"we don't want to be political pawns" My brother in Cryes the entire job of the military is to be political pawns, there was this guy named Clausewitz who wrote a whole book about it and everything

The United States has agency, laying the blame entirely at the feet of Israel is just an excuse to comfort oneself

ICE agents at the airport when they find a shampoo bottle that's 3.5 ounces

1991 was 35 years ago. 2016 was a decade ago. Requirements for deterrence change. The capabilities and behaviors of hostile states change. In fact they've changed a great amount while we were standing still. Our conventional arms have evolved plenty. Why not nuclear?

If you are a nuclear modernization advocate, you are intimately familiar with the Republican strategy of deferring spending until the bill reaches an obscene size, then arguing that the project is simply too expensive and must be canceled, because that has been the BAS playbook for decades

Tom Drake is the only NSA leaker that will be left off the Woke 2.0 JPEL

I see we have reached the stage of "there is no antisemitism problem on the left" discourse in which the use of slurs cooked up by neo-Nazis is totally fine and upstanding behavior and if you say otherwise you're a filthy (((Zionist)))

The popularity of the Nazi bar analogy online was more about the thrill of kicking people out of bars than Nazis

appletv is the only streaming service authorized for viewing inside a scif, on account of that’s where they film and distribute the fuckin thing

If someone yells "free Palestine" at me because I'm visibly a Jew, they are not expressing solidarity with the concept of a free Palestine, they're expressing hostility towards me based on a racist assumption that I am opposed to a free Palestine.

I'm gonna say it: Bob is at least directionally right even if I do not agree on all of his prescriptions. "We build, they build. We stop, they build" is back on the menu. It takes two to arms race, but we are categorically NOT the initiators if this race begins in earnest.

Turns out that bit about the Last Man is kinda important in his thesis, who'd've thunk

“the president cannot have failed, he must have been deceived by Jews” is going to be the narrative MAGA settles on to excuse this disaster and it’s going to be very, very bad

Robert Redford truly was the GOAT

what i want to see out of future democratic party leaders is a recognition that federal spending is legitimately good, that we should do more of it, and that doing so will require collective contribution that many, many people are going to scream absolute bloody murder about

Because her book on nuclear war wasn't aneurysm-inducing enough, I guess

Speaking as a Jew living in Diaspora, who needs to exist as a minority at a time of rising antisemitism, I would really appreciate it if the Prime Minister of a country where I do not live would not say that attacks on a sovereign country are analogous to attacks on a synagogue.

You gotta have a unique hammer-fired pistol for someone to take from your corpse as a legendary loot drop while they work their way through you and your fellow minibosses or you're NGMI. I'm sorry I don't make the rules.

NEW, from me: A secret chapter of Cold War history, told here for the first time. A deep cover Soviet Bloc spy in America at the end of the Cold War. The shocking moves by a European intel chief. And the incredible CI chess games by FBI and CIA counterspies. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

There is a photograph of 11-year-old Peck with Jeffrey Epstein’s sex pavilion in the background.

Not too fond of that Haman fellow

Man the ‘01 AUMF really is the gift that keeps on giving huh

I just hope both teams have fun :)

"Epstein was surrounded by other wealthy, powerful Jews. ... everyone can see the basic facts." this is explicitly doing the "Noticing" thing that neonazis do. bsky.app/profile/davi...

As someone who has (unfortunately) been elbow-deep in Epstein's emails, I can tell you: "Jewish in-group bonds" was not the "currency" Epstein used to facilitate his crimes. It was power, $$, and a deep-seated hatred of women. Any insinuation otherwise is weird. jewishcurrents.org/the-line-bet...

"Democrats could have totally just dissolved the government and called snap elections to fix their problems," I say, definitely knowing how the American system of government works

"The second Trump administration is almost entirely staffed by content creators who want to make content and they are expending your taxpayer dollars as well as the international reputation of the United States of America to do it." www.liberalcurrents.com/killing-for-...

I'm increasingly of the opinion that tech in general needs an increased liability surface. expanded liability for what your algorithm pushes, expanded liability for what your model outputs. if you make the danger real the incentives align.

My problem with a lot of the defenses of the DSA is they come down to smol beanism and whataboutism. "Your ghouls matter more than our ghouls because your ghouls have power" is both true and also not a reason to hand that power to DSA ghouls.

Whenever you see someone talking about "retvrning to pre-industrial methods of agriculture" you need to bluntly ask them how many people should starve to death to serve this goal.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Guys, what the fuck am I going to do with all these Tulip bulbs.

Now where’s that FCOJ futures report…

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

The communication skills part is important. A common left defensive reaction is basically to despair of ever convincing "libs" and I can't help but observe if you don't think can convince liberals you sure as hell aren't going to convince the median American, so you're just giving up in advance.

Spy Game (2001), dir. Tony Scott, starring Robert Redford and Brad Pitt

"Valorously setting a dumpster fire" is a level of self-parody no external mockery could ever reach

I guess the question we're all trying to answer here is whether organizing is supposed to be something you do to mobilize a bunch of people on behalf of a concrete goal or whether it's a sort of professional cartel for downwardly mobile PMC types.

My opinion about the “opsec” people is ultimately determined by the fact that I have only ever heard left-wing opsec paranoiacs say that Signal is a CIA op and you should use Telegram instead, and I’ve heard it multiple times. What that tells me is these people are gullible and being played.

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Okay, the last version (not the quoted one, another one) was peam. I think this might be more viable. 80's style action film VHS tape cover font.

What is the Battle Hymn of the Republic but an American nasheed

Do not under any circumstances use a non-CoTCCC approved tourniquet on a GSW. CAT Gen 7s are $30-$35, readily available, and are proven to work on massive hemorrhages. 3D-printed slop that has not been approved by any regulatory body will get somebody killed.

Another photo for the 'Remember Who You Are' board: (photo by Jeff Wheeler for the Star Tribune, Jan. 12).

Here. I couldn't think of anything better to say. othermeans.io/p/on-being-a...

leftists love to throw "nonviolence won't protect you!!" at liberals. but they misunderstand. nonviolence isn't about protecting yourself. nonviolence doesn't mean nonconfrontational. nonviolence. is. about. winning. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

The men who put them back in shackles after those two women saved their comrade's life should heavily consider their honor and that the price of redeeming it is much cheaper on Earth than it is in Hell.