The Hound | Aug. 25

Hi there,

It’s Tuesday. A CENTCOM public affairs official has confirmed the Pentagon maintains a secret blacklist of journalists. When an Intercept reporter pressed for details about the Iran war, the official threatened: "You'll be put on a list of people to disregard."

Under Hegseth, the Pentagon has evicted the New York Times and NPR from their long-held desks, replacing them with outlets like Breitbart and One America News.

🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover Hegseth's Pentagon not as a poorly managed press shop, but as an institution waging deliberate, systematic war on the First Amendment.

A secret blacklist of journalists at the world's most powerful military is not a bureaucratic quirk — it is a constitutional crisis. The public deserves to know which journalists are blacklisted, who put them there, and what the military is trying to hide.

In addition, how protections against Wall Street’s risky borrowing are being rolled back. And Medicare for All is making a comeback in the 2026 midterms and could be a defining issue in the upcoming Democratic 2028 presidential primary.

Read about these, and more, with today’s stories:

Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists (The Intercept)

The Best Protection Against Financial Crises Is Being Destroyed (The American Prospect)

Medicare for All Is Making a Comeback (The New Republic)

Deportees who refused to exit a US flight in Liberia are sent to Equatorial Guinea (AP News)

Trump’s White House Ballroom Defense Unravels as Secret Bunker Exposed (The New Republic)

The Trump Administration Has Spent Billions Boosting Gas Exports, Spurring More Fracking (Inside Climate News)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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