Eli Kohlenberg
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If Carl von Clausewitz were to advise Secretary Rubio on peace in Ukraine, he might say something like this: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK
A Letter from Clausewitz to Secretary Rubio
Channeling the author of ‘On War’ on the U.S. pursuit of peace in Ukraine.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If Carl von Clausewitz were to advise Secretary Rubio on peace in Ukraine, he might say something like this: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK
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“Don’t send me the best pasta in the world, anything but that!”
🇮🇹“Worse! I’ll send it too you cheaper than you can possibly make it”
🇺🇸”I am undone!”
🇮🇹“Worse! I’ll send it too you cheaper than you can possibly make it”
🇺🇸”I am undone!”
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Don’t send me the best pasta in the world, anything but that!”
🇮🇹“Worse! I’ll send it too you cheaper than you can possibly make it”
🇺🇸”I am undone!”
🇮🇹“Worse! I’ll send it too you cheaper than you can possibly make it”
🇺🇸”I am undone!”
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Something Dems (especially natsecs types) need to get through their thick skulls is the only way we might come back from this internationally is if the accountability for it is swift, broad, and punishing
Politicals, career type, in or out of govt c. 2029, no matter the rank, they all need to fry
Politicals, career type, in or out of govt c. 2029, no matter the rank, they all need to fry
European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Something Dems (especially natsecs types) need to get through their thick skulls is the only way we might come back from this internationally is if the accountability for it is swift, broad, and punishing
Politicals, career type, in or out of govt c. 2029, no matter the rank, they all need to fry
Politicals, career type, in or out of govt c. 2029, no matter the rank, they all need to fry
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DST is why most Americans wake by alarm in darkness. Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep longer and awaken naturally to sunlight, for health!
October 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
DST is why most Americans wake by alarm in darkness. Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep longer and awaken naturally to sunlight, for health!
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Given the Trumpist assault on the patriotism of all who plan to attend No Kings rallies, I urge every Democratic elected official to attend one. They shouldn’t speak—if there are speakers, better to br less partisan civic leaders and citizens—but they should stand in solidarity with the rest of us.
October 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Given the Trumpist assault on the patriotism of all who plan to attend No Kings rallies, I urge every Democratic elected official to attend one. They shouldn’t speak—if there are speakers, better to br less partisan civic leaders and citizens—but they should stand in solidarity with the rest of us.
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if there are risks inherent in protesting and resistance, the best thing we can do is face them head-on, together
September 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
if there are risks inherent in protesting and resistance, the best thing we can do is face them head-on, together
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as a freedom of speech enjoyer im simply not worried about the opsec stuff, i haven't made any threats or anything. disapproving of dear leader isn't a crime and if they make it one i refuse to give it the legitimacy of hiding
September 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
as a freedom of speech enjoyer im simply not worried about the opsec stuff, i haven't made any threats or anything. disapproving of dear leader isn't a crime and if they make it one i refuse to give it the legitimacy of hiding
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Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.
September 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.
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Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.
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The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
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there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
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Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate
September 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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and while i am on the subject, i don’t need to make big, plaintive bleats about how political violence isn’t the answer because i don’t call for political violence and i don’t support people who do. know who did? charlie kirk.
i won’t make jokes about the shooting but i will absolutely make jokes about kash patel’s clown show FBI joining up with spencer cox to host a completely incompetent goat rodeo of an investigation
September 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
and while i am on the subject, i don’t need to make big, plaintive bleats about how political violence isn’t the answer because i don’t call for political violence and i don’t support people who do. know who did? charlie kirk.
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Do we have to pretend that he didn't believe these things? I don't think he should have been killed; I think the killer should be brought to justice. But transforming him into someone who believed things other than what he said, so we can correctly perform the political moment, is lying.
September 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Do we have to pretend that he didn't believe these things? I don't think he should have been killed; I think the killer should be brought to justice. But transforming him into someone who believed things other than what he said, so we can correctly perform the political moment, is lying.
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The last 100 years of US politics
September 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The last 100 years of US politics
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Seriously, of the three huge spending problem areas, healthcare and education are massively influenced by Baumol's Cost Disease, but housing isn't - we could just turn on that industrial wealth machine and build to abundance.
July 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Seriously, of the three huge spending problem areas, healthcare and education are massively influenced by Baumol's Cost Disease, but housing isn't - we could just turn on that industrial wealth machine and build to abundance.
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Just to level set on this:
What they have experienced are some of the worst things that a government could possibly do to people. There is absolutely nothing that happened here that should have happened. The people responsible for this should have it follow them the rest of their lives.
What they have experienced are some of the worst things that a government could possibly do to people. There is absolutely nothing that happened here that should have happened. The people responsible for this should have it follow them the rest of their lives.
CONFIRMED: Neri Alvarado, the Venezuelan man imprisoned by the Trump admin without due process for 4 months in El Salvador because of bureaucratic errors stemming from his autism awareness tattoo honoring his brother, is FREE.
July 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Just to level set on this:
What they have experienced are some of the worst things that a government could possibly do to people. There is absolutely nothing that happened here that should have happened. The people responsible for this should have it follow them the rest of their lives.
What they have experienced are some of the worst things that a government could possibly do to people. There is absolutely nothing that happened here that should have happened. The people responsible for this should have it follow them the rest of their lives.
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People will deadass be like “the information environment is bad for democrats” and “republicans stay relentlessly on message” and then also be like “there is no point in saying republicans are bad lol”
look, I'm gonna go ahead & block him because one of his followers just sent me a pretty fuckin explicit threat in my DMs & I am not here for those kinds of games, but if you don't understand how fundamentally immoral & disgusting it is to treat Republicans as a force of nature, that's a you problem.
June 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
People will deadass be like “the information environment is bad for democrats” and “republicans stay relentlessly on message” and then also be like “there is no point in saying republicans are bad lol”
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This Supreme Court would absolutely find some fig leaf of a legal reason to legalize full concentration camps in the US.
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This Supreme Court would absolutely find some fig leaf of a legal reason to legalize full concentration camps in the US.
