Barry McCaffrey
@brma64.bsky.social
Four star Ret US Army General. MS NOW Nat Sec analyst. Council Foreign Relations. Joint Commander Latin America. JCS strategic plans. NATO Brussels. 4 combat tours. 3 Purple Hearts. 14 years overseas. West Point. MA Pol Sci. Army Brat.
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💜 You don’t stop being family just because you're a Senator.
In his first Senate speech, @kim.senate.gov opened up about becoming a caregiver for his father as his dad battles Alzheimer’s.
He reminded us that caring is something our country should value. seiu.co/3MtvQWT
In his first Senate speech, @kim.senate.gov opened up about becoming a caregiver for his father as his dad battles Alzheimer’s.
He reminded us that caring is something our country should value. seiu.co/3MtvQWT
In maiden Senate speech, Andy Kim promises to care for his father and for America - New Jersey Globe
Exactly one year after he was first sworn in as a U.S. Senator, Andy Kim gave his maiden speech on the Senate floor today. The speech, technically Kim’s
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December 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
💜 You don’t stop being family just because you're a Senator.
In his first Senate speech, @kim.senate.gov opened up about becoming a caregiver for his father as his dad battles Alzheimer’s.
He reminded us that caring is something our country should value. seiu.co/3MtvQWT
In his first Senate speech, @kim.senate.gov opened up about becoming a caregiver for his father as his dad battles Alzheimer’s.
He reminded us that caring is something our country should value. seiu.co/3MtvQWT
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Eileen Higgins won Miami’s mayoral runoff, beating a candidate backed by President Donald Trump while becoming the first woman ever and the first Democrat in nearly three decades to lead the city
Democrat Wins Miami Mayoralty, Shaking Trump-Led State Dominance
Eileen Higgins won Miami’s mayoral runoff, beating a candidate backed by President Donald Trump while becoming the first woman ever and the first Democrat in nearly three decades to lead the city.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Eileen Higgins won Miami’s mayoral runoff, beating a candidate backed by President Donald Trump while becoming the first woman ever and the first Democrat in nearly three decades to lead the city
American military preparedness and vigilance essential in an increasingly dangerous and violent world. Our allies increasingly no longer trust us with good reason.
Today we remember the thousands of Americans who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor 84 years ago. Nearly half of those lost were aboard the USS Arizona, and I remember what a moving experience it was when Gabby and I visited the memorial. We’ll never forget their sacrifice.
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
American military preparedness and vigilance essential in an increasingly dangerous and violent world. Our allies increasingly no longer trust us with good reason.
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This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
Trump is fighting the Institute of Peace in court. Now, his name is on the building
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Nuts.
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Nuts.
Trump is fighting the Institute of Peace in court. Now, his name is on the building
The Trump administration has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and planted the president’s name on the organization’s headquarters despite an ongoing fight over the inst...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Trump is fighting the Institute of Peace in court. Now, his name is on the building
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Nuts.
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Nuts.
A sickening moral slum of an administration. WA POST. GEORGE WILL. —-DOD and Sec Def has become a mindless behemoth…. Rudderless. Governed by thoughtless whim.
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A sickening moral slum of an administration. WA POST. GEORGE WILL. —-DOD and Sec Def has become a mindless behemoth…. Rudderless. Governed by thoughtless whim.
Hegseth, citing ‘fog of war,’ says he learned of survivors hours after strike—- astonishing DOD Hegseth disregard of Congress who have Constitutional preeminence in the use of US military power.
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Hegseth, citing ‘fog of war,’ says he learned of survivors hours after strike—- astonishing DOD Hegseth disregard of Congress who have Constitutional preeminence in the use of US military power.
Trump says he'll release MRI results but doesn't know what part of his body was scanned
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Sounds pretty stupid. Trump knows. MRI sort of unpleasant. He didn’t ask?
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Sounds pretty stupid. Trump knows. MRI sort of unpleasant. He didn’t ask?
Trump says he'll release MRI results but doesn't know what part of his body was scanned
President Donald Trump says he'll release the results of his MRI test that he received in October. During an exchange with reporters as Trump traveled back to Washington from Florida on Sunday, he sai...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Trump says he'll release MRI results but doesn't know what part of his body was scanned
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Sounds pretty stupid. Trump knows. MRI sort of unpleasant. He didn’t ask?
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Sounds pretty stupid. Trump knows. MRI sort of unpleasant. He didn’t ask?
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Tom Nichols. Perfect. Grade Schoolers in charge of the MAGA Regime.
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Tom Nichols. Perfect. Grade Schoolers in charge of the MAGA Regime.
So Trump calls for six serving members of Congress to be hung. The Sec Def calls for a serving Senator to be recalled to active duty to be Courtmartialed. All for saying military personnel can refuse ILLEGAL ORDERS. Absurd. Separation of powers. Statement inherent in the UCMJ.
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
So Trump calls for six serving members of Congress to be hung. The Sec Def calls for a serving Senator to be recalled to active duty to be Courtmartialed. All for saying military personnel can refuse ILLEGAL ORDERS. Absurd. Separation of powers. Statement inherent in the UCMJ.
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
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BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I thought she was a bad choice for VP and a not-great candidate, but that she ran a good campaign, and also, she wasn't a deranged authoritarian, and that last part was good enough for me
She might not have been the optimal choice but i thought she did about as well as she could in the campaign
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I thought she was a bad choice for VP and a not-great candidate, but that she ran a good campaign, and also, she wasn't a deranged authoritarian, and that last part was good enough for me
Monday Trump will designate Cartel de los Soles a Terror Organization. Maduro has a US indictment and a $50 million reward on his head. CIA ops now ongoing. My take…. Trump wants Maduro a hard out…. US oil companies back in. 300 million barrels.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Monday Trump will designate Cartel de los Soles a Terror Organization. Maduro has a US indictment and a $50 million reward on his head. CIA ops now ongoing. My take…. Trump wants Maduro a hard out…. US oil companies back in. 300 million barrels.
Trump diktat to Ukraine shameful. Russia will use pause to rearm and prepare next phase of seizing all Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Trump diktat to Ukraine shameful. Russia will use pause to rearm and prepare next phase of seizing all Ukraine.
Very moving funeral for VP Cheney. A window into a better era. Character. Experience. Devotion to country and family. I was JCS notetaker for Gen Powell at daily update with Sec Def Cheney. Visited him as VP. Rumsfeld was the dark actor. A serious man. He denounced Trump.
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Very moving funeral for VP Cheney. A window into a better era. Character. Experience. Devotion to country and family. I was JCS notetaker for Gen Powell at daily update with Sec Def Cheney. Visited him as VP. Rumsfeld was the dark actor. A serious man. He denounced Trump.
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Fox Business credulously reports that Saudi Arabia is pushing its investment into the US "to $1 trillion." The entire size of the Saudi economy is $1 trillion. How stupid are these people and/or how stupid do they think their viewers are?
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Fox Business credulously reports that Saudi Arabia is pushing its investment into the US "to $1 trillion." The entire size of the Saudi economy is $1 trillion. How stupid are these people and/or how stupid do they think their viewers are?
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This a huge mistake in judgement and a very dangerous call for military insurrection. They should focus on their own Constitutional role. Intervene legally in the Federal judicial system. Win the midterm elections. Speak out in the media. Stop military appropriations.
This a huge mistake in judgement and a very dangerous call for military insurrection. They should focus on their own Constitutional role. Intervene legally in the Federal judicial system. Win the midterm elections. Speak out in the media. Stop military appropriations.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin on X: "We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship. https://t.co/N8lW0EpQ7r" / X
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship. https://t.co/N8lW0EpQ7r
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November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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This a huge mistake in judgement and a very dangerous call for military insurrection. They should focus on their own Constitutional role. Intervene legally in the Federal judicial system. Win the midterm elections. Speak out in the media. Stop military appropriations.
This a huge mistake in judgement and a very dangerous call for military insurrection. They should focus on their own Constitutional role. Intervene legally in the Federal judicial system. Win the midterm elections. Speak out in the media. Stop military appropriations.
IMPORTANT. “The Coming of the Third Reich”. Richard J Evans.
The first volume of a Trilogy.
A brilliant and detailed account of the political victory of the Nazis by 1933.
It was never inevitable.
The first volume of a Trilogy.
A brilliant and detailed account of the political victory of the Nazis by 1933.
It was never inevitable.
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
IMPORTANT. “The Coming of the Third Reich”. Richard J Evans.
The first volume of a Trilogy.
A brilliant and detailed account of the political victory of the Nazis by 1933.
It was never inevitable.
The first volume of a Trilogy.
A brilliant and detailed account of the political victory of the Nazis by 1933.
It was never inevitable.
Massive high tech and lethal US Navy presence in the Caribbean. In search of a mission. Ineffective to execute anti drug ops. Unlikely to bring down Maduro. Massive increase in cocaine production in Colombia. Strategy by whim.
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Massive high tech and lethal US Navy presence in the Caribbean. In search of a mission. Ineffective to execute anti drug ops. Unlikely to bring down Maduro. Massive increase in cocaine production in Colombia. Strategy by whim.
WA PO…The shutdown was always going to end like this— Agree. Boneheaded political theater by the Democrats. Continue to destroy the country to achieve a political win on an 8 week ACA CR? Really.
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
WA PO…The shutdown was always going to end like this— Agree. Boneheaded political theater by the Democrats. Continue to destroy the country to achieve a political win on an 8 week ACA CR? Really.
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The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse.
ICE is sending a chill through the construction industry
The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse.
view.email.seattletimes.com?qs=a1b722a05... Democrats shut down entire government over an 8 week CR without ACA subsidies. Now new CR until February no subsidies. All Agencies upside down. Fiscal Year started 1 Oct. Our government pathetic.
The Seattle Times
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November 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
view.email.seattletimes.com?qs=a1b722a05... Democrats shut down entire government over an 8 week CR without ACA subsidies. Now new CR until February no subsidies. All Agencies upside down. Fiscal Year started 1 Oct. Our government pathetic.