"One might think that if it’s all about esprit de corps, the easiest thing to do would be to notice that his secretary of defense has done more than any of his predecessors to damage the military’s esprit de corps, and tell him to stop." www.thebulwark.com/p/remember-t...

Sounds likes something the Ghormans would say

The way to respond to the drone incursion in Poland is to double down on empowering Ukraine to break Russia

I guess pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but the same people who voted for DOGE and emptying the swamp and kicking out the fat cat elites, etc. are perfectly fine with a real estate developer using taxpayer money to slap gold on everything

A strong NYT editorial: “He has removed any pretense that the law is blind. As despots have done for centuries, he is persecuting people he considers his enemies, with little justification other than raw political power. It is reminiscent of the old royal notion ‘L’état, c’est moi’: I am the state.”

James Millward: "One of the things about history in China is that it's very, very often, for thousands of years, been controlled by the state. And I really don't want to see our own history be Tiananmenized the way that the Chinese Communist Party tries to censor its own past."

“Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days” It’s a genocide. Daily endless massacres, largely ignored in the West.

DNC is getting 0$ from me while these clowns keep driving the party into a ditch. Hard to imagine a weaker bunch at our darkest hour

Billy Dinh. Taiwan, 2023. Billydinh.com

A future even partly ruled by Oracle is more dystopian than anything you might imagine.

Move to the People's Republic of China then, they have that.

Well we had a rough night

Look I don’t know what you expected would happen when the most annoying company commander you’ve ever met was made Defense Secretary

I'm sure these generals and admirals with decades of experience in the military appreciate being summoned back to Washington DC so they can be lectured by Major Pete about the "warrior ethos" He'll probably drop and do some push-ups as part of his little Ted Talk

“What if we put a terminal O-4 in charge of the pentagon?”

Medals for soldiers who shot unarmed women and children on their own land? No wonder you like Russia so much

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

HEGSETH: Real warriors FIGHT GENERALS: [noise of restrained approval] HEGSETH: Real warriors DRINK GENERALS: [somewhat less noise] HEGSETH: NOBODY tells real warriors how much to drink or when or where GENERALS: [awkward silence] /1

This weak, brazen attempt by Stephen Miller both to chill free speech and to set up a premise to criminalize it — and, to be clear, this is the very type of speech most central to First Amendment protections — would be laughably embarrassing if this man did not have the power that he has.

"It’s a dark, highly pessimistic scenario. The possibility of invoking the Federal Contested Elections Act makes gerrymandering seem quaint. But one lesson of this year is that whatever isn’t nailed down in advance is apt to be seized at the earliest opportunity." www.thebulwark.com/p/dirty-proc...

This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

As usual, some similar ideas to some on my mind but better articulated.

Hey! I did it! I wrote about national security! The thing I allegedly write about! othermeans.substack.com/p/going-down...

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Disney to Sinclair and Nexstar

I don’t want to take full credit but within 12 hrs Kimmel was back. *Andor is the only reason I still have Disney.

They are going to wreck military healthcare. What will flight doc prescribe if they take away Motrin???

The dumber this gets the better

Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro, Olivia Rodrigo headline new ACLU letter with 400+ signers against government threat to free speech, citing Kimmel. Also signed by comedians including Nimesh Patel, Mary Beth Barone, Sam Morril, Gianmarco Soresi, Anthony Jeselnik, Pete Holmes

clowns, cowards and criminals — from the grunts to the head honcho

“This follows the playbook of many non-democracies that cancel or manipulate reports that would otherwise show less-than-perfect news.”

🚨👇🚨👇🚨👇 Former Trump lawyer says the U.S. is already in a constitutional crisis

Can’t argue with this. I looked and the countries are not at war. Fighting has gone to zero

There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!

The president of the United States believes he has the right and the authority to use the firepower of the federal government to crush people who say things about him that he does not like. It's as simple as that.

Also, notice Trump's complaint here - about the news, about Kimmel - IS NOT anything to do with Charlie Kirk. It's that he was personally criticized. He's not even hiding it! That's what this is all about. "Are you allowed to criticize the president?"

"Twenty years before MAGA, Eco captured it perfectly. He was able to do so because he had a deep understanding of fascism. Eco warned in the 1990s of the ghost of fascism re-emerging to stalk the world. That ghost has become a clear and present danger today." www.thebulwark.com/p/yeah-its-f...

Still incredible this man wrote an entire ass book about how American generals have a personal and professional obligation to speak publicly and forcefully if the president and civilians were doing things against the public interest and he’s doing *handwaves* whatever this is

Critics of the strikes with experience of how targeting worked in the GWOT: “They’re going to wind up just killing a lot of fishermen” Defenders of the administration: “Bullshit, there was specific intel they were narcoterrorists” Vance: “We’re going to wind up just killing a lot of fishermen!”

murder on unidentified vessels on the high seas. ha ha. as they say.

Very telling example of ideological blindspots. Dylan Roof not part of the extended MAGA cinematic universe for reasons you can figure out for yourself.

The argument that MAGA will relinquish power peacefully is the one that needs to prove its case, against a mountain of evidence to the contrary

I truly don’t think the general public comprehends how all in on Trump the tech oligarchs are… Bro’s want more!

I thought it was worth expanding on my last piece, “the final evolution of the GOP China Hawk frauds” and recapping the last 9 months of the administration’s China policy. Spoiler alert, the GOP China hawks are still frauds. My latest⬇️

I still cannot get it through my brain this all started because a GOP congressional candidate is trying to win a primary

NEW: Whistleblowers allege that a senior government official, Angie Salazar, made inaccurate statements in a sworn declaration filed in a lawsuit challenging the summary removal of migrant children. Salazar "knew or should have known of the inaccuracies," per letter to Congressional leaders.

Just so everyone can follow along: The MAGA beef against @karenattiah.bsky.social is that she said Kirk said this: