Rules-based Order Enjoyer
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Americae sine Caesaribus
International security | democratic backsliding | occasional exasperation
International security | democratic backsliding | occasional exasperation
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Until the end of my days I will harbor a burning rage toward anyone who entertained the slightest inkling of defunding American aid programs
Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts
Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Until the end of my days I will harbor a burning rage toward anyone who entertained the slightest inkling of defunding American aid programs
There are many serving in Trump II that don't have any real principles other than vengeance, power, and hurting others.
Then there are ideologues like Carr. In this case it is because he fundamentally disagrees with the idea of independent executive agencies & he practices that - despite the law.
Then there are ideologues like Carr. In this case it is because he fundamentally disagrees with the idea of independent executive agencies & he practices that - despite the law.
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
CARR: I think th---
L: Yes or no
C: There's a test for this in the la---
L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question
C: The FCC is not
L: So is your website lying?
C: Possibly
December 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
There are many serving in Trump II that don't have any real principles other than vengeance, power, and hurting others.
Then there are ideologues like Carr. In this case it is because he fundamentally disagrees with the idea of independent executive agencies & he practices that - despite the law.
Then there are ideologues like Carr. In this case it is because he fundamentally disagrees with the idea of independent executive agencies & he practices that - despite the law.
Can you even imagine what the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Residence is looking like these days?
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Can you even imagine what the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Residence is looking like these days?
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oh you don’t say
EXCLUSIVE
New research shows for first time the impact influencers have on politics. Key findings:
• Creators are more impactful than traditional media
• Apolitical influencers have more impact than political ones
• Regular social media use pushes users to the right
www.wired.com/story/the-mo...
New research shows for first time the impact influencers have on politics. Key findings:
• Creators are more impactful than traditional media
• Apolitical influencers have more impact than political ones
• Regular social media use pushes users to the right
www.wired.com/story/the-mo...
The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics
New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics—especially those who don't normally share political content.
www.wired.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
oh you don’t say
Jeffries and Schumer can be annoying AF but no one can look back to the weeks prior to the shutdown, the plays during the shutdown, and now today and objectively say there wasn't sound strategy behind it.
Democrats have defined the debate on ACA subsidies and they have the public.
Democrats have defined the debate on ACA subsidies and they have the public.
BREAKING: Four House Republicans joined Democrats to force a vote on a straight three-year extension of the enhanced Obamacare tax credits that expires Dec. 31.
Frustrated GOP moderates join Democrats to force Obamacare extension vote
Fitzpatrick said "it is House leadership themselves that have forced this outcome."
www.politico.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Jeffries and Schumer can be annoying AF but no one can look back to the weeks prior to the shutdown, the plays during the shutdown, and now today and objectively say there wasn't sound strategy behind it.
Democrats have defined the debate on ACA subsidies and they have the public.
Democrats have defined the debate on ACA subsidies and they have the public.
Problem of his own making but it might be!
The PEOC (presidential bunker) is right there under the footprint of this mess and it would be a coup for foreign intel services to get someone embedded with the contractors.
The PEOC (presidential bunker) is right there under the footprint of this mess and it would be a coup for foreign intel services to get someone embedded with the contractors.
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Problem of his own making but it might be!
The PEOC (presidential bunker) is right there under the footprint of this mess and it would be a coup for foreign intel services to get someone embedded with the contractors.
The PEOC (presidential bunker) is right there under the footprint of this mess and it would be a coup for foreign intel services to get someone embedded with the contractors.
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I’d love to see the DoD try to undo Goldwater-Nichols via executive fiat. Should go great.
December 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I’d love to see the DoD try to undo Goldwater-Nichols via executive fiat. Should go great.
Idk what Wiles is up to after being silent for nearly an entire year and it’s hard to tell if it’s giving “jumping ship” or extremely clumsy burn book. Either way, this is an insane thing to say on the record if you’re ostensibly protecting the POTUS. Glad she did it!
December 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Idk what Wiles is up to after being silent for nearly an entire year and it’s hard to tell if it’s giving “jumping ship” or extremely clumsy burn book. Either way, this is an insane thing to say on the record if you’re ostensibly protecting the POTUS. Glad she did it!
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The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
Good point and the pushback on Truth is telling. These are his strongest soldiers and even they’re aghast.
Underrated as well: a big slice of “soft” MAGA (far less online) is carefully sheltered from Trump’s poasting by the Right’s info ecosystem. This one’s going to punch through the shields.
Underrated as well: a big slice of “soft” MAGA (far less online) is carefully sheltered from Trump’s poasting by the Right’s info ecosystem. This one’s going to punch through the shields.
a lot of MAGA people have basically an imagined vision of Trump and i think the Reiner post is a good example of them encountering reality for the first time
"it's beneath you" lol
December 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Good point and the pushback on Truth is telling. These are his strongest soldiers and even they’re aghast.
Underrated as well: a big slice of “soft” MAGA (far less online) is carefully sheltered from Trump’s poasting by the Right’s info ecosystem. This one’s going to punch through the shields.
Underrated as well: a big slice of “soft” MAGA (far less online) is carefully sheltered from Trump’s poasting by the Right’s info ecosystem. This one’s going to punch through the shields.
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yeah honestly wild we had two generational supply shocks right next to each other, that also killed ZIRP dead
if it was just COVID I think it would have been manageable, but then it was COVID + Russia invading Ukraine and the supply shock from both countries
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
yeah honestly wild we had two generational supply shocks right next to each other, that also killed ZIRP dead
Hard to think of a more transparent window into that man’s damaged psyche.
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hard to think of a more transparent window into that man’s damaged psyche.
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The reason to send migrants to GTMO is to reinforce the migrants = terrorists narrative.
The administration isn’t subtle.
The administration isn’t subtle.
An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.
December 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The reason to send migrants to GTMO is to reinforce the migrants = terrorists narrative.
The administration isn’t subtle.
The administration isn’t subtle.
“after 9/11, there was a shift in tone and substance in the media. Something monumental had changed, and the media responded.”
Sully notes that some post-9/11 shifts were bad but the point is that media reoriented in the wake. No such shift in the ongoing slide to competitive authoritarianism.
Sully notes that some post-9/11 shifts were bad but the point is that media reoriented in the wake. No such shift in the ongoing slide to competitive authoritarianism.
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“after 9/11, there was a shift in tone and substance in the media. Something monumental had changed, and the media responded.”
Sully notes that some post-9/11 shifts were bad but the point is that media reoriented in the wake. No such shift in the ongoing slide to competitive authoritarianism.
Sully notes that some post-9/11 shifts were bad but the point is that media reoriented in the wake. No such shift in the ongoing slide to competitive authoritarianism.
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WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
I’d really love to see someone try to explain a dummymander to Trump.
Don’t think we should dismiss the possibility that what really tanked the Indiana redistricting bill was Repubs looking at all the special election results & considering the possibility that by trying to gain two more seats they could leave themselves too exposed to a wave & end up losing 3-4 seats
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I’d really love to see someone try to explain a dummymander to Trump.
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Great piece by Chris Miller: “The Trump administration’s offer of economic inducements misses the point. Russia doesn’t want a business deal, it wants Ukraine: a building block of Mr. Putin’s new sphere of control and a victory that could humiliate the West and demonstrate his great-power status."
Opinion | Putin Isn’t in It for the Money
That’s why he hasn’t accepted the Trump peace plan. He’s a czar, not a businessman, and he wants to swallow Ukraine.
www.wsj.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Great piece by Chris Miller: “The Trump administration’s offer of economic inducements misses the point. Russia doesn’t want a business deal, it wants Ukraine: a building block of Mr. Putin’s new sphere of control and a victory that could humiliate the West and demonstrate his great-power status."
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Perfect encapsulation of the entire diseased industry. Save the real news for the self-serving, brand-building book deal, which gets released months or years after it might have affected world events only to be read by dozens of fellow Beltway gossip addicts.
The cosmic body horror version of that.
The cosmic body horror version of that.
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Perfect encapsulation of the entire diseased industry. Save the real news for the self-serving, brand-building book deal, which gets released months or years after it might have affected world events only to be read by dozens of fellow Beltway gossip addicts.
The cosmic body horror version of that.
The cosmic body horror version of that.
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Mark Rutte: "Russia is already escalating its covert campaign against our societies," ... "We must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We must prepare for war with Russia, says Nato chief in stark new warning
Russian could attack Nato within five years, Mark Rutte said, warning allies to start ramping up preparations
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Mark Rutte: "Russia is already escalating its covert campaign against our societies," ... "We must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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if this were truly the case, they’d have kept the shutdown going and we would be reading about tens of thousands of fed workers being evicted and foreclosed on right before christmas
December 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
if this were truly the case, they’d have kept the shutdown going and we would be reading about tens of thousands of fed workers being evicted and foreclosed on right before christmas
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“DUDE HOW CAN WE POSSIBLY DEAL WITH TONS OF CHEAP DRONES BEING MASS PRODUCED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
34 year old divorced alcoholic pilot flying an 80 million dollar computer that can accurately strike a target from 300 miles away:
34 year old divorced alcoholic pilot flying an 80 million dollar computer that can accurately strike a target from 300 miles away:
December 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“DUDE HOW CAN WE POSSIBLY DEAL WITH TONS OF CHEAP DRONES BEING MASS PRODUCED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
34 year old divorced alcoholic pilot flying an 80 million dollar computer that can accurately strike a target from 300 miles away:
34 year old divorced alcoholic pilot flying an 80 million dollar computer that can accurately strike a target from 300 miles away:
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36% was Biden’s lowest approval ever, in July 2024, and drove him out of the presidential race
lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
36% was Biden’s lowest approval ever, in July 2024, and drove him out of the presidential race
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
RW domestic terror aside, we’ve seen a steady trickle of intel about Russian infrastructure sabotage & efforts targeting commercial and government aircraft (from GPS jamming to plans to ship incendiary devices on cargo flights). Plus the downing of MH17, 11ya…
Patel’s proxy before Congress:
Patel’s proxy before Congress:
FBI witness Michael Glasheen that Kash sent instead of testifying himself told Bennie Thompson that Antifa is the biggest terrorist threat.
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
RW domestic terror aside, we’ve seen a steady trickle of intel about Russian infrastructure sabotage & efforts targeting commercial and government aircraft (from GPS jamming to plans to ship incendiary devices on cargo flights). Plus the downing of MH17, 11ya…
Patel’s proxy before Congress:
Patel’s proxy before Congress: