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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It’s true that no nuclear weapon has been used (except in tests) since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in...
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It’s one of the stranger phenomena on this planet. By 2023, the U.S. was estimated to spend more money on its “defense budget”...
by TomDispatch
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Imagine for a moment that I told you Congress was suddenly teetering at the edge of passing a $95-billion bill to give many more...
by TomDispatch
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Tucker Carlson goes to Moscow to 'root for Russia' in person Russian state TV is thrilled to have him. Pentagon confirms Taylor Swift is not being used for covert deep state operations These conspiracy theories just keep getting more ridiculous. Why...
by Jen Hayden
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 01:28 PM PST
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The right wing’s obsession with attacking mega pop star Taylor Swift has prompted the Department of Defense to make an official statement refuting one of the more egregious pieces of misinformation being spread: that Swift is a part of a “deep state”...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Feb 02, 2024 at 03:20 PM PST
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Leave it to Fox News to throw out a conspiracy, on live air, that is so beyond belief that it makes you question how someone could say it out loud without bursting into laughter. In a set of segments on Fox News, the network has begun to pose the...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 09:39 AM PST
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has prostate cancer, and his recent secretive hospitalization was for surgery and later to treat a urinary tract infection related to that operation, his doctors said Tuesday. The cancer revelation answers the main...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 03:01 PM PST
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin treated for prostate cancer edition.cnn.com/… WashingtonCNN — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is being treated for prostate cancer and suffered complications that led to him being taken to hospital on New Year’s Day where...
by ca cokz
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 01:16 PM PST
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Though reported on the BBC and Morning Joe today this doesn’t seem to have made it to the Front Page here yet, but looks to become an increasingly important story over the next few days: Criticism of US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin is growing, after...
by Irontortoise
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 08:24 AM PST
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The U.S. military on Thursday opened a new chapter in how it investigates and prosecutes cases of sexual assault and other major crimes, putting independent lawyers in charge of those decisions and ...
by Associated Press
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on Thu Dec 28, 2023 at 12:59 PM PST
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The Senate wrapped up 2023 with a win Tuesday when Alabama Republican Tommy Tuberville finally ended his tantrum and allowed the Senate to confirm the last of the military promotions he’d been ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Dec 20, 2023 at 11:30 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. In my childhood, we at least acknowledged the ominous existence of nuclear weapons, no matter how weirdly. I’m thinking about...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 01:48 PM PST
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The Senate can finally confirm the promotions of hundreds of senior military officers that have been held up for 10 months by Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville. He announced Tuesday that he was finally dropping his hold on most promotions after...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 12:09 PM PST
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Looks like ol potato town is over it: Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) announced Tuesday that he would lift his blanket hold on military promotions, ending a nearly 10-month standoff over a Biden administration abortion policy that made the former...
by satanicpanic
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 11:47 AM PST
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Alabama’s blowhard Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville seems to have seen the writing on the wall regarding his hold on military promotions: There is a growing sentiment among his Republican colleagues that it must end. A temporary rule change that would...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Dec 01, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
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There isn’t an imminent government shutdown threat facing Congress when they return from their Thanksgiving break this week, a welcome respite considering everything else crammed into the next ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 09:58 AM PST
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A handful of Republicans kept the Senate in session into the early hours of Thursday morning, making sure Sen. Tommy Tuberville started his long Thanksgiving break on a sour note. The Alabama ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 12:03 PM PST
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It takes a singular asshole to require the creation of a whole new Senate rule just to deal with him. Congratulations, Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville: You achieved that today . The Senate ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Nov 14, 2023 at 03:30 PM PST
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Organizations representing veterans and military families have given up on trying to get Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville to relent on his blockade of military promotions. Tuberville has ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 01:10 PM PST
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Support for President Joe Biden’s request for $61 billion aid to Ukraine is faltering in Congress, with pro-Putin Republicans working in the House to block it entirely and in the Senate to poison ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 12:21 PM PST
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