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Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Pentagon Media Access Restrictions

Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

A federal judge on March 20 issued an order blocking the Trump administration’s media access policy at the Pentagon after The New York Times sued over the restrictions.
An aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Dec. 15, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

The Department of War tightened its rules for the media in September 2025 after officials said reporters were roaming the halls of the Pentagon. The department took the position that the restrictions were reasonable and designed to safeguard national security.

The new rules provided that soliciting non-public information from department personnel or encouraging employees to break the law “falls outside the scope of protected newsgathering activities.” They also stated that reporters would be denied press passes if officials determined they posed a safety or security risk.

Most members of the Pentagon press corps declined to sign an acknowledgement of the new policy and lost their press passes.

In December 2025, The New York Times sued, arguing that the policy violated the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment by restricting “journalists’ ability to do what journalists have always done—ask questions of government employees and gather information to report stories that take the public beyond official pronouncements.”

U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman wrote in his new ruling that the drafters of the First Amendment “believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech.”

“That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years. It must not be abandoned now.”

Friedman held that the Pentagon press policy ran afoul of both the First and Fifth Amendments.

Friedman repeated a comment he made in open court in which he said the federal government has been dishonest in its communications with the public about military matters in the past.

“We’ve been through, in my lifetime, you know, the Vietnam War, where the public, I think it’s fair to say, was lied to about a lot of things. We’ve been through 9/11. We’ve been through the Kuwait situation, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay.”

The judge also wrote that the department could not show that it would be harmed by the cancellation of the policy, which the judge said was vague and “fails to provide fair notice of what routine, lawful journalistic practices will result in the detail, suspension, or revocation” of a press pass.

The policy’s “true purpose and practical effect” was “to weed out disfavored journalists—those who were not, in the Department’s view, ‘on board and willing to serve,’—and replace them with news entities that are,” he wrote.

Washington-based Friedman issued a permanent injunction preventing the department from enforcing the challenged restrictions. The judge also ordered the department to reinstate the credentials of six reporters and to file a status report with the court by March 27 certifying compliance with its order.

The New York Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander said the media organization “welcomes today’s ruling, which enforces the constitutionally protected rights for the free press in this country.”

“Americans deserve visibility into how their government is being run, and the actions the military is taking in their name and with their tax dollars. Today’s ruling reaffirms the right of The Times and other independent media to continue to ask questions on the public’s behalf.”

The Epoch Times reached out for comment from the U.S. Department of Justice, which represents federal agencies in court. No reply was received by publication time.

Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.

Tyler Durden
Sun, 03/22/2026 – 17:00

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Cuba is preparing for possible U.S. aggression even as Trump administration officials have recently signaled they are not planning an invasion, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said Sunday.”Our military is always prepared, and in fact it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression,” Fernández de Cossío told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday.”We would be naive if, looking at what’s happening around the world, we would not do that.””But we truly hope that it doesn’t occur. We don’t see why it would have to occur, and we find no justification whatsoever — why would the government of the United States force its country to take military action against a neighboring country like Cuba.”CUBAN ACTIVIST TO TRUMP: ‘MAKE CUBA GREAT AGAIN’ BY ENDING COMMUNIST RULEThe Cuban official’s remarks come just days after President Donald Trump said it would be “a big honor” to be the president that has the “honor of taking Cuba.””Taking Cuba in some form, yeah, taking Cuba – I mean, whether I free it, take it: I think I can do anything I want with it, you want to know the truth,” Trump said, despite the fact Secretary of State Marco Rubio stressed diplomacy with the failing regime over any talk of an invasion as Trump’s statement might suggest.”They’re in a lot of trouble, and the people in charge, they don’t know how to fix it,” Rubio said this week. “So they have to get new people in charge.”TRUMP TOUTS US HAS ‘TREMENDOUS’ AMOUNT OF VENEZUELAN OIL, VOWS TO ‘TAKE CARE’ OF CUBA AFTER IRAN FOCUSBut Fernández de Cossío said Cuba is “absolutely” opposed to regime change, signaling defiance of Trump and Rubio’s public statements and setting the stage for potential military action down the road.”Our country has historically been ready to mobilize, as a nation as a whole, for military aggression,” Fernández de Cossío told NBC’s Kristen Welker. “We truly always see it as something far from us. We don’t believe it is something that is probable. But we would be naive if we do not prepare. That’s what I can tell you.”Asked whether Cuba was bracing for the United States “to take it in some form,” Fernández de Cossío answered: “Truly, we don’t know what they’re talking about.”RUBIO HOLDING SECRET TALKS WITH RAUL CASTRO’S GRANDSON OVER CUBA’S FUTURE: REPORT”But I can tell you this: Cuba is a sovereign country and has the right to be a sovereign country and has the right to self-determination,” he added. “Cuba would not accept to become a vassal state or a dependent state from any other country or any other superpower.”Fernández de Cossío said Cuba was prepared to negotiate with Rubio despite the secretary of state’s longstanding criticism of the Cuban government.”We are ready to negotiate with the person that the U.S. government, as a sovereign nation, designates as their spokesperson, as their lead negotiator, and we’re ready to negotiate with whoever is designated by the U.S. government,” he said. “They’re a sovereign nation. We don’t interfere with that.”PROTESTERS TORCH COMMUNIST PARTY HQ IN CUBA AS VIDEO APPEARS TO CAPTURE GUNFIREThroughout the interview, the Cuban diplomat cast Havana’s position as defensive, saying Cuba “has no quarrel with the United States” and wants “a respectful relationship,” while blaming the island’s worsening energy and economic crisis on U.S. pressure, including efforts to choke off fuel supplies. Recent reporting has documented Cuba’s deepening blackout crisis and the Trump administration’s increased efforts to isolate the government economically.”What does ‘on its own’ mean when it’s being forced by the United States?” Fernández de Cossío said when asked about Trump’s claim that Cuba could collapse on its own. “It’s a very bizarre statement.”His closing message to Trump was conciliatory, even as he warned that Cuba was preparing for the worst.”Cuba has no quarrel with the United States,” Fernández de Cossío said. “We do have the need and the right to protect ourself. “But we are willing to sit down, we’re open for business, and we’re all being open to having a respectful relationship that I’m sure the majority of Americans would support and I’m sure the president of the United States would support if we could sit down and talk meaningfully about it.”

The state of disrepair of British Military has led to this.
Having no air defenses against ballistic or hypersonic missiles is a bad way to be these days.
It’s now becoming clear why failing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delayed confirmation of the Iranian ballistic missile strikes against the UK-US airbase in Diego Garcia, in their first confirmed use of long-range ballistic missiles.
The reason is that the island is roughly 2,500 miles away from Iran, which means that Iranian missiles now have the ability to reach most of Europe, including London.
If that was not worrying enough, reports have arisen, quoting former military chiefs, that Britain ‘is defenseless’ against a potential Iranian missile attack.

The IDF has published a map showing the range of Iranian missiles following the attack on a U.S. and UK base in the Indian Ocean.
Nearly all of Europe is within range. pic.twitter.com/4q95aABZWd
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 22, 2026

The Telegraph reported:
“One senior defense source with knowledge of the UK’s integrated air defense systems warned that Britain would struggle to fend off such a long-range bombardment. […] ‘It’s woeful… combating ballistic missiles are long-learned skill sets – and the UK’s set of those skills is, sadly, very, very low’.”

‘We hope there are missile defence systems in place, that said, the Government can’t take out the bins properly so you never know.’
David Patrikarakos on the threat from Iran amid reports they have the capability to strike Britain. pic.twitter.com/aqrazogo9Z
— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 22, 2026

The air defenses have been degraded by a lack of investment.
And worse, the existing capabilities (naval frigates) are in port and not loaded, not ready for interception, so a surprise missile strike renders them ineffective.
The HMS Dragon is protecting the airbase in Cyprus – but who is protecting the mainland?
“[Former air vice-marshal Sean Bell] said: ‘Unless a Type 45 happened to be sailing by, and it is unlikely to be in the right place at the time, the fact remains we have no missile defense against ballistic missiles in this country’.
The UK has no ground-based air defense system capable of intercepting ballistic or hypersonic missiles. The Army’s seven batteries of Sky Sabre missile systems are built primarily to intercept fast jets, attack helicopters and laser-guided missiles.”

‘Israel would say that, becasue it wants to draw other countries into its war of choice against Iran… There is no evidence Iran is going to directly attack Britain.’
Jonathan Lis on Israel’s insistence Iran has missiles capable of reaching Britain. pic.twitter.com/m1LzOtf0WE
— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 22, 2026

So, take a guess as to who the UK will have to rely upon: yes, on the United States of America.
“America has a number of Aegis Ashore missile defense systems deployed across Romania and Poland. Four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, based in Spain, also operate SM-3 interceptors, which could destroy ballistic munitions.”
Read more:
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The post ‘DEFENSELESS’: Former Military Chiefs Say Britain Is Vulnerable to Iranian Missiles in the Event of an Attack, Has To Rely on the US appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Chappell Roan was accused of telling her security guard to scold a young fan, sparking a response from the pop star and igniting a ridiculous meme on social media.

“Our Military Is Prepared”: Havana Communists See Writing On The Wall After Trump’s Iran Bombing

In a new note from Zoltan Pozsar’s advisory firm, Ex Uno Plures, he explained that the Trump administration is “methodically building a portfolio of assets” to pressure China, centered on strategic energy supply nodes and maritime chokepoints that have historically supported Beijing’s cheap crude imports. His note highlights the Panama Canal, Venezuelan oil flows, and the broader significance of Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. Taking it a step further, Cuba could eventually be folded into that same strategic portfolio if the communist regime in Havana falls.

The world is being carved up as unipolarity is dead, and a fracturing world gives way to a reality in which everything is up for grabs. Russian President Vladimir Putin understood this during the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Trump’s crusade across the Americas, from securing the Western Hemisphere to influencing political regime shifts in the region from left-wing to right-wing, has been well understood by Havana’s communists amid Washington’s maximum-pressure campaign to starve the island of crude imports. Havana looked on in disbelief in January when Trump’s Delta Force operators captured socialist leader Nicolás Maduro.

Now, with the Trump administration rewriting global energy flows, as Pozsar noted, this is all about pressuring China after its rare-earth trade-restriction stunt last year amid the tit-for-tat trade war. The administration wants to add Iran’s Kharg Island and the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint to that strategic portfolio.

Havana understands its fate, and the communist regime could be in its final weeks or months, as diesel fuel supplies are being depleted and the power blackout crisis spreads island-wide.

Except for far-left US nonprofits that arrived on the communist island earlier this weekend, with some flying first class and staying in lavish hotels with diesel-powered backup generators. Why America’s left wing weirdly gravitates toward communists in Havana is likely a question the State Department and U.S. Treasury have been asking. We have already provided answers (here).

🇨🇺 Code Pink communists are living it up in their fancy Cuba hotel with a private generator keeping the lights on and AC blasting.
Meanwhile, 99.9% of actual Cubans are sitting in total blackout.
All animals are equal… but some animals are more equal than others, right?… https://t.co/rANxETXmrE pic.twitter.com/IdwrChW2dV
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 22, 2026
White U.S. liberals in Cuba are partying while the nation is starving. 

Did CodePinks humanitarian festival cause a blackout in Havana, Cuba? pic.twitter.com/OtSQUCgNfm
— CyberBoy (@BenHanan_) March 22, 2026
With that being said, and with Havana on life support, after multiple attempts from Mexico and Russia to deliver fuel via tankers to save the regime from collapse and buy it more time, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister warned Sunday about the very real possibility of US military action.

“Our military is always prepared,” Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio told NBC’s Meet the Press earlier this morning.

De Cossio continued: “And in fact, it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression. We would be naive if, looking at what’s happening around the world, we did not do that. But we truly hope that it doesn’t occur.”

Cuba “is open for business,” De Cossio said, adding that political change dictated by the US is off the table.

“The nature of the Cuban government, the structure of the Cuban government, and the members of the Cuban government are not part of the negotiation,” he told NBC.

Cuba “is not in a state of collapse,” he said. “We’re being as creative as possible.”

Meanwhile…

🚨🇨🇺 BREAKING: WTF is going on in Cuba?
There are reports of explosions being heard in its capital, Havana and images that appear to be 2 or 3 large fires in the distance.
According to Mag Jorge Castro, a Cuban journalist, there are multiple reports of “the presence of black… https://t.co/w5FZ0aIWn7 pic.twitter.com/RmgdtQHvDb
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 22, 2026
Recently, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel was forced to acknowledge on state television that negotiations with the Trump administration were taking place and were aimed at “finding solutions through dialogue” to longstanding bilateral differences between the two neighboring countries.

Back to Pozsar’s note about Trump building a “portfolio of assets” to squeeze China, we suspect Cuba will be added to that list.

Tyler Durden
Sun, 03/22/2026 – 16:30

Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz was hospitalized after taking a puck to the throat during warmups before his start against the Ottawa Senators. Stolarz was scratched from Saturday’s contest, and taken off the ice where he went to the hospital as a precautionary measure. He received some images and was later released, per NHL.com.Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube didn’t have an update for Stolarz after his squad fell to the Senators, 5-2, though he believed he would be meeting the team for their flight back to Toronto. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe moment was captured by Sportsnet, where a shot was taken by a Maple Leafs player like normal warmups. But it caught Stolarz in the worse spot – right between his pads and mask.Stolarz quickly skated out of net, and he eventually went into the Maple Leafs’ tunnel before heading out of the arena. NHL WRITER, 3 CHILDREN DIE IN MINNESOTA HOUSE FIRE, OFFICIALS SAYWilliam Nylander was the one who threw the shot on net that hit Stolarz in the throat, and he spoke about the freak incident after the loss. “Obviously, it’s really tough to see that happen,” he said, per the New York Post. “I mean, I always come in and shoot the puck in the glove, and this one just came off a little bit to the left, and I hit him in the neck. So, I was obviously worried for him, but I’ve been texting with him. So, he seems to be OK.”In turn, Joseph Woll took over in net, and he didn’t have the best outing, with five goals allowed. Stolarz, the 32-year-old New Jersey native, owns an 8-9-3 record and .894 save percentage over 22 games with the Maple Leafs. This is his second season with Toronto after backing up Sergei Bobrovsky with the Florida Panthers in 2024. Stolarz was part of the Panthers’ Stanley Cup-winning squad that year. He went on to sign a four-year, $15 million deal with the Maple Leafs in September 2025 despite having knee surgery that held him to 34 games during the 2024-25 campaign. Unfortunately, the injury bug continued this year, as Stolarz was forced to miss 33 games due to an upper-body injury earlier this season. It’s been a rough season for the Maple Leafs, who are on the outside looking in with just 11 games left to play. They have 71 points, sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic Division with the Panthers.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

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Not long ago, the idea of being a “generalist” in the workplace had a mixed reputation. The stereotype was the “jack of all trades” who could dabble in many disciplines but was a “master of none.” And for years, that was more or less true. Most people simply didn’t have access to the expertise required to do highly cross-functional work. If you needed a new graphic, you waited for a designer. If you needed to change a contract, you waited for legal. In smaller organizations and startups, this waiting game was typically replaced with inaction or improvization — often with questionable results.AI is changing this faster than any technology shift I’ve seen. It’s allowing people to succeed at tasks beyond their normal area of expertise.Anthropic found that AI is “enabling engineers to become more full-stack in their work,” meaning they’re able to make competent decisions across a much wider range of interconnected technologies. A direct consequence of this is tasks that would have been left aside due to lack of time or expertise are now being accomplished (27% of AI-assisted work per Anthropic’s study).

This shift is closely mirroring the effects of past revolutionary technologies. The invention of the automobile or the computer did not bring us a wealth of leisure time — it mainly led us to start doing work that could not be done before.With AI as a guide, anyone can now expand their skillsets and augment their expertise to accomplish more. This fundamentally changes what people can do, who can do it, how teams operate, and what leaders should expect. Well, not so fast. The AI advances have been incredible, and if 2025 may not have fully delivered its promise of bringing AI agents to the workforce, there’s no reason to doubt it’s well on its way. But for now, it’s not perfect. If to err is human, to trust AI not to err is foolish.One of the biggest challenges of working with AI is identifying hallucinations. The term was coined, I assume, not as a cute way to refer to factual errors, but as quite an apt way of describing the conviction that AI exhibits in its erroneous answers. We humans have a clear bias toward confident people, which probably explains the number of smart people getting burned after taking ChatGPT at face value. And if experts can get fooled by an overconfident AI, how can generalists hope to harness the power of AI without making the same mistake? Citizen guardrails give way to vibe freedomIt’s tempting to compare today’s AI vibe coding wave to the rise of low- and no-code tools. No-code tools gave users freedom to build custom software tailored to their needs. However, the comparison doesn’t quite hold. The so-called “citizen developers” could only operate inside the boundaries the tool allowed. These tight constraints were limiting, but they had the benefit of saving the users from themselves — preventing anything catastrophic.AI removes those boundaries almost entirely, and with great freedom comes responsibilities that most people aren’t quite prepared for. The first stage of ‘vibe freedom’ is one of unbridled optimism encouraged by a sycophantic AI. “You’re absolutely correct!” The dreaded report that would have taken all night looks better than anything you could have done yourself and only took a few minutes.

The next stage comes almost by surprise — there’s something that’s not quite right. You start doubting the accuracy of the work — you review and then wonder if it wouldn’t have been quicker to just do it yourself in the first place.Then comes bargaining and acceptance. You argue with the AI, you’re led down confusing paths, but slowly you start developing an understanding — a mental model of the AI mind. You learn to recognize the confidently incorrect, you learn to push back and cross-check, you learn to trust and verify. The generalist becomes the trust layerThis is a skill that can be learned, and it can only be learned on the job, through regular practice. This doesn’t require deep specialization, but it does require awareness. Curiosity becomes essential. So does the willingness to learn quickly, think critically, spot inconsistencies, and to rely on judgment rather than treating AI as infallible.That’s the new job of the generalist: Not to be an expert in everything, but to understand the AI mind enough to catch when something is off, and to defer to a true specialist when the stakes are high. The generalist becomes the human trust layer sitting between the AI’s output and the organization’s standards. They decide what passes and what gets a second opinion.That said, this only works if the generalist clears a minimum bar of fluency. There’s a big difference between “broadly informed” and “confidently unaware.” AI makes that gap easier to miss.Impact on teams and hiringClearly, specialists will not be replaced by AI anytime soon. Their work remains critical. It will evolve to  become more strategic.What AI changes is everything around the edges. Roles that felt important but were hard to fill, tasks that sat in limbo because no expert was available, backlogs created by waiting for highly skilled people to review simple work. Now, a generalist can get much farther on their own, and specialists can focus on the hardest problems. We’re already starting to see an impact in the hiring landscape. Companies are looking to bring on individuals who are comfortable navigating AI. People who embrace it and use it to take on projects outside of their comfort zone.Performance expectations will shift too. Many leaders are already looking less at productivity alone, and more at how effectively someone uses AI. We see token usage not as a measure of cost, but as an indicator of AI adoption, and perhaps optimistically, as a proxy for productivity.   Making vibe work viableUse AI to enhance work, not to wing it: You will get burned letting AI loose. It requires guidance and oversight.Learn when to trust and when to verify: Build an understanding of the AI mind so you can exercise good judgement on the work produced. When in doubt or when the stakes are high, defer to specialists.Set clear organizational standards: AI thrives on context and humans, too. Invest in documentation of processes, procedures, and best practices.Keep humans in the loop: AI shouldn’t remove oversight. It should make oversight easier.Without these factors, AI work stays in the “vibe” stage. With them, it becomes something the business can actually rely on.Return of the generalistThe emerging, AI-empowered generalist is defined by curiosity, adaptability, and the ability to evaluate the work AI produces. They can span multiple functions, not because they’re experts in each one, but because AI gives them access to specialist-level expertise. Most importantly, this new generation of generalists knows when and how to apply their human judgment and critical thinking. That’s the real determining factor for turning vibes into something reliable, sustainable, and viable in the long run.Cedric Savarese is founder and CEO of FormAssembly.