Do you know what this meeting is about? Get in touch on Signal: signal.me#eu/ES70l_cAl...

Personal news: Today is my last day with @militarydotcom.bsky.social. Four years ago, @zachfb.bsky.social and @travistritten.bsky.social took a chance on a guy far outside DC to be the Air/Space Force Reporter and brought me on to join an incredible team of journalists. Best choice I ever made.

We're tracking the latest on this @taskandpurpose.com. check this article for updates.

Today I resigned from Military.com. It was incredibly hard to leave the newsroom I helped build over the past four years and loved so much. We did work that I’m incredibly proud of, but one of the best parts of our incredible run was going to work every day with our team. Thank you!

A source tells me in a tense meeting this morning, Pentagon officials briefed Senate national security and leadership staff on last week’s U.S. strike on a Venezuelan boat. However, they provided little answers, and legal justification for the strike...

The important question now is are we renaming DVIDS to WVIDS?

The War Department www.war.gov

A high-ranking Pentagon official told The Intercept Trump's strike on a boat in the Caribbean was a criminal attack on civilians. Two government officials said Pete Hegseth's rationale for the attack came together after the fact.

Venezuelan fighter jets flew over U.S. Navy ship in "show of force" - CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

IRS has been requiring IDme checks for FOIA requests, which may* be an appropriate check for a privacy request to disclose your personal data, but is an inappropriate check for a public record. Here, DHS has made similar requests for public records. This pattern is very concerning!

For those keeping score at home, the Navy has sent 3 destroyers, a guided-missile cruiser, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine and an amphibious ready group with a Marine Expeditionary Unit to the southern Caribbean. New @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-sh...

BREAKING: Federal prosecutors in D.C. have filed two criminal counts against Jan Carey, the NC veteran arrested for burning a flag in protest outside the White House this week. w/ @sophrosenthal www.wusa9.com/article/news...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution plans to end its printed edition at the end of this year.

If you’re a guardsman assigned to the DC mission, I want to chat! DM me here or reach me on Signal: tomcnovelly.61

Trump says he's willing to deploy the "regular military" to American cities, the adds that "Chicago is next and then we'll help with New York"

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest senior military or intelligence officer to lose his position in a wider purge of national security agencies’ top ranks, www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.

There looks to be a coordinated reaction to The Washington Post's reporting today that falsely accuses the paper of publishing specific security vulnerabilities. Reaction like this comes after a string of undisputed WaPo scoops that have detailed dysfunction on Secretary Hegseth's team.

Mario Guevara has been detained for 60 days today, every day sending a chilling message to Mario, his family, & anyone wanting to speak out about issues affecting our communities. A coalition of local, natl, global press freedom orgs are sounding the alarm. Join us: www.freepress.net/news/press-f...

Here are the first areal photos of Trump's immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, El Paso. The first detainees started arriving on Friday. Here is my quick rundown of what we know about the site.

Political operatives are likely set to take over much of the Pentagon's communications, even on the service level, as its public messaging has become overtly partisan during the Trump administration. www.military.com/daily-news/i...

Ozzy Osbourne wrote the closest thing we have to a GWOT anthem https://trib.al/sAUXmQE

"Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US Tent camp with 5,000 beds would be the largest such facility in the country, fueling fears of advocates who say they often don’t meet basic needs" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to house migrants at two new military installations as the Trump administration increasingly turns to the armed forces to bolster its aggressive immigration crackdown. Story by @stevenbeynon.bsky.social

Javier Alonso de Medina Salguero took some of the most amazing shots you will ever see of a combat jet striking a bird during high-speed aerobatic maneuvers. The pilot survived. The bird? Not so much.

he's also a former marine

The Army is set to follow the Marine Corps by creating a new shaving policy allowing soldiers with a chronic skin condition that mostly affects Black men to be kicked out of the service. Story by @stevenbeynon.bsky.social

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to take steps to encourage troops to consider being part of the agencies that handle immigration enforcement and border security though a new policy unveiled Thursday. Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social

They sold MAGA merchandise on Fort Bragg before Trump's speech. The Army complained. They were overruled.

I'm feeling the need to be very LA here. The Marines are at the Wilshire Federal Buidling, where there ain't nothin' goin' on. Right now, it'd take like an hour for them to get to downtown. Maybe 45 minutes if they're lucky.

The troops are not allowed to conduct law enforcement. But authorities to temporarily detain citizens and accompany federal law enforcement blur the line between forces meant to police the public and those that fight the country's wars. Story by @dflawrence.bsky.social + @tomnovelly.bsky.social

On Tuesday, the vendor, 365 Campaign, was on the Army base anyway, and soldiers purchased clothing and items like "Make America Great Again" chain necklaces and faux credit cards labeled "White Privilege Card: Trumps Everything." Story by @stevenbeynon.bsky.social

NEW: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe activates National Guard, declaring a state of emergency due to civil unrest ahead of anticipated anti-Trump demonstrations this weekend Early story w/ @kacen.bsky.social www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

WASHINGTON (AP) - National Guard members already have temporarily detained civilians in the Los Angeles protests, commander says.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested Wednesday that the Trump administration could send troops to any city in America over the objections of state and local officials, as it is doing now in Los Angeles. Story by @kheel.bsky.social

Soldiers who cheered Trump's political attacks were filtered based on support for the Trump administration and physical appearance. One unit-level message bluntly saying: "No fat soldiers." Story by @stevenbeynon.bsky.social and @ktoropin.bsky.social

A battalion of active-duty Marines -- around 700 troops -- based out of Twentynine Palms, California, received deployment orders to Los Angeles on Monday. Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social, @stevenbeynon.bsky.social and @dflawrence.bsky.social

MEMPHIS — YESTERDAY: “He’s not a criminal!!” ICE agent clumsily PULLS A GUN on the daughter of a man they grabbed. Original post: www.facebook.com/share/v/12LM...

"The official also said that the timing of the announcement -- occurring during Pride month -- was intentional." I've seen enough. We can confidently declare the Trump administration to be the biggest collection of assholes in American history.

Big scoop - Hegseth orders renaming of USS Harvey Milk, intentionally timed during Pride month according to a defense official.

The USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed on the orders of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social

In a move that pushes the boundaries of Constitutional prohibition against a state religion, Hegseth hosted an evangelical prayer service in the middle of the day at the Pentagon in which a pastor praised President Donald Trump as "sovereignly appointed." Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social

New Pentagon committee will direct which books are banned from military shelves.

Breaking: ICE agents are targeting DC restaurants in what is shaping up to be one of the city’s most high-profile examples yet of President Trump’s immigration crackdown. Millie's and Pupatella were among the restaurants to get a visit on Tuesday.

“We were always told we [the federal government] didn’t know where Austin was,” Tice said. “Finding so much truth after so much untruth was exceedingly painful. I don’t know if I ever will recover from that.” www.press.org/newsroom/us-...

"He seems too preoccupied with his personal brand," one Army captain told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. "This is the 'vet bro' Pentagon."

One way to read stories based on leaked docs: look at time from being circulated to docs getting published — bc that’s the amount of time it took to a) get someone pissed enough to agree to leak and b) get enough also-pissed people to confirm. These are slides dated April 29-30, published May 1.

Make no mistake. That Guantanamo memo CBS recently reported on is a blueprint to torture migrants without ever having to directly, explicitly approve torture. Here’s why.