Jason Thomas
@jasont66.bsky.social
Part time student, full time dad, an armour ‘once was.’ Into interesting stuff and manners. Oxford comma believer. Occasionally write on strategy and military affairs.
So i wrote this. open.substack.com/pub/jasont66...
On Bullsh!t and Statecraft
Turning off the noise
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So i wrote this. open.substack.com/pub/jasont66...
This is the way
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This is the way
More in The Atlantic series on how to polish the turd. First it was RFK Jr now it is cabbage. Both with same IQ.
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
More in The Atlantic series on how to polish the turd. First it was RFK Jr now it is cabbage. Both with same IQ.
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I think if 24 people are dead it's more than "testing" a ceasefire.
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I think if 24 people are dead it's more than "testing" a ceasefire.
I am certainly no Oscar Wilde or even a good year 12 Eng Lit student, but I mean seriously wtf is this. It’s a car smash lost in an earthquake during a one hundred year storm. If it’s an attempt at Gonzo, Hunter S is turning in his grave.
this is quite possibly the worse writing i have ever experienced. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I am certainly no Oscar Wilde or even a good year 12 Eng Lit student, but I mean seriously wtf is this. It’s a car smash lost in an earthquake during a one hundred year storm. If it’s an attempt at Gonzo, Hunter S is turning in his grave.
Oh you think? It wasn’t a plan just misplaced hope.
Hamas’s popularity has edged up among Palestinians in Gaza since the cease-fire, posing a challenge to President Trump’s plan to bring peace to the enclave by disarming the militant group.
Hamas’s Popularity Rises in Gaza, Complicating Trump Plan to Disarm Militants
Many Palestinians in Gaza want the militant group to leave power, but still welcome a crackdown on crime that followed last month’s cease-fire.
on.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Oh you think? It wasn’t a plan just misplaced hope.
So many times in the past ten months this has rattled through my head.
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
So many times in the past ten months this has rattled through my head.
‘the leak, which he says caused "enormous damage to Israel's public image"’ Well perhaps don’t rape people in might be a better place to start.
Ex-Israeli army legal chief 'stages suicide' amid Palestinian prisoner rape scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ex-israeli-military-top-lawyer-missing-after-admitting-leaking-soldiers-rape-video
Ex-Israeli army legal chief 'stages suicide' amid Palestinian prisoner rape scandal
Police arrest Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi on suspicion of faking a suicide attempt to get rid of a phone containing evidence in the video leak case
www.middleeasteye.net
November 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
‘the leak, which he says caused "enormous damage to Israel's public image"’ Well perhaps don’t rape people in might be a better place to start.
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This is brilliant
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is brilliant
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
If you are shelling, it’s not a truce.
Israel launches more strikes on Gaza overnight, testing fragile truce
Israel launches more strikes on Gaza overnight, testing fragile truce
One Palestinian killed by Israeli shelling, another shot dead by Israeli military
www.irishtimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If you are shelling, it’s not a truce.
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Excellent summary. When I discuss the Constitution in class with students, we pay attention to the fact that Article I is about Congress and it takes up about half the text of the document. If the Founders had “intent,” it was for Congress to assume a massive role in the federal government.
The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
www.inquirer.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Excellent summary. When I discuss the Constitution in class with students, we pay attention to the fact that Article I is about Congress and it takes up about half the text of the document. If the Founders had “intent,” it was for Congress to assume a massive role in the federal government.
Getting profoundly desperate. He has worn that T-Shirt multiple times. No one could possibly equate that band to anti-semitism. The failure of conservatives to raise the bar does a disservice to Oz. You need a good opposition.
Australian Jewish groups weren’t lining up to endorse Ley’s Joy Division criticisms on Tuesday. Contacted for comment, none of the major community organisations chose to back her criticisms of Albanese’s T-shirt
It featured an album released 46 years ago
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It featured an album released 46 years ago
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sussan Ley goes after Anthony Albanese’s Joy Division T-shirt as the Coalition tears itself apart, again
While the opposition leader criticised the prime minister’s clothing as a ‘profound failure of judgment’, Albanese posted he was ‘getting things done’
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Getting profoundly desperate. He has worn that T-Shirt multiple times. No one could possibly equate that band to anti-semitism. The failure of conservatives to raise the bar does a disservice to Oz. You need a good opposition.
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
This individual going full MAGA was on my bingo card. As a fellow White Australian Male, he really needs to STFU about being strangers in Oz, because we weren’t here first and everyone, not just pasty white guys built it, for better and for worse. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Hastie taunted over claim that Australians are 'strangers in our own home'
The home affairs minister says Andrew Hastie should name which visa classes he would cut after the shadow home affairs minister suggested "unsustainable" immigration was making Australians "feel like ...
www.abc.net.au
October 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This individual going full MAGA was on my bingo card. As a fellow White Australian Male, he really needs to STFU about being strangers in Oz, because we weren’t here first and everyone, not just pasty white guys built it, for better and for worse. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
So I just watched 10 seconds of the Tangerine Tyrant’s speech to the UNGA, and I am very glad he is not meeting the PM of Australia. I mean
a man with a mullet and a mustache is wearing a wig and making a funny face .
Alt: a man with a mullet and a mustache is wearing a wig and making a funny face .
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September 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
So I just watched 10 seconds of the Tangerine Tyrant’s speech to the UNGA, and I am very glad he is not meeting the PM of Australia. I mean
So walking home with my son after his MMR shot I was explaining how vaccines work and the selfishness of the deniers. I told him about the Ivermectin belief in regards to COVID. My 9 yo stopped in his tracks, ‘that’s silly.’ Some days there is hope.
September 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
So walking home with my son after his MMR shot I was explaining how vaccines work and the selfishness of the deniers. I told him about the Ivermectin belief in regards to COVID. My 9 yo stopped in his tracks, ‘that’s silly.’ Some days there is hope.
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„The assumption that ego management can be transmuted into lasting policy gains is wrong.“ My colleague Jeremy Shapiro has it exactly right. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe should be wary of the Trump flattery trap
The “flatter, appease, distract” strategy may produce the appearance of stability, but it creates a reality of vulnerability.
www.politico.eu
September 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
„The assumption that ego management can be transmuted into lasting policy gains is wrong.“ My colleague Jeremy Shapiro has it exactly right. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Because it worked so well with Russia.
🥔 Ambivalent Belarus: Between the White House and the Kremlin
Washington’s new policy seeks to pull Belarus westward. Lukashenko merely throws dust in Western eyes to distract from his country’s militarization and economic decline.
Read more 👀⬇️
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Washington’s new policy seeks to pull Belarus westward. Lukashenko merely throws dust in Western eyes to distract from his country’s militarization and economic decline.
Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/ambivalent-b...
Ambivalent Belarus: Between the White House and the Kremlin
Another dictator emerging from the shadow of international isolation is Belarus’s self-proclaimed President, Aleksandr Lukashenko. The U.S. hopes to normalize relations with Belarus. On September 11, ...
theukrainianreview.info
September 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Because it worked so well with Russia.
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no shit
UK government report based on internal civil service trial finds Copilot doesn’t increase productivity, and indeed makes Excel take longer and with more errors, and requires Powerpoint users to have ‘corrective action’ applied to their outputs. www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
www.theregister.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
no shit
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
Time to unhook, he is a shaman.
"Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen would not have raced to flatter the president in the White House if he were wholly committed to Ukraine’s security or wholly contemptuous of it. It is the ambiguity, the sense that he can be won over, that keeps them hooked..."
Trump’s ambiguity is the worst of all worlds
He supports Europe enough to make it complacent but not enough to make it safe
on.ft.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Time to unhook, he is a shaman.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…