i think it's the whole department/secretary of war thing that i find most ridiculous about all this

Speeding up decision-making and reducing flag rank overhead/billets by making a new super-COCOM so you need an entire other HQ and staff (EUCOM has what, nearly a dozen flag officers on staff?) to sit above the supposedly over-staffed and slow moving HQs?????

It could happen. www.fox2detroit.com/news/detroit...

Vance literally blaming antisemitism on rootless cosmopolitans

I fucking resent that I understood this post.

Distracting from attacking the corpse of Rob Reiner by attacking the fighter pilot turned astronaut senator.

Ngl “a guy dropped out of a CS program after 2 semesters and couldn’t find tech work, therefore we must deport all the Chinese and Indians” really is peak NYTimes lmfao

when the dust clears this is going to be an act of knowledge destruction akin to the library of alexandria burning down

they’re building the fakest casus belli of all time and we don’t have a functioning opposition party lmfao

there they are, our sainted apolitical military professionals, being apolitical

Jacobin 🤜🤛 Rod Dreher “What if the Combahee River Collective is to blame for Nick Fuentes?”

You start actively participating in one race war and suddenly people get ideas about you!

lol they're doing the Clean Wehrmacht myth for ICE.

An Anti-Defamation League that actually believed in its stated mission would savage Trump for his comments about Rob Reiner and his wife, but they are too busy trying to find out whether an Oberlin student said something critical of Israel.

This is a psychotic idea to begin with and this is the most predictable outcome imaginable. Great work, money men.

Another very true aspect of this. The DHS propaganda machine treats anyone with any prior contact with the criminal justice system as "serious offenders." They put this guy arrested in the NOLA raids on their "worst of the worst" list. He has a single arrest (no conviction?) for simple battery.

A quick sidenote about this; one reason I stay on X is specifically because of exchanges like this, where @davidjbier.bsky.social and I got a prominent government official to make a claim so outrageous that it’s now ricocheting around the internet and actively undermining official PR campaigns.

Maritza Rivera is shocked SHOCKED to see Mike Solan acting like an asshole in public. The new look, grown up, right wing city council of the past few years is a clown car full of the least serious, least thoughtful people imaginable. council.seattle.gov/2025/12/12/c...

lmao

It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.

"The jury verdict from 10 years ago contains a scrivener's error insofar as it states that the defendant was not guilty. We are changing that, nunc pro tunc, to guilty." Yeah, no.

New @jtalton.bsky.social column just dropped! Always love hearing from the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social most thoughtful opiner!

Yessir

It's absolutely astonishing that the Democratic party is completely incapable of capitalizing on the fact that this guy is a detestable moron with no admirable qualities.

Denmark’s military intelligence service has for the first time classified the US as a security risk, a striking shift in how one of Washington’s closest European allies assesses the transatlantic relationship.

It’s often said that too many political writers cover politics as if it’s sports. Actually they cover politics as if they are bad at covering sports

Anyway, trump is underwater on immigration approval too. Wonder if MattY still thinks we should avoid the topic.

People who bet on this on Kalshi are not pleased. Lol

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.

thinking about how places like brussels and vienna are leaning into the productive city and affordable housing and creating affordable spaces for both makers and creatives...

NEW: A judge ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the Trump admin’s custody, concluding he's been illegally held by ICE for months.

Y'know my money was on "she was gonna snitch on him for stealing and selling guns" but I guess this doesn't surprise me either.

How are you supposed to teach English grammar without using the word pronouns?

We're all trying to find the guy who did this 🌭

lmao c'mon

Brought to you by Brett Kavanaugh

this is literal piracy

Look, just rebrand Medicare for All as TrumpCare and call it a day

i am being told that the elian gonzalez thing happened in like 1999

funny but not funny: democrats have been locked out of mayor's office in miami since the elian gonzalez thing

lmao at Woke Elon having my back

If you put powerful AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior, we are going to create so much porn. New frontiers of porn. Porn you haven't even imagined.

Lot of that these days.

Guy who just watched the reactionary center he's part of take an electoral hit: did you know I believe in police accountability?!

Good prime @theguardian.com on European reactions to the US National Security Strategy, including comments from @maxbergmann.bsky.social, @mijrahman.bsky.social, @alanderminna.bsky.social and me:

The thing is, this new foreign policy is obviously very bad news for Europe, but it is also INSANELY contrary to US economic, military and general geopolitical interests.