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Sasquatch Tea doesn’t just wake you up—it grabs you by the flannel and reminds you why you still own a hatchet.

If Gavin Newsom’s idea of leadership is grinning through the smoke while LA burns, then I guess all it takes to run California these days is a flak vest, a hair gel sponsorship, and a complete disregard for reality.

As Israel and Iran trade missiles in the Middle East, Washington, D.C. braces for a politically charged military parade met with veteran-led protests and arrests, while 200 Marines are quietly deployed to Los Angeles in a historic and controversial mission to guard federal buildings amid growing unrest at home. Welcome to Saturday, June 14, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

On June 14, America’s stage splits in two: Trump rolls tanks down Pennsylvania Avenue for his birthday bash, while thousands from coast to coast march in protest, shouting ‘No Kings’ in a star-spangled standoff over patriotism and power.

Tulsi Gabbard’s flipping the script on the intel old guard, trading bloated government tech for off-the-shelf muscle that actually works when you need it.

When Washington grabs your state’s Guard without asking it’s about showing you who’s boss.

When the Pentagon starts shipping out a battalion of ticked-off Marines from 29 Palms to police protests in Los Angeles, you know the federal government’s not sending a message—they’re sending a warning.

Quiet Skies was a $200 million-a-year ghost hunt that swapped due process for paranoia and turned air marshals into glorified skybound voyeurs with clipboards.

By federalizing the California National Guard and defying the governor, President Trump is doing more than responding to a crisis—he’s staging a demonstration of force to prove he still holds the biggest stick in the room.

Trump’s new ride may be wrapped in gold and gifted with a bow, but this Qatari jumbo jet is shaping up to be a four hundred million dollar headache masquerading as a bargain.

Welcome to your Saturday morning brief for June 7, 2025. In a week packed with major moves, Trump’s feud with Elon Musk sent Tesla stock tumbling, a rare thaw in U.S.–China trade reopened the flow of critical minerals, and new executive orders cleared the skies for America’s drone industry to take off.

Frank M. Bradley isn’t some PowerPoint general ticking boxes at the Pentagon—he’s the kind of warfighter who’s lived every line of the operations order and still has dust from Kandahar in his boots.