Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

Breaking news: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said 'all options' are on the table for the Trump administration to support Argentina through a bout of severe market volatility on.ft.com/3W5D9W4

the admiral in this convo understands that deliberately killing civilians is a war crime and people who do it are war criminals

it is interesting how much serious study has been put into immigration and its effects on the economy and crime, and yet those rigorous studies are simply ignored when it comes to making policy

many levels of disturbing going on here, but also isn't this a sanctions violation

chat is this bad

(Reuters) - South Korea's economy could fall into crisis rivalling its 1997 meltdown if the government accepts current U.S. demands in stalled trade talks without safeguards, President Lee Jae Myung told Reuters. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/china/...

I have been wondering whether anyone has explicitly asked the white house, or navy, what the legal justification for these strikes has been. even if you get an answer like "because they're bad guys, how dare you ask!?" then you print that and point out what the law actually says

my favorite part of this is hand-waving away surface-to-air missiles as a thing commanders can deal with by creating survivable conditions how do we create those survivable conditions, champ. are we doing wild weasel with a-10s too? no wait, let me guess: sof will deal with it

When I published this story after the first of now 4 incidents of Trump using the US military to kill boatloads of people, I didn't want to use video of the attack for the image, stills from a snuff film. Instead, I went with a Coast Guard interdiction from summer, what this normally looks like.

I mean it is a very weird thing to politicize (outside the usual stuff like "the factory is in my district") but f-35s are also very much a global project, which makes them unattractive perhaps to america-first folks (despite the prime being lockheed martin)

yeah, he is not vague or inaccessible in any way

an especially pertinent question as boarding/seizing is what the coast guard typically does in this scenario

MrBeast, the master of viral videos, now has a CEO to rein in spending on Lambos—and give his "banger content" an even wider reach.

old-school hong kong action films are some of my favorites I caught glimpses of a recent one on a plane and the hero was not about a conflicted or dirty cop, but an Extremely Inside The Lines cop. He argued against plea deals

are you kidding me with this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

kansas football looking solid again, you* love to see it *I

hey do you guys remember that time in 2015 when turkish f-16s shot down a russian su-24 for violating turkish airspace and then how nothing happened after that weird

cops dressed up like they are getting ready to roll through mid-2000s kandahar is entirely cosplay. there is no domestic threat short of a survivalist compound that justifies that sort of hardware

I once again must note that it is *not* a selling point to tell people who want to be in your country and make a life there that they should instead suck it speaking from personal experience here

no www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g...

This is an important point. Setting yourself up on a dais under a banner that says "Prove me wrong" is the schoolyard bully's idea of debate. If you take the time to actually watch clips of Kirk "debating" you will instantly see that what is actually sophomoric point-scoring, not genuine debate.

btw journalists are not obligated to tell the white house anything about their sources, to be clear.

you know officers are doing brave and important work when they have to cover their faces in the streets of american cities

in too many cases, the people who are supposed to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable are too comfortable with not being afflicted

SCOOP: DEA officials advocated for a series of military strikes in Mexico earlier this year, alarming some in the White House and Pentagon and presaging the fraught debate underway over the legality of this month’s deadly attacks on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea. wapo.st/4ms2Xq9

It was very telling that for three days, none of the major TV anchors would have me on air one-on-one to talk about my firing from the Washington Post over Charlie Kirk. The first offers were from Black media, independent media, Substackers, and podcasters.

I don't know if you nerds listen to podcasts but if you do: here's me talking about nato's drone predicament podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

TOO LATE, KATIE

europe, man

I think the u.s. public education system gets a massively bad rap, and its public universities outclass (or did, anyway) big fancy universities anywhere else. but it's just not right to say american students are more motivated or whatever. has this man ever been to a keg party on a weeknight

so anyway, puns aside, what's happening here is a big dutch shipbuilder--damen--is in some legal hot water. if the company is convicted, it could pull an important warship manufacturer off the board for nato countries at exactly the wrong time

the superior version anyway imo

lol cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_ful...

oh, ship www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

yeah, to the original point, there was a time not long ago when columns needed to be reported out, and in fact many outlets (like the chicago tribune) assigned columnists "leg men" to help them do this but now you not only don't have to report, you don't even have to be right. like, ever

Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

thread and a reminder that shouting and saying stuff over and over can manufacture a sort of truth, unfortunately

james is going to get yelled at on here but he is 100 percent right

BREAKING: Saying that the Trump administration’s explanation for its Labor Day weekend effort to send children to Guatemala “crumbled like a house of cards” upon examination, Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, grants provisional class certification and a preliminary injunction.

here's a pretty comprehensive report on china's nuclear weapons program. I read through it a few times and I don't see anything in here about vulnerability to afghanistan-based airstrikes thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

every time I wonder "am I having a stroke?" the answer is unfortunately no

it's entirely possible to make a drone that can sense motion or vibration, and activate to attack the source of that motion or vibration we could call this advanced technology a "mine"

if I were a airport rack paperback author (and I should be, why am I not?), "Pakistan nukes Iran on behalf of Saudi Arabia" would definitely be one of my elevator pitches

pretty straightforward headline is the government punishing speech it doesn't like legal in the united states?

effort, thought and *money*. lakes full of cash

funny story--well, a story anyway--is that my dad was a professional cabinetmaker in one of his many careers and the three middle fingers of his left hand were all the same length because of a table saw mishap safety is good, iow

ok fine but which of them is accepting new residents