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"Yes, lethality can be found in a rifle shot or a perfectly executed combined-arms maneuver. But at the strategic level, lethality also depends on the ability to secure populations, disrupt enemy networks, and build coalitions of trust." @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/a-commande...

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There are a lot of bright shiny things to chase every day with Donald Trump. The principle of a free press has to remain among our North Stars. Attacks on the press are an attack on democracy itself. Yesterday a judge stood up to Trump & ordered him to stop. joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-vers...

submitted 26 days ago • 46 comments

They told me if I voted for Kamala the market would crash, and then we’d probably have a recession. They were right.

submitted 32 days ago • 302 comments

Last night's races in Wisconsin and Florida were just the beginning. 2025 is a HUGE election year — with major contests yet to come in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia.

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

One of the best Downfall takeoffs I’ve ever seen. The subtitles are simply brilliant.

submitted 33 days ago • 175 comments

If you’re upset about the chaos and corruption Trump is inflicting on your country—whether your focus is the nihilistic dismantling of government, the economy, our foreign relations, or his threats to the rule of law—please join the nationwide marches on April 5. Learn more here 👉 handsoff2025.com

submitted 37 days ago • 586 comments

this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news

submitted 46 days ago • 410 comments

This is a lovely, thoughtful, and thought-provoking piece on what's wrong with the attacks on transgender people. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 46 days ago • 30 comments

We won’t take an oath to any king or dictator

submitted 52 days ago • 84 comments

Isn't Musk an unelected bureaucrat?

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 64 days ago • 2048 comments

critical piece! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 67 days ago • 11 comments

Federal prosecutors are not the president’s lawyers. Prosecutors take an oath to support and defend the Constitution, not to implement the president’s agenda faithfully. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily.

submitted 67 days ago • 74 comments

BREAKING: Ranking Member Raskin demands Attorney General Bondi halt illegal intimidation campaign targeting the DOJ’s Public Integrity Office.

submitted 80 days ago • 837 comments

BREAKING: JD Vance Lays the Groundwork to Eliminate the Separation of Powers in America. I break it all down in a special, midday Substack and provide my legal perspective on this dangerous comment. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

submitted 85 days ago • 113 comments

"Donald Trump and JD Vance aren’t going to respond by saying, 'These Untermenschen deserve to die.' But you know who just might say that out loud? The ketamine-addled billionaire and his menagerie of 20-year-old incels." So make them say it.

submitted 85 days ago • 26 comments

Well done, MoveOn

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

There is only one reason Trump pulled the security off Pompeo and Bolton…to put them in danger for “crossing him.” To send a message to anyone else who would oppose. Both have active death threats from Iran. All to intimidate. This is the opposite of a real man of God. This is evil

submitted 100 days ago • 1317 comments

This is the *original logic* of the sanctuary city idea.

submitted 100 days ago • 34 comments

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submitted 171 days ago • 161 comments