At least there's no precedent for something like this going horribly wrong

“Interests” are no messaging strategy for a sustained war, especially when most people want to see those interests and the systems that sustain them burnt to the ground (the least violent option they can hope for as their Polymarket account is fleeced)

This is why the Founders gave Congress, and only Congress, the power to take US into war. The point, embedded in the Constitution, is that the US should only go to war when the people decide to do so through a majority of their representatives. One man doing it is antidemocratic and dangerous.

Never skip a chance to re-up this

NEW: Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms.

Doomers are dismissing this but it’s a good step by the EU. Both on this front and against deregulatory pressure they are facing from the US, they have resisted. In the interest of a pluralistic international society that isn’t fueled solely by personal grievance, this is a good thing.

Québécois, reading Gov Walz status in agony:

Orban, refusing to relinquish power post election, is immediately recognized by the US as legitimate. That deeply committed?

🧵: I'm uniquely qualified to frisk this. From 2010 to 2014 I was the Cultural Advisor to the Commandant & Professor of National Security & Strategy at US Army War College & the Deputy to the Director of the US Army Culture & Foreign Language Directorate. I'll explain what that meant at the end. 1/

“What a paralysis framework adds is the possibility that deterrence can be bypassed entirely, not by crossing red lines, but by exploiting the time it takes coalitions to decide whether those lines have been crossed at all.”

The demise of the CIA World Factbook is “part of a broad war on information being waged by the Trump administration,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

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To include Kirk’s, which was unexpectedly delivered to my screen one night. Not only is it abhorrent to witness; each one is a visceral tally towards a more dangerous world that will take decades to recover from.

If the EU begins to weaken at either this or the tech oligarchs pressure campaigns, liberalism will be stunted for a while.

1/EU grovels as Greenland tries to assert itself. This is not how you project strength. But how you become a vassal. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

On the 5th Anniversary of the failed January 6th insurrection attempt, we’re reminded how fragile democracy can be. We must remember the darkness of that day so it’s never repeated. As history is rewritten by some, we choose to speak the truth of what happened.

The gig economy would 100% be a verse in this song

“Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.” T.R., 1901 “I owe the public nothing” -JP Morgan, 1901

Preachhhh

this AI has a contract with the U.S. military!

Every one of these deals exceeds the severity of the Clinton Foundation and Hunter Biden controversies by orders of magnitude. And there are already dozens, probably hundreds.

The problem with staking your claim on the western hemisphere is that your front lines move from the first island chain to the western hemisphere.

This is “fresh eyeliner to cry in the mirror”-esque hysteria

This is also reflected in the ‘26 NDAA Exec Summary

Pivot bros:

Prove it

JS this exact sentiment was written about 15 years ago when millennials started buying more vinyl than cds.

China ignores IP/copyright laws to fast follow US critical tech; the US destroys their own arguments against this practice so they can meme their way through deeply unpopular immigration policies.

Is this soft power?

China promoted its Global Security Initiative at an AU briefing in Addis Ababa.

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

This was pretty transparently the quid-pro-quo tech bros received for support of the current admins reelection

This is an excellent thread, and this post observes another instance of retreat from freedom of movement in international waters. This thread also tells me there is so little appetite to tax constituents (because they’d have to start w high earners) that they’ll let the US lose this century.

The new US National Security Strategy says explicitly, that the US should intervene in European domestic policy. It is difficult to interpret "Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations." otherwise in the context of everything else this government says and does.

“We are living in a world where we have an abundance of information, but there’s a lot of noise, and we don’t understand what’s real from what’s not, and prediction markets are an antidote to that” This is bleak and bodes poorly for our ability not to be manipulated by mass aggregates of data

My latest this AM with @warontherocks.bsky.social. Of note: "[Military officers] will be active participants with choices to make about the degree to which they continue to serve civilians intent on undermining the liberal values enshrined in the Constitution." 1/ warontherocks.com/2025/12/the-...

Finally a worthy opponent

1/Senior US official caught coaching Russia on how to massage Trump on Ukraine deal. Why? Because we are entering a new international order based not in state interests but clique interests. Welcome to neo-royalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

The admin fully believes they can Iraq it without realizing that the leadup to Iraq involved an atmosphere where the American public was insanely bloodthirsty.

The shining city on a hill can still be a positive affirmation of who we are if we actually make the argument

The Art of Manliness website started with a similar ethos; had to have been almost 20yrs ago at this point. They resonate, for sure

The US position regarding the trade deal is so weak that demands are continuing to be placed on the administration.

Instead of getting consensus from Congress and the American public, the plan is to get other countries to signal their support; probably with the promise of future investment or whatever. Just enough to have something to bark at reporters.

Those of us in our 30s should be more resentful to already be so familiar with this script

uuuggghhhhhhh

More so than liberalism, the commitment to sovereignty itself seems to be changing. Of course it is Newman who lays out a clear way to think about this transitional era

This ICE flight is taking Ukrainians back to a warzone tonight. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

So, to clarify: - Troops are not in danger of prosecution because they’re following lawful orders - We’ve determined the legality of these operations - We also determine what is and isn’t international law Everyone in SOUTHCOM should be crying rn