(buying a cabinet in Judaea in 29 AD) wow the craftsmanship on this is really incredible Furniture salesman: yeah it’s

Terrific discussion with @ajmanuzzi.bsky.social and the Security Dilemma pod about #ChasingBandits. Download it for a listen here and/or get the book at @uncpress.bsky.social or Amazon.

Greatly enjoyed our conversation on the podcast with @mikeneagle.bsky.social about his fantastic book, Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror! Check out the book and listen to our episode as we discuss how America's "bandit wars" relate to the War on Terror. open.spotify.com/episode/4YZa...

let's be clear about what's happening: donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, whose countries have been committing genocide in gaza since 2023, unilaterally started a war with iran, and are now threatening genocide there.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

never forget when the Easter Bunny sent Teddy Roosevelt to the shadow realm

The Hudson Institute means this as a good thing; or this was written by a brave comrade who infiltrated the think tank to discredit them

Specifically having 2.1 pounds of weed when 2.2 pounds is drug trafficking… high IQ move, bumping him up my draft board

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

our second times have never been more farcical, you're hearing it more and more

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.

“I Never Thought He Would Ask Me To Build Doombots,” said the contractor who builds robots for Doctor Doom

This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.

[Looking at an agency whose agents shatter glass onto newborns as they abduct fathers] body cameras will fix this

It’s easier for them to believe — or just to argue; whether they ‘believe’ is immaterial — that Aunt Barb is a disciple of Abu Mus’ab al-Suri than it is to accept that their death-squad tactics have inspired mass resistance of everyday people. These same delusions also occurred in Iraq & Afghanistan

A reminder that before France & the US overthrew Aristede in 2004 they called him & his circle drug traffickers too. Their real reason: stopping Aristede from pressing a case for reparations, not only for slavery but for the Indemnity (debt France made Haiti pay for *depriving slaveholders* of $)

Disappointing to here Joe Tess rattling off anti-G5 talking points from the booth here. This game has sucked and the JMU-Oregon game will be a slaughter, but the point is the rest of the season. You either drastically trim whose season "matters" or you acknowledge the Playoff is a source of meaning

Who wants to read one of the most racist and antisemitic memos in the history of the FBI?

If a stranger told you they were raising their newborn on advice from the chat robot you'd rightfully contact child services

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

I'm at the combination

This graf.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor! Dick?

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

You just know that things are going fantastic when current events prompt you to look up the Nixon administration's legal justification for bombing Cambodia in 1973.

the unspoken assumption in this post is that the justices are not political actors and arrived at the immunity decision purely out of jurisprudential reasoning or idealogical lean and had nothing to do with trump being the standard bearer for their party in an election that was months away

I wrote about how Gen Z is fed up with the Cold War liberalism of the Democratic ruling class for the Stimson Center and Inkstick’s “Adults in a Room” series.

conspiracy to make a cop go slow

"the FBI director used taxpayer funds in a government shutdown to fly his country singer GF to sing at a Hulk Hogan-founded wrestling event aired on Fox Nation" is not the flashiest Trump-era headline but pound for pound it can compete with any contender

What an odious thing to say. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

TikTok thread go, remembering guys champion here

The Peace President is sending the Ford carrier strike group to illegally murder Venezuelan, Colombian, Trinidadian etc fishermen. Let’s see if the Ford commander is going to obey illegal orders

Here's the general in charge of NORTHCOM admitting its war on cartels has had no effect on fentanyl coming into the US. CONGRESS:  225k Americans are estimated to have been killed bc of fentanyl ... Are we making any progress? GEN. GREGORY GUILLOT: No. I wouldn't say it's better...

POTUS has made no secret of his desire for a Nobel Peace Prize. Some enterprising journalist should ask the President on camera how he squares that desire with his recent "determination" that the US is somehow in an armed conflict with a bunch of unspecified "designated terrorist organizations."

Trump’s tariffs and pointless military displays are the opposite of foreign-policy restraint, argues columnist @stephenwalt.bsky.social.

Let me get this straight: American taxpayers pay for bombs and planes that the Netanyahu government uses to strike sites in Qatar, and now Trump enters into a security agreement where he promises to use American soldiers and money to protect Qatar? Is this what he means by America First?

I believe that with just another $730 billion, our nation's top tech geniuses can build an innovative system which fills out spreadsheets at roughly the same rate that Brandon Weeden completed passes

#3 is incredibly relevant because what do you mean I’m starting Woody Marks in week 4

U.S. primacy is a paranoid boondoggle that detracts from our ability to get our own house in order and work collaboratively with other powers on the seminal challenge of our time- the climate crisis. We can either heed this lesson or let runaway militarism run its course while humanity suffers

If Isaac Chotiner asks you about your friendship with Henry Kissinger, you are already dead.