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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 1d
I can guarantee this: No AI system would have put a headline on a column on the subject of artificial intelligence using the words “grilled cheese sandwich.”
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A grilled cheese sandwich and a glass of iced tea
That’s how much it’s taking to power the composition of this column.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 2d
I’m old enough to remember when going to a demonstration was a good time for guys to pick up chicks and for girls to check out some hot dudes.

Today, we marched to save each other’s lives.
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People marched across the whole damn country, and we marched in our small Pennsylvania town
I’m old enough to remember when going to a demonstration was a good time for guys to pick up chicks and for girls to check out some hot dudes.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 3d
Donald Trump wants a war with his “enemies within.” It might not happen this weekend, but American citizens will die in Trump’s undeclared war before this goes much further.
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Is Trump’s war on the cartels a dress rehearsal for a domestic war on his “enemies within?”
Donald Trump or whoever is running things for him in the White House – say hi to Keyboard Warrior Stephen Miller – has used the U.S.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 4d
Welcome to 1964. Welcome to Jim Crow. That’s where we will be if the Supreme Court puts a torch to the Voting Rights Act. Not only will they ban the teaching of slavery, they’ll bring it back to life in all but name.
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Republican Supreme Court arsonists are ready to torch the Voting Right Act – again.
So, the immolation of the Voting Rights Act by Justice Roberts and his band of merry arsonists continues apace.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 6d
I’m sure that as a species we are not born with a death wish, but we have lived our lives for thousands of years as if we are, and that characteristic of human beings is a real tragedy.
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Death wish
Thinking that I would write about the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas over Gaza, the working title for this column until a few moments ago was, “Does land matter more than people’s lives, or do liv...
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 7d
Is there another national leader who has been all over the map about abortion to gay rights to free speech to Russia to its war in Ukraine to come-and-buy-your-drugs-from-me? Hmmmm…let me think…could his name be Donald Trump?
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Here is how Trump could stay in power after 2029 even if he’s not President
If there is one defining characteristic of the Trump second term in office, it is his naked mixing of the presidency with his personal business.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 9d
That’s a homemade tie-dyed t-shirt, bellbottoms from Brooklyn, and Acme boots. It was the 60’s, man.
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2nd Lt. Truscott relaxing during the Fort Benning Great Mustache revolt in September of 1969
That’s a homemade tie-dyed t-shirt, bellbottoms from Brooklyn, and Acme boots.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 10d
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Kristi Noem visits "war ravaged" Portland, observes protester in a chicken suit from rooftop
“It’s like living in hell,” Trump said of the Oregon capital.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 11d
There will be nothing restraining Trump from using soldiers from the state of Texas as his own private army, following his orders and nobody else’s. This isn’t a slippery slope we’re on. Trump is following the playbook of Adolph Hitler in the 1930’s.
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Trump is using the National Guard as his own private army
Lots of news today on the ICE and National Guard front.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 12d
Politics is the way we elect our representatives to run the governments of the country and the states. When federal soldiers become involved in enforcing the law in a state that has not requested them, politics ends and something else begins.
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The end of politics
Forest fires and tornados and hurricanes are the common enemies of all Americans.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 14d
12 Noon Eastern today: I'll be doing Substack live on Steve Schmidt's "The Warning"

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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 14d
In the court room overseen by at least one female jurist in the state of Oregon, the rule of law still prevails. For how long that will hold true is a question not only for Oregon, but for the whole nation.
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Trump’s whack-a-mole militarism, part II
On Saturday, within hours of Federal District Judge Karin Immergut issuing her temporary restraining order against the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard in Portland, Secretary Pet...
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 15d
Following plans laid down in the Heritage Foundation in “Project 2025,” Trump is inventing a war that does not exist in order to carry out repression using federalized state National Guard soldiers.
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“This is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law.”
That is a quote from the temporary restraining order issued by District Judge Karin Immergut blocking President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 17d
Trump’s masked and armed agents are already approaching people on the street in cities who look “suspicious” because of their race or ethnicity and requiring them to produce citizenship papers.

This isn’t a slippery slope to fascism. We’re already there.
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The perfect fascism of a raid in Chicago
This is what we must guard against.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 18d
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I just gave myself a massive headache fixing a printer problem, so I'm taking the night off.
That’s me last night working on the Great Mustache Revolt column under the not very watchful tutelage of Tuli.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 19d
This story is about the obsession with grooming standards of some officers in the army. The obsession dates back decades, and it has a history that echoes the history of this country. It is extraordinary that we are still dealing with this problem.
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The Great Mustache Revolt and the racist history of grooming standards in the military
This story is about the obsession with grooming standards of some officers in the army.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 20d
In the end, the generals and admirals know that presidents come and go, but their job remains the same. The soldiers, sailors, airmen and airwomen and Marines under their command need them to do their jobs in spite of the madness at the top.
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Trump’s speech to the generals and admirals: I don’t even know where to begin
“Unhinged” is one word I heard on the news shows describing Trump’s speech this morning.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 21d
I don’t envy the generals and admirals and noncommissioned officers who will be there tomorrow. I would not want to have to maintain a straight face while Trump treats them as if they are his followers at a MAGA rally and bellows grievance and braggadocio.
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249 years. Nothing like this has happened before.
I’m speaking of tomorrow’s meeting between Hegseth and Trump and 800 generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 22d
Our soldiers didn’t sign up to patrol American streets and arrest or help to arrest their fellow citizens. Martial law, in the end, will be more difficult to impose than Trump thinks it is.
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Will Portland be Trump’s first step toward martial law?
Let’s count down the steps.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 24d
You would think that at some point, cooler heads might prevail, and things could go back to something approaching political normalcy. And then you look at Trump and his Supreme Court and you think...
Not.
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Trump and Comey and the whirlpool of revenge politics
Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted yesterday by a grand jury in Richmond, Virginia on two lame-o made up counts – perjury and obstruction of justice by committing perjury.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 25d
Secretary of Whatever Pete Hegseth is nervous. Everyone at the Pentagon knows it. How do they know Pete is shaking in his loafers? That five-sided building is just like a small town. And what they’re talking about is how weirdly frightened the boss is.
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What the hell is Hegseth up to?
Secretary of Whatever Pete Hegseth is nervous.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 26d
Trump knows he isn’t going to get the Nobel Prize for his phony claims of ending seven wars. Maybe he’s got his eye on the prize in Ukraine now.

We, and Ukraine, can only hope.
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Trump didn’t pivot on Ukraine. He’s playing catch up.
Somewhere down in the bowels of the Pentagon, there is an office in which people actually know what they’re talking about.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 27d
But these are niggling details, and as we all know, Donald Trump doesn’t do niggling details. By this time next year, he will probably be bragging that he has ended six more wars, that windmills are blowing up off the coast of Great Britain.
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How long, oh Lord, how long? I endured Trump’s UN speech so you don’t have to
How many more times will we have to untangle and debunk another lip-wagging screed of Donald Trump like the one he blubbered through at the United Nations today?
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 28d
If I were Brendan Carr, I would duck and cover. Kimmel will be coming for the easiest target he’s had in his career, with the sole exception of Orange Littlehands himself.
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Trump’s big gift to Jimmy Kimmel
One word: Ratings.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · Sep 21
My question is, why is he even bothering to ask for legislation that will allow him to commit murder when he’s already doing it?
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Using our military, Trump is committing murder on the high seas. Our streets could be next.
That’s a front-page headline from today’s New York Times.
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