Courtney Dean
@cjdeano.bsky.social
Hoosier, cav trooper, father of 3, husband of 1. Pacers. Colts. Hoosiers.
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a good time to bump this
This month's bonus episode is about Bari Weiss, who overcame her inability to say anything interesting to become the billionaire-whispering head of a small media empire.
Pundit Portrait: Bari Weiss | If Books Could Kill
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December 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
a good time to bump this
Silicon Valley was a documentary
Beyond parody
December 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Silicon Valley was a documentary
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The takeaway here is that there are times when Antonin Scalia valued diversity in elite institutions (when it helped him get a prestigious job he really wanted), and times when he did not (when a Black person got to go to Harvard) ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/antonin-sc...
Antonin Scalia Was a Diversity Hire
The late justice spent his career ridiculing the notion that elite institutions had any interest in diversity. He might not have made the Supreme Court without it.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The takeaway here is that there are times when Antonin Scalia valued diversity in elite institutions (when it helped him get a prestigious job he really wanted), and times when he did not (when a Black person got to go to Harvard) ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/antonin-sc...
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At his confirmation hearings, Scalia was asked if it would have been OK for Reagan to pick him among other qualified candidates *because* of his Italian heritage, in order to make the Court more diverse. "No, I think that is a good thing," Scalia said. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/antonin-sc...
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
At his confirmation hearings, Scalia was asked if it would have been OK for Reagan to pick him among other qualified candidates *because* of his Italian heritage, in order to make the Court more diverse. "No, I think that is a good thing," Scalia said. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/antonin-sc...
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'At a recent protest outside an ICE facility in Durango, Colorado an immigration agent grabbed a protester by her hair, choked her and threw her to the ground. In a video... Mr Bovino chirps: “We’re taking this show on the road to a city near you.”' www.economist.com/interactive/...
See how Donald Trump is creating his own police force
Immigration agents are operating in cities with few legal constraints
www.economist.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
'At a recent protest outside an ICE facility in Durango, Colorado an immigration agent grabbed a protester by her hair, choked her and threw her to the ground. In a video... Mr Bovino chirps: “We’re taking this show on the road to a city near you.”' www.economist.com/interactive/...
You know I think it’s time to rewatch Succession.
Tesla’s trillion-dollar pay package for Elon Musk
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
Tesla’s trillion-dollar pay package for Elon Musk
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk's trillion-dollar pay package
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package for Elon Musk that could allow him to earn an unprecedented one trillion dollars' worth of stock.
www.npr.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
You know I think it’s time to rewatch Succession.
Tesla’s trillion-dollar pay package for Elon Musk
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
Tesla’s trillion-dollar pay package for Elon Musk
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
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Hi folks! A few thoughts on this essay, and the questions that we *should* be asking, rather than the ones this Army officer seems inclined to answer. I haven’t done a CMR thread in a while so I’m overdue. 🧵
Hard to imagine a more sinister & dangerous argument, couched in euphemism & high-minded language. "This essay does not argue liberalism will collapse, only that [US] military officers should be intellectually (and spiritually) prepared for alternatives." warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
The American Military Officer After Liberalism
Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what
warontherocks.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hi folks! A few thoughts on this essay, and the questions that we *should* be asking, rather than the ones this Army officer seems inclined to answer. I haven’t done a CMR thread in a while so I’m overdue. 🧵
Shameful behavior from my alma mater
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
October 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Shameful behavior from my alma mater
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It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.
October 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.
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Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
October 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
“..buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent…” Jesus wept
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports
October 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“..buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent…” Jesus wept
Skipping the Aperol should help
September 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Skipping the Aperol should help
Having people like @lorenraeds.bsky.social as a guest lecturer on the topic at SAMS was a huge benefit.
Military officers should have civ-mil relations embedded as a core part of their PME directly at commissioning, not once they reach field grade
Maybe then it might sink in
Maybe then it might sink in
September 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Having people like @lorenraeds.bsky.social as a guest lecturer on the topic at SAMS was a huge benefit.
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HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
September 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
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This is precisely the problem, the refusal by centrist elites to differentiate between challenging ideas and debunked lies. It's not "challenging" to hear that black people are stupid or gay people are degenerates, it's just wrong.
They never complete the sentence, ie "...educators and students must face ideas we find offensive, such as the claim that Black women lack the brain processing power to fly planes or serve on the Supreme Court or that gay people should be stoned to death." Pretty telling that they don't!
The President of Barnard College calls for more controversial speakers like the late Kirk (without citing any of his controversial views), a position at odds with what Barnard colleagues describe as a track record of censoring events and speakers on Palestine. (1/4) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...
September 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This is precisely the problem, the refusal by centrist elites to differentiate between challenging ideas and debunked lies. It's not "challenging" to hear that black people are stupid or gay people are degenerates, it's just wrong.
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This paragraph is brutal.
September 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This paragraph is brutal.
My Andy Rooney rant is when did the bags in cereal boxes become so difficult to open without tearing it apart.
August 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
My Andy Rooney rant is when did the bags in cereal boxes become so difficult to open without tearing it apart.