“Team Trump flew up from Palm Beach after a morning in which they beclowned themselves once again at the initial ‘Shield of the Americas’ meeting with Latin leaders, where POTUS threatened Cuba as being next in his march across the globe. War has become a game to them.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcas

If we examine the origins the the war on Iran, we get an inkling of a closed domain of international oligarchs, exploiting the state’s power and patriotic sentiment, while creating a world order in which the American state is much weaker. An oligarchical corridor. snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar...

Hegseth needs to resign and for that to happen the media or whomever need to be constantly asking about this and turning him into a fool on tv because that is all that matters - how it plays on tv

Which is why these same type of people all have cabinet level positions

Anyway. Here’s my girl being awkward as usual.

New MOS dropped today

What he fails to understand is that the offer of an elite education is often the only thing that keeps good people to continue serving. Without this you will not retain enough older GOFOs and leadership degrades

Jeremy Weinstein, dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, gives admitted members of the miltary the option to defer for several years, but also arranges expedited review of their application at other schools if they don't want to postpone, in response to Hegseth's foolish Harvard cutoff.

“Like his boss, he does not talk to the American people so much as put on performances for them, and this morning, he played the role of the Fox News pundit castigating other journalists.” Every moment on camera must be for the troll posters

Pete Hegseth, if he does not resign, should at least get out of the way and let better men than him talk to the nation and to the press. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Fine but they need boot camp and physical standards

Because it’s a reality show. He loves the tv time and more time in Iran means less Epstein coverage

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The man is a toddler. A clown. And needs to resign. Military families (&america) deserve to know how and why their family members died for this country. Screw his or the CIC feelings about how it plays is the press

You’re a sitting senator. Call for Hegseth’s resignation. Loudly and often

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

He is so out of his depth. Performing for the shitposting crowd only at this point.

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Well, it was either world war three or letting black people have jobs, so I see why people just went with the world war

Just a reminder: instead of an actual diplomat, we sent Trump’s deeply compromised son-in-law as the lead negotiator to avert war with Iran. popular.info/p/deeply-con...

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

on the upcoming episode of neon liberalism, @jamellebouie.net argues that the basic strategy of Trump II was speed: move fast, consolidate power, and give america a fait accompli. instead we've seen friction, backlash, and now--big players starting to realize that trump won't be president forever

"This decade has seen the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in violent conflicts (. . .)Yet the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man"

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

As a college counselor, it’s horrifying and my students will use it

So here’s the piece I wrote about how Epstein didn’t corrupt the people he reaches out to, he found the already corrupted. newrepublic.com/article/2068...

This is a great piece explaining the latest tariff developments. But again, this is simply not true: "Without IEEPA, the President can no longer wake up in the morning & decide to raise tariffs on Indonesian goods before lunch." Yes, he can, until Congress stops him, via impeachment & removal 1/

There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange

In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Too bad Yoon didn’t buy his own John Roberts

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

New: Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the US (list in replies) abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Hegseth’s campaign against schools he describes as being biased against the US military www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?

John Hughes so by default Ferris Bueller

WATCH: “In any remotely sane political climate she would be impeached, fired, or just have the good sense to resign in disgrace,” says Chris Hayes on Attorney General Pam Bondi.

we crunched some numbers www.avclub.com/melania-budg...

🧵 on the ignorance on display. 1) Starting w/diversity. The US military should broadly look like the US as that keeps the military tethered to American society. If it's all just a bunch of door kicking rural white Christian dudes that's bad. It's bad for the military & it's bad for American. 1/

Hegseth, among others, is using the school as a punching bag to express the generic social anxiety and status-based resentment that drives much of the MAGA movement. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I would settle for high speed regional rail. I can go to the Bigtime moon anytime after that..

time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

So is this what the whistleblower complaint is. They knew the plot months ago?

It was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency www.reuters.com/world/americ...

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free