I’m 1984, this is a legit pick, but holy shit that was a good year. I’m having a hard time with this challenge. I’m going with this one, not trying to be a deep-cut asshole, but this one was important:

And the 16.5 million self-employed workers who may not lose their healthcare automatically (unless they drop it) will see more than a doubling of their healthcare premiums per month. Both parties have little interest in that cohort of workers. It's shameful. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/22/g...

Mike Johnson’s girlfriend at camp last summe lives in Canada, you wouldn’t know her.

The Marines have some roles in the physical security of the White House. I'd imagine that a giant ballroom full of people, with open windows everywhere, would be a security issue. Secret Service has main role in all this, but the Marines have some role.

We can’t be parsing Hegseth’s aryan tattoos while giving Platner’s (charitably) dumbshit one a pass. We need to be outraged at both, and intolerant of both. And he’s acting like a paranoid pol now. Come on, we’re better than this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h242...

Gutted the CDC again, leaving the federal government nearly powerless to respond to public health emergencies; invented the fiction that "antifa" is an organization, with a "founder" whose "girlfriend" they "arrested"; and House Repubs continue to move heaven and earth to protect Trump's pedo bros

Seriously, you can look away, bro

This is just absolutely wild. Trump is nowhere in Steve Coll's books. Lawrence Wright was writing about UBL in The New Yorker in the 1990s. ABC *interviewed* bin Laden in 1998. UBLwas very high profile in 1998 after U.S. embassy bombings In Kenya and Tanzania.

“Warfighting,” a small book also know as “Fleet Marine Force Manual 1” when it was published in 1989, was required reading for all Marine officers for decades. It’s well known throughout the services. Written by the commandant of the Marine Corps, has little/nothing in common with Hegseth’s nonsense

Well, sticking around long enough to refuse a loyalty oath and be part of a mass firing would have far more impact. I don't think they should be doing Hegseth's work for him.

It doesn't matter what their influence would be?

Sure. But I think you're overestimating their influence once they're out of uniform. I'd doubt that very many people could name more than two of the eight flag-rank officers fired early on in the administration, and most people wouldn't be able to name any.

I didn't say it was. I interpreted your hope that they would do something because they "know what comes next," as hoping that they would do something while in uniform because their oath to the constitution required them to oppose the administration's general lawlessness and unconstitutionality.

And one of my takeaways from that "meeting" was that Hegseth and Trump are lightweights who are not up to the task of overcoming that. If the point is that they should be resisting the executive branch's general unconstitutionality, then you're talking about a coup, and no on should want that.

Ok. But don't underestimate the power of the military to grind down the Secretary and the President by sheer inertia and institutional maneuvering. Just because the public hasn't heard of resistance within the military doesn't mean it's not happening.

Do you really think the resignation of a 3-star deputy commandant for logistics is going to get people worked up, no matter what he says in his resignation letter? One news cycle. What would matter would be resigning rather than following a specific illegal order. Not generalized opposition.

They should be getting involved in what, though? Politics?

How do you read that silence?