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Assistant Prof. of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College. History, basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
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Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

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Federal employees writing what they did last week:

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I told OPM what I did last week

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DANCE FOR ME, PEASANTS! DANCE!

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No, that doesn’t actually follow. You see, what happened is that we had an election, and an insane Putin-loving crook won, and he staffed his admin with far right authoritarians who loathe our Euro allies and Ukraine, and now they are trying to extort Ukraine. This is not hard to grasp.

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I know there is fierce competition, but I think I found the worst person in Texas.

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I’ll answer this: it’s because they think they’d be head choppers rather that head choppees

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Hard pass on both.

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Make political parties institutions again

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The left needs to work with liberals because a) the left is mostly liberals even if people pretend they aren't and b) the number of people who are committed to leftist politics is absolutely tiny.

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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

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Dear Elon, Last week I marched through my workplace looking for DEI. I wore a wire, and asked people if they were DEI. In class, I wrote "DEI Bad" on the board, and my students and I chanted this for the entire 90-minute period. In so doing, I greatly enhanced national security. Yours, Joe

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Opinion | Francis isn’t dead yet but it’s not too early to start talking about how the next Pope needs to be a real Catholic. by Ross Douthat and JD Vance

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Just scratch "diverse initiatives" and insert "diverse people."

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I wonder if anyone called Marc Bloch a "resistance historian?"

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When Daniel Bessner, who rotted for Jacobin, says that “countries and regions should be allowed to work out what type of intl. ordering arrangement they desire,” he plainly does not mean “Ukraine gets to decide if it joins NATO and the EU.” He means that Russia gets to kill Ukrainians if it wants.

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People who clap when the plane lands not looking so crazy now

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If you missed this when The Atlantic first published it, now is a good time to read it. Gift link here so it’s free for anyone to read: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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I figured out the new DoD leadership policy:

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Jamelle Bouie’s argument that Trump/Vance/Hegseth view the presence of any person or color or woman in a position if power as automatic evidence of ‘DEI’ trumping merit is bolstered on a daily basis

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man it's so rich to be told that leftists "warned libs about this" when the entire past year was libs screaming about how dangerous it was going to be to reelect trump and leftists replying "yeah i don't care"

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I can’t even watch a Severance without the DoD being purged.

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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From CNN: Hegseth called Franchetti a “DEI hire” in his 2024 book, in which he wrote: “If naval operations suffer, at least we can hold our heads high. Because at least we have another first! The first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — hooray.”

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Once again: if Trump were trying to destroy this country, what should he be doing differently

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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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.

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it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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This stuff feels like if you jammed McCarthyism into less than a month and turned it up to 11.

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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.”

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today in breaking laws no matter how obscure, ladies and gentlemen, the Goldwater-Nichols Act

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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...

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DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

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It’s wild to go from the chimerical trans predators in locker rooms panic to official state pervs ‘inspecting’ teenage athletes. Really keeping our kids safe.

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I think one of the primary drivers of out current cultural crisis is that a substantial percentage of the country has responded to the realization that the traditional paradigm of gender relations no longer functions as they imagined it did by having a collective psychotic breakdown.

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