get discharged if you have a beard but steal an attack helicopter for an unauthorized joyride to kid rock’s house for a political photo op and the secretary of defense will personally praise you while overruling and humiliating your commanders for pursuing basic disciplinary procedure

Term limits destroy institutional knowledge and create a constant churn of amateurs who need to learn how to legislate. It empowers corporate interests, which is why they push the issue.

Any Dem consultant that tries to persuade anyone that you need a different message than this in the midterms needs to be kicked to the curb immediately. Every elected/running Dem needs to make it clear this is what voting for the GOP means.

The options for ground ops are bad. Not just because they're unnecessarily exposing Marines & Soldiers to risk that they don't need to be exposed to, but because they're premised on a misunderstanding of Iranian centers of gravity (COG). 2/

if a leftist says he's anti-zionist because of the war crimes of a sovereign nation the times will suggest he is an anti-semite. if a conservative says that he is "j-pilled" the times will say it's about foreign policy.

This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

5/ You can achieve your goals by force. Eventually you want to make peace. But you can leave that to the other guys. You have what you want. But if your goal is entirely at the other guy’s discretion you’ve got a big problem. And that really seems like what the US is getting into now.

"I'm a cop, I don't understand the law" is literally one of the most on-brand things I have ever heard in my life

I'm not a huge fan of David French's Evangelical hairsplitting; however, this is a very interesting conversation with Gen. Stanley McChrystal who gets into what's wrong about Trump and Hegseth's ill considered debacle in Iran. Gift Article.

GOP Senator admits Trump is the reason for TSA shutdown, long airport lines: "The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ICE. ... Thune submitted that to President Trump. The President said, 'No deals with the Democrats.' We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week."

"Just 9.1 percent of Army employees agreed that 'Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s political leadership team generates high levels of motivation in the workforce,' the survey report said, and they were the most satisfied of any of the large agencies surveyed."

The current administration is really living up to its promise of bringing back Spartan military ethos by talking loudly and losing more than winning.

I feel like John Roberts has earned loud heckling whenever he complains about attacks on the court loudly demanding he get specific as to who those attacks are coming from what they are

Q: Can you give one example of fraud in a previous election that the SAVE America Act would stop? MIKE JOHNSON: Look, we're not gonna litigate all that

At a Taekwondo tournament with my boy, watching the young Taekwondoin take the pledge to “be a champion of freedom and justice” and “build a more peaceful world”. This is the kind of social participation that strengthens democracies. Our governments need to do much more to foster civil society.

The core issue in the GWOT was not a lack of warfighting expertise. It was the amorphous strategic/geopolitical goals that warfighting alone can't fix. Doubling down on warfighting at the expense of a broader strategic perspective is a recipe for another disaster. warontherocks.com/2026/03/mili...

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes." www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world

most of my anger towards dems is they repeatedly invoke this trope and then do not govern, either in majority or minority, as if it was true. whereas i actually often do believe it and believe the responsibility to act like it’s true extends past the first week of november

I'm a broken record on this but folks haven't realized how difficult things will be after this regime is over given the tentacles it is leaving behind. Even the most superficial reading of theories of institutional change will tell you this is a path we don't want to depend on.

We are a very stupid country www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...

Rubio's justification for attacking Iran: Iran would have retaliated against the US if Israel attacked Iran. Therefore the US acted preemptively. So, why didn't the Trump admin just restrain the principal recipient of US military assistance from launching such an illegal attack in the first place?

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Important these words are repeated again and again.

I hope celebrities across the country follow @flavorflav.bsky.social's lead and treat the women's hockey team to all kinds of fantastic experiences, if only to rub it in these dumb assholes' faces.

From @theathletic.com: "The U.S. men’s hockey team won Olympic gold for the first time since the 'Miracle on Ice' 46 years ago, and for a time, the joy belonged to everyone," our columnist writes. "By the next day, it didn’t." nyti.ms/4s1Csv8

🔰UBI + LVT = huge societal win

Exactly right, and it's been a major flaw in D strategy: if independent voters primarily care about kitchen table issues and your kitchen table issues are good, then standing up for immigrants and trans folks wouldn't lose them. If it does, then they don't primarily care about kitchen table issues.

I wrote a piece for an Utah paper about why books that deal with sex and assault are important for teens and shouldn't be labeled as pornography and banned. This is a major issue in my home state where many do not believe sex scenes in books are ever justified. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...

Arthur Liu fled the PRC after crackdowns on dissidents in 1989 including the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Last night, his oldest child Alysa ended Team USA's 20-year Olympic medal drought in women's singles figure skating with a stirring, sensational free skate that clinched her a 2nd Olympic gold. 1/

I honestly think one reason Millennials are so angry about all this is that many of us grew up during the brief period in American history where the official line was that we had won history *because* of our values, and most of us actually internalized that.

The Supreme Court:

The America I love is the one that welcomes Arthur Liu - a refugee from communist oppression - and his daughter becomes an Olympic gold medalist! I don't love the America that excludes people like him, or deports them back to their oppressors, as right now with many Cubans, Venezuelans, and others.

This is the Alysa Liu performance everyone is talking about, and yes, you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

All in all, while Le's frustrated asides got the most attention, this hearing is most shocking for how little control there is over ICE. Even an experienced and respected AUSA like Anna Voss can't get them within a mile of compliance.

Since day 1 of the Trump admin it has been Christmas for Criminals and the problem only gets worse. The whole federal law enforcement apparatus has been reassigned to repression and generating social media content.

Josh Shapiro is a disgusting worm. Krasner’s opinion here should be the message of every elected democrat in the U.S.

Its like judges are foresworn from ever seeing or acknowledging lawfare or the notion that they might, for once in their lives, have to use force in the service of punching up, not punching down.

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

There are people with principled takes on the 2nd Amendment, like the 1st. But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

It's not just that these professional politics observers somehow failed to spot the obvious rise of American nativist thuggery. It's how much energy they devoted to arguing the real problem was the volume, tone, and vocabulary of those raising the alarm about it.