Illegal impoundments are so important to Republicans that they’re insisting on language that would prevent GAO from suing. How can you make a budget deal when one side insists on the ability to ignore that deal?

The battle for Donbas is now fought with small arms and smaller drones, and men in teams of two or three. But the fighting is even deadlier than earlier in this war. I visited Dobropillya and spoke with some of its Ukrainian defenders, for CBC: www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

The battle for Pokrovsk, ongoing since 2024, appears to be nearing its end. Here’s what’s happening on the ground. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

My latest book, on open access! Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617

My daily shutdown affirmation

You too can log into bsky dot app and see takes from newspaper columnists that are indistinguishable from the ravings of your 3 beers deep uncle at Thanksgiving!

This shit irks me though, like yeah man the second offset required a lot more higher tech with more supply chains and complexity which increases risk and guidance for it. Things also were not static since the 70s because of how much things changed, which he well knows.

This is one of the weirdest essays I've read in most part because of who wrote it, but also because it says...nothing?

Gen CQ Brown is back, baby, and he's got something to say about the colors of money in War on the Rocks. The Profession is absolutely fine, why do you ask?

I would be a navalist but that would mean giving more money to the Navy and that's not something I can support

got myself banned for life from the russia house vault after i tricked all the analysts into watching a ukrainian dub of jonah hill’s best lines from superbad

I don't know what a Dort is and I don't care to find out

Y'all mind if I sneer condescendingly at my erstwhile allies for a lil?

I think we should buy more missiles

Charming!

I guess if anyone out there wants a good and free scholarly work that deals with the initial Biafra War that has brought us here, check out my OpenAccess co-authored book with the inestimable Toyin Falola. Also will help you understand what’s going on in Mali! library.oapen.org/bitstream/id...

Sadly I don’t think Florence’s latest album has enough juice

Welcome, my fellow Americans, to the Shutdown. *classic intro to Japanese Iron Chef plays*

The only dining facility at the Army base in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, has closed due to a lack of funding. #Flashes

Over half the people who actually returned ballots in my county were 65+ so, um, maybe it was a good thing that there were so many gray-hairs in the No Kings crowds.

Folks, they have an expansive online catalog bookshop.org/shop/Mydeada...

Like yeah, I know, it's uncool and cringe to be idealistic and believe in a mission and swear an oath. You're supposed to believe that everyone in government is corrupt and broken and inept. Which begs the question, so how do you convince the people to put government in charge of health care?

Workers are harvesting grapes in Delano CA. The season will soon be ending and they are trying to get in as many hours as they can. #WeFeedYou

At the 45:30 mark a really on the nose moment happens that I deeply relate to where an analyst who knows what he's talking about and did a review of the laws and institutions freaks out because none of them apply. Its about TikTok but it could be about so many other things

as a lifter its always easy to know in my heart that trans love will win. the best back/lat exercise in the world is named after a trans woman, after all.

I have an idea.

My Dead Aunt’s Books in Hyattsville ruuuuuuules

My therapist says it’s totally normal to form parasocial relationships to failed Diadochi basileis

Last night demonstrably proved that Americans nation-wide believe that Chaim Topol in the Fiddler movie can get it

USAF test-launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM into the Pacific. Missile delivered single Mk21 reentry vehicle. www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/News/Article... This is the missile military lied could not be life-extended but now has to be extended through 2050: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Italian Army orders first armored vehicles from Rheinmetall-Leonardo joint venture https://breakingdefense.com/2025/11/italian-army-orders-first-armored-vehicles-from-rheinmetall-leonardo-joint-venture/

An important read out from the senior advisor to the “secretary of war” and chief fluid engineer to Christina Wong.

Sell your Sherman stocks Buy George Henry Thomas bonds

Omae wa mou transdeiru

The age of the pantsuit is over

The USMC museum is putting up a “In This House” lawnsign

CIA and Navy seizing key strategic port infrastructure on the Eastern Seaboard, partisans active in and around Kings Bay

I regret to inform you we* are going to win * the multiracial and multifaith coalition with diverse policy preferences but united by our commitment to liberalism and belief in democracy

Jay Jones closing message really resonated with Northern Virginians

Jones winning would be hilarious

I think I should become a clout fiend on here for a while As a bit

South Korea Positions KSS-III Attack Submarine for International Sale — USNI News news.usni.org/2025/11/04/s...

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