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If you go look at her twitter, nuzzi was (is??) supported by A LOT in the DC press corps
We need to have serious conversations about 1/ nuzzi was never, ever a “genius” or “unusually talented writer”, 2/ the DC press corps is highly problematic
We need to have serious conversations about 1/ nuzzi was never, ever a “genius” or “unusually talented writer”, 2/ the DC press corps is highly problematic
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If you go look at her twitter, nuzzi was (is??) supported by A LOT in the DC press corps
We need to have serious conversations about 1/ nuzzi was never, ever a “genius” or “unusually talented writer”, 2/ the DC press corps is highly problematic
We need to have serious conversations about 1/ nuzzi was never, ever a “genius” or “unusually talented writer”, 2/ the DC press corps is highly problematic
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A sign I saw when I visited Hateruma, Japan's southernmost inhabited island, called Paterōma in the island's dialect of the Yaeyama language (Yaima).
The Yaima sign here reads "Utamandu tunji pikohan", meaning "Beware of children jumping out"
Utamandu = children
Tunji = jumping out
Pikohan = danger
The Yaima sign here reads "Utamandu tunji pikohan", meaning "Beware of children jumping out"
Utamandu = children
Tunji = jumping out
Pikohan = danger
November 17, 2024 at 2:46 AM
A sign I saw when I visited Hateruma, Japan's southernmost inhabited island, called Paterōma in the island's dialect of the Yaeyama language (Yaima).
The Yaima sign here reads "Utamandu tunji pikohan", meaning "Beware of children jumping out"
Utamandu = children
Tunji = jumping out
Pikohan = danger
The Yaima sign here reads "Utamandu tunji pikohan", meaning "Beware of children jumping out"
Utamandu = children
Tunji = jumping out
Pikohan = danger
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In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
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The 22nd MEU has been providing assistance to Jamaica for the last month. Just because no one pays attention to US disaster response doesn’t mean the it’s not routine for Marines. It’s why they’re based forward.
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The 22nd MEU has been providing assistance to Jamaica for the last month. Just because no one pays attention to US disaster response doesn’t mean the it’s not routine for Marines. It’s why they’re based forward.
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
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This is a rare bad take from James. Ukraine is much more comparable to WWI - no future conflict will mirror its full dysfunction, but it is defining the tool sets and tactical problems that will dominate major armed conflicts for the next century.
I think the best parallel is the Iran-Iraq War. It’s a brutal slog between under equipped and exhausted conventional military forces that probably has no real bearing on how other contemporary conventional conflicts be will be fought.
Looking back through history, what war is most relevant for thinking about how the Ukraine war is going or a hypothetical Taiwan war? I’ve heard of people referring to the Ukraine War as “World War 1 with Blade Runner aesthetics” is that a fair characterization?
December 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is a rare bad take from James. Ukraine is much more comparable to WWI - no future conflict will mirror its full dysfunction, but it is defining the tool sets and tactical problems that will dominate major armed conflicts for the next century.
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this is why it drives me insane. thank you james. imagine if the army watched iran-iraq and decided "alright boys we need to throw out AirLand Battle and do exactly what the iraqis are doing. it's The Future"
I think the best parallel is the Iran-Iraq War. It’s a brutal slog between under equipped and exhausted conventional military forces that probably has no real bearing on how other contemporary conventional conflicts be will be fought.
Looking back through history, what war is most relevant for thinking about how the Ukraine war is going or a hypothetical Taiwan war? I’ve heard of people referring to the Ukraine War as “World War 1 with Blade Runner aesthetics” is that a fair characterization?
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
this is why it drives me insane. thank you james. imagine if the army watched iran-iraq and decided "alright boys we need to throw out AirLand Battle and do exactly what the iraqis are doing. it's The Future"
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Make it a federal crime to operate or use a site like this
Reject the (bad!) readings of the First Amendment that would have a problem with that
Reject the (bad!) readings of the First Amendment that would have a problem with that
December 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Make it a federal crime to operate or use a site like this
Reject the (bad!) readings of the First Amendment that would have a problem with that
Reject the (bad!) readings of the First Amendment that would have a problem with that
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if shapiro runs his 2028 campaign fighting the last war then he will lose pretty handily
Josh Shapiro believes he is uniquely suited to win over Trump voters—but he’ll need to overcome distrust among some in his own party first, Tim Alberta reports: theatln.tc/mR9AHSG4
December 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
if shapiro runs his 2028 campaign fighting the last war then he will lose pretty handily
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The essence of Blue Labour thought is that somewhere in Downing Street there is a button marked “reindustrialise” that Tony Blair could have pressed, but instead he opted for the “more Woke Studies” button.
My brother in Christ, reindustrialization is based on international capital flows, not dumbass ideas to move down the value chain by turning colleges into vocational schools. You do realize that modern industry is almost always *high* skilled automation?
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
No reindustrialising? Our academic institutions are a part of the problem, overproducing elites and funnelling them into bullshit unproductive jobs. Half the universities need to close or become vocational colleges. You didn't even mention productivity.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The essence of Blue Labour thought is that somewhere in Downing Street there is a button marked “reindustrialise” that Tony Blair could have pressed, but instead he opted for the “more Woke Studies” button.
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I'm gonna throw some gasoline on the discourse fire
This is exactly what a lot of your orgs want and have made front and center in their policy platforms and you want us to believe that you're disappointed
This is exactly what a lot of your orgs want and have made front and center in their policy platforms and you want us to believe that you're disappointed
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I'm gonna throw some gasoline on the discourse fire
This is exactly what a lot of your orgs want and have made front and center in their policy platforms and you want us to believe that you're disappointed
This is exactly what a lot of your orgs want and have made front and center in their policy platforms and you want us to believe that you're disappointed
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very closed system, don't *trust* open sources of information and always overvalue private ones. So they didn't trust Taiwanese identity polling or public newspaper reports as much as they did some guy they were talking to at the KMT or a gangster, for instnace.
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
very closed system, don't *trust* open sources of information and always overvalue private ones. So they didn't trust Taiwanese identity polling or public newspaper reports as much as they did some guy they were talking to at the KMT or a gangster, for instnace.
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in the third case it's your classic incentive problem. The Taiwan Affairs Office *job* is to push Taiwan closer to the mainland, so their reports were always on how great they were doing, how the Taiwanese public loved China, and so forth. But also Chinese officials, existing as they do in a ...
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
in the third case it's your classic incentive problem. The Taiwan Affairs Office *job* is to push Taiwan closer to the mainland, so their reports were always on how great they were doing, how the Taiwanese public loved China, and so forth. But also Chinese officials, existing as they do in a ...
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had a very nice time guest teaching on Chinese organizational culture and how it affects foreign policy tonight. a couple more slides since people enjoyed the last one.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
had a very nice time guest teaching on Chinese organizational culture and how it affects foreign policy tonight. a couple more slides since people enjoyed the last one.
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they're generally not socially easy people, because if they were they wouldn't have the ability not to compromise. But it's also why the dissident diaspora from any autocratic state tends to have some really vicious internecine feuds.
December 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
they're generally not socially easy people, because if they were they wouldn't have the ability not to compromise. But it's also why the dissident diaspora from any autocratic state tends to have some really vicious internecine feuds.
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so another thing that Serpico captures really well is that people with the kind of integrity and stubbornness needed to be dissidents or idealists in corrupt institutions are often kind of hard to get along with.
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
so another thing that Serpico captures really well is that people with the kind of integrity and stubbornness needed to be dissidents or idealists in corrupt institutions are often kind of hard to get along with.
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Lmao this is genuinely insulting
Texas clearly did a racial gerrymander, which is illegal.
A district court found that Texas did a racial gerrymander, rejecting the new map because it is illegal.
But the Supreme Court reversed it.
Because? Must assume the gerrymanderers were acting in good faith (despite the evidence otherwise).
A district court found that Texas did a racial gerrymander, rejecting the new map because it is illegal.
But the Supreme Court reversed it.
Because? Must assume the gerrymanderers were acting in good faith (despite the evidence otherwise).
December 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Lmao this is genuinely insulting
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Again, a foundational pillar of international relations is that countries relate to one another in purely outward-facing terms
They do not try to peer into the domestic politics of other nations to second-guess whether their governments' official positions at "real" or not
They do not try to peer into the domestic politics of other nations to second-guess whether their governments' official positions at "real" or not
I mean this is straight up white supremacy:
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Again, a foundational pillar of international relations is that countries relate to one another in purely outward-facing terms
They do not try to peer into the domestic politics of other nations to second-guess whether their governments' official positions at "real" or not
They do not try to peer into the domestic politics of other nations to second-guess whether their governments' official positions at "real" or not
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one fun thing about this graphic is that IT'S GOOD MOST PEOPLE DON'T REGULARLY DIE BY FREEZING TO DEATH IN THEIR HOMES AND WE SHOULD, AS A BROAD PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, BE ADVOCATING FOR LESS CARBON-INTENSIVE HEATING AND NOT ANPRIM 'YOU WILL FREEZE TO DEATH AND LIKE IT' BULLSHIT DRESSED UP AS 'COZY'
December 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
one fun thing about this graphic is that IT'S GOOD MOST PEOPLE DON'T REGULARLY DIE BY FREEZING TO DEATH IN THEIR HOMES AND WE SHOULD, AS A BROAD PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, BE ADVOCATING FOR LESS CARBON-INTENSIVE HEATING AND NOT ANPRIM 'YOU WILL FREEZE TO DEATH AND LIKE IT' BULLSHIT DRESSED UP AS 'COZY'
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>spend a year berating our allies for not spending enough
>threaten their economies with tariffs and repeatedly claim we won’t honor our article 5 commitments
>they spend more on defense
>start berating them because they’re spending the money on their own defense industries
>threaten their economies with tariffs and repeatedly claim we won’t honor our article 5 commitments
>they spend more on defense
>start berating them because they’re spending the money on their own defense industries
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
>spend a year berating our allies for not spending enough
>threaten their economies with tariffs and repeatedly claim we won’t honor our article 5 commitments
>they spend more on defense
>start berating them because they’re spending the money on their own defense industries
>threaten their economies with tariffs and repeatedly claim we won’t honor our article 5 commitments
>they spend more on defense
>start berating them because they’re spending the money on their own defense industries
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It’s like The Drunk’s understanding of the military is entirely based on far right post-apocalyptic novels.
1. This is not how anyone talks to an O-10.
2. This is certainly not how a 40 year-old ex-O-4 talks to an O-10.
3. This is the most dumbshit company grade officer crap imaginable. No competent commander tells a senior officer not to ask questions.
4. He may as well have called Holsey "boy."
2. This is certainly not how a 40 year-old ex-O-4 talks to an O-10.
3. This is the most dumbshit company grade officer crap imaginable. No competent commander tells a senior officer not to ask questions.
4. He may as well have called Holsey "boy."
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
It’s like The Drunk’s understanding of the military is entirely based on far right post-apocalyptic novels.
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The US government will never do an explosive nuclear test again at the Nevada Test Site.
They have built an immense underground laboratory, costing billions of dollars. It contains particle accelerators and lasers that will not fare well with the shaking that comes with nuclear tests.
They have built an immense underground laboratory, costing billions of dollars. It contains particle accelerators and lasers that will not fare well with the shaking that comes with nuclear tests.
@cherylrofer.bsky.social Any thoughts on this? (FTR @ajaxsinger.bsky.social isn’t a loon or conspiracist)
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If I were a total conspiracist, I'd mention that 5.9 is within the range expected for an underground nuclear test and having the notification wiped from USGS is concerning.
December 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The US government will never do an explosive nuclear test again at the Nevada Test Site.
They have built an immense underground laboratory, costing billions of dollars. It contains particle accelerators and lasers that will not fare well with the shaking that comes with nuclear tests.
They have built an immense underground laboratory, costing billions of dollars. It contains particle accelerators and lasers that will not fare well with the shaking that comes with nuclear tests.
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If that ISN'T hors de combat, why exactly do we have that phrase
What IS it for??
What IS it for??
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If that ISN'T hors de combat, why exactly do we have that phrase
What IS it for??
What IS it for??
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USPS is required by law to try to break even. It generally doesn’t take taxpayer dollars to fund operations.
That’s what makes this a monumental gamble from Steiner.
Amazon is USPS’s largest client — by far. And he’s letting them walk out the door, and even become a top competitor.
That’s what makes this a monumental gamble from Steiner.
Amazon is USPS’s largest client — by far. And he’s letting them walk out the door, and even become a top competitor.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
USPS is required by law to try to break even. It generally doesn’t take taxpayer dollars to fund operations.
That’s what makes this a monumental gamble from Steiner.
Amazon is USPS’s largest client — by far. And he’s letting them walk out the door, and even become a top competitor.
That’s what makes this a monumental gamble from Steiner.
Amazon is USPS’s largest client — by far. And he’s letting them walk out the door, and even become a top competitor.