Day: September 22, 2025

It’s Still Amateur Hour at the Pentagon

Buck Banks

“This is so dumb that I have a hard time believing it is true. We don’t want a bunch of Pravda newspapers only touting the Government’s official position. A free press makes our country better. This sounds like more amateur hour.”

— Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), on X in response to the Pentagon’s decision to prevent reporters from accessing military or defense information that has sparked condemnation across the aisle and backlash from media organizations that argue the move hampers press freedom, the Washington Post reports.

Charlie Kirk, In His Own Words

Buck Banks

“Words are not violence, nor are they powerless. Burying the truth of the Confederacy, rewriting its aims and ideas, and ignoring its animating words allowed for the terrorization of the Black population, the imposition of apartheid, and the destruction of democracy. The rewriting and the ignoring were done not just by Confederates, but also by putative allies for whom the reduction of Black people to serfdom was the unfortunate price of white unity. The import of this history has never been clearer than in this moment when the hard question must be asked: If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, in Vanity Fair