Fundamentally why I believe we will win.

Found one in the wild

You can tell this is very scientifically valid by the way they use the brand name for the drug. Tylenol bad! Acetaminophen good!

Just for my SA, are Meghan McCain, Megan McArdle, and Megyn Kelly the same person - or are we dealing with three different "personalities" here?

We need more A-10 is relevant in 2025 vs no it was obsolete by 2005 discourse instead of doomstreaming whatever irrelevant event 18 of the first 20 in the line of succession are at

Your moment of Maryland zen

If there's a greater symbol of the collapse of the Washington Post than a 3-minute half-baked, shoulder shrug endorsement of Trump's quarter-baked plan to re-invade Afghanistan framed as a triumphant restoration of American strength I've not seen one.

Damn ain't this the truth. A ton of assholes pretending to burn with moral indignation over the treatment of people whom they never viewed as equals and in most cases never even bothered to learn their names. Ask any Afghan SIV holder in NOVA if they think terp is a term of endearment.

Unless they're willing to take all the slashed USAID funds and feed them directly to the Taliban, including arming them against the future even worse Provisional Taliban, I really don't get how anyone would be confident holding Bagram during an actual near peer conflict. What's the point?

FREE SPEECH IS OUR RIGHT Took two hours off this morning to do something fun, and connected with people bc I signed up for something. We're still a free people!

11 pages of talking points aimed at the American taxpayer marked CUI guys what is Sean Parnell doing

The new America First Global Health Strategy just dropped and it is NUTS. Hope to have more later... They are patting themselves on the back for reducing HIV/AIDS mortality via PEPFAR while killing PEPFAR. Absolute nonsense throughout this thing.

Comedy might be banned but the War Department is still cooking

"The Department of War conveys the concept of peace through strength more effectively than Department of Defense. This name illustrates our capability and readiness to engage in and triumph over conflicts for our Nation at any moment, rather than solely focusing on defense." Someone tell WaPo pleez

I don't watch or follow football, my quarterbacks are Purdy and McCarthy, and I'm undefeated. I am a fantasy savant.

I have been to violent protests that were put down with shocking, indiscriminate violence. If you are telling 70yos to write a phone# on their arm and take $100 of bail money to a No Kings protest you are scaring people away so that you can look hard, and you're doing the work of the regime.

I'm willing to fight for democracy but I'm not willing to unsubscribe from an email list I didn't specifically ask to be added to is just not gonna get us there

I am on day 4 of referring to this place as the War Department (Stanton be praised) and people just straight up do not know what to do with me. It's a great way to derail a meeting I wish was already over.

I'm sorry I'm not able to keep up with all the latest releases on the fall of global democracy, I have another missive from my kid's kindergarten to read

My minor celebrity encounter story is that I played hockey in college and we used to play against Oberlin pretty frequently (8-team league). They were always sky high after pre-gaming in the locker room and I thought the extent of the brain damage they'd cause would be on-ice concussions.

A month ago a huffy Metro Transit Police officer threatened to put me in handcuffs and ban me from the system for holding a sign outside the fare gates of a station. Multiple emails and calls to Metro and Metro Police asking what the rules/laws are have gone completely unanswered. Is it illegal?

I still believe the is all, end all, be all of this for the vast majority of white people is that this was a national moment that included the President no less, that simply was not about them.

Hahah, heard it again today, but from a very serious stern woman who I don't think meant it as an insult.

Apparently we're now allowed to refer to the Department in internal and external communications "by any name it presently or formerly held"

No I think it's good that the country lives through a weekly mass delusion event

This Department of War horseshit has unleashed some of the most insufferable, busybody, obsessive people at DoD. Just granting them license to spend weeks with shared drives and Ctrl+F, and endless wordsmithing meetings. Not even MAGA people, just the "COMBINING TWO UNCLASS CAN MAKE IT CLASS" folks

Lol. Your Department of Booms is a Very Serious Place.

I love this exchange from Fraser. This is 100% my brother and me after playing a new boardgame.

Love seeing more foreign policy in Liberal Currents and especially @joestieb.bsky.social. This paragraph is truly wild, what an indication of how much cred WaPo has jettisoned in a year. They're arguing in favor of a policy in the hope it will undermine a second policy they aren't able to condemn

The biggest issue right now is senior leaders at OSD on down are effectively enabling voluntary political commissars across the force and none of those guys think there will be accountability - in fact, they think the opposite because of what has actually occurred before and since Bragg.

You could heal a nation with widespread acknowledgement of this fact

Am I at risk of losing my job if I mute posts containing you know who on here?

Panda play

If I had a 10 year old I simply would just not buy them a "Smoke big doobies and slap big booties" t-shirt

All I want to do is stream Lonesome Dove

You have to get out there, get a sign, join a protest. The people harming trans people overwhelmingly look like us, grew up like us, are in our group chats. If it changes nothing except to give vulnerable people who just want to live their lives a moment of comfort then that's enough.

Not for nothing, people like Hegseth are just chickenshit cowards. You're the SOW now pig boy. If you're not gonna uphold Article 5 then stand tf up and say so. Easy to cower behind the security architecture NATO provides and throw stones. Otherwise shut up and spread mulch with the troops.

Long cat

It's unclear to me why the ICE agents who insist on being the first Americans foreign travelers see when they step off the plane in Dulles can't put on a fucking uniform and pretend this is an actual real country.

Maybe they could've exercised some of that Colby-style restraint they're always talking about instead of fucking up another relationship in the Pacific. The NDS is gonna have to just straight up delete the INDOPACOM section at this point.

Lol, go on....

We need a mute a user for the rest of the day button for when I can't be bothered to monitor someone's crash out

First crossing of the South Atlantic!

Tiles of Lisbon

Lisbon's Oceanarium is one of only three facilities in the world to display an ocean sunfish

Hood cats

👂👂👂

You can just choose not to be outraged by the lowering of flags, the world's least meaningful and inconsequential political gesture.

It's very hard to have been in Europe for the last week and to have lived in America for these last 9 months and watched America in this last week and not want to desperately get my child out of the US. The county is broken and dangerous and self destructive and it's a terrible place to raise a kid.