Mike Ritland

You know, what if the Defense Department was paying Raytheon, you know, continually, you know, as it does, billions of dollars in defense contracts, and Raytheon opens up a new line of business called Raytheon Media LLC. And Raytheon Media LLC has a basically explicit media purpose. to target Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Republicans like Bill Kristol.

I mean, just straight up, just like the Washington Post, just like Reuters, just like no objectivity. In fact, they even just like the Washington Post and all the different journalistic things said, we're going to end whataboutism. Objectivity is no longer an underpinning credo of our reporting because we believe both sides makes misinformation spread.

I mean, just straight up, just like the Washington Post, just like Reuters, just like no objectivity. In fact, they even just like the Washington Post and all the different journalistic things said, we're going to end whataboutism. Objectivity is no longer an underpinning credo of our reporting because we believe both sides makes misinformation spread.

I mean, just straight up, just like the Washington Post, just like Reuters, just like no objectivity. In fact, they even just like the Washington Post and all the different journalistic things said, we're going to end whataboutism. Objectivity is no longer an underpinning credo of our reporting because we believe both sides makes misinformation spread.

So we do need to pick winners and losers in this. And Trump, And Trump doubled Raytheon's Pentagon contracts to Raytheon. So the contracts aren't going directly to Raytheon Media. They're going to Raytheon Military LLC. But now, Raytheon Media doesn't have to make a dime because their margins, their revenues, are padded up the wazoo by a huge cash infusion to a sister line of business.

So we do need to pick winners and losers in this. And Trump, And Trump doubled Raytheon's Pentagon contracts to Raytheon. So the contracts aren't going directly to Raytheon Media. They're going to Raytheon Military LLC. But now, Raytheon Media doesn't have to make a dime because their margins, their revenues, are padded up the wazoo by a huge cash infusion to a sister line of business.

So we do need to pick winners and losers in this. And Trump, And Trump doubled Raytheon's Pentagon contracts to Raytheon. So the contracts aren't going directly to Raytheon Media. They're going to Raytheon Military LLC. But now, Raytheon Media doesn't have to make a dime because their margins, their revenues, are padded up the wazoo by a huge cash infusion to a sister line of business.

You see this everywhere. NewsGuard, for example, one of the most notorious private sector for-profit censorship mercenary firms with the former head of NATO on its board, the former head of DHS on its board, the former... head of the State Department's Global Engagement Center on his board. You name it. Mark Milley, the former head of the CIA NSA. I'm sorry, not Mark Milley.

You see this everywhere. NewsGuard, for example, one of the most notorious private sector for-profit censorship mercenary firms with the former head of NATO on its board, the former head of DHS on its board, the former... head of the State Department's Global Engagement Center on his board. You name it. Mark Milley, the former head of the CIA NSA. I'm sorry, not Mark Milley.

You see this everywhere. NewsGuard, for example, one of the most notorious private sector for-profit censorship mercenary firms with the former head of NATO on its board, the former head of DHS on its board, the former... head of the State Department's Global Engagement Center on his board. You name it. Mark Milley, the former head of the CIA NSA. I'm sorry, not Mark Milley.

General Michael V. Hayden, the former head of the CIA NSA, four-star general on his board. they got a $750,000 Pentagon contract, nominally for the purpose of helping the Pentagon scan the internet to help scan and ban Chinese and Russian propaganda online. Now, as this new MAGA foreign policy coalition and base has to navigate the tension between foreign ops and domestic interests,

General Michael V. Hayden, the former head of the CIA NSA, four-star general on his board. they got a $750,000 Pentagon contract, nominally for the purpose of helping the Pentagon scan the internet to help scan and ban Chinese and Russian propaganda online. Now, as this new MAGA foreign policy coalition and base has to navigate the tension between foreign ops and domestic interests,

General Michael V. Hayden, the former head of the CIA NSA, four-star general on his board. they got a $750,000 Pentagon contract, nominally for the purpose of helping the Pentagon scan the internet to help scan and ban Chinese and Russian propaganda online. Now, as this new MAGA foreign policy coalition and base has to navigate the tension between foreign ops and domestic interests,

We have to navigate what the role is of countering foreign influence and countering foreign propaganda, squaring that with the fact that that was the exact predicate used to take out hundreds of thousands and arguably millions of Trump supporters at home when Trump was called a Russian asset and Trump was just like Putin, Trump equals Putin. The FBI is saying it. The CIA is saying it.

We have to navigate what the role is of countering foreign influence and countering foreign propaganda, squaring that with the fact that that was the exact predicate used to take out hundreds of thousands and arguably millions of Trump supporters at home when Trump was called a Russian asset and Trump was just like Putin, Trump equals Putin. The FBI is saying it. The CIA is saying it.

We have to navigate what the role is of countering foreign influence and countering foreign propaganda, squaring that with the fact that that was the exact predicate used to take out hundreds of thousands and arguably millions of Trump supporters at home when Trump was called a Russian asset and Trump was just like Putin, Trump equals Putin. The FBI is saying it. The CIA is saying it.

And you had tens of thousands of American citizens who were rolled up in these very groups who were supposed to be focused on Russia, making the argument that, well, these Americans are being an unwitting or unwitting vassal of talking points from Russia, so now we get to put them in these blacklist databases. So that's a tension that has to be navigated. But the point is, however you navigate it,

And you had tens of thousands of American citizens who were rolled up in these very groups who were supposed to be focused on Russia, making the argument that, well, these Americans are being an unwitting or unwitting vassal of talking points from Russia, so now we get to put them in these blacklist databases. So that's a tension that has to be navigated. But the point is, however you navigate it,

And you had tens of thousands of American citizens who were rolled up in these very groups who were supposed to be focused on Russia, making the argument that, well, these Americans are being an unwitting or unwitting vassal of talking points from Russia, so now we get to put them in these blacklist databases. So that's a tension that has to be navigated. But the point is, however you navigate it,

That 750,000 Pentagon grant to NewsGuard was not explicitly for NewsGuard to create advertiser blacklists to target Stephen Crowder and Ben Shapiro and Prager University and Fox News hosts and virtually every populist right-wing media conduit for news. the man who is now the sitting democratically elected president of the United States. But it's the same Raytheon military, Raytheon media thing.