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Same as the old place. Geopolitics, maps, Africa & terrorism, DC sports/49ers, classic movies, booze & snark on the side. Air Force officer. @univofscranton alum. I’d rather be hiking.
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[me telling my story about how i'm going to bomb the houthis] it was crazy
[journalist who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
[journalist who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
March 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
[me telling my story about how i'm going to bomb the houthis] it was crazy
[journalist who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
[journalist who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
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This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief.
Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.
What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?
Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.
What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
theatln.tc
March 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief.
Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.
What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?
Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.
What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?
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Signal chat “Houthi PC [Principals Committee] small group” to which Mike Waltz mistakenly added Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg “included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing” ahead of strikes that began March 15 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Signal chat “Houthi PC [Principals Committee] small group” to which Mike Waltz mistakenly added Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg “included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing” ahead of strikes that began March 15 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
This isn’t that far from me. Who wants to meet me at Crappy’s?
March 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This isn’t that far from me. Who wants to meet me at Crappy’s?
Discovered a new family pet in the back yard as I was putting my patio furniture back out
March 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Discovered a new family pet in the back yard as I was putting my patio furniture back out
A tradition unlike any other. The first four days of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament are my favorite days on the sports calendar, bar none.
March 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A tradition unlike any other. The first four days of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament are my favorite days on the sports calendar, bar none.
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This fucking maniac wants to use tax money for public services when he could be using that to buy 1000 cybertrucks to do rural mail delivery
Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to hike corporate taxes to pay for loads of freebies
Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to hike corporate taxes to pay for loads of freebies
The Queens state assemblyman said his plans for his socialist utopia involve subsidizing free transit and childcare with higher taxes on corporations and establishing city-run food stores, freezing rent for millions of New Yorkers and creating a new safety plan for the city.
nypost.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This fucking maniac wants to use tax money for public services when he could be using that to buy 1000 cybertrucks to do rural mail delivery
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When Trump's agency heads ripped into Musk inside the WH, what they really revealed is that DOGE is on the verge of unleashing governing catastrophes that they don't want to take the blame for.
On the pod, @katearonoff.bsky.social and I dig deep into this dynamic:
newrepublic.com/article/1925...
On the pod, @katearonoff.bsky.social and I dig deep into this dynamic:
newrepublic.com/article/1925...
Musk Humiliated as Trump’s Own Advisers Brutally Expose DOGE Fiasco
As a new report shows that even Trump officials are infuriated by Elon Musk, the author of a new piece on DOGE’s impacts explains how this reveals a deep problem for Trump that isn’t going away.
newrepublic.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
When Trump's agency heads ripped into Musk inside the WH, what they really revealed is that DOGE is on the verge of unleashing governing catastrophes that they don't want to take the blame for.
On the pod, @katearonoff.bsky.social and I dig deep into this dynamic:
newrepublic.com/article/1925...
On the pod, @katearonoff.bsky.social and I dig deep into this dynamic:
newrepublic.com/article/1925...
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This is a difficult but essential read.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the March 10, 1945 firebombing of Tokyo, a thread introducing one of the most remarkable primary sources I've come across in the archive:
Gen. Thomas Power's eye-witness report, recorded while circling over the firestorm for nearly two hours. 1/
Gen. Thomas Power's eye-witness report, recorded while circling over the firestorm for nearly two hours. 1/
March 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This is a difficult but essential read.
Again, Democrats, this is how minority parties should react to corrupt regimes.
I know you won’t, but ya know, just sayin.
I know you won’t, but ya know, just sayin.
🇷🇸 Clashes have broken out in the Serbian parliament: right in the meeting hall, deputies are throwing smoke bombs, "firecrackers".
March 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Again, Democrats, this is how minority parties should react to corrupt regimes.
I know you won’t, but ya know, just sayin.
I know you won’t, but ya know, just sayin.
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Chris Murphy: "Let's remember- congressional Republicans held up Ukraine aid for over 6 months, allowed for Russia to go on the offensive. So even before Donald Trump was president, congressional Republicans were not doing the things necessary to support the most vital fight in defense of democracy"
March 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Chris Murphy: "Let's remember- congressional Republicans held up Ukraine aid for over 6 months, allowed for Russia to go on the offensive. So even before Donald Trump was president, congressional Republicans were not doing the things necessary to support the most vital fight in defense of democracy"
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Vance is now backpedalling furiously, I see. Only the UK & France had proposed anything approaching scale of 20k troops, so I don't see how he would be referring to anyone else. But let's take smaller states, then. Denmark & Estonia took same casualties per capita as America in Afghanistan.
March 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Vance is now backpedalling furiously, I see. Only the UK & France had proposed anything approaching scale of 20k troops, so I don't see how he would be referring to anyone else. But let's take smaller states, then. Denmark & Estonia took same casualties per capita as America in Afghanistan.
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Pausing military aid to Ukraine, tariffs on Mexico and Canada… what the fuck are we doing? Actually?
Breaking news: President Donald Trump has decided to pause all future deliveries of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in an extraordinary move aimed at pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the negotiating table with Russia.
Live updates: Trump administration to pause deliveries of military assistance to Ukraine, officials say
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Pausing military aid to Ukraine, tariffs on Mexico and Canada… what the fuck are we doing? Actually?
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Oh hey www.wboy.com/news/west-vi...
Staff at FCC Hazelton resign after retention pay cuts in federal prisons
Recruitment and retention pay that has been used to address severe staff shortages at federal prisons across the country is being cut, according to the American Federation of Government Employees.
www.wboy.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Oh hey www.wboy.com/news/west-vi...
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Rep. Harshbarger: “There’s been a mandate to the president from the American people. Am I correct?”
Town Hall Crowd: “NO!!”
Town Hall Crowd: “NO!!”
March 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Rep. Harshbarger: “There’s been a mandate to the president from the American people. Am I correct?”
Town Hall Crowd: “NO!!”
Town Hall Crowd: “NO!!”
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Breaking News: A federal judge ordered the White House to retract directives that led to the mass firing of government workers, calling the action “illegal.”
Trump Live Updates: News on Mass Firings, Russia-Ukraine and Tariffs
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Breaking News: A federal judge ordered the White House to retract directives that led to the mass firing of government workers, calling the action “illegal.”
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
I posted this like 10 years ago elsewhere and I don’t care I still think it’s funny
January 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I posted this like 10 years ago elsewhere and I don’t care I still think it’s funny
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Every conservative columnist right now.
December 8, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Every conservative columnist right now.
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In Middle East an event as such is an earthquake. As big as 1967 war, bigger than fall of Saddam or Gaddafi given centrality of Syria, of Assad house across region.
There will be a lot say. For now this is a moment for Syrians, only Syrians to take it in..plan a better future…
There will be a lot say. For now this is a moment for Syrians, only Syrians to take it in..plan a better future…
December 8, 2024 at 1:24 AM
In Middle East an event as such is an earthquake. As big as 1967 war, bigger than fall of Saddam or Gaddafi given centrality of Syria, of Assad house across region.
There will be a lot say. For now this is a moment for Syrians, only Syrians to take it in..plan a better future…
There will be a lot say. For now this is a moment for Syrians, only Syrians to take it in..plan a better future…
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Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination, two senior army officers told Reuters www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has left Damascus to an unknown destination, say two senior army officers
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left to an unknown destination, two senior army officers familiar with the incident told Reuters on Sunday.
www.reuters.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination, two senior army officers told Reuters www.reuters.com/world/middle...