Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Folks there is no Trump doctrine. That’s the beauty and it’s how you have Rubio (the Hawk of all time), alongside Hegseth (pumping iron with the boys?), and JD Vance (Fortress America). Trump is about domination and power, everything else is details. But these guys each get what they want.

What an utter fool.

Even Cheney who worked for KBR had a little bit more shame than this…

Co-sponsored by Schumer, Kaine, Schiff and Rand Paul. This is a good start.

Just made the same joke to my wife about Hegseth’s suit

Donald the Dove strikes again

This is definitely not a SCIF and, among many other things, this alone is a major national security breach. Random third rate intelligence agencies would have known about this attack before Congressional leaders did.

Oh don’t worry they hung the high end drapes up to create a secure facility at MAL.

This makes the Iraq War seem well planned.

Paul Wolfowitz 2003: "The oil revenue of that country could bring between 50 and 100 billion dollars over the course of the next two or three years We're dealing with a country that could really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."

Rubio has sold his soul for regime change in Venezuela and Cuba. That’s your answer for why he’s in this administration

At least the Times came out against?

Good thread on what comes next. There is a lot to unpack, but this is critical. The U.S. has fewer tools right now than we did on January 20, 2025 to influence and shape a post regime Venezuela. I also suspect there’s been zero planning or thought given to an interagency process…

WEEEEEEEE I LOVE STATE COLLAPSE I LOVE POWER VACCUMS I LOVE ARMED GROUPS COMPETING TO CENTRALIZE THEIR POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF A LEGITIMATE MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE I LOVE THE SPREAD OF REGIONAL INSTABILITY I T C A N O N L Y G O O D H A P P E N

A good reminder that from the top to bottom, these are not serious people. We are sleep walking into disaster. But don’t worry, we have an administration run by right wing Twitter trolls who base their self worth on getting lolz from Elon Musk fanboys.

The speaker is too busy monitoring his son’s porn viewing.

Awkward.

the president of taiwan right now

Donald the Dove, amiright folks?

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Truly.

Same.

One wonders where @mayorbowser.dc.gov and the DC Council have been as this travesty has unfolded…

Donald the dove…

Besides the utter absurdity of the administration continuing to try and take over Greenland, I am waiting for SFRC Republicans to complain about all the unconfirmed “special envoys” Trump is using. 1/

It began in the spring, when @repdangoldman.bsky.social went to work and “saw a dozen masked ICE agents in the lobby” of his office building. He responded by turning his office into a "whole triage center" for detainees. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...

Your daily reminder that Rubio and everyone else in this admin are lying when they say no one is dying because of aid cuts.

Poor Tracy Flick.

Marco Rubio’s new found love for Neville Chamberlin’s statecraft is something to behold.

This threatened military action directly contradicts what Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth told my Senate colleagues and I today about the mission and goals of their operations in the Caribbean. 1/2

Ah relatively minor point but I’m not sure this is the “largest” armada ever assembled in South America?

Perhaps Congress might exercise some of its Constitutional authority in matters of war and peace?

On Thursday, the House will vote on @repmcgovern.bsky.social, @RepThomasMassie, and my resolution directing the President to end hostilities with Venezuela.

It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression. Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.' None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack. 1/

Just seems totally deranged at this point. As a college student, I thought Iraq was a colossal strategic blunder. But if you squinted, the Bush administration had some logic. Wrong headed to be sure. But attacking Venezuela is just untethered from any realty.

There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.

Two very good threads on the consequences of the Trump administration’s approach to foreign policy.

This is an extremely important article to understand the impact the gutting and dismantling USAID has had. When Rubio and others claim no one has died as a result of these cuts, they’re lying.

Read my latest for @cgdev.org. Bottom line: the Trump administration is pursuing new deals to support critical mineral value chains and the development of quality infrastructure in Africa. But a careful read suggests that remains a lot of downside risk if the admin only focuses on the deals.

I went to church today a few blocks from the shooting. In one day, from shots, screams and sirens, to a congregation gathered for a choir’s beautiful song. How a neighborhood begins to heal.

Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.

Truly pleased to see Chris Landau has nothing better to do than troll a close ally and partner. Guess he doesn’t have any Boer “refugees” to slobber over at Dulles.

What a pathetic human being. Truly mind boggling at this point.

Maybe picking a fight with a U.S. Senator who is a retired naval aviator, who flew in combat, and was an astronaut was a miscalculation by old Pete.

Again: why is Jared Kushner representing the U.S. government in meetings as some kind of an envoy? Would love to hear Risch and his team bring this up given how much they liked to take Biden and Obama over “unconfirmed” and therefore unaccountable envoys.

Reminder that shortly after ordering these strikes, Hegseth removed the press corps from the Pentagon and the SouthCom Commander overseeing operations in the Caribbean unexpectedly announced he is stepping down 2 yrs before his term is up. What we are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social do you have any comments? Or is this ok from a congressional war powers’ perspective? I’m sure you have thoughts.

when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:

Hey @jd-vance-1.bsky.social my family was present at the first Thanksgiving. Was yours? Let’s be honest, we’re all invaders. Let’s grow up and accept that the American story is about renewal. We all are newcomers here.