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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.

Derrick Anderson’s journey from battlefield commander to Pentagon nominee reads like a war-hardened blueprint for how grit, failure, and redemption can forge the type of leader that this country needs.

The decision to rename the USNS Harvey Milk highlights the ongoing tension between honoring diverse legacies and redefining military tradition in today’s tense political landscape.

The Army didn’t lower its standards to meet the moment—it built a battering ram and invited the willing to break through.

Kaʻula isn’t just a rock in the Pacific—it’s a living example of how military priorities can bulldoze through environmental caution and decades of local opposition.