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On Morality
People are essentially good.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/on-morality?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 8 hours ago
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The Political Industry Is About To Die
I'm serious
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About small decisions and duty.
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Choose Duty
Most of the choices that shape your life don’t announce themselves as important.
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How a Startup is Using AI to Streamline Opposition Research
The startup Civly is betting that AI can streamline the often-arduous, weekslong process of compiling opposition research
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Daniel Barkhuff (@dbarkhuff)
I’m about to spend an hour and a half-writing how little of a shit I give about the Kennedy Center. Trump can name it “The Apprentice Fred Trump Marla Maples Central Park 5 Center of Excellence.” I...
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16 days ago
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Civly.ai
had this 30 minutes after the Files dropped. If you're a Democrat who wants to go on offense, finally, Civly is how you do it.
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So Here's What I've Been Up To
civly.ai
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/so-heres-what-ive-been-up-to?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Good god.
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Cowardice
And My Rage
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Welp. This is whats going on. Better dude than me.
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Goodbye To A Frogman
He is about ten years older than me, which in the Teams is not a small thing.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/goodbye-to-a-frogman?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
27 days ago
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Adam Klasfeld
29 days ago
NEWS: Survivor Lisa Phillips backs request by Reps. Khanna and Massie for judge to appoint a special master to release the Epstein files. "I have no confidence that the Department of Justice, already 30 days late in complying with the Act with no end in sight."
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We need to move faster.
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Trump
And why we can't keep up
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29 days ago
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We Can Choose
On Martin Luther King Jr.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/we-can-choose?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 1 month ago
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We Fell For It
Nothing hardens the tribe like disdain
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/we-fell-for-it?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 1 month ago
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Grace
And Time
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/grace?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 1 month ago
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First Reports Are Always Wrong
Like many of you, I clicked on the news just now.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/first-reports-are-always-wrong?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 2 months ago
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I Resolve
Every New Year, I return to: This Is Water.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/i-resolve?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 2 months ago
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Not Losing
Is Winning
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/not-losing?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 2 months ago
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Myth
And Fatherhood
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/myth?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 2 months ago
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First Principles
When you learn to scuba dive, one of the first drills is this: your instructor knocks the regulator out of your mouth.
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about 2 months ago
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Friction
I did almost all of my Christmas shopping this year through Instagram ads.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/friction?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 2 months ago
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Don't Lose Sight
That there is truth and good, and you must live it
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/dont-lose-sight?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 months ago
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Choices
There is something uniquely cruel about dying in a place built for becoming.
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2 months ago
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Flaubert's Parrot
In America
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Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition
I don’t usually write fundraising posts and have always hated, hated, asking for money for the organizations I have founded and supported.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-ammunition?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 months ago
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All Politics Is Local
I work in the emergency department at the University of Vermont Medical Center, and the other day, when I was on shift, our saintlike social worker told me “I’ve been here since 1997, and this is the ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/all-politics-is-local?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 months ago
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Let's Get Real For a Moment
Doctors are trained to think in probabilities.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/lets-get-real-for-a-moment?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 months ago
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Thoughts on Navy SEALs
There’s this thing I remember from around the time I had just “gotten my bird”, the colloquial term we used in the SEAL Teams to describe being “warfare qualified,” aka a SEAL, aka a lifetime pass to ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/thoughts-on-navy-seals?r=1fyzlr
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Little Boy Is Big Tough Man
There’s a mistake boys make, especially boys who were never truly tested, that Pete Hegseth epitomizes: the belief that toughness is the same thing as cruelty.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/little-boy-is-big-tough-man?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
3 months ago
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I cannot stand this Peyton and Eli MNF thing
3 months ago
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Legacies
I’ve seen this movie before.
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3 months ago
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It's 5:45 on Thanksgiving and I'm a large Old Fashioned, a 5 mg edible, and an IPA deep into pumpkin pie squares with apple crisp up next. What's the earliest acceptable time to go to bed on Thanksgiving?
3 months ago
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Green On Blue
Afghanistan, the war anyway, entered “green-on-blue” into the lexicon.
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3 months ago
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Habits
By any measure, I’m not a nostalgic person.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/habits?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
3 months ago
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He Ain't Shit
There’s a moment in the history of real courage—actual, physical and moral courage fused so tightly they become indistinguishable—that deserves to be held up every time Americans start to doubt the po...
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3 months ago
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Trump took the bait in a hilariously death-threat kind of way, huh?
3 months ago
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So ummmm, another word for this is "dying."
3 months ago
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Some of the most interesting movies are where the main character is an FBI informant the whole time huh?
3 months ago
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I’ve been around fucked up things enough in my life to know the first reports are always wrong but it kind of seems like some AI genius should do a Chris Hansen meets Trump in the kitchen session. Just sayin.
3 months ago
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For Veterans Day
When I look back on my Navy SEAL younger self—18, 23, 28, deployed halfway around the world —I see a version of me who volunteered for something I didn’t actually understand, but believed in fully.
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You Win Some, You Lose Some
Dick Cheney’s life is a reminder that the story of a public figure is rarely clean.
https://dbarkhuff.substack.com/p/you-win-some-you-lose-some
3 months ago
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The Adults Have Arrived
If Virginia and New Jersey voters make the choices the polling suggests, Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill will soon become governors.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/the-adults-have-arrived?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
4 months ago
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Concentrate
It's not over
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4 months ago
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The East Wing
Trump can put in a WaWa for all I care
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4 months ago
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On God And Country
I fully admit I wasn’t much of a SEAL.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/on-god-and-country?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
4 months ago
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Getting Beat Up In A Mostly Empty Arena Is Just A Job -
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Getting Beat Up In A Mostly Empty Arena Is Just A Job | Defector
The first sign that fight night in Brooklyn on Saturday might not be a big success was the disparity between the line at the front entrance, which was nonexistent, and the line at the side door where ...
https://defector.com/getting-beat-up-in-a-mostly-empty-arena-is-just-a-job
4 months ago
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Secretary of Cringe
A friend sent me the above picture recently, and I replied immediately: cringe.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/secretary-of-cringe?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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On Racists
And Vermont
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/on-racists?r=1fyzlr
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Necessary Progress
Has Led To Fatal Arrogance
https://open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuff/p/necessary-progress?r=1fyzlr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
4 months ago
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Just signed up for No Kings this weekend.
4 months ago
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The reason people like MTG have falling outs with Trump is they believe in things. Might be wrong about em, but Trump believes in nothing.
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