This may be the singularly most disgusting thing anyone in this administration has done yet. That it comes from Secretary of War-like Posing Pete Hegseth is the least surprising thing about it. If I were being charitable, I would take it as (80) proof evidence that he was back on the sauce. But I choose to believe he's keeping his word on that one, because sobriety makes this atrocity worse. From The Guardian:

The long debate over the events at Wounded Knee includes a dispute over its characterization as a “battle” given that, according to historical records, the U.S. army killed about 250 Lakota Sioux people—many of whom were unarmed women and children—despite fighters in the camp having surrendered. “We’re making it clear that [the soldiers] deserve those medals,” Hegseth said, ann

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