Andrew Exum
@exum.bsky.social
Enthusiastic about Appalachia, bird dogs, a solid majority of my children, and 28-gauge shotguns. I sometimes write things here: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-exum/
The Trump Administration continues to seize the means of production. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Pentagon Investing $1 Billion in L3Harris’s Rocket Motor Business
The defense contractor plans an IPO for the unit that supplies parts for missiles for the U.S. and its allies.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
The Trump Administration continues to seize the means of production. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
I love this! Spent three days hunting in the week after Christmas. Shot two deer, which I then skinned and butchered in my garage. They’re now in the freezer and will last us until mid-summer.
Deer, deer, everywhere, and not a steak to eat! My latest on why America should be harvesting its wild venison:
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Eat More Deer
America is letting good meat go to waste.
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January 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I love this! Spent three days hunting in the week after Christmas. Shot two deer, which I then skinned and butchered in my garage. They’re now in the freezer and will last us until mid-summer.
It is, we all have to admit, very funny to respond to Exxon’s statement saying they don’t want to invest in Venezuela by not allowing them to invest in Venezuela. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump ‘Inclined’ to Keep Exxon Out of Venezuela
The president said he didn’t like comments from the company’s CEO during a meeting Friday at the White House.
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January 12, 2026 at 3:51 AM
It is, we all have to admit, very funny to respond to Exxon’s statement saying they don’t want to invest in Venezuela by not allowing them to invest in Venezuela. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
If you asked a conservative Texan, or Tennessean, between the years of 1993-2001 or 2009-2017, what they would do if masked federal police came into their town and killed an unarmed person …
January 8, 2026 at 2:19 AM
If you asked a conservative Texan, or Tennessean, between the years of 1993-2001 or 2009-2017, what they would do if masked federal police came into their town and killed an unarmed person …
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Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
January 7, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
Gianni Infantino is responsible for this. As long as Trump held out hope for the Nobel Prize, he was not going to go to war in Venezuela. But that dang FIFA Peace Price has satiated his appetite for peace, freeing him up for war. I say all of this only 5/6 jokingly.
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Gianni Infantino is responsible for this. As long as Trump held out hope for the Nobel Prize, he was not going to go to war in Venezuela. But that dang FIFA Peace Price has satiated his appetite for peace, freeing him up for war. I say all of this only 5/6 jokingly.
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
Polling suggests Israel is historically unpopular in the demographic corresponding with people likely to have small children, so I need someone smarter than me to explain how picking a fight with Ms. Rachel of all people makes any sense whatsoever. nypost.com/2025/12/26/o...
Mamdani picks his mentor: The woke, radical, anti-Israel YouTuber Ms. Rachel
Successful American politicians always know how to pick savvy mentors.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Polling suggests Israel is historically unpopular in the demographic corresponding with people likely to have small children, so I need someone smarter than me to explain how picking a fight with Ms. Rachel of all people makes any sense whatsoever. nypost.com/2025/12/26/o...
A wild statistic from @katie0martin.ft.com here. www.ft.com/content/a9f5...
December 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A wild statistic from @katie0martin.ft.com here. www.ft.com/content/a9f5...
Can’t help but think some people would love for this to all be about journalism standards and best practices and not, say, the rendition of human beings to some medieval dungeon without due process.
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Can’t help but think some people would love for this to all be about journalism standards and best practices and not, say, the rendition of human beings to some medieval dungeon without due process.
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On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
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How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
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December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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Okay, but which New York Times columnist would it be *funniest* were we to discover they were tied up with Epstein, and why is it Gail Collins?
December 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Okay, but which New York Times columnist would it be *funniest* were we to discover they were tied up with Epstein, and why is it Gail Collins?
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"You see, your holiness, there are 8 to 12 players. Two wizards. A maverick. The arbiter. Two warriors. A corporal, and a ledgerman. Now the ledgerman just keeps score, and he wears this hat"
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"You see, your holiness, there are 8 to 12 players. Two wizards. A maverick. The arbiter. Two warriors. A corporal, and a ledgerman. Now the ledgerman just keeps score, and he wears this hat"
One of the best book reviews I have read in a long time. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | In her new book, Biden’s former press secretary lets Democrats have it
Karine Jean-Pierre’s memoir offers a critique of Biden and the Democrats that is outdated, impractical and driven more by personal grievance than policy.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
One of the best book reviews I have read in a long time. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
My friendly advice for any news outlet struggling to now cover the Pentagon would be to adopt a COCOM-based strategy for coverage. Send reporters down to Tampa and Miami and Colorado Springs and have them develop sources there. The COCOMs were often “leakier” than the Building anyway.
October 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
My friendly advice for any news outlet struggling to now cover the Pentagon would be to adopt a COCOM-based strategy for coverage. Send reporters down to Tampa and Miami and Colorado Springs and have them develop sources there. The COCOMs were often “leakier” than the Building anyway.
I’m obviously rooting against the Dodgers in the playoffs, but I still woke my sons up early today to watch the Ohtani performance over breakfast before they play baseball later this morning. Greatest individual performance in a game ever, no question.
October 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I’m obviously rooting against the Dodgers in the playoffs, but I still woke my sons up early today to watch the Ohtani performance over breakfast before they play baseball later this morning. Greatest individual performance in a game ever, no question.
This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.
October 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.
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A survey of the Washington legal establishment, evenly divided among Republicans and Democrats, captured almost universal fear and anguish over the transformation of the Justice Department into a tool of the White House. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...
‘Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency
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October 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A survey of the Washington legal establishment, evenly divided among Republicans and Democrats, captured almost universal fear and anguish over the transformation of the Justice Department into a tool of the White House. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...
There is a bottomless pit of money out there for journalists willing to speak untruths to power. If you’re willing to soothe billionaires by telling them everything they want to hear, and telling them all of the criticism they face is misguided, the world is your oyster.
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
There is a bottomless pit of money out there for journalists willing to speak untruths to power. If you’re willing to soothe billionaires by telling them everything they want to hear, and telling them all of the criticism they face is misguided, the world is your oyster.
I don’t think people outside Washington, DC appreciate how bad the brain drain from the Department of Justice is. It’s in no one’s interests — neither the people’s, nor the Trump Administration — yet I do not know of a single lawyer at DOJ who hasn’t either left already or isn’t weighing leaving.
October 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I don’t think people outside Washington, DC appreciate how bad the brain drain from the Department of Justice is. It’s in no one’s interests — neither the people’s, nor the Trump Administration — yet I do not know of a single lawyer at DOJ who hasn’t either left already or isn’t weighing leaving.
Scariest, most depressing thing I have read today.
more than a whiff of self-censorship in markets at the moment. No-one wants to call BS on, ya know, everything, for fear of angering the president
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October 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Scariest, most depressing thing I have read today.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Great command of the language on display here
Former racecar driver Danica Patrick slams Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl 2026 halftime headliner:
“No songs in English should not be allowed at one of America’s highest rated television events of the year… not just for sports.”
“No songs in English should not be allowed at one of America’s highest rated television events of the year… not just for sports.”
October 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Great command of the language on display here
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big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters
When is the last time you saw a push notification from the NYTimes that read like this?
September 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters