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He Ain't Shit
There’s a moment in the history of real courage—actual, physical and moral courage fused so tightly they become indistinguishable—that deserves to be held up every time Americans start to doubt the po...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Trump took the bait in a hilariously death-threat kind of way, huh?
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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So ummmm, another word for this is "dying."
November 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Some of the most interesting movies are where the main character is an FBI informant the whole time huh?
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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I’ve been around fucked up things enough in my life to know the first reports are always wrong but it kind of seems like some AI genius should do a Chris Hansen meets Trump in the kitchen session. Just sayin.
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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For Veterans Day
When I look back on my Navy SEAL younger self—18, 23, 28, deployed halfway around the world —I see a version of me who volunteered for something I didn’t actually understand, but believed in fully.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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You Win Some, You Lose Some
Dick Cheney’s life is a reminder that the story of a public figure is rarely clean.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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The Adults Have Arrived
If Virginia and New Jersey voters make the choices the polling suggests, Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill will soon become governors.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Concentrate
It's not over
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October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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The East Wing
Trump can put in a WaWa for all I care
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October 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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On God And Country
I fully admit I wasn’t much of a SEAL.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Getting Beat Up In A Mostly Empty Arena Is Just A Job | Defector
The first sign that fight night in Brooklyn on Saturday might not be a big success was the disparity between the line at the front entrance, which was nonexistent, and the line at the side door where ...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Secretary of Cringe
A friend sent me the above picture recently, and I replied immediately: cringe.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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On Racists
And Vermont
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October 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Necessary Progress
Has Led To Fatal Arrogance
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October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Just signed up for No Kings this weekend.
October 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The reason people like MTG have falling outs with Trump is they believe in things.

Might be wrong about em, but Trump believes in nothing.
October 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Clicks, clicks, clicks
I’m a Naval Academy graduate, an Emergency Room doctor, a Harvard Medical School grad, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, a competitive boxer, a father, a husband, a foster parent, a refugee charity fo...
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October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Thou canst ride that...
In the final scene of my favorite work of fiction, the protagonist Robert Jordan lies on a Spanish hillside with a snapped femur, fascist troops are in pursuit, and the band of guerillas he has led in...
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October 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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"Something For Pain"
I worked a shift last night.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Don't Come For EMTALA
You might not like where that leads
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October 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Some thoughts
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Dude...
It's a crisatunity
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October 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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There are no groups of people with more finely calibrated bullshit detectors than soldiers.

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I Will Sleep Easier
After that clownshow
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September 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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On Liberalism and Men
A while back, I listened to an Ezra Klein podcast.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Everyone Take A Chill Pill
Enough Generals Are Enough Good
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September 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM