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Retired lawyer. Moderate. Dog lover, cat tolerator. Grandfather. Vietnam vet. History, international relations, national security, high-profile litigation, economics, and a little politics.
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The chaos unleashed by this email ought to be off the charts epic.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

This is a joke, right? I can hardly wait to see what the Canadian readout says.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Why is most US media still treating recent events as "normal"? Here's my take: "Day after passing day, it was clear that even if the US and its $27 trillion economy was not exactly tipping post-coup into a full authoritarian state, then it had at least firmly slipped into banana republic territory."

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 10 hours ago • 95 comments

What else could we have done with $200 million? Any ideas?

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Are these the best that New York City can find?

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Well, here’s a guy who knows a thing or two about how to fight the dark side. (Thank you, @markhamillofficial.bsky.social)

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Bookmark this website. Share the link with your friends.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

This whole approach to Ukraine is extortion. It's one of the most evil, immoral things I've seen my government attempt in my 78 years of life, and believe me, I've seen a bunch of them.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

That $40 million could have built another clinic to provide health care to our most vulnerable people.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

We are in far deeper shit as a result of last night's firings at DOD than the major non-defense media are reporting. As I've read, they're reporting the sacking of all three JAG commanders as kind of a discounted, unimportant story. It's not. Hegseth just got rid of the three people who are supposed

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 160 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 8 hours ago • 363 comments

CEOs do not run companies to maximize shareholder value, they run them to maximize their pay open.substack.com/pub/deanbake...

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump’s demands of Musk that he break things harder and faster.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Oof!

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Yesterday, I posted an article reflecting a sizable increase in maternal morbidity and mortality following Texas's adoption of its abortion ban. Now, here's a look at bans from the other side - infant mortality. It's up ~5.6% in states with abortion bans.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Big Balls was terminated two years ago, at age 17, for leaking proprietary information. I'm strongly in favor of not holding people responsible for their nonfelonious juvenile mistakes forever, but two years isn't forever and when it comes to security, it's best to assume that past is prolog.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Now is not the time for sanctions easing, limited or not. Russia has ALWAYS taken concessions as a sign of weakness, no matter what government is in charge. It's in their DNA. They're on the ropes. Now is the time to pile on. Think of it this way, if they can't sell anything abroad, they won't be

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

That money could have funded a new VA clinic in Navarre.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Over on X yesterday, JD Vance tried to answer some of the criticisms of the administration's Ukraine efforts. It didn't go very well, as you can see here: x.com/JDVance/stat.... This response, though, hit most of the high notes.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

In yet another first for the country under Trump 47, we will now have our very first Air National Guard Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, LTG Dan “Razin” Caine. I'm sure he'll do just fine. 🙄 Actually, I think his entire term is going to be unmitigated hall that I wouldn't wish on anyone.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"We cannot have a viable political system that relies on extraordinarily brave people—because there aren’t enough of them." Don't underestimate the intimidation factor in Republican acquiescence.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments