2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

That AI flag image is … something else

Big if true, @jakerockatansky.bsky.social

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

[just be normal, just be normal]: The Toronto Rangers!

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Playin' With the Boys

Pretty Pete is more Scotch rocks than ice man, but his meeting with the military was the hottest heterosexual hoedown since the volleyball scene from Top Gun. Are the generals ready to follow him into the danger zone or have they lost that loving feeling?

by Maureen Dowd

See also Chapter 12 of Copaganda by @equalityalec.bsky.social - it's all part of the way we're conditioned to think about punishment bureaucracy