Chris Bolan
@chrisbolan.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus U.S. Army War College, Stategic Studies Institute
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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of SCOTUS?
The Shadow Docket knows!
The Shadow Docket knows!
Supreme Court blocks order that found Texas congressional map is likely racially biased
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’ 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of SCOTUS?
The Shadow Docket knows!
The Shadow Docket knows!
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Useful @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social analysis of Trump proposal on Russia, skewering it point-by-point in an easily digestible way:
www.arcdigital.media/p/trump-and-...
www.arcdigital.media/p/trump-and-...
Trump and Witkoff Try to Get Russia a Win
The joint U.S.-Russia proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, taken point-by-point
www.arcdigital.media
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Useful @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social analysis of Trump proposal on Russia, skewering it point-by-point in an easily digestible way:
www.arcdigital.media/p/trump-and-...
www.arcdigital.media/p/trump-and-...
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Democracy will not be restored in this country until all of the political leaders responsible for these unlawful actions are prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law. These should be prosecuted for murder, among other things. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Democracy will not be restored in this country until all of the political leaders responsible for these unlawful actions are prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law. These should be prosecuted for murder, among other things. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
The Orbanization of the American press
"The really unnerving thing is Trump using state power to influence who a company gets sold to," Matt Gertz tells us.
www.publicnotice.co
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
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I’m gonna be honest, Panel Discussants at Conferences:
We really don’t want to hear your comments for 20 MINUTES. Send the presenters an email and let them field questions about their work from the audience.
We really don’t want to hear your comments for 20 MINUTES. Send the presenters an email and let them field questions about their work from the audience.
a man is sitting at a desk in an office looking at a computer screen .
ALT: a man is sitting at a desk in an office looking at a computer screen .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I’m gonna be honest, Panel Discussants at Conferences:
We really don’t want to hear your comments for 20 MINUTES. Send the presenters an email and let them field questions about their work from the audience.
We really don’t want to hear your comments for 20 MINUTES. Send the presenters an email and let them field questions about their work from the audience.
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“By summer, the NSC’s entire full-time legal staff of about half a dozen was gone… including the shop’s top lawyer, former Pentagon general counsel Paul Ney …Ney had been among the lawyers who had raised concerns about the legality of lethal strikes.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“By summer, the NSC’s entire full-time legal staff of about half a dozen was gone… including the shop’s top lawyer, former Pentagon general counsel Paul Ney …Ney had been among the lawyers who had raised concerns about the legality of lethal strikes.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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I mean, the right always gins up outrage for outrage's sake. But yes, many people have already told Trump and co. that they're doing illegal things. Here are people with power sounding the alarm.
The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open
From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I mean, the right always gins up outrage for outrage's sake. But yes, many people have already told Trump and co. that they're doing illegal things. Here are people with power sounding the alarm.
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Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
there is never a bottom w this guy
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
there is never a bottom w this guy
holding people accountable regardless of party...how refreshing
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
holding people accountable regardless of party...how refreshing
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CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
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"Trump wants a peace deal that rewards Putin and punishes Ukraine. He wants a peace deal with no European input and which he can impose on Ukraine. He wants to get back to business with Putin as soon as possible and start making money"
Just sent out this free piece. There was a weird and widely spread attempt in the media yesterday to create a fiction, that Trump's peace plan for Ukraine and Russia was a rogue operation by Steve Witkoff. That finally fell apart--and it’s important that it did. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
This Deal Is Trump's--It Has Always Been Trump's
Hi All,
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Trump wants a peace deal that rewards Putin and punishes Ukraine. He wants a peace deal with no European input and which he can impose on Ukraine. He wants to get back to business with Putin as soon as possible and start making money"
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Murphy: "Congress doesn't work the way it used to. It used to be you could negotiate with Senate Republicans and they would stick to the agreement. Today all that matters is what Trump believes, so you really can't negotiate w/ Republicans bc they are just waiting for Trump to tell them what to do"
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Murphy: "Congress doesn't work the way it used to. It used to be you could negotiate with Senate Republicans and they would stick to the agreement. Today all that matters is what Trump believes, so you really can't negotiate w/ Republicans bc they are just waiting for Trump to tell them what to do"
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Just sent out this free piece. There was a weird and widely spread attempt in the media yesterday to create a fiction, that Trump's peace plan for Ukraine and Russia was a rogue operation by Steve Witkoff. That finally fell apart--and it’s important that it did. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
This Deal Is Trump's--It Has Always Been Trump's
Hi All,
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Just sent out this free piece. There was a weird and widely spread attempt in the media yesterday to create a fiction, that Trump's peace plan for Ukraine and Russia was a rogue operation by Steve Witkoff. That finally fell apart--and it’s important that it did. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Is there going to be an app we can use when we have a gunshot wound and need to determine which emergency room is cheaper tonight?
Cassidy: "If she goes and gets 2 types of shampoo & one is a dollar cheaper, she'll get the cheaper one & the other lowers their price. Once you give her the power of making the decision, she's gonna shop -- that begins to save her money and squeezes waste out of the healthcare system."
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Is there going to be an app we can use when we have a gunshot wound and need to determine which emergency room is cheaper tonight?
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This is the kind of quote Trump would sue for defamation about except he made it himself
reminder that Donald Trump said on the record that he partied with his buddy Jeffrey Epstein and women “on the younger side” and yet we’re pretending like the natural of their relationship is some big mystery
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is the kind of quote Trump would sue for defamation about except he made it himself
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It was David Brooks, and as a correction it was Newark
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It was David Brooks, and as a correction it was Newark
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Marsha you threw a huge fit insisting military service members have the right to refuse a vaccine that they were ordered to take to help preserve the health and readiness of the military.
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Marsha you threw a huge fit insisting military service members have the right to refuse a vaccine that they were ordered to take to help preserve the health and readiness of the military.
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Not a one. It’s disgraceful
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Not a one. It’s disgraceful
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This is a hell of an article about war studies that pulls no punches. CC: @teaandtactics.bsky.social @sodrock.bsky.social
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/stra...
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/stra...
Strategy and the Last Manager: The Case for Dissenting War Studies - Military Strategy Magazine
Applying James Burnham’s theory of the ‘managerial revolution’ to the evolution of war studies, this article argues that the field has been captured and reshaped by a managerial class more concerned w...
www.militarystrategymagazine.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is a hell of an article about war studies that pulls no punches. CC: @teaandtactics.bsky.social @sodrock.bsky.social
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/stra...
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/stra...
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Academic Dean @dandrezner.bsky.social questions the strategy driving U.S. activity in the western hemisphere in his column for @wpr.bsky.social.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-wester...
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-wester...
Trump’s ‘Bunch of Stuff’ in the Western Hemisphere
Trump’s whirlwind of policies, initiatives and proclamations concerning the Western Hemisphere are not even concepts of a plan.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Academic Dean @dandrezner.bsky.social questions the strategy driving U.S. activity in the western hemisphere in his column for @wpr.bsky.social.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-wester...
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-wester...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
"By any and every measure, in other words, Donald Trump is the most corrupt person to ever sit in the Oval Office. And if the A plot of the second Trump presidency is his authoritarian aspirations, then its B plot is his shameless and pervasive corruption."
Bouie 🔥
"By any and every measure, in other words, Donald Trump is the most corrupt person to ever sit in the Oval Office. And if the A plot of the second Trump presidency is his authoritarian aspirations, then its B plot is his shameless and pervasive corruption."
Bouie 🔥
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
"By any and every measure, in other words, Donald Trump is the most corrupt person to ever sit in the Oval Office. And if the A plot of the second Trump presidency is his authoritarian aspirations, then its B plot is his shameless and pervasive corruption."
Bouie 🔥
"By any and every measure, in other words, Donald Trump is the most corrupt person to ever sit in the Oval Office. And if the A plot of the second Trump presidency is his authoritarian aspirations, then its B plot is his shameless and pervasive corruption."
Bouie 🔥
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We upended global trade, alienated our allies, and spiked consumer prices to the highest levels in years... all to reduce the trade deficit by a whopping 2%? This isn't a strategy; it's a sales tax on the American middle class masquerading as foreign policy.
Trump’s Global Tariffs Curtailed Trade, Data Shows
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We upended global trade, alienated our allies, and spiked consumer prices to the highest levels in years... all to reduce the trade deficit by a whopping 2%? This isn't a strategy; it's a sales tax on the American middle class masquerading as foreign policy.