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James
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For the sake of posterity, the reading lists I made for military theory and war related literature.
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Doing my patriotic duty
December 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Doing my patriotic duty
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people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?
December 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?
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the young groyper republican is, like, excluding for income, the *textbook* example of a target for radicalization by basically every extremist group in human history, just a self-hating human-shaped vessel waiting to be filled up by the darkest thing that comes along
they've just never had to work hard for anything, they've never had to fight for anything, they're never satisfied with their efforts, they've never had anything they wanted to fight *for*, they don't believe in anything or anyone, including themselves
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
the young groyper republican is, like, excluding for income, the *textbook* example of a target for radicalization by basically every extremist group in human history, just a self-hating human-shaped vessel waiting to be filled up by the darkest thing that comes along
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I think all they know is owning the libs and escalation spirals, and they think they can do a cultural revolution by using the White House as a bully pulpit against artists they fucking hate
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I think all they know is owning the libs and escalation spirals, and they think they can do a cultural revolution by using the White House as a bully pulpit against artists they fucking hate
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
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this is why it drives me insane. thank you james. imagine if the army watched iran-iraq and decided "alright boys we need to throw out AirLand Battle and do exactly what the iraqis are doing. it's The Future"
I think the best parallel is the Iran-Iraq War. It’s a brutal slog between under equipped and exhausted conventional military forces that probably has no real bearing on how other contemporary conventional conflicts be will be fought.
Looking back through history, what war is most relevant for thinking about how the Ukraine war is going or a hypothetical Taiwan war? I’ve heard of people referring to the Ukraine War as “World War 1 with Blade Runner aesthetics” is that a fair characterization?
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
this is why it drives me insane. thank you james. imagine if the army watched iran-iraq and decided "alright boys we need to throw out AirLand Battle and do exactly what the iraqis are doing. it's The Future"
I think the best parallel is the Iran-Iraq War. It’s a brutal slog between under equipped and exhausted conventional military forces that probably has no real bearing on how other contemporary conventional conflicts be will be fought.
Looking back through history, what war is most relevant for thinking about how the Ukraine war is going or a hypothetical Taiwan war? I’ve heard of people referring to the Ukraine War as “World War 1 with Blade Runner aesthetics” is that a fair characterization?
December 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I think the best parallel is the Iran-Iraq War. It’s a brutal slog between under equipped and exhausted conventional military forces that probably has no real bearing on how other contemporary conventional conflicts be will be fought.
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Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
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The 22nd MEU has been providing assistance to Jamaica for the last month. Just because no one pays attention to US disaster response doesn’t mean the it’s not routine for Marines. It’s why they’re based forward.
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The 22nd MEU has been providing assistance to Jamaica for the last month. Just because no one pays attention to US disaster response doesn’t mean the it’s not routine for Marines. It’s why they’re based forward.
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
www.22ndmeu.marines.mil/News/Press-R...
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Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
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"Writing for the Texas Observer, the Dallas-based journalist, with help from Tristan Lee of Bellingcat, has exposed several neo-Nazis, including an ICE prosecutor who was operating a White supremacist X account."
That's right
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That's right
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December 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Writing for the Texas Observer, the Dallas-based journalist, with help from Tristan Lee of Bellingcat, has exposed several neo-Nazis, including an ICE prosecutor who was operating a White supremacist X account."
That's right
www.dmagazine.com/guides/best-...
That's right
www.dmagazine.com/guides/best-...
To put this differently—we’re spending 18 billion dollars annually to detain random people at Guantanamo Bay for no reason other than it looks cool on social media.
Or to put it another way; about 20% of DHS’s annual budget if you don’t include the supplemental budget.
Or to put it another way; about 20% of DHS’s annual budget if you don’t include the supplemental budget.
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan has rejected DOJ's effort to dismiss a lawsuit brought by immigration detainees at Guanatanamo Bay, saying the plaintiffs made a plausible claim that the policy is illegal and punitive. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
To put this differently—we’re spending 18 billion dollars annually to detain random people at Guantanamo Bay for no reason other than it looks cool on social media.
Or to put it another way; about 20% of DHS’s annual budget if you don’t include the supplemental budget.
Or to put it another way; about 20% of DHS’s annual budget if you don’t include the supplemental budget.
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for those of you counting at home, that's $50M/day x more than 120 days, that DHS budget isn't going to last anywhere near as long as it was intended to
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan has rejected DOJ's effort to dismiss a lawsuit brought by immigration detainees at Guanatanamo Bay, saying the plaintiffs made a plausible claim that the policy is illegal and punitive. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
for those of you counting at home, that's $50M/day x more than 120 days, that DHS budget isn't going to last anywhere near as long as it was intended to
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“The president inhabits a position of moral leadership. When the president and his officials sell their policies, they’re selling a version of what it means to be an American”
I wrote about the Trump administration, the boat strikes, and St. Augustine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
I wrote about the Trump administration, the boat strikes, and St. Augustine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“The president inhabits a position of moral leadership. When the president and his officials sell their policies, they’re selling a version of what it means to be an American”
I wrote about the Trump administration, the boat strikes, and St. Augustine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
I wrote about the Trump administration, the boat strikes, and St. Augustine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
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DOD: launching Hellfires at boats allegedly bringing cocaine to the US
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
DOD: launching Hellfires at boats allegedly bringing cocaine to the US
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself
I guess you could say Michael Anton really put the SS in the NSS huh?
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I guess you could say Michael Anton really put the SS in the NSS huh?
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Taiwan & Japan:
“We are concerned about hostile PLA actions.”
Trump NSS:
“Have you tried forming a burden-sharing WhatsApp group?”
“We are concerned about hostile PLA actions.”
Trump NSS:
“Have you tried forming a burden-sharing WhatsApp group?”
A. “Burden-Sharing and Burden-Shifting” section
This section states plainly:
• The U.S. will no longer act as Atlas carrying the world on its shoulders.
• Allies are now means to an end, not partners in a shared project.
This section states plainly:
• The U.S. will no longer act as Atlas carrying the world on its shoulders.
• Allies are now means to an end, not partners in a shared project.
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Taiwan & Japan:
“We are concerned about hostile PLA actions.”
Trump NSS:
“Have you tried forming a burden-sharing WhatsApp group?”
“We are concerned about hostile PLA actions.”
Trump NSS:
“Have you tried forming a burden-sharing WhatsApp group?”
I think I would probably care a lot more about the National Security Strategy if we had an administration that actually cared about acting in line with their own stated policies
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I think I would probably care a lot more about the National Security Strategy if we had an administration that actually cared about acting in line with their own stated policies
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At least the @thebulwark.com guys rip the inconsistencies. Their math on the claim of the amount of drugs for "millions" to be dead was a funny. But damn, someone please go after Himes for giving Bradley a pass. Cotton makes it sound like it was a DESRON of drugs.
youtu.be/NeYO4XXIg4c?...
youtu.be/NeYO4XXIg4c?...
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
At least the @thebulwark.com guys rip the inconsistencies. Their math on the claim of the amount of drugs for "millions" to be dead was a funny. But damn, someone please go after Himes for giving Bradley a pass. Cotton makes it sound like it was a DESRON of drugs.
youtu.be/NeYO4XXIg4c?...
youtu.be/NeYO4XXIg4c?...
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jesus fucking christ anton
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
jesus fucking christ anton