The defense secretary announced the creation of a new four-star military command dedicated to autonomous drones and robots. He called it “Autonomous Warfare Command” — or AutoWarCom. He made the announcement Wednesday from the Quantico Marine base in Virginia.

The command will oversee what the secretary called “the biggest battlefield revolution in generations.” The machines will identify targets using AI-powered systems. Amnesty International has called for a ban on these weapons, writing: “The replacement of troops with machines makes the decision to go to conflict easier.”

The same secretary who said the sailors’ deployment was “not nearly long enough” is now building a command to replace soldiers with machines. He announced a new project to lead the effort. The team includes former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, weapons entrepreneur Palmer Luckey, and a tech billionaire who receives billions in contracts from the same department.

The secretary also confirmed the military will cut 20 percent of its generals and admirals. He singled out reporters in the room, calling them “anti-American losers” and accusing them of “treason” for reporting on the military.

The machine is building machines. The drones will choose the targets. The robots will carry out the orders. And the man who runs it all called the reporters who cover him traitors.

BREAKING

The Government Filed a Misconduct Complaint Against Federal Judges Who Questioned Its Immigration Actions

The attorney general filed a judicial misconduct complaint against several federal judges in Minnesota who publicly criticized the government’s immigration actions. Democracy Now reported the filing Wednesday.

One of the judges, a George W. Bush appointee who served as chief of the district, told the New York Times: “What happened in our court, especially in January through March of this year, was pretty much unprecedented in the history of the United States, at least going back to the Civil War, and it created a grave threat to the rule of law.”

Minnesota’s attorney general called the complaint “a desperate and dangerous effort to go after a co-equal branch of government.” The government also indicted 10 people on voter fraud charges from elections dating back to 2022. Those 10 ballots represent 0.00012 percent of the 8.5 million ballots cast in those elections.

The machine goes after the judges who questioned it and calls 10 ballots out of 8.5 million a crisis. It builds the voter database. It sends agents to the polls. And when a judge says the government went too far, the government files a complaint against the judge.

EXPOSED

The Military Has Struck More Than 70 Boats and Ended More Than 200 Lives in the Caribbean — a Judge Just Ordered the Secret Legal Justification Reviewed

A federal judge ordered the military to let him review its secret legal justification for striking boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. The military claims the boats were carrying drugs. It has provided no public evidence. Since last fall, the military has claimed more than 70 strikes, ending more than 200 lives.

The ACLU’s national security attorney said: “The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded ending of hundreds of civilian lives. Today’s order is a huge step in the right direction.”

More than 200 people. Seventy boats. No evidence made public. No names released. No trial. No jury. The military says the boats had drugs. The judge is asking to see the legal basis. The public has never been shown one.

The machine ends lives in the Caribbean based on a legal justification that no one outside the building has seen. A judge just said: show me.

DEVELOPING

The Researcher Who Was Pushed Out of a Tech Company for Raising Safety Concerns Just Won the “Alternative Nobel”

Timnit Gebru, the AI researcher who was pushed out of Google in 2020 after raising concerns about the dangers of large language models, won the 2026 Right Livelihood Award… known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” Democracy Now devoted a featured segment to her on Thursday.

Gebru told Democracy Now: “Right now, these chatbots are designed to make you believe that there’s some sort of superhuman brain behind whatever is outputting these texts.” She has argued for years that the real danger of AI is not a science-fiction superintelligence but the lack of oversight over the companies that build it.

The same week a tech company canceled its own model because it was too dangerous, its workers protested government contracts, and the defense secretary built a robot command powered by AI… a woman who was fired for saying these systems needed oversight won the international prize for being right.

The machine pushed her out. The world gave her the prize. The systems she warned about are now choosing targets, meddling with government websites, and writing false intelligence reports. She told them. They fired her. She was right.

They rely on the shadows.
It’s time to turn on the lights.