Joe Althouse
Joe Althouse
@oxycocus.bsky.social
Peacekeeper, Humanitarian
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The anti-European, pro-Russian sentiment in the Trump administration is off the charts.
December 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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It's bizarre for a president who brags about all the wars he’s ended to suggest going “guns-a-blazing” into Nigeria. Or, potentially, into Venezuela: Trump has now assembled the largest U.S. naval armada in the Caribbean since 1962, and he is blustering about toppling Maduro. wapo.st/49bKyew
Opinion | Trump’s incoherent foreign policy defies explanation
Many MAGA loyalists don’t bat an eye as Trump mediates conflicts while also saber-rattling.
wapo.st
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
If Only We’d Fight as Hard to Save Our Democracy as Ukrainians Are to Save Theirs www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
Opinion | If Only We’d Fight as Hard to Save Our Democracy as Ukrainians Are to Save Theirs
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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NEW: State Dept. fires top press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs after internal disputes over Israel policy, including whether to express condolences about journalists killed by Israel in Gaza and publicly oppose forced displacement of Palestinians www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
State Dept. fires official after internal debates over Israel
Shahed Ghoreishi recommended expressing condolences for slain journalists in Gaza and opposing the forced displacement of Palestinians. He was fired days later.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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NEW: Acting NSA director intervened to try and save job of chief data scientist and government AI expert but was rebuffed by Tulsi Gabbard. More: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
N.S.A.’s Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist From Purge
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The Permanent Court of Arbitration did not decide the claims brought by the Philippines against China, an arbitral tribunal established under Annex VII of UNCLOS did.
The Biggest Misconception About the Philippines’ South China Sea Case Against China
The Permanent Court of Arbitration did not decide the claims brought by the Philippines against China, an arbitral tribunal established under Annex VII of UNCLOS did.
buff.ly
July 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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July 4th 2025 will go down as the Pickett’s Charge of Trumpism.

J.D. Vance is wrong. America is still an idea with tremendous power.

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‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’: The Pickett’s Charge of Trumpism
We are living through the second revival of the Great Lost Cause.
open.substack.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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At the annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research, more than a dozen veteran researchers told John Donvan and Caren Zucker the same thing about the U.S. health secretary's approach to autism science: What he's doing is not good.
RFK Jr.’s Autism Time Machine
The health secretary’s approach to the condition gives the impression that two decades of research simply never happened.
bit.ly
July 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Some Democratic senators are calling the company's $16m payment to Donald Trump’s presidential library a bribe to a government official intended to influence an official act. They contend it should be investigated
Will bowing to Trump win Paramount its merger?
Coercion and corporate expedience meet in a $16m settlement
econ.st
July 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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My mother (who was born in the USSR and became an English teacher) knew in the 1960-70s some of the offspring of the American Communists who moved to Russia in the 1930s. All had tragic family stories. Wonder how many of today’s useful idiots will wind up as cannon fodder in Ukraine?
In the 1930s thousands of Western communists moved to the USSR searching for a socialist paradise. Some wound up in the gulag. All couldn’t leave once there. Now it’s right-wingers migrating in search of conservative values. Useful idiots, all. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Russia’s ‘anti-woke’ visa lures those fearing a moral decline in the West
A network of Kremlin-backed influencers seek to portray Russia as a bastion of traditional values in an attempt to attract those who deplore Western “liberalism.”
www.washingtonpost.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Countries on the forefront of climate change need the international community to pick up the pace.
Pacific Islands Countries Push For Action at UN Ocean Conference
Countries on the forefront of climate change need the international community to pick up the pace.
buff.ly
June 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Daily drone strikes have inflicted heavy casualties, killing 300 gang members and wounding 400, according to a human-rights network. But experts worry that the use of explosive drones risks breaking international law
Drone warfare is hitting Haiti
The gangs have been pushed back in places, but there are concerns that drones are illegal and may be ultimately ineffective
econ.trib.al
June 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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In launching its barbaric Oct. 7 assault on Israel, Hamas wanted to draw its regional partners into a broader war. But instead of destroying Israel, Hamas set in motion a train of events that resulted in the destruction of Iranian power across the region. bit.ly/4k2H8wm
Opinion | Iran badly miscalculated. Now it’s paying the price.
As Iran is learning, the consequences of military action are hard to predict.
bit.ly
June 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The Russians, who have been murdering Ukrainian civilians and bombing cities for three years, are suddenly very worried about "gross violation of international law" and "global and regional security"
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/22/r...
www.themoscowtimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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June 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Bougainville – and its resources – could very well end up in the middle of a battle between China and the U.S. over influence in the new nation, and thus in the region. thediplomat.com/2025/06/the-...
The Controversial Mine at the Center of Bougainville’s Independence Quest
Bougainville – and its resources – could very well end up in the middle of a battle between China and the U.S. over influence in the new nation, and thus in the region.
thediplomat.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite.

www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin
Darren Beattie, who alarmed the State Department with his pro-Moscow views, is married to a woman whose uncle has ties to Vladimir Putin
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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While not groundbreaking, the China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ Meeting indicated steady progress towards China’s goal of a “shared future” with Pacific Island countries – including using them as strategic outposts.
At Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, China-Pacific Islands Relations Steam Ahead
While not groundbreaking, the meeting indicated steady progress towards China’s goal of a “shared future” with Pacific Island countries – including using them as strategic outposts.
buff.ly
June 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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“It is these constitutional obstacles to a tyrannical president that have made America the greatest nation on Earth for almost 250 years, not the fallen America that Trump delusionally thinks he’s going to make great again tomorrow,” J. Michael Luttig writes:
The End of Rule of Law in America
The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.
www.theatlantic.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The next Ambassador to Israel
April 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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"Donald Trump and his allies have been using 'anti-Semitism' as a pretext to advance a radical agenda that has nothing to do with Jews at all—and that most American Jews do not support," @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social writes:
Trump’s Jewish Cover Story
The administration claims to be protecting Jews while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.
bit.ly
April 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM