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#Pentagon bars #press #photographers over ‘unflattering’ #Hegseth photos


“#Defense” Secretary #PeteHegseth’s staff took issue with images taken in a rare briefing last week & decided to shut out photographers from 2 subsequent news conferences.

What a wuss. This is the head of the US #military?

#Trump #law #democracy #FreePress
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/11/hegseth-press-briefings-photos-iran/

Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

The Washington Post
Yhdysvaltain puolustusministeriön kerrotaan käyttäneen 22 miljoonaa dollaria hummereihin ja ribeye-pihveihin tukeakseen amerikkalaisia ​​joukkoja. Syökää ja nauttikaa, paskiaiset. #Yhdysvaltain armeija #Pentagon #Puolustus #Menotus #Lähi-itä #Ar...
Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab

The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

The New Republic

"The Pentagon found a way to spend more than $12,000 on fruit baskets, as well as a total of $3,160 on stickers featuring beloved children’s characters from Dora the Explorer, Frozen, and Paw Patrol. The department also spent $5.3 million on Apple devices, including purchasing 400 of the more expensive 512-gigabyte edition iPad Air M3s rather than cheaper models with less storage."

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"The Defense Department also spent nearly $140,000 on doughnuts, $124,000 on ice cream machines, $26,000 on sushi preparation tables, and a whopping $15.1 million on ribeye steak. …

$1.8 million on musical instruments, such as a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, a $26,000 violin, and a $21,750 custom handmade Japanese flute."

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"These amounts only include money sent to entities outside the government, not salaries for service members and scores of other expenses.

Instead, the shopping spree encompasses luxury food items like lobster, high-end furniture and rushed IT purchases.

Included in this spending was $2 million on Alaskan king crab last September alone, as well as $6.9 million on lobster tail and $1 million on salmon."

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"Since at least 2008 — and presumably in history — no federal agency has ever spent so much on grants & contracts in a single month.

In the last five working days of September alone, the DoD spent $50.1 billion on grants and contracts. That’s more than the annual defense budget of countries like Israel and Italy. In fact, there are only nine foreign countries that spend that much on their military in an entire year!"

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"Open the Books has tracked the annual September spending bonanza for nearly a decade. Military spending has spiked every year, regardless of which party controlled the White House.

However, there has never been anything quite like September 2025, when $93.4 billion was spent on grants and contracts."

~ Open the Books

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https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/pentagon-should-focus-on-defense

Pentagon Should Focus on Defense Priorities, not Lavish Dinners, After Historic $93.4B “Use-It-or-Lose-It” September

Defense officials typically enter the end of each fiscal year with at least one goal in mind: spend the rest of the military’s budget by any means necessary.

OpenTheBooks

"Americans need health care. Affordable housing. Child care and elder care. Better schools. We want our basic needs met. But the government has said we 'can’t afford' these things.

Yet supposedly we can afford nearly $1 trillion for the Pentagon. Trump now says the Pentagon needs $500 billion more."

~ Robert Reich

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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-underlying-failure

The Biggest, Most Tragic Failure of All

We are in an unnecessary war that the public doesn’t want, without a clear purpose or endgame. How to respond now?

Robert Reich
@KimPerales it's definitely NOT #Iran. it can't be. absolutely. #trump who always tells the truth, along with #pentagon, #centcom commands & co said, over and over that they obliterated Iran #navy. they even assured shipping companies with US navy escorts. #StraitOfHormuz is **totally safe**. it's as safe as that house with the creepy little kid that tells you to come over to play in famous #horror movies 🙃