Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b... Prohibits release of unclassified information without DoD authorization. This is Soviet level bullshit.

Anticipatory obedience www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/reversing-...

How I Ran Afoul of the Air Force Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o... This fills me with sadness.

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have — theonion.com/watchdog-gro... A vast improvement over the GOP.

@waitmanwbeorn.com Just finished “Between the Wires.” I think I’m reasonably educated about the Holocaust, yet never heard of Janowska prior to your podcast. The brutality uncovered and its connection to actions in other camps was eye opening. The words of Wojciech Kalwínski were inspirational.

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u... Echos? Echos? The actions “Follow” the playbook.

This is Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced. I had to divide it into 2 parts. Please read each & share. These are the words of a child rape victim, a victim of the monster Trump now protecting & arranging her freedom.

Members of QAnon claimed that a cabal of pedophiles had infiltrated the highest levels of our government. It turns out they were right.

Sadly, spot on.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... It has frequently been pointed out that totalitarian movements use and abuse democratic freedoms in order to abolish them. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

substack.com/@out5p0ken/n... This is Soviet level shit.

Maurene Comey’s farewell note to the SDNY after being fired by the Trump administration. Yet another warning.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u... SCOTUS collegiality is way overrated and Justice Jackson has no more fucks to give. I'm all in on this idea.

theonion.com/why-im-sendi... Finally - someone doing journalism stuff.

*REPOSTS AS HARD AS I FUCKING CAN WHILE SCREAMING*

youtube.com/watch?v=TzsN... Happy Birthday to the US Army.

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

Instructing soldiers not to hoot and clap like they are at a political rally when a president gives a speech is civil-military relations 101. Any officer should know this without even thinking about it.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

If Portlandia’s chicken episode doesn’t come immediately to your mind reading this, I weep for you.

I know, norms and all that, but the default Dem position should be: We think this is illegal but if the courts say you can do this then we are going to rip the guts out of the entire conservative movement. No more Heritage, FedSoc, etc. All of them lose their tax exempt status.

Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon — theonion.com/woman-remind...

substack.com/@concis21/no... This is the way.

Real Americans support Ukraine, and oppose Russian imperialism, occupation, kidnapping, bombing, and murder. It really is that simple.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04... Rebuke my ass. He said “Stop Vladimir.” Ooooh. Grow a pair NYT. JFC.

It is like they research ways to emulate Nazis.

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

Important for all of us but especially journalists.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

This is the way.

Straight up confiscation of property.

I know, but I actually wouldn’t be shocked to learn this is real.

DOJ Designates Posting Photos Of Balding Elon Musk As Domestic Terrorism  — theonion.com/doj-designat...

We were told King George went crazy. Maybe Trump is King George reincarnated. youtu.be/ukfNXFgUEiU?...

In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.

open.substack.com/pub/charlies... @sykescharlie.bsky.social He has a great way with words.

“The most anti-veteran administration ever”