Jack Reed Rips Pete Hegseth For Using Biden As An Excuse: 'Gross Negligence'

Pete Hegseth got blistered in the Senate Appropriations Committee today by Sen. Jack Reed and others, who refused to hear his editorializing on Trump's greatness, instead exposing his gross negligence over the war and the Strait of Hormuz.

The Trump administration is demanding another $87.6 billion to restock Pentagon resources following their bombing raids on Iran.

Jack Reed gives a master class on how to calmly and systematically demolish an unqualified MAGA cultist in Trump's cabinet.

Reed started off by asking Whiskey Pete if he was prepared for the possibility that the Strait of Hormuz could be closed during a conflict since the Pentagon had been planning for an event like this for decades.

Hegseth tried to blame President Biden for his screw-ups, but Reed would have none of it.

REED: Were you aware that the Strait of Hormuz could be closed, and obviously sinking their ships has not affected their ability to effectively close the Strait.

HEGSETH: We had U.S. boats that surrendered to Iranian ships under the Biden administration, so their navy was affected in expeditious ways in the past.

REED: Listen, we're talking about a war you started, not a situation in which oil was flowing freely, there was no conflict, we weren't losing personnel as a result of Iranian actions, so your fallback to the Biden administration is just a very, very obvious excuse for what I think is probably, as you described, so often gross negligence.

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Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.

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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

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Bucking EV slowdown, Sila raises $300M to expand battery materials factory

Sila's fresh $300 million round will help it make enough of its silicon-carbon anode material to power more than 100,000 EVs.

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Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

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Where's The Brain Bleach: Hunter Biden Paints Mental Image Of 'Really Kinky' Ted Cruz

In an appearance on progressive pundit Jennifer Welch’s I’ve Had It podcast, Hunter Biden got particularly candid when it came to his thoughts, feelings, and theories on Texas MAGA Senator Ted Cruz's sex life.

According to former President Joe Biden's controversial second son, he's unsure as to whether Ted Cruz is gay or not, but he's all but certain that the Texas Republican is into some "really kinky" stuff, going so far as to imply that there may even be animals involved behind the (thankfully) closed doors of Cruz's private life.

The rather bizarre conversation came to fruition after Welch asked for Biden's take on the "Top 3 MAGA laptops" he would like to see publicly revealed -- a play on the infamous Hunter Biden laptop scandal that still to this day plays rent-free on an infinite loop inside the hollow brains of the MAGA movement.

Hunter couldn't answer fast enough: "Ted Cruz, of course. 100%."

"Ugh, do you get a gaydar ping from Ted?" Welch asked the former First Son.

"No, you know what I get, I get a really, really kinky weird sh*t-type thing," Biden answered, before going in for the kill shot: "It may be gay, it may not be gay, it may be a little bit of this, it may be a little bit of that, but it may involve animals, too."

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Trump Doesn’t Let Troop Deaths Keep Him From Golfing

Donald Trump’s unnecessary war with Iran has claimed the lives of two more Americans, with a third missing, as I write this on Saturday afternoon.

The New York Times reported about this latest development in President Peace Prize’s war: “The deaths could prompt fierce retaliation, which would come on top of an already intensifying conflict. The United States and Iran expanded the scope and intensity of their attacks overnight, striking critical infrastructure sites that included a power station and water facilities, with no sign of an off-ramp to end the fighting.”

Funny, it was just two weeks ago that Trump declared Iran was “totally defeated militarily.” He made the same claim in April. But maybe Grampa Trump is having trouble remembering which killing spree is which in his “pro-life” administration.

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