D Adstutia
@davidadstutia.bsky.social
Former USMC now working in foreign affairs. New dad.
Motorcycle. Books. Music. Food&Spirits Goofiness.
Motorcycle. Books. Music. Food&Spirits Goofiness.
Reposted by D Adstutia
Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon
Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'
www.oregonlive.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Reposted by D Adstutia
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
Reposted by D Adstutia
Please share widely - We have an ongoing Call for Papers: 1) on mapping transatlantic exchanges, 2) on the risks of US defense tech acquisition. Find all information here:
The #transatlantic alliance is at a crossroads, and 🇩🇪 must navigate challenges: de-risking and rebuilding. We are inviting experts to explore a number of important topics, from civil society exchanges to issues related to defense acquisition. Apply by Sep 1!
usboell.bamboohr.com/careers/81?s...
usboell.bamboohr.com/careers/81?s...
August 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Please share widely - We have an ongoing Call for Papers: 1) on mapping transatlantic exchanges, 2) on the risks of US defense tech acquisition. Find all information here:
Reposted by D Adstutia
The 2% (3,5%, 5% etc) are not contributions to the NATO budget!
What would your pedantry bot be, friends?
I'm trying to think of what sort of pedantry account I'd run if i got into that game
August 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The 2% (3,5%, 5% etc) are not contributions to the NATO budget!
Masterful work by @juliaioffe.bsky.social
A thousand points for accuracy, grim humor, and some of the best quotes in print...
puck.news/the-maga-loy...
A thousand points for accuracy, grim humor, and some of the best quotes in print...
puck.news/the-maga-loy...
Lew’s Clues
Lew Olowski, the State Department’s newish head of H.R., is a RIF-happy, Christian evangelizing MAGA warrior with an axe to grind. Worse, according to his fellow diplomats, he’s just plain weird.
puck.news
August 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Masterful work by @juliaioffe.bsky.social
A thousand points for accuracy, grim humor, and some of the best quotes in print...
puck.news/the-maga-loy...
A thousand points for accuracy, grim humor, and some of the best quotes in print...
puck.news/the-maga-loy...
Not sure what she thinks this says about Columbia's "values"...
Perhaps she meant it in the singular in reference to their endowment?
🙄
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/07...
Perhaps she meant it in the singular in reference to their endowment?
🙄
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/07...
‘In line with our values’: Shipman describes deal with Trump administration in first interview with Spectator
Acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, described Columbia’s agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration to pay $220 million to restore federal funding as “in line wit...
www.columbiaspectator.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Not sure what she thinks this says about Columbia's "values"...
Perhaps she meant it in the singular in reference to their endowment?
🙄
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/07...
Perhaps she meant it in the singular in reference to their endowment?
🙄
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/07...
Reposted by D Adstutia
KLUTH: “.. Never has a country blessed with such an abundance of ‘soft power’ forfeited so much of it with so little justification.”
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
July 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
KLUTH: “.. Never has a country blessed with such an abundance of ‘soft power’ forfeited so much of it with so little justification.”
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
As lifelong Texan in this space - disappointed but not surprised by our senior senator's comments, more geared toward protecting GOP interests than his constituents. They RIF'd one of their own acting Under Secretaries... RIF had no coherent plan aside from date
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
Senate Democrats Rail at ‘Sloppy, Rushed’ State Dept. Firings
www.nytimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
As lifelong Texan in this space - disappointed but not surprised by our senior senator's comments, more geared toward protecting GOP interests than his constituents. They RIF'd one of their own acting Under Secretaries... RIF had no coherent plan aside from date
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
I dunno...but these 50-50 GOP votes are starting* to feel...kinda orchestrated.
*starting like eight years ago....
apnews.com/article/trum...
*starting like eight years ago....
apnews.com/article/trum...
July 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I dunno...but these 50-50 GOP votes are starting* to feel...kinda orchestrated.
*starting like eight years ago....
apnews.com/article/trum...
*starting like eight years ago....
apnews.com/article/trum...
McRaven makes the clear case... That has been made all along and falls on... Not deaf... Deliberately 🙉...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
July 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
McRaven makes the clear case... That has been made all along and falls on... Not deaf... Deliberately 🙉...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Better than I could say it.
Having been Civil Service for a while and now FS - there's a lot of hard, complicated, demanding work that gets done on the daily with less resources than we need.
stillinoticeeverything.substack.com/p/how-do-you...
Having been Civil Service for a while and now FS - there's a lot of hard, complicated, demanding work that gets done on the daily with less resources than we need.
stillinoticeeverything.substack.com/p/how-do-you...
How Do You Fire a Calling? How the State Department Ends a Public Service Calling
Diplomacy doesn’t end with a press release. It ends in silence, in erasure, in inboxes that no longer open. Quietly, Violently, and Without Ceremony
stillinoticeeverything.substack.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Better than I could say it.
Having been Civil Service for a while and now FS - there's a lot of hard, complicated, demanding work that gets done on the daily with less resources than we need.
stillinoticeeverything.substack.com/p/how-do-you...
Having been Civil Service for a while and now FS - there's a lot of hard, complicated, demanding work that gets done on the daily with less resources than we need.
stillinoticeeverything.substack.com/p/how-do-you...
Reposted by D Adstutia
This is utterly insane
And has nothing to do with the mission they were officially given
Which was to protect federal property and personnel and was already sketchy even as far as that went.
1/
And has nothing to do with the mission they were officially given
Which was to protect federal property and personnel and was already sketchy even as far as that went.
1/
Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government.
After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.
After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.
July 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is utterly insane
And has nothing to do with the mission they were officially given
Which was to protect federal property and personnel and was already sketchy even as far as that went.
1/
And has nothing to do with the mission they were officially given
Which was to protect federal property and personnel and was already sketchy even as far as that went.
1/
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“The veterans now check in and ask us how we are doing,” one social worker at a hospital in the Great Lakes region told The Post. “They see the news and are very aware of the circumstances and fearful of losing VA support that they depend on."
“The veterans now check in and ask us how we are doing,” one social worker at a hospital in the Great Lakes region told The Post. “They see the news and are very aware of the circumstances and fearful of losing VA support that they depend on."
At Veterans Affairs, plan for sweeping cuts tanks morale
The government’s second-largest agency, serving some of America’s most vulnerable citizens, is slated to lose 83,000 employees under Trump administration cutbacks.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“The veterans now check in and ask us how we are doing,” one social worker at a hospital in the Great Lakes region told The Post. “They see the news and are very aware of the circumstances and fearful of losing VA support that they depend on."
“The veterans now check in and ask us how we are doing,” one social worker at a hospital in the Great Lakes region told The Post. “They see the news and are very aware of the circumstances and fearful of losing VA support that they depend on."
Me in the national security team Principals Committee via Signal™ group chat
March 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Me in the national security team Principals Committee via Signal™ group chat
Reposted by D Adstutia
Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed.
That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.
I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.
I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
March 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed.
That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.
I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.
I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
That woman and man are Marines. The Corps should be ashamed to be drawn into such a petty and grade school level of misogyny and racism at the expense of its Marines.
One aspect of this story I haven't seen much reporting on is DOD's new 404 error page, which used to be white soldiers looking at a map, but now features a woman and a black man struggling to clear a bar.
bsky.app/profile/high...
bsky.app/profile/high...
These racists are trying to re-segregate the military as part of the DeConstruction, and they are internet trolls with boeringly shallow senses of humor, and I've noticed that the Department of Defense has changed it's 404 Not Found page since 2024, wonder if anyone here can spot some differences.
March 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
That woman and man are Marines. The Corps should be ashamed to be drawn into such a petty and grade school level of misogyny and racism at the expense of its Marines.
While each day does bring some fresh new flavor of impending doom - March had this far been very calming as I get to channel most energy into taking care of L and our now 2 week daughter. Time with them and cat and mostly keeping them all well fed and happy has been therapeutic.
March 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
While each day does bring some fresh new flavor of impending doom - March had this far been very calming as I get to channel most energy into taking care of L and our now 2 week daughter. Time with them and cat and mostly keeping them all well fed and happy has been therapeutic.
Reposted by D Adstutia
They erased Ira Hayes. If Johnny Cash were alive to see this, he’d punch Pete Hegseth in the mouth.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
They erased Ira Hayes. If Johnny Cash were alive to see this, he’d punch Pete Hegseth in the mouth.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Reposted by D Adstutia
Reposted by D Adstutia
On this International Women’s Day, here’s a repost of an article from late January.
In every organization I’ve been in, the inclusion of women only contributed to success & better outcomes. And there’s lots of research & anecdotes that show why.
www.thebulwark.com/p/women-in-c...
In every organization I’ve been in, the inclusion of women only contributed to success & better outcomes. And there’s lots of research & anecdotes that show why.
www.thebulwark.com/p/women-in-c...
Having Women in Combat Is Still Controversial—But Shouldn’t Be
We’re all better off with women bravely serving the country.
www.thebulwark.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
On this International Women’s Day, here’s a repost of an article from late January.
In every organization I’ve been in, the inclusion of women only contributed to success & better outcomes. And there’s lots of research & anecdotes that show why.
www.thebulwark.com/p/women-in-c...
In every organization I’ve been in, the inclusion of women only contributed to success & better outcomes. And there’s lots of research & anecdotes that show why.
www.thebulwark.com/p/women-in-c...
Reposted by D Adstutia
The Army deleted my “Why I served” video where I talked about how I decided I wanted to attend West Point/join the Army after one of the cadets my family used to sponsor died in combat. Probably deleted because she was the first black woman to be CSM at West Point.
March 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Army deleted my “Why I served” video where I talked about how I decided I wanted to attend West Point/join the Army after one of the cadets my family used to sponsor died in combat. Probably deleted because she was the first black woman to be CSM at West Point.
A shame & makes little sense if the point is to mprove government. PMFs are hired from all over the country in a variety of specialties. They often work their two years in jobs above their pay grade and aren't guaranteed employment following the fellowship.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...?
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A shame & makes little sense if the point is to mprove government. PMFs are hired from all over the country in a variety of specialties. They often work their two years in jobs above their pay grade and aren't guaranteed employment following the fellowship.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...?
Deliberate dismantling of cyber and election protections to accomplish what? Out of incompetence or complicity?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations
Dozens of employees who had been working to fight foreign interference in U.S. elections have been reassigned or forced out, according to current and former officials.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Deliberate dismantling of cyber and election protections to accomplish what? Out of incompetence or complicity?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...