Gmail users!!

They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.

Pass it on!!

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youtu.be/iw6GTNnHohM

Nothing in nature fails to impress, and humanity has lost its mind.

People ask:
“Is America really in danger of slipping into authoritarianism?”
So I brought on someone who’s spent decades inside the national security world...Steven Cash of The Steady State...
and his answer is the clearest, most sobering breakdown you will hear anywhere.

youtu.be/6Inn3GAfSlo?...

"War is always with us. We are all at war, wherever we are.
And our greatest desire is peace"

-Anton Gerashchenko‬
‪@antongerashchenko.bsky.social‬

"Too much of literary history, Updike writes to Berthoff, is modeled on biology when it is really more like geology. 'There is not much evolution; there is a great deal of accidental thrusts and upheavals and whatnot and when it’s all over a map is drawn,' Updike writes." (from the article, below)

“And so they sit there, and they die, because they didn’t do the one thing which would have saved their lives...”

www.youtube.com/shorts/sY2SC...

all of these people would do well to learn something about “cheap” and “costly” grace. no one is saying that platner is irredeemable, but that some things are a bridge too far for someone seeking a public trust. if he feels truly contrite, he can work on himself and his community and try again.

I don't always know why it takes me so long to admit that I've wasted my time on something.

Honored to join @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social in providing some answers to @georgetown-sfs.bsky.social about our book — God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America — and the broader domestic terrorism landscape. sfs.georgetown.edu/news/seven-q...

Tremendous research from Daniel Byman and Riley McCabe finds that "2025 marks the first time in more than 30 years that left-wing terrorist attacks outnumber those from the violent far right." But don't miss the broader picture — depicted in the below graph... www.csis.org/analysis/lef...

This is exactly the mindset I reject.

Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons.
snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...

Yesterday I posted details of my apprehension about the coincidence of Hegseth’s unprecedented summoning of almost all of the top US military commanders and the impending October 1 government shutdown, all the while thinking that it’s 50-50 that I’m just a closet lunatic. But this morning

The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed.

"Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim."

Gifted:

Given Hegseth's unprecedented summoning of almost all of the top US military commanders and the impending October 1 government shutdown, I feel a certain apprehension. When I allow myself to imagine the worst outcome, I picture this meeting as the first part of the final stage in

This country, as a patient, is already showing signs of massive hemorrhage. If the midterms don't result in a massive hemorrhage protocol-type intervention, this nation, as we've known it, will bleed out in a matter of months.