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For most Americans, the date 1913 means nothing. For Americans on the far right fringes, 1913 has long been a date of great significance. Here’s a piece from the antisemitic rag “American Mercury” in 1957, for example. One of their writers at the time was George Lincoln Rockwell.
Every so often I think about this
Trump's deployment of armed military units on American streets got me thinking back to this moment from January 2016 which far too many people took to be a joke, or a figure of speech. youtu.be/iTACH1eVIaA?...
The back cover of @theonion.com just made me do whatever the German compound word is for “laugh-cry.”
we are going to use this one a lot
Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.
Zohran Mamdani said at his rally in brooklyn just now that “we have to prepare for the inevitability” of Trump deploying the National Guard in New York City.
I can’t believe these headlines. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
We could all use that shirt tbh
Like a runner's high but for equanimity
When i peer into the nothing of the self for more than 7 minutes
Over the decades I have spoken at all of the service academies and War Colleges. They've all known I was "a critic" of many policies This is a really, really ominous development (AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.) gazette.com/military/air...
Historians of religion in the founding era have estimated that church attendance rates at the time were lower than 20%.
NEW: DOJ says names of two associates who Jeffrey Epstein wired $100k and $250k in 2018 should stay secret. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor reports.
I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this
Apolitical military professionals be staying apolitical.
Am I the only one who saw that meme and thought "right movie, wrong colonel"
Der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten droht einer US-amerikanischen Stadt mit Krieg. Das ist nicht normal.
The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social
Can’t believe Benjamin Franklin got the woke mind virus in 1775 and created the U.S. postal service, we should really look into that
Just thinking about how fighting the Nazis in WWII was pretty woke
The beginnings of Christian nationalism date back decades. This is how the movement has evolved since the 1970s — and how it has become a powerful force in American politics today. By @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
SCOOP: West Point alumni group cancels award ceremony for Tom Hanks www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
Nobody hates America like the American politicians who talk about American cities like this.
actually Verhoeven didn't make things stupid enough
A photo of a pro-Trump protester on the streets of Portland in the summer of **2018.** The leader of the group this person was associated with was a frequent guest on Fox News and made the rounds on the "conservative" lecture circuit. "RWDS" stands for "right wing death squad."
I am having trouble coming up with anything F-35s could do to affect drug traffic that the Coast Guard couldn't already do more effectively at a fraction of the cost, including kill traffickers, which I would advise against anyway.
Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.
I'm not going but if anyone at the USNA reunion wants to ask Nick about this, I'd love to hear more
go -- and i truly cannot emphasize this enough -- birds
At least Jerry Jones is miserable too
eagles #eagles
If we are making personnel moves, I would like more military lawyers assigned to the office of "legal justifications for killing 11 people on a boat in the Caribbean" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
🏈 DAL 20 - 21 PHI 0:00 2Q This game has a 6.87% chance of ending in Scorigami. Most likely Scorigami: 40-31 (0.39%)
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "At its essence, artificial intelligence takes electricity and turns it into intelligence, empowering Americans."
Roger Sterling would have loved this rebrand
You're already talking about patrolling multiple American cities with armed military forces. You're doing it now in some places. People don't like it. But *then*... *that's* when you tell everyone those forces' orders will come from "the Department of War" again
"We," said Gorka, whose service was confined to the UK territorial reserves and a base Mustang with a vanity plate reading "ART WAR"
go birds, beat dallas 🦅
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“lethal precision”
Ah yes, the base all sailors already call 'Great Mistakes'
The "from my cold dead hands" crowd wants to ban people from owning guns
NEW: "DSS agents are taking part in immigration enforcement in the US, and, according to emails viewed by WIRED, are now being asked to log time they are spending on immigration enforcement." @telliotter.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/state-...
Our moral imaginations have atrophied to the point that our cultural and political pursuits are now centered primarily around punishing “undeserving” people, an environment that the wicked among us take easy advantage of.
NEW: State Department agents are now working with ICE on immigration -- an area solidly outside its usual duties. One source compares it to IRS agents investigating espionage at NASA. read @telliotter.bsky.social:
There’s a dormant London Centric Twitter account I set up and barely used, which still has all the default settings including notifications. Anyway this is the second time today it’s pushed a Tommy Robinson tweet at me. Given millions of Brits will have the app, god knows how many are getting this.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
it’s very telling how many of the people involved with AI research in the 20th century - most of whom seemed to have largely meant well - simply never seem to have thought about our current “ultra-rich sociopaths try to use AI tools to crush everyone else forever” scenario
This is why you prep your senior leaders before testimony/interviews y'all.
Here is a transcript of Posobiec's speech at this same event last year, where he said "We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity." (He was congratulated afterwards by a Republican senator.)
It’s a shame no one had the power to bar Trump from office four years ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump officials have restored Ronny Jackson's military rank, after his Biden-era demotion from rear admiral to captain. Democrats say they’re aghast “The sacrosanct uniform code of military justice is now the uniform code of Trump,” former Rep. Jackie Speier told me. The code is “now meaningless.”
An ultra-MAGA county commissioner in Lewis County, WA argues that the Democrats are the new Confederacy because they refuse to acknowledge the total supremacy of federal law in regard to immigration. You'll never guess what this guy thought of federal gun laws in 2021. chronline.com/stories/swop...
I've learned that Wawa is unveiling a hoagie called "the Saquon." It's just turkey and cheese with mustard, lettuce and onions. "My hoagie is mad basic," Saquon Barkley says in the ad. "That's what I eat, though." Eagles over Cowboys by 73
Not sure what’s most alarming fact, that the administration doesn’t appear to know what the boat it blew up was carrying or where it was headed, that they haven’t identified a legal authority for the action, or that it’s the first in a series of planned attacks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
On the other hand, it's darkly hilarious that even Weiss's most generous blog writeup foresees CBS journalists revolting against her (because of her, you know, "anti-establishment" disposition)
I feel like the *most* charitable explanation for this paragraph would be that the author let one of his subjects write it for him
Firefighters, famously, have a house they all live in, where they wait for people to call them, actually.
So close! He almost gets it
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
"This all had a profound impact on one student, whose name was Todd,"
also keep in mind that most of what Tom Homan knows about Chicago is from his Proud Boys friend Terry Newsome, who claims to have taken government officials on "Venezuelan gang member hunting trips." www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
Davies: And his biggest brag forever was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump. He had an eight by ten framed picture of him on his desk with the two of them, like they were very close.
I spend an unhealthy amount of time shaking my head and silently screaming "THIS mf'er never read Baudrillard!"
And to read up on the martial stupidity of Sparta's slave society more generally
I am once again begging the Sparta fanboys to read up on how Thermopylae ended for Leonidas
Maaaaaaan, Columbia,
This has to be the worst account of Marx Ive ever read and ive read a lot of Jordan Peterson
Florida road crews in St. Pete were out at 3 a.m. just to do this
“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday
Baudrillard would be wildin in 2025
Clancy was an insurance salesmen who spent a lot of time with self-regarding kremlinologists and servicemen (and they were nearly all men) and spun their sea stories into riveting thriller fiction. Trumpworld is very evidently peopled with fans who think cosplaying Op Center is a policy imperative
Just a reminder that Miller has been planning all along for the possibility of sending NG troops from red states into blue states. radleybalko.substack.com/p/trumps-dep...
I wrote about journalists who look away. From Maxim Gorky's shameful behavior in 1929 at Solovki and the death of George Polk in Greece in 1948, I move on to our current national crisis, which grows a little more urgent every day, despite those who continue to act as if nothing is happening.
“In a deviation from Mr. Trump’s account, however, Mr. Rubio said that the vessel’s destination was probably Trinidad or another country in the Caribbean.” Further undercutting whatever weak self-defense justification the administration might be ginning up. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
If you are an American service member and you believe you have been given an illegal or immoral order by your superiors, the GI Rights Hotline can help you to know your options. 877-447-4487
Like this is just not acceptable, sorry
I'm at NatCon this week, where I am trying to listen more than post. But here's a vibey quote from one panel: "Remigration has become the essential political question. We have entered a period in which Winston Churchill maters less to us than Enoch Powell."
So far during the second Trump administration, this puts the US military at: —1,000+ air strikes in Yemen (in March-April) —65+ air strikes in Somalia —5 air strikes and 2 JSOC ground raids in Syria —1 night of B-2 strikes on 3 sites in Iran —1 air strike in Iraq —1 air strike in the Caribbean
And no beer at Yankee Stadium is less than like $14. What AI churnbot barfed out those chart numbers man
I was in the military, I carried concealed for years, and I taught for a few. But you don't need people like me to tell you how insanely stupid this old idea is
New: If you bought Trump’s WLFI crypto token directly from the company, your holdings could be up 5–15x. If you jumped in when it hit the open market, you might be down 25%. Sound familiar? With @siladitya.bsky.social for @forbes.com 1/
Well, I'm no JAG, but yes, I think illegal, for following reasons: 1. Civilian vessel 2. Not self-defense 3. No attempt at interdiction (i.e. disable engines) 4. Int'l waters 5. No PID on folks in boat (could be civilians) 6. No declared state of war or hostilities so unclear authorization
Kim Jong Un has never before participated in an international event with this many world leaders present. Big moment for North Korea.
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
Literally indistinguishable from the manifesto of neo-fascist group Patriot Front
If you are an American service member and you believe you have been given an illegal or immoral order by your superiors, the GI Rights Hotline can help you to know your options. 877-447-4487
oh i forgot about hochman. that's probably the nazi who wrote this www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
It is striking the extent to which a certain segment of politicians are now pretending that American history ended in the mid-1800s.