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World military historian at UNC. Veteran. Archaeologist. Blacksmith. Traveler. Archer. I try to limit my posts to military history/security policy. Mostly. Current President of the Soc. for Military History. Officially here: https://waynelee.web.unc.edu/
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More for the not-a-drag-queen files. Also worth noting: a deep red county. www.yahoo.com/news/mebane-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

I hope it goes without saying that NO ONE should watch the parade on any platform at all. Kill the ratings. Zero viewership. (and please let me reassure the unknowing: soldiers HATE parades. With a deep and abiding passion).

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

In all seriousness, pretty soon he'll only be talking to Fuentes, Tate, Kanye (Ye?), and Charlie Kirk (and the blogging ghost of Ashli Babbit). (and he's already losing some of them)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I am SHOCKED that there is gambling in this establishment. Shocked.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

Yowza. bullseye

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Back to Citizens United decision again: Money is speech and cannot be regulated, but REFUSING to spend money is not speech, it is in fact criminal?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is a big deal. It was also totally foreseeable. Pilot culture in our air services has been holding us back from pushing this capability, and it has cost billions.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Our latest: Janet Mills beats Trump and lets him hear about it. Janet Mills wouldn’t bend the knee. Instead, she kicked the ass. The orange ass, to be specific.

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

Jaw dropping. United Airlines Cancels Newark Flights After FAA Staff Walks Out

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

Throwback to perhaps my favorite meme from the entire (and ongoing) Signalgate fiasco

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Re-watching Andor season 1. Re: prison camps. 1/8 mobilized soldiers in WWI spent POW time (~8.5 million). Mostly eastern front. 3.4 million Russians = 1/5 of Russians mobilized. Camps were key sites of radicalization, with major post-war implications. Camps don't always do what you think they do.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

So let's see if I have this right. Decrease (by a lot) our Intel apparatus and increase the DoD. So we will again have lethality wielded with little direction. (Not that the track record is all that good, but still.) (Also, whose interests are best served by a CIA/NSA reduction? 🤔)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The economy SHRANK in the first quarter. Down from 2.4% growth in q4 to -0.3 in q1. Trump has officially cratered the strongest economy in the world in just a few months.

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

Anyone else think it's funny that Repubs are happy that money is speech (Citizens United), but Trump doesn't want speech to be speech (Amazon indicating tariff costs)? Calls it "hostile and political." 🤷‍♂️ www.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

In response to ongoing events related to the publication and dissemination of military history, The Society for Military History Council unanimously resolves as follows, dated April 25, 2025: www.smh-hq.org/publicstatem...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Important to point out this is toys AND games and a very great deal of sporting equipment.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

There's a lot of history being suppressed lately, from a profound desire to say that American history has rarely or never been racist. So how about we show some receipts.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

People are going to start feeling this pretty soon. And it won't be pretty. Truckers, rail companies first. Then shops. Then consumers

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, for the love of.... Dates and history and respect, all missing here.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Hey. At least she's saying it out loud. The rest are just lying and pretending to care about the constitution.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

A new podcast episode to kick off your Friday!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 307 comments

New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin - At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner." Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done" wapo.st/4iAatO1

submitted 11 days ago • 289 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 115 comments

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

submitted 12 days ago • 522 comments

Does anything more really need to be said. Pound the drums. Get this guy out. Anyone of lesser rank would be in cuffs by now.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The 26th Annual New Faces Conference Application is now open! The conference will take place Sept 18-19, 2025 in Chapel Hill, NC. TISS covers all travel expenses for those selected. This is an interdisciplinary conference in mil hist, int. relations, & security studies. tiss-nc.org/new-faces/

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Long past time for this guy to go. In any normal admin he'd be done. But of course, he'd never have been nominated.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

All current academy leaders should read this. And most of them should be ashamed. Stand up for what is right. If someone tells you Maya Angelou is too whatever. Say no. It's not. Demand a direct order, signed, to remove each individual book. Don't become the face of compliance.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Umm. Not even Doonesbury can manage to satirical this level of incompetence.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I feel quite confident that all is being managed well. <whoops. these days a sarcasm alert is required, because, well, it's hard to tell reality from The Onion>

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Fed. Judge repeatedly mentioning "2 weeks" is a giant, neon red, flashing WARNING sign 2 weeks is the minimum required notice to hold a party in contempt if they don't comply. She's basically telling Ensign to pack a toothbrush if this doesn't get done.

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

This is great and what I’m talking about. A bunch of old white folks in Iowa demanding answers from Grassley. Probably most of them were even Trump voters. This is a losing issue for him.

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Donald Trump's foreign hostilities could reportedly cost the U.S. $90 billion in lost tourism and export revenue.

submitted 20 days ago • 45 comments

I wonder if dems can figure out how to run on this?

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment