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Justin Rood

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Investigations, national security, music, funk & love. Formerly: ABC News, TPM, Insider, US Senate, CQ. Loves freedom.

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Essay | At the Top of Trump’s Team: Angry Vets Who Want to Upend U.S. Foreign Policy Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance and Pete Hegseth came back from service in the Global War on Terrorism determined to change America’s role in the world

The whole cabinet is full of antiwar pacifists, remember? www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

28.02.2026 18:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“You go to war with the army you have” comes back to me often

20.02.2026 23:27 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cc @thebaltimorebanner.com

20.02.2026 21:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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080: The MAGA Brain Rot Threatening to Undermine Midterm Elections feat. Hunter Walker | Posting Through It Get more from Posting Through It on Patreon

I went on the Posting Through It pod with @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social to talk about what's going on in Georgia and Trump's larger assault on elections.

We got into a bit of the debate about whether focusing on this is "doomerism." www.patreon.com/posts/080-ma...

17.02.2026 22:01 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

If there’s anyone who’s an expert on future-proofing your life, it’s def not the guy who became a newspaper editor and moved to Cleveland

16.02.2026 17:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Website Peace Park is a place for Takoma Park-area residents to connect with, learn from and support local community groups, makers and small businesses.

For more details follow @peacepark.bsky.social - and check out peacepark.us

06.09.2025 22:13 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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This is happening tomorrow. If folks are around, please come check it out.

06.09.2025 22:11 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Pour one out for a man who was 25 years ahead of his time.

29.08.2025 21:09 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity The biggest lie in media is the one that it tells about itself.

@juddlegum.bsky.social is a very, very sharp observer of media and politics.

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28.07.2025 11:31 👍 325 🔁 88 💬 7 📌 7

One possibility: there’s a single credible source with the only accessible copy, who has achieved their goal and isn’t interested in pushing things forward just now.

Have you heard any speculation regarding the source? It isn’t a huge universe of suspects, is it?

22.07.2025 23:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The only other scenario I can imagine is that it implicates someone else who cld damage him in some way, and has vowed to do so if certain info comes out. Which seems overly complex and ignores the lengthy, intimate history betw the two men.

16.07.2025 22:24 👍 36 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

This may be more of an indictment than a defense, but - if he only means *popular business and management books* then yes, you could read dozens of them a day via chatgpt summaries. Most are 5-minute concepts stretched over 256 pages.

07.07.2025 00:04 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

If JD Vance was bread

23.06.2025 22:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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18.06.2025 18:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Need to introduce the younguns to Get Your War On

18.06.2025 18:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not fucking this again. This is so dishonorable, in addition to being inhumane. This is the kind of thing that should be beneath us even at our worst.

17.06.2025 01:04 👍 178 🔁 55 💬 7 📌 4

I have never heard of organized rallies with armed volunteer security. The legal issues, even if no one gets shot, seem apparent and prohibitive.

17.06.2025 00:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you

17.06.2025 00:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Glad you’re here, Dustin. Happiest belated Father’s Day!

16.06.2025 13:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We made promises. Most Americans want to uphold them. This is a betrayal of an entire country.

13.06.2025 12:42 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Huh. I’ve seen journalists (@karenattiah.bsky.social in particular) pointing out Obama’s immigration policies were draconian, and online lefties attacking that. I don’t consider Attiah “the online left.” Nor were her facts attacks — they are public record. Did I miss an episode of BlueSky?

10.06.2025 13:58 👍 75 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1

bsky.app/profile/kjhe...

10.06.2025 12:51 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The presence of power excuses the absence of stewardship. It’s a mentality I will never grasp, as a citizen or a journalist.

10.06.2025 12:50 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0