Executives at four Silicon Valley companies will be sworn into the U.S. Army Reserve as lieutenant colonels. The recruitment of tech executives is part of an initiative called ‘Detachment 201’ to recruit private-sector experts to accelerate the use of AI in military planning. Army bringing in tech executives as lieutenant colonels https://t.co/99vxYe21AW — Task & Purpose (@TaskandPurpose) June 13, 2025 From Task & Purpose: The Army calls the program to recruit Silicon Valley executives Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps. One of the executives, Andrew Bosworth of Meta (formerly Facebook) posted on X that the “201” monicker was a nod to an HTTP coding command, in which a “201” response indicates the creation of a new programming resource. The Reserve’s new lieutenant colonels are Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer for Palantir; Bosworth, chief technology officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, chief product officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former chief research officer for OpenAI. Each of the four, who were set to be sworn in Friday, arrive with decades of experience in some of Silicon Valley’s largest and most innovative companies, and with levels of extraordinary personal wealth that careers in the industry often amass. The Detachment 201 program is aimed at bringing in part-time advisors from the private sector to help the service adopt and scale commercial technology like drones and robots into its formations. The idea of incorporating private-sector expertise is right out of Ukraine as soldiers there who are engineers or computer scientists in their day jobs are MacGyvering makeshift drones or 3D printing parts to use on the front lines against Russia. Army officials say the new officers will get at least a taste of traditional Army training before filling their roles tech-focused policy advisors. An Army official told Task & Purpose that the four executives will all attend the Army’s six-week Direct Commissioning Course at Fort Benning, Georgia and will complete the Army Fitness Test and marksmanship training. “Honored to accept a direct commission as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve as part of the newly-formed Detachment 201, the Army’s Executive Innovation Corps together with @ssankar, @kevinweil , and @bobmcgrewai,” Bosworth said. “Our primary role will be to serve as technical experts advising the Army’s modernization efforts. I have accepted this commission in a personal capacity because I am deeply invested in helping advance American technological innovation,” he added. Honored to accept a direct commission as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve as part of the newly-formed Detachment 201, the Army’s Executive Innovation Corps together with @ssankar, @kevinweil, and @bobmcgrewai. Our primary role will be to serve as technical experts… — Boz (@boztank) June 13, 2025 “Welcome to the military-tech merger,” WarRoom CFO/COO Grace Chong commented. Welcome to the military-tech merger https://t.co/S7RwlhW50U pic.twitter.com/T63L9VcDID — Grace Chong, MBI (@gc22gc) June 13, 2025 Per Defense News: In their roles in Det. 201, “they will work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems,” the Army said. “By bringing private-sector know-how into uniform, Det. 201 is supercharging efforts like the Army Transformation Initiative, which aims to make the force leaner, smarter and more lethal.” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll unveiled the initiative last month in a memo to the force laying out major changes to the command structure, formation make-up, canceling programs deemed out of the scope of the Army’s desired modernization pathway, and accelerating programs the service wants in order to become a more lethal and agile force. The executives come from companies who have been entrenching themselves in military technology development. After a rough start, Palantir has been a cornerstone of Army modernization for years, providing everything from an intelligence analytics system called the Distributed Common Ground System-Army to its Vantage data platform, which is under a contract and supports 100,000 users, to its Titan system that gives the service deep-sensing and sensor-fusion capabilities. Palantir, along with a variety of other major companies like Google and Anduril, is also working with the Army as it develops a new command-and-control architecture from the ground up.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been hard at work lately, and there’s no sign they’re slowing down. Not even for the number one TikTok personality on the planet. That’s right — internet stardom is no proof against being scooped up and ushered out the door if you’re here illegally! Just ask Seringe Khabane Lame, or as he’s known on social media, Khaby Lame. He found out the hard way, thanks to a few of his ‘friends’: TikToker Khaby Lame, with 160 million followers, arrested in America and deported. He had overstayed his visa. The law is same for everyone in America. pic.twitter.com/vKUmvMH3JB — RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) June 8, 2025 Not even TikTok fame can put you above the law now that real leadership has returned to DC! Apparently some of those ‘friends’ tattled on him about his expired visa, and they told one of Barron Trump’s friends about his misdeeds. Thus, Khaby Lame just proved you can’t buck the commonsense laws of THIS land and get away with it anymore! Bo Loudon, presumably Barron Trump’s best friend, is claiming bragging rights for bringing ICE down on Khaby. And Loudon isn’t one bit shy about talking about it; he’s downright proud of the fact he was able to help protect something sacred: BREAKING: Far-left ILLEGAL ALIEN TikToker Khaby Lame was just ARRESTED and is now in ICE custody under President Trump. I discovered he was an illegal who overstayed an invalid VISA, evaded taxes, and I personally took action to have him deported. No one is above the law! pic.twitter.com/cpcxfQFRIm — Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) June 6, 2025 Bo even went on Fox News to explain the whole situation. Here’s a clip with his own explanation of why and how he did it: Barron Trump’s best friend @BoLoudon helped ICE detain and deport the world’s most famous TikToker: “I’m trying to protect and preserve the American dream.” pic.twitter.com/LZCVlSL1Pr — Fox News (@FoxNews) June 12, 2025 As you can imagine, Bo has taken a lot of heat for alerting ICE to Khaby Lame’s many violations. That’s in spite of the fact, as he stated in that Fox News interview, that he really doesn’t wish anything bad on Khaby. He’s just not going to sit by while multitudes trample on America’s dignity and treat it with minimal respect! Khaby was ultimately allowed to self-deport voluntarily after his detainment, according to a report from the Independent: Bo Loudon, the purported “best friend” of Barron Trump, has claimed he is responsible for the arrest of the world’s most famous TikToker who was detained by ICE and later forced to leave the U.S. The MAGA, Gen-Z influencer, who has been pictured numerous times with the president and his son, said he had “personally taken action” to have Khaby Lame deported. “No one is above the law!” he wrote in a series of posts on X, later adding: “I’ve been working with the patriots at President Trump’s DHS to make this happen. He was just ARRESTED in Vegas and is in ICE CUSTODY!” Despite a community note on the post calling Loudon out for false information, ICE confirmed that Lame had been detained at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas for violating the terms of his visa on June 6. The 25-year-old star had entered the U.S. on April 30 on a temporary visa. A spokesperson for ICE said he had been granted “voluntary departure” following his arrest and had since left the country. Bo also went on with Dylan Page, a fellow TikToker, and explained even further about Khaby’s stubborn refusal to actually deport once he was given the option. Here’s a clip that Bo shared of that conversation: Every single illegal alien needs to be DEPORTED. When I found out the biggest TikTok star, Khaby Lame, is an illegal alien evading taxes, I worked with Trump’s ICE to have him removed. He’s since been detained by ICE and removed. The Trump team works at LIGHTING SPEED! pic.twitter.com/STKk2ICjS8 — Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) June 10, 2025 As usual, if someone is illegally entering and trampling all over our immigration laws, they are often just as lackadaisical about other areas of the law. And just as Loudon explained to Dylan Page… that’s exactly what Khaby was doing. He was in the U.S. making tons of money… avoiding taxes… and galivanting around like he owned the place. To be clear, my feeling about taxes in general is pretty simple: TAXATION IS THEFT. But darn it… if Americans still have to pay, I’m certain not okay with foreigners here illegally, working illegally, and thumbing their nose at American law getting a free pass! I do have to wonder… did Bo actually call some “buddies in the Administration”, as he told Dylan Page? Or did he just drop a text message to Barron, and go straight to the top of the food chain? We may never know. But what we DO know is that ICE has confirmed Khaby’s detainment and subsequent departure from the US, as reported by USA Today: Khaby Lame, an Italian-Senegalese influencer whose TikTok account boasts the most followers on the platform, has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In a statement Sunday, June 8, to USA TODAY, an ICE spokesperson confirmed that Lame, whose full name is Seringe Khabane Lame, was detained Friday, June 6, at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas for immigration violations. Born in Senegal, Lame is now a citizen of Italy, where he has spent the majority of his life. Entering the U.S. on April 30, Lame “overstayed the terms of his visa,” according to ICE, and was granted voluntary departure once detained. The 25-year-old content creator has one of the most recognizable faces on the internet. Rising to fame during the pandemic, after being laid off from his factory job in Italy in March of 2020, Lame’s signature video style involves him following along as another creator demonstrates a complicated life hack, then completing the task himself with ease, often wordlessly, and shooting a knowing look at the camera. Using the hashtag “learnfromkhaby” on many of his videos, Lame’s fame is more akin to the internet stardom of yore, in which an exasperated look or a quick humorous bit, stripped of any high production value or product placement, could take off on Vine. Full disclosure: Khaby Lame is hilarious. With the online world FILLED with over-hyped personalities that take themselves too seriously, and consider themselves to be far more important than they really are… Khaby’s videos tend to hit with a much more grounded ZING than the put-on fakeness that a lot of social media has become. But, like Bo said — no one is above the law! And it really doesn’t matter if you’re likeable or hated… the law is the law. And in this country, thankfully, that is becoming a standard way of thinking again. But I still have to wonder if President Trump’s own son just ‘happened’ to be best friends with the guy who just ‘happened’ to get the top TikToker deported… Or is Barron privately smiling to himself after wielding some of that “family” power? We may never know. What’s your view  on this?

Driving a truck full of illegal immigrants won’t get you a slap on the hand. Biden and his crew aren’t in charge anymore. One lady found this out the hard way. With a crash being investigated, the trooper got quite the surprise. The back is full of mattresses? You don’t say. Let’s just take a look… Border Report has the details: Twenty-five migrants were found Wednesday crammed inside a box truck as temperatures flirted near triple-digits in deep South Texas, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. A DPS trooper found the migrants during a minor crash investigation Wednesday morning along Interstate 37 in George West, Texas, about 160 miles north of the Mexican border. The crash occurred in a parking lot and the trooper had been approached by a concerned citizen, DPS says. Officers said they made contact with the driver of the white 2005 International box truck who said she was driving to Houston after picking up mattresses in Alton, Texas. The trooper George West police searched the truck found 25 migrants “crammed inside a small corner of the box truck” trying to hide behind 40 mattresses and inside a crawl space within the box truck wall, according to a DPS news release. Texas DPS Discovers 25 Illegal Aliens Being Smuggled by Woman pic.twitter.com/x2LjHjkTnn — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 13, 2025   Here’s a longer clip: 25 seems to be the lucky number this month. We arrested 25 illegal aliens June 4 in a worksite enforcement operation at two Texas construction sites. Worksite investigations often reveal additional criminal activity, like:• Trafficking• Money laundering• Worker & child exploitation Learn more in our newsroom. pic.twitter.com/WgVOOpl4mc — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) June 10, 2025 What’s your opinion?

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OANN has footage of protesters storming Capitol Hill, tearing down barricades, and rushing past the police. Some clashed with law enforcment. The lunatics suddenly care about spending and are chanting, “Money for People, Not Parades.” They just don’t want a parade for our military. Here is more footage of the protesters storming Capitol Hill, tearing […] The post Protesters Are Storming the Capitol to Ruin Our Military Parade appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

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President Donald Trump on Friday issued an unapologetic, pro-masculinity Father’s Day proclamation, honoring fathers and father figures across the nation for their strength and leadership. The tone of the proclamation runs counter to left-wing messaging that masculinity is often “toxic,” and the differences between the sexes are merely an unhealthy social construct. “America’s fathers are the custodians of our strength, the leaders of our families, and the protectors of our security and safety,” it reads. “This Father’s Day, my Administration pays tribute to every father whose fierce love, heroic devotion, and inspiring example are molding the next generation.” “Whether by birth, adoption, or father figures, America’s dads help shape the character and future of our Nation,” Trump continued. “Through their example, they instill strength, integrity, and perseverance in their children. They rise early, work late, make sacrifices, and remain steadfast in their love and commitment to their families.” The president added that fathers “lead through action, speak with purpose, and impart wisdom honed by experience.” “From their children’s earliest days as infants through their journey into adulthood, fathers leave a lasting influence that reaches far beyond the walls of their homes,” the proclamation said. “The presence of a father also serves to plant the seeds of virtue and instill American values in their children. For many, dads are the first to teach the value of hard work, love of country, and the importance of living with conviction. With every generation, these lessons are carried forth.” Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%! Trump said his administration will continue to stand with fathers and families to shield children from “the toxic lies of gender ideology” and keep “our neighborhoods safe by backing our law enforcement, crushing violent crime, and ensuring our southern border remains sealed and secure.” “Together, we are building a Nation where fathers can lead with strength, protect their families, and pass on the timeless values that make America great,” he wrote. “Today, we celebrate the invaluable role our fathers play in shaping our families, guiding our communities, and strengthening our country — and we offer our unending thanks for their leadership, selflessness, and inspiration,” Trump closed. In recent years, Democrats have routinely refused to recognize the differences between the genders, both biological and social. For example, numerous prominent Democrats have referred to pregnant women and mothers as “birthing people” or women as “menstruating people.” There has also been much discourse diminishing traditionally masculine qualities as “toxic,” specifically as it pertains to white males.