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Military affairs reporter with The Washington Post. State-school alum. Beer-league softball enthusiast. Dog guy. Signal for encrypted tips: danlamothe.30
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Elon Musk tweeted 222 times yesterday www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Breaking addition to tonight's story:

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NEW for tomorrow's paper: With Pentagon purge, Trump thrusts military uncharted territory www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Friday night file: Trump ousts Joint Chiefs chairman, other leaders in major Pentagon shake-up www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Breaking: The Associated Press is suing three Trump administration officials in federal court for banning AP reporters from some of President Trump's events, the Oval Office, and Air Force One. Here's my full story: www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/m...

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NEW: The Trump administration has decided to close the Pentagon briefing room to journalists when no briefing is underway. It takes another potential workspace with WiFi and room to do live TV hits away from journalists in the building. No reason was provided.

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Update: Cleaned out The Washington Post desk today for ... reasons. Still on the job, in the building, and grinding, though. Also anticipating an increase in Defense Department job cuts over the several days. Reach out with your tips on Signal at danlamothe.30.

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These are tense times. Want to reach out encrypted? I'm on Signal. danlamothe.30

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Observation: Have reached a point where I'm blocking as many people on Bluesky as on X. On X, abusive from the right. On BS, abusive from the left. Is this what you want to be, gang?

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Trump’s attack on Zelensky stirs fear of major U.S. shift on Russia www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to go to the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as soon as tomorrow, two military officials tell me. Comes as the Trump administration seeks to project strength on immigration while expanding a detention operation there.

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“Morale is not great,” one military officer told me today of expected layoffs in his Defense Department agency. “No one trusts that they won’t jack this whole thing up.”

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NEW: The Trump administration has directed defense agencies to turn over a list of their probationary employees by the end of Tuesday, with the expectation that many could be laid off as soon as this week, according to five people familiar with the matter. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Homebuilder confidence falls to lowest level in five months amid tariff concerns, high mortgage rates finance.yahoo.com/news/homebui...

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Update: Posobiec did not join Hegseth's travel party in Europe. He was invited, though. Pentagon officials still have not responded to questions about their thought process. But two days later, they also have not issued any denials.

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Breaking news: The Justice Department filed a motion to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, leaving it up to a federal judge to decide the fate of a case that ignited a dramatic standoff between the Trump administration and veteran prosecutors.

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SCOOP: Hegseth team invites far-right activist Jack Posobiec on overseas trip www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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NEW: Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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NEW: Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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I may have played this too conservatively

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Update: Still slumbering

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Are the ghosts of 28-3 still sleeping?

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Didn't have Kansas City getting killed in this game before Drake

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Y'all mocked me

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My father told me, “Don’t ever forget a million people would love to be sitting in your seat.”

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Eagles win 6. You heard it here early

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This is Sgt. Jacob M. Durham. The Marine Corps just identified him as the U.S. service member killed in a plane crash in the Philippines on Feb. 6. He was trained as an electronic intelligence/electromagnetic warfare analyst and has been promoted to sergeant Feb. 1. RIP.

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These are tense times. Want to reach out encrypted? I'm on Signal. danlamothe.30

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