Another frozen conflict: the front line between Armenia and Cambodia hasn’t moved in months.

Dems: How can you think about funding THIS government? There is no “the” government in the abstract, no more normal now. Screw your courage to the sticking place, for once.

State AGs have released a video saying that they "will do whatever it takes" to protect trans people in their states. While the message is admirable, they need to take the one step they have not yet: Sue the hospitals that capitulate to Trump, violating state law.

Where’s Washington when you need him?

Latest is a growing campaign to tank LTG Braga’s nomination to lead JSOC and attacks against MG Tegtmeir, the commander of the 82nd ABN DIV. Both are being deemed “woke.” No doubt some see current moment as opportunity to shape the force. Anecdotally, rhetoric is accelerating.

Read this for Bill’s column today, below the Miller story. Read!

Must Read, must read Bill Kristol’s column today. It’s the second item here: www.thebulwark.com/p/its-stephe...

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

Fascism is NOT about making rich people richer. It's about endless pursuit of the libidinal thrill of sanctioned violence against social underclasses. The rewards are psychic, not pecuniary, and they are not to the ultra-wealthy, but the entire class given permission to inflict or enjoy suffering.

Reconstruction did not go far enough.

It doesn’t. It may matter that she felt she had to detransition, however.

www.youtube.com/live/YMySsrg... Please watch this. Bree is a paragon of courage and grace under stress; Bill of political principle, open- and fair-mindedness. Our better angels to behold.

elderly white hippies > young white fascists

Trump: It’s WOKE to discuss “how bad slavery was.” Lincoln: “Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword…”

The practice of civil-military relations is a reflection of the larger political culture. What we understand as healthy civ-mil is the product of a long period of political liberalization. If, as it seems, that is over, so, too, is the idea of an apolitical military.

The attack on individualism and personal autonomy is a through-line of this administration. The “common good” - as specified by Christian nationalists et al - is to suppress everything from trans rights to voting rights and representation. No longer “Don’t Tread on Me” but “We’ll Tread on Thee.”

Why doesn’t some Dem congressperson - looking at you Sarah McBride - introduce legislation to restore the retirement benefits promised to trans service members for taking early retirement? It’s not just the right thing to do, but it should be a winner politically….

Yo, Democrats: Looking for a way to get out from behind the Trans Sports 8-ball? Try changing the subject to the expulsion of trans patriots from the armed forces, especially the recent decision to rescind retirement benefits. Let Bone Spur Boy and his sycophants explain that.

The Attack on Transgender Kids Isn’t Just Cruel. It’s an Omen. www.bloomberg.com/op... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

I had the good fortune to be accepted to Brzezinski’s seminar in grad school. We all had to write a mock decision memo on a topic of our choosing, which he would then savage. He taught us - we were on track to become NatSec staff - how to deal with “principals” and stand our ground if we were right.

I am pleased to report that the second volume in my series on the colonial roots of American strategic culture, "The Fourth Kingdom: The Personality of American Power, Volume II," has been accepted for publication by the State University of New York Press. Cover may look like this:

If I am forced to dig into the details of the Epstein thing just to follow the news, I will not be happy.

Weapons of mass destruction something something….

He wrote this.

That’s our Army, the national golden retriever. So sad that they were caught up in the madness.

Me ‘n’ the Missus at the Takoma Park “No Kings.” Maybe 1,000 folks, very positive vibe.

I have been a reporter and then the editor of the Army Times, a professional staffer to the House Armed Services Committee and a fellow in foreign and defense policy at the American Enterprise Institute for more then 20 years.

Finally some more aesthetic Thaddeus Stevens content

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SHXo... This breaks my heart, and Hegseth makes my blood boil. But more than that, I am filled with pride and respect for my trans brothers and sisters who have served us so capably and honorably this past decade.

“Young soldiers make mistakes. But if senior officers remain silent, what lesson will those young men and women take from what happened?” says @radiofreetom.bsky.social. I’m embarrassed by those troops & their leaders, and they all ought review the army’s rules. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade….The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, June 6, 1944.

Hold your head up.

Other than that, Mrs Lincoln….

In a Washington staffer’s career, being “influential” and being “correct” do not often overlap.

This is so, so good; erudite and insightful (though a bit painful, too, to see that the “Tipping Point” was a false dawn). Watch!!!!

And upside down. So crazy it must be true.

Now we’re getting somewhere.

This. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Thanks goodness the corruption of DEI is behind us, and we can create a new, golden age of merit:

Hegseth using “she/they” as an insult just boosts Judge Reyes’ conclusion that the transgender ban is based on animus, not a genuine concern for military preparedness.

I wanted to know how Democrats can do a better job of appealing to working class voters in the Midwest. So I read a book by Ezra Klein and a guy who writes for the Atlantic

News from under the bus: At a time when trans people are being told that their admittedly honorable and distinguished military service is premised on a lie, even Mayor Pete won’t say “gender.”

Indeed!

First they came for the hair stylists…. GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-...

George III to the Continental Congress:

It’s over.

Let’s begin with the idea that “spiritual advice” is wasted on Trump.

Any Senate Dem (Republicans being a lost cause) who votes for the CR is voting to shred the Constitution.