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On Graham Platner
I drove eight hours round trip today to Maine to introduce Graham Platner for about ninety seconds.
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Mom
Your mother probably thinks of motherhood in terms of the obvious things: meals made, rides given, worries carried quietly, bills paid when money was tight, staying up when children were sick.
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On Men
Part 1
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DC
The first thing that strikes you at the Campaigns & Elections Conference in Washington is the velocity attendees operate at.
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A Moral Nation does not go with MAGA.
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A Moral Nation
There is a great deal of ink being spilled now on the strategic failures of a war with Iran, how it failed to achieve its stated objectives, how it rattled the Strait, spiked prices, and left the regime more entrenched than before.
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How I really feel:
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On Shame
By Daniel Addison Barkhuff
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On Hegseth and Kharg:
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On Kharg Island
In fighting, the casual observer fantasizes the bold stroke: a slick submission out of nowhere, a blistering left hook to the chin, or the wartime seizure of terrain so central that everything else co...
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Sugaring
I spent the entirety of yesterday (Saturday) sugaring.
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about 2 months ago
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Donald no one will ever write something like this about you.
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On Duty
Robert Mueller is gone now, and the temptation will be to measure impact in headlines: Special Counsel, Russia, Trump, testimony, outcomes.
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A Letter To Those At War
And those about to be
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ICE caused my kids' school to go on lockdown, and boy, I feel so much safer that they almost arrested a day laborer.
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ICE agents did not detain their target in operation that led to chaotic standoff - VTDigger
Federal authorities said Thursday that a person detained Wednesday after a standoff at a South Burlington home was not the person identified in a warrant they had obtained to make an arrest.
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ICE activity in South Burlington draws protesters and police to neighborhood - VTDigger
As of early Wednesday afternoon U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had a home surrounded on Dorset Street and a crowd of protesters had gathered.
https://vtdigger.org/2026/03/11/ice-activity-in-south-burlington-draws-protesters-and-police-to-neighborhood/
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Hey Guys, I use AI!
And so does everyone
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Desecration
Of The Hallowed
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On Morality
People are essentially good.
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The Political Industry Is About To Die
I'm serious
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3 months ago
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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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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
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4 months ago
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Good god.
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Cowardice
And My Rage
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4 months ago
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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.
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reposted by
Adam Klasfeld
4 months 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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We Can Choose
On Martin Luther King Jr.
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We Fell For It
Nothing hardens the tribe like disdain
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Grace
And Time
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First Reports Are Always Wrong
Like many of you, I clicked on the news just now.
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I Resolve
Every New Year, I return to: This Is Water.
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Not Losing
Is Winning
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5 months ago
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Myth
And Fatherhood
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5 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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Friction
I did almost all of my Christmas shopping this year through Instagram ads.
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Don't Lose Sight
That there is truth and good, and you must live it
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Choices
There is something uniquely cruel about dying in a place built for becoming.
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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.
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6 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 ...
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Let's Get Real For a Moment
Doctors are trained to think in probabilities.
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6 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 ...
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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.
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6 months ago
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I cannot stand this Peyton and Eli MNF thing
6 months ago
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Legacies
I’ve seen this movie before.
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6 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?
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Green On Blue
Afghanistan, the war anyway, entered “green-on-blue” into the lexicon.
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Habits
By any measure, I’m not a nostalgic person.
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6 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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Trump took the bait in a hilariously death-threat kind of way, huh?
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So ummmm, another word for this is "dying."
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