Evan Wang 王艾文Oct 16
Steve Herman
DoD today confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. - Pentagon Press Association
Oct 15 at 10:00pmWeb
Show threadderptronOct 15
@w7voa I guess you could call the total reversal of all attempts to even pretend to be transparent in government a "weakening of commitment" to that transparency.
Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌Oct 15
@w7voa Whiskey warrior & Fox TV starlet Hegseth sh*ts on the First Amendment (he probably never heard of).
Show threadLAURENOct 15

@w7voa

#AltText #USPress #USPol

Show threadT2ROct 15
@w7voa good. Now you can freely report on leaks and all the other bs coming out of the pentagon.
Show threadsu_liamOct 15
@T2R @w7voa White House press corps next!
Show threadT2ROct 15
@su_liam @w7voa Let the leaks start flowing!
Show threadcanning jarsOct 15
@w7voa @pluralistic They’re finally putting an end to subversive woke coverage from the US Naval Institute and the Wall Street Journal
Show threadsu_liamOct 15
@lids @w7voa @pluralistic Literally, LOL.
Show threadocdtrekkieOct 15
@lids @w7voa @pluralistic And they finally cut off that evil liberal Fox News' access too!
Show threadcanning jarsOct 16
@ocdtrekkie @w7voa @pluralistic Commies, they had it coming
Show threadBurning Joint USAOct 15
Thats got to be the weakest... Most democrat response to blatant fascism and disregard for the bill of rights I have ever heard. They are like... Aww man, we can't report on military stuff anymore guys, this is, I don't want to say bad... Nay that word would be too strong, but it's not a good thing that may or may not be happening and may or may not involve Pete BadBreath and/or Ronald McGrump. It is a dark day, owed mostly to that the sun starts going down earlier this time of year and for no other very particular reason.
Show threadLog 🪵Oct 15

@w7voa I guess journalists will have to go back to the old standby of talking to anonymized sources that work in the Pentagon *after* they leave the office. All that information, unvetted by any PR flacks, leaking out from all those folks still pissed at Trump and Hegseth about the mandatory loyalty meeting.

I wouldn't call it a completely dark day. Reporters with too much integrity left to fold lost their easy access to the spoon-fed stories. Now they're free to go find the *real* story.

Show threadb-emerald.comOct 15
@w7voa The Pentagon is going dark. Dark because now we can't ask questions, even if they weren't taking questions seriously previously. The Pentagon is also hot. Hot because there is a great deal of activity that the Pentagon has a finger in. Dark and hot like a black hole.
Show threadPasswordsarehard4Oct 16
@bemerald @w7voa not really, nothing escapes a black hole. This is dark and hot like an oil rig fire. Completely unable to be controlled, devastating to all environments, and most likely debilitating for generations.
Show threadThe TurtleOct 15

@w7voa yay, sue the living fuck out of hegseth.

AND hit him in the face with a hammer.

Show threadniniOct 15
@w7voa leaks may become a more important primary source, the Secretary may lose more control over the narrative.
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Oct 16

@w7voa The military are critical because they can decide whether their loyalty and obligation is to the people or to Trump. It has happened in smaller countries that the military has ended an oppressive regime by siding with the people against the oppressor (see what's happening now in Madagascar, see also the end of the Sukarno regime in the Phillipines.)

If the meeting of Generals with Trump and Hegseth was testing the waters, the stone cold reception they got would have them worried. Insurrection by the military would finish them within hours. This ban on the media will cut communication between military heads and the people. However, insurrection by the military doesn't usually start at the top. It's usually soldiers on the ground who start by refusing to shoot their fellow citizens.

Case in point: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-15/madagascar-military-takes-control-coup-president-flee/105892454 Can this happen in a nation the size of America? I think we're going to find out.

#uspol

Madagascar military says it is seizing power after president flees country

The country's parliament voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina after he fled the country in the face of growing opposition from soldiers and police.

ABC News
Show threadnoplasticshowerOct 16
@w7voa dictatorship
Show threadHelgi CrookehorneOct 16
@w7voa like, anything you say could be criminalized, it's like twixer's rules on private media, used to be non consensual nudes and doxxing address, until it turned into non consensual any public posted photo. So terrorist Hamas lovers started to kill other accounts they don't like.
Show threadschuelermineOct 16
@w7voa "raises concerns" is one way to put it
Show threadlemonOct 16
@w7voa
Finally the press stood up for something. How long till they cave in to the next tRump crime family demand!?
Show thread@iveylineOct 16
@w7voa The Gestapo continues to stifle freedom in the US.
Show threadxs4me2Oct 16

@w7voa

This is what fascism looks like.

They want absolute control.

Show threadLinda Sgoluppi ArtistOct 16
@w7voa It might be that if no one reported anything by/on/for/Trump it would drive him crazy, he can't cope with being ignored.
Show threadSteve HoldenOct 16
@w7voa It should do quite a lot more than “raise concerns.” Time to throw the polite norms away and start telling it like it is while you still have time.
Show threadfilobusOct 16
@w7voa and soon they'll start following the example of Israel or Saudi Arabia towards journalists
All these snipers should be useful or they are a waste of money
Show thread[email protected]Oct 17
@w7voa CONFISCATED? Make that 'took them back because they were not needed or wanted'