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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 5 hours ago • 896 comments

Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

submitted 5 hours ago • 62 comments

We don’t need the Russian economy. Make a list of everything in your home made in Russia. Throw out the bottle of Vodka. Could you do without everything else? There’s your answer. Western business returning to Russia does not advance American interests; it makes Putin more powerful.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Between this and his comments to the governor of Maine it looks clear that he is using unconstitutional coercion/extortion to compel policy outcomes at the state level that his office doesn’t give him the authority to dictate.

submitted 6 hours ago • 18 comments

Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

submitted 19 hours ago • 57 comments

I still can’t believe that Donald Trump berated a governor and said “I am the law” yesterday. And it was like the fourth most important news of the day.

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There’s no evidence that Dan Caine will not be an effective chairman of the joint chiefs relative to his peers, but it is certainly saying something to the services that we are replacing a highly qualified black man with a white man who literally lacks the command qualifications for the job.

submitted 8 hours ago • 38 comments

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

submitted 8 hours ago • 26 comments

The Russian military is sending wounded troops on crutches back to the frontlines to fight, and redeploying soldiers with significant injuries to combat roles, as it struggles with growing manpower issues, according to videos and testimony obtained by CNN: bit.ly/3Xg5Fp1

submitted 9 hours ago • 99 comments

Joni Ernst cast one of two pivotal votes to let this happen.

submitted 9 hours ago • 39 comments

Look at this chart! Half of all homebuyers in 1981 were under 31?! And the median age has just gone steadily up by a generation since then?!

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 21 hours ago • 35 comments

3 years after Russia's invasion, Ukraine’s fight is the world’s fight. This war isn’t just about territory—it’s about sovereignty and democracy in the face of tyranny. Abandoning Ukraine means surrendering to brute force. Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

submitted 22 hours ago • 844 comments

Taiwan holds its breath as Trump turns on Ukraine and upends US foreign policy

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

I think humanitarian aid as an extension of soft imperial power is good and "have free elections and we'll cure your tuberculosis" is the best game in town.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This will directly affect the future, & the present, of Pennsylvania & the country. Jonas Salk invented the Polio vaccine at Pitt. Pitt helped unlock DNA & pioneered organ transplants. Musk is offering a future where Americans are poorer, sicker, & less free. One word: NO www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

Doing this on Friday night On the same day they kick the Pentagon Press Corps out of the press room And removing top legal officers Are at least indications of premeditated attempt to avoid oversight and accountability of any kind Which would shocking if the action itself wasn’t so shocking

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

I fear that this is just a prelude to further purges, the installation of yes men (pun intended), and the introduction of loyalty oaths. These are the steps that destroy professionalism and make the use of violence to restore "domestic order" thinkable --- and more likely.

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

+1 "Removing them in this way will not make the military more lethal, but it could make the problem of politicization of the military that much harder to manage,” Feaver said.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Friday Night Purge: Trump fires 6 Pentagon officials, including Gen. Charles Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy So many thoughts about this, most of them unprintable

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

It has been an insane week. Here is my 5th article published in 6 days. "The geopolitical earthquake in Europe will inevitably see aftershocks in Asia. Those aftershocks have arrived. Welcome, Australia, to an entirely new Pacific security environment." www.smh.com.au/world/oceani...

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

Firing General Brown and Admiral Franchetti is not a complete surprise to civmil watchers, but pulling this guy from retirement for chairman definitely is It’s a strong signal that promotion to top positions will require complete ideological conformity from here on out

submitted 19 hours ago • 20 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 hours ago • 324 comments

I repeat: Article Five is not worth much under these people. Act accordingly. “Vance on Thursday night suggested that the Trump admin could reconsider its military presence in Germany, tying continued…defense commitments to Berlin’s stance on free speech” www.politico.eu/article/vanc...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 19 hours ago • 200 comments

In summation, a qualified Black man got fired and will be replaced with a white man who doesn’t meet the qualifications for the position.

submitted 20 hours ago • 34 comments

The situation in the US 🇺🇸 is serious, with the constitutional and political order rapidly changing. KIM LANE SCHEPPELE (kimlanelaw.bsky.social) explains in our editorial what has happened in the past few weeks and what is at stake. verfassungsblog.de/trumps-count...

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Rep. Jason Crow: “The purge of senior officers at DOD is deeply troubling, but purging JAG officers worries me the most. “JAG officers interpret law for our commanders. They help determine what's lawful and constitutional. “Replacing these military lawyers with Trump loyalists is so dangerous.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 206 comments

And now Franchetti. CNOs have been doing about the Navy’s serious readiness and capacity problems. We finally had one who was doing something about it and now she’s out.

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

The fact that a greaseball Fox News host who couldn’t have dreamed of holding a command post in another life is the one shit-canning these high ranking military officers is truly an “irony is dead” moment.

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How many paragraphs do you think @apnews.com writes before mentioning that the white 3-Star General Trump plans to install (after firing the Black 4-Star Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) isn't even legally eligible for the job? apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Admiral Franchetti became the 33rd Chief of Naval Operations on Nov. 2, 2023, making her the first woman to have a permanent seat as a member of the Joint Chiefs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 21 hours ago • 50 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1061 comments

Some really long faces on the metro tonight. Be kind to your fellow man, some of them just had the worst day of their lives…so far.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 20 hours ago • 415 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 20 hours ago • 113 comments

Promoting an 0-9 to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is insane - Trump is going to have to promote him to four star AND waive the legal requirements to even hold the position Dan Caine had a distinguished career, but he’s never been a vice chair, combatant commander or service chief

submitted 20 hours ago • 132 comments

They want war crimes. I do not know why the media will not say this. They say they want war crimes. Heggy got his job because he supported war crimes on Fox News. They think it is good to hunt children for sport.

submitted 21 hours ago • 23 comments

I preferred when civ-mil stuff was one of those important-but-mostly-in-a-quiet-and-steady topics rather than (looks ominously at dumpster on fire) this

submitted 20 hours ago • 18 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 21 hours ago • 451 comments

“If the commander-in-chief fires senior officers based on ideology instead of competence, we are no longer operating under a system of military professionalism—we are watching the politicization of the armed forces in real time.” @itsapurdy.bsky.social www.chamberlainnetwork.us/the-report/t...

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