Yeah, that’s what really set America apart — we were the first and only nation in history to put a religious angle on wars.

This, from the people who said sending artillery shells to Ukraine would leave us unable to defend Taiwan.

My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is. So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise. If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1

More Military personnel are calling legal military non-profit agencies seeking advice for orders they received. The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

After I wrote on this, one person with knowledge of UK intelligence sharing told me that they could think of one example comparable to this cut-off. Notanly, it was handled quietly and not made public. But that was more than a decade ago. bsky.app/profile/shas...

"Federal policy has jumped the gun: We don’t yet know if AI will transform the economy or even be profitable. Yet Washington is insulating the industry from all sorts of risk. If a bubble does pop, we’ll all be left holding the bag." [Gift Link] www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...

Correct. He, and they, can't help themselves.

Read Peter Feaver on the most unexpected aspects of Trump’s second term—and how the president could shape the future of geopolitics:

I initially told my team to try to have it done by the end of the year, since we're slammed and short staffed, but my org told us ASAP means now, don't get caught with DoD logos on anything you send externally. Beards, bellies, and branding are our top national security concerns...

We just got the updated guidance to change everything to Department of War ASAP last week. Prior to that it was just use your best judgement (lol). It's definitely not a small task now that there's this feeling the name is a shibboleth, and leadership is afraid someone high up will see an old copy.

$DASH

I wrote on the UK's reported suspension of some intel sharing with the US on legal grounds. I spoke to several former intel officials & all agreed that they could not think of a comparable case over decades. Some expressed serious concern over retaliation www.economist.com/britain/2025...

and it's not even a real name change.

White men are only 29% of the US population, but under Trump they are 100% of the senior Pentagon leadership as Pete Hegseth purges women and Black people. They want us to believe that white men are the only people in America who are qualified to lead.

Religious exceptions to standards erode good order and discipline, you say? So like … no more “my religion forbids this specific vaccination (but not the others)” then?

Beards: something no American warriors have sported while decimating an enemy.

Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.

This is inside baseball, but to me, there are three ways in which this development *bears out* Justice Jackson's unusual intervention Friday night—about which there was much confusion. First, this makes it clear that a majority of the Court was *not* going to force the USDA to fund SNAP by Friday.

Your economic statistics have been delivered

The most blatantly and obviously corrupt admin in US history by far. Will ANY Republican have the integrity to speak up about this, the pardons, the crypto scam, ANYTHING?

RAW STORY: “The first woman nominated to lead the Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs had her promotion abruptly canceled — military sources blame Hegseth's hostility to women in combat roles.” 🤔 www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...

Perfect way to pay tribute to veterans. Wouldn’t change a thing

practice, but this is an admin like no other. They are at war with the press - not seeking to inform the public with facts or truth.Their statements never address the substance of the story. Time to reexamine why media keeps including insults and propaganda in stories.

Executive overreach doesn’t just test our Constitution. It undermines alliances. The U.K. halted intel sharing about suspected drug trafficking vessels after it saw U.S. military strikes as illegal. When the executive operates without transparent legal or congressional review, trust erodes abroad.

This is a scorcher. More 🇺🇸 jurists need to speak up.

I don't expect much accountability from this era (that's not the American way), but I have a hunch this whole thing MIGHT be an exception

So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.

Prediction: a new Michael Burry is going to get minted in the next two years and he or she will make the bag shorting data center financing

Trump’s approach to China has taken a “surprising pivot,” writes Lael Brainard. “The president has not only broken with the policy of the Biden administration but also seems to have forsaken the strategic direction of his own first term.”

Great thread by one of the smartest Congress-watchers out there ...

Trump's pardon of allies who helped him try to subvert the 2020 election is important. It's a permission slip--no, it's an encouragement, even an order--to allies to be ready to try to subvert the elections in 2026, and 2028. politi.co/3WN7A3T

Gutting and politicizing the FBI is a win-win for this administration. If we get attacked because we’re vulnerable, it’s just another opportunity to crack down on dissent and consolidate power. bsky.app/profile/news...

Agree with this. About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.

The president is desperate to make sure Americans go hungry. Seems like a pretty big news story? Especially as he's throwing massive parties for himself and building a giant golden ballroom? If the media or Democrats are looking for a "kitchen table" issue, this seems like a *pretty* good fit

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

We’ve gotten to the how dare they try to feed the hungry state of the government shutdown.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

A democracy fighting against an authoritarian movement.

The silence of congressional Republicans to all the Trump corruption - from his disgusting pardons, to the UAE crypto money, to the Qatari jet, and the ballroom, should be used against all of them in midterms along with their silence on tariffs which has made things unaffordable.

This is what every single person with any experience in China has been warning about from the start. Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!

A currently serving O6 commander continually tweets at SECDEF while blasting others for careerism. I do t know, if you’re the only Brigade level commander in the army tweeting at the SECDEF, you might be a careerist. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Just go for the gold and make it a 100 year mortgage. And put your grandkids’ assets up as extra collateral.

The appropriate market-based risk premium on a 50 year mortgage with an embedded option to lock-in the lowest yield of its life would be absurdly high. To make it affordable, the state subsidy would have to be enormous. These things would be near permanent profit drags.

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

These gangsters are using the email addresses of govt employees to send out messages to their address lists blaming Democrats for the shut down without their consent. Leave the damn civil servants who just want to do their jobs out of your illegal hackery.

A long and comprehensive opinion, but this jumped out at me: The judge accused the Federal Protective Service—which was called in to suppress the protests—of lying under oath to slander the regular Portland police.😬 DOJ recently admitted that other FPS claims in this case were objectively false.

A federal judge issues a permanent injunction barring the president from deploying National Guard troops from any state to Oregon, finding Donald Trump exceeded his authority. storage.courtlistener.com/rec...

The easiest political layup for Democrats in recent memory. That’s even compared to a lot of other easy layups.

Last spoke w/Pat in Baghdad when he was Milley’s (then the CSA) Executive Officer; spoke w/his brother Matt few weeks ago at AUSA. There are more than a few exceptional officers — only a handful of Pat Works. Apparently the name on your evaluation is more important than mEriToCrAcY.