they weren't documented as wounded in combat, so Landstuhl Regional Medical Center wouldn't admit them.
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: The President of the United States has goaded Iran into destroying Los Angeles or San Diego, California today. My free Substack has details and sources:
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Donald Trump is now Goading Iran to Attack the United States
And he is focusing Iran on California
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Brazil votes Oct 25 for a new President. Flávio Bolsonaro 47%, Lula 45%. Wall Street is already cheering Flávio. Citigroup told investors to go bullish. Lula signed a tax cut: no income tax up to R$5,000/month. About 11M Brazilians off the rolls. Brazil’s HDI under Lulu was between 2003-2010:
Brazil’s HDI 1990-2026 graph
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
After the Army in May 2025 said more deliveries of an AM General vehicle would be "excess”. In the weeks after, donors tied to AM General, including its CEO, gave $50,000 to Maine Senator Susan Collins's fundraising committees.
AM General logo
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
House Democrats' 84-page health care memo is out. It's a menu of options for the first 100 hours, 100 days, and first year of the next Congress. If most of the changes become law, it would be a massive change to improve patient outcomes, lowering patient costs and vastly increasing access.
US House Democratic members press event
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
MAHA Summit, Sept. 29: a $300K sponsor tier reportedly promised panel input and a private dinner with RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz. HHS says it had no role. Sponsors included Walmart, Hims & Hers, OpenAI and Anthropic. Then Kennedy pitched AI as a better second opinion than "any doctor."
2026 White House MAHA Summit
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump promised to deport "the worst of the worst." An Ohio group went looking for the worst of the worst. It found 152 ICE and Border Patrol agents charged with or convicted of sexual or violent crimes. 86% sex offenses. 56% crimes against children.
Ohio Immigrant Alliance - Worst of the Worst Report
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Minnesota Senate race, fraud edition. Tafoya: Mandatory minimums, deportation for convicted noncitizens, strings on federal money. Flanagan: Build on the state inspector general, reinstate the 17 fired federal IGs. One has a bill to cosponsor. The other has an outline.
PollsMax 2026 Minnesota Senator poll
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 2012, Sen. Susan Collins told a Senate hearing that politics has no place in federal contracting. She fought to stop agencies from collecting campaign donation info from bidders: "No good can come of such an effort." Now ProPublica reports an FBI inquiry tied to contractor Navatek.
Senator Susan Collins at a US Senate hearing
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As October is here now, local governments bodies are now having to increase taxes going forward on the public due to US government cuts. At the beginning of September I researched the federal government slashing the US Safety Net. The details are in my free Substack article:
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Slashing the US Safety Net: The Structural Realities of the Trump 2027 Budget
And Federal safety net programs get double digit cuts or are eliminated and your local government will have to raise your taxes if they can/want to compensate for those cuts
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Treasury is auto-enrolling 60 million+ kids in Trump Accounts. No sign-up. Accounts just appear. But the $1,000 federal deposit? Still opt-in, and only for kids born 2025–2028. Funds are limited to broad index funds, fees capped at 0.1%.
Trump Accounts by US Treasury
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
$TRUMP hit $73 days before the inauguration. Today it's $2.06. That's a 97% drop. Buyers at the peak lost about 97 cents of every dollar. Meanwhile, roughly 80% of the supply sits with Trump-linked entities on a 3-year unlock. Retail bought the hype while insiders held the bulk of the coin.
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Trump's Meme Coin Cost Nearly a Million Buyers $3.81 Billion
It Isn't the Only Trump Venture Losing the Public's Money
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth announced that Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich will lead a new future study of warfare. One with business ties to defense and all with a complete lack of military service.
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'3 Of Our Nation's Best Minds': Hegseth Unveils Pentagon Project Led By Musk, Luckey, & Gingrich
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fact-checking the fraud ads against Amy Klobuchar: She did back a $1 million earmark for a Somali charity, but CBS Minnesota reports no fraud findings or charges tied to the group, which never received federal funds. Restore Sanity PAC & Restore America PAC funded the ads.
Minnesota Restore Sanity PAC logoRestoration of America PAC LOGO
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Minnesota's governor race: Amy Klobuchar (DFL) and Lisa DeMuth (GOP) both pledge no new taxes, but neither plan is fully costed. Lisa DeMuth’s proposed Inspector General office is already law, signed in May. Klobuchar's state health credit is unpriced. Lisa DeMuth hasn't released a health plan.
Minnesota State Budget Forecast graph for 2026-2029
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
South Korea's $200B U.S. investment is a pledge, not money spent. Reports say the White House will announce energy projects tied to last year's trade deal: nuclear plants, a Texas gas plant, and about $54B for Alaska LNG.
South Korea Energy Investment in US over next 10 years
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At today's america.gov launch, Trump said the new AI portal "cannot in theory be hacked into," then added: "when they figure a way to do that, we'll end it, because they always figure a way, right?" Today, they claim they hold onto your entered information for only 2 days.
america.gov
America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump just announced a $15B steel plant in Iowa. Sounds great. Here's what the headlines skip. Mesabi Metallics is owned by India's Ruia family (Essar Group). Its Nashwauk, MN project ended in a $1.1B bankruptcy, and the state later revoked its leases. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...
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Trump announces plans for largest steel plant in U.S. history to be built in Iowa
President Trump on Monday announced that the company Mesabi Metallics will build a $15 billion steel plant in Iowa over the coming years.
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Section 718 of the US 2026 spending law bars federal money for unauthorized "publicity or propaganda." Tha US General Accounting Office applies that to purely partisan or self-aggrandizing messaging. This ad says “Paid for by the U.S. government.” time.com/article/2026...
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Trump's Taxpayer-Funded Ads Draw Bipartisan Criticism
Critics have called the ads “propaganda,” but the White House says they’re “public service announcements.”
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ll be paying attention to Trump’s 2PM EDT press announcement today. At ideas on what he will announce? Source: www.forth.news/whpool/CfUnH...
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DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2026 | White House Pool | Forth
From White House Pool | Forth
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember when Trump said this in February 2025? "One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia. And I want to say, 'let's cut our military budget in half.' And we can do that. And I think we'll be able to." Source: www.yahoo.com/news/trump-w...
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.S. ambassador to China said on Fox News Sunday that Trump "actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some" U.S. arms. Not a deal. No offer reported. The White House says there are no plans. But China has been under a U.S. arms embargo since Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One man bankrolled the 2024 Trump campaign. The rest paid Trump after he'd already won. Elon Musk spent up to $290 million to elect Trump in 2024.
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The Price of a Seat at the Trump-Xi Jinping State Dinner
How Trump's Dinner Guests Bankrolled His Return to Power
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My free Substack article about Musk, the documentary and the European and US legal trouble he is involved in and what readers can do about it: stevemsnyder.substack.com/p/four-hours...
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Four Hours With the Richest Man Alive
Gibney's "Musk" documentary is long, damning, and still can't fully explain how he got this powerful
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They tried to bury it. It got a 5-minute standing ovation instead. Elon Musk's lawyers sent a legal threat over the new Gibney documentary before it premiered. Universal has reportedly wavered on releasing it. Now there's real doubt about whether U.S. audiences will even get to see it in theaters.
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Musk | Official Teaser | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington this week likely cost U.S. taxpayers well into the tens of millions of dollars, based on comparable security operations. Think of the good that money could do for our country. My free Substack article has the details:
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Trump Gave China a Great Gift Without Any Benefits to US Taxpayers
And he charged it all to the US Taxpayers
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump bragged the U.S. sold $13B+ of Venezuela's oil. Then Bessent got asked point blank in Congress: who controls it, where is it? He dodged. Wouldn't answer.
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
RFK Jr.'s security costs jumped from $10M to $17M this year. HHS's fix? Pull $12M out of the Office of Minority Health — the agency created under Reagan to fight Black infant mortality. 16 grants gone. Fresh food deliveries. Home nursing visits for new moms. Chronic disease screenings. Gone.
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RFK Jr. had HHS Take Money From Sick Babies to Increase His Security Detail
And it Was From The Office of Minority Health
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee say Trump's vanity projects are expected to cost $1.8 billion+, including $927M for White House renovations, $400M for the Qatari jet retrofit and $257M for the Kennedy Center.
Expected Costs of Trump’s Vanity Projects
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: White House Press access denied - this morning, despite a court order: Today’s blocked list: 1. Laura Barrón-López (MS NOW White House correspondent) + an MS NOW producer — passes confiscated 2. Betsy Klein (CNN) and a CNN photojournalist — denied entry, incl. after 9am attempt
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MS NOW, CNN and Politico regain White House access after judge orders press passes restored
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly had ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore press passes to journalists from the outlets.
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now, per the FCC waiving 25% foreign ownership cap, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE are set to own ~49.5% of Paramount - the company that owns CBS, and soon CNN, HBO, and Warner Bros. too. Their reasoning? No voting shares, so no "influence." Money talks. Ownership caps walk.
Paramount + Warner Bros media merger
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump: "Let's not send out the diesel." Translation: a 90-day export ban may be coming, per Politico - though the White House is calling that framing fake news. Diesel is $6.53/gal nationally, up from $3.70 a year ago.
US Diesel 2026 average monthly price chart
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump's aide Natalie Harp allegedly showed him clips of MS NOW hosts trashing his admin right before he banned CNN, MS NOW & Politico from the WH. Before the "human printer" gig, she anchored at OAN (2021-22), repeating 2020 election lies. On Jan 6 she posted 150+ times: "FIGHT FOR TRUMP."
Natalie Harp on OANN IN 2021-2022
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump & Mamdani had a friendly sit-down at Gracie Mansion — then got asked about the press ban. Mamdani: every outlet, including the banned ones, is welcome on my lawn. Trump: doubled down, called it his "obligation" to keep them out of the WH. Same day CNN/MS NOW/Politico sued over the ban.
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Trump Comes Home to Gracie Mansion To Meet with Mamdani
And Immediately Gets Asked About the Reporters He Locked Out
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump wants a board with unanimous veto power over the NIH's entire $48 billion research budget. One member: Russ Vought. One "no" from him kills any grant. This came right after NIH Director Bhattacharya refused Trump's request to cut Harvard's funding. Coincidence? Sure. Russ Vought
US OMB Director Russ Vought
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Steve Snyder @steves-mn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An AI hallucinated a nuclear weapons claim about a Chinese cargo ship in the Middle East. The Pentagon believed it. Jets started moving to intercept — over a threat that didn't exist. Caught only minutes before launch.
Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon U.S. Special Operations Command
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