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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's financial disclosures raise serious questions about millions of dollars in previously reported income and assets.
His December 2024 disclosure listed $150,000 and $348,000 in HarperCollins book advances, plus $100,001 to $1 million in royalties for each of two books.
Two Fox News retirement plans were valued at up to $2.1 million combined.
Yet those book and retirement entries were absent from his 2025 disclosure.
Meanwhile, his wife, Jennifer Hegseth, received consulting income from a firm that worked for Lockheed Martin, a major Pentagon contractor. The firm says her work did not involve defence clients.
What happened to the previously disclosed income and assets? Were potential conflicts properly addressed?
The official overseeing billions in military contracts must provide a transparent accounting of his financial interests.
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Patriotic American Veterans Are Coming After Pete Hegseth — and Demanding Harshest Punishment Possible: "Those Are War Crimes"
Veterans and senior officers purged from the Pentagon are done with half-measures. Firing Pete Hegseth is the bare minimum. As the calls for his removal grow louder, they are demanding that Congress go further: impeach him, convict him, and permanently bar him from ever holding public office again.
"There is no pathway back to an effective and respected DOD with Hegseth as the secretary of war," said one senior officer forced out under his watch. "Many of us blame Congress almost as much as we blame him. The government has failed the military, and impeaching Hegseth is the first, necessary step toward restoring any faith or confidence."
The indictment against him is long and ugly. Retired Rear Adm. Michael Smith, founder of National Security Leaders for America, says the case extends far beyond the war with Iran. He points to the deadly boat strikes against civilians in the Caribbean — strikes he flatly calls war crimes, which is to say murder — and to the abrupt resignation of the Southern Command commander. "Was it because he was given an illegal order and he didn’t want to follow that?" Smith asked.
The failures do not stop there. Veterans groups have condemned Hegseth's refusal to evacuate military families from Bahrain before the fighting with Iran began, leaving spouses and children in harm's way when Iran struck the Navy's largest base in the Middle East. They have also highlighted the reported conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and the targeted removal of senior officers who are women and people of color.
Hegseth has not merely been a bad secretary. He has been a destructively criminal one. Simply letting him leave with no accountability should not and cannot happen in a country like the United States of America.
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WOW. CNN’s Nicole Wallace completely fire bombs Pete Hegseth from space:
WALLACE: “Pete Hegseth may be the most glaring human encapsulation of everything the American people rejected on Tuesday. Incompetent, insecure, vindictive, vain, and wholly enamored with his authority to wage an unpopular war in Iran that has driven up the price of gas, fertilizer, diesel and groceries.”
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BREAKING: SWEET KARMA! Democrat Scott Colom, who is about to win the Mississippi Senate seat, only ran after his MAGA opponent stopped him from obtaining a lifetime federal judge position!
This is one of the most glorious backfires in American history...
Back in November of 2022, President Biden nominated Colom to the federal district court in northern Mississippi. He received support from the state's senior senator, Republican Roger Wicker.
But Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who Colom is now leading by 1,764 in the vote count from Tuesday, refused to support the nomination. In fact, she blocked the Senate from even considering him by withholding her blue slip, an old Senate custom that lets one home-state senator veto a judge.
She defended her indefensible move by insisting that he couldn't be trusted with such power because of past support for transgender rights. In reality, she was just pandering to the racist MAGA base by blocking a Black Democrat.
But if she hadn't blocked him, Colom would be a judge right now. Instead, he's poised to take Hyde-Smith's seat, flipping a seat that a Democrat hasn't been able to win since 1972 in a state that handed Trump 61% of its vote in 2024.
While the race has not yet been called, if Colom maintains this lead, as he seems likely to do, the seat is his.
Please ❤️ and share if you can't wait to see Colom in the Senate!
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Elon Musk is hiding this video of Bill Burr ripping him apart.
So don't RT it.
Or do if you don't like Elon Musk.
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When Putin seized Crimea, both Europe and America were quite openly making calls, holding meetings, and sending signals to the Ukrainians who were in power at the time that there should be no escalation – let's just keep things friendly and leave things as they are for now. And we lost Crimea. After that, we lost part of Donbas. But the shooting in the east continued. There was no peace.
People think we were always helped. That is not true. Help started coming after the full-scale invasion, but that was after eight years of Russia occupying our territory. That is a long time to figure things out and understand that Putin has no intention of giving anything back to us.
At one point, some Europeans asked me: “Why do you think that if you withdraw from Donbas, he will go further?” And I answered: “Because at the beginning of the war, he wasn't seizing Donbas. He came to the capital. He seized parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Kherson itself, and Kharkiv region.” We have retaken a lot of territory, but he had seized different parts of our country. And now they want us to give them something because they are unable to seize it. We may have a smaller territory, less money, and fewer weapons, but we still have more dignity than many others. We will do everything we can to end this war, but it must end in a way that preserves our dignity.
From an interview with ZDF. (2/3)
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For anyone who has worked with MAGA and Trump to obtain no-bid government contracts, presidential pardons, special tariff exemptions, and other regulatory and policy favors, don’t compound your problems by trying to cover it up. You may call it a "revised document retention policy”; we just call it obstruction and evidence tampering. So does the U.S. Criminal Code.
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As America’s new Congress gets ready to launch real oversight over this lawless president and the entire executive branch and all of the corruption flowing through and around them, we offer this word of advice to the wise in both the government and private sectors: don't start shredding documents, deleting emails or engaging in any other kind of obstruction of justice or destruction of evidence.
It will make matters a lot worse for you in Congress and in the courts.
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NOW: Activists rejoice at City Hall as the Milwaukee Common Council unanimously approves a feasibility study exploring the creation of a city-owned electric utility.
It happens one day after the Wisconsin PSC approved a modified rate increase requested by We Energies
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Stories you may have missed these past two weeks during election madness:
Jared Kushner secretly took $2 billion from Saudi and Emirati leaders to work on their behalf, and sent bribes to mercenaries in Azerbaijan, among other places. He also has $1.3+ BILLION invested in Israeli military and weaponry.
An October 26 congressional report included testimony from 11 women who connect Trump to Epstein's rape cult. Five of them were raped by Trump himself. Two were only 13 years old at the time.
A major fire at the Savannah River nuclear plant prompted airspace restrictions, shelter-in-place instructions, and a five-hour emergency declaration. The government has been withholding details
A federal judge told Trump that losers don't get "triumphal," Nazi-inspired arches in the USA; plans shut down.
The U.S., Russia, and Israel are opposing a binding international restrictions on autonomous weapons.
AI stocks collapsed after the election, erasing $2.5 TRILLION in market value.
ICE got caught holding a US citizen hostage for the past 10 months, denying him medication and treatment.
A UN inquiry found Israel guilty of committing genocide in Gaza after ceasefire.Israeli settler terrorists invaded and are holding hostage at gunpoint Palestinian homes in Jericho
October 2026 was the hottest October ever recorded.
Average annual heat-related deaths increased nearly 36% from 2016-2026 over the previous decade.
Stephen Miller replaces Susie Wiles as Trump's White House chief of staff. DeSantis is making a play for 2028, which is humiliating for him.
3M agreed to a $7.35 billion PFAS contamination settlement for people living bat near airports, military bases, etc, over contaminated water
Russel Brand was convicted of rape and three charges of sexual assault with two more rape cases against him pending.
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Dhillon undid years of diversity, equity, and inclusion work at more than 300 colleges by launching aggressive investigations, lawsuits, and pressure campaigns. Now she’s leaving because she didn’t get a promotion. motherjones.com/politics/202…
#ACAB until the mythical good cops eject these violent assholes from within their ranks.
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Marco Rubio: "For years to come, there are many people on the right...that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well.” (2016)
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Hegseth’s Wife Was Paid by Lockheed-Tied Firm and His Book Money Vanished From His Filings, Records Show military.com/hegseths-wife-w…
#ExposeICE cruelty.
“It's actually diabolically sociopathic.”
ICE agent hugs a child—while his partner kidnaps his dad.
Agent told boy his dad was "busy" now.
And would call from the "office."
All while agents aggressively detained his dad.
"You think that was show of tenderness?" said witness.
"It's actually diabolically sociopathic."
The father has been living in the U.S. for at least 21 years with no criminal record—according to family.
"Please stay! Papa!" kids cry.
Reportedly the children were left behind with their mother—who was in the passenger seat during the traffic stop.
Incident occurred in New Jersey.
The Sidewalk School is a nonprofit that provides support to asylum seeking children and families. Posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
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The only reason Putin invaded Ukraine was because Ukraine did not have nuclear weapons. The only reason Ukraine did not have nuclear weapons is because the UK, the USA, and Russia signed an agreement (Budapest Agreement) saying that if Ukraine gives up all of their nuclear weapons those 3 countries would guarantee their sovereignty.
How'd that work out for Ukraine?
Not sure about Europe, but we all know that neither Donald Trump nor Vladimir Putin can be trusted.
cnn.com/2026/11/06/politics/…
