Jill Sargent Russell, PhD

a little girl in a red and purple dress is brushing her hair with a brush . ALT: a little girl in a red and purple dress is brushing her hair with a brush .

And of course I stumbled onto this because someone else put a "Primary Jeffries" quote-post on my TL.

-- briefings to the American public. Because that is going to make the supplemental issue a non-fucking-starter, given the magnitude of how bad it will go.

Jiminy jumping Cricket.

There is as yet no request. There is no understanding of what Trump is doing or going to do. The matter of how to vote on a supplemental is two or three steps away. I don't think Jeffries needs to direct political capital to that issue right now.

They want to force the administration to give the --

1/ Lately, there has been an uptick in fabricated quotes and AI-generated images of me on social media. Even seemingly innocuous quotes can be spread to stoke division and misrepresent perspectives. AI slop on social media is becoming a dangerous vehicle for misinformation.

It's amazing that you missed the part where he said he didn't support Gavin Newsom. He just doesn't feel the need to denounce him every day as if it were a necessary political catechism.

Me, I just don't talk about him. There are far more interesting candidates. Seems stronger than a denunciation.

A now deleted post from Energy Secretary Chris Wright reads: President Trump is maintaining stability of global energy during the military operations against Iran. The U.S. Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing to global markets.

This was a lie.

-- power is invincible because the balance of war is political. Having excess military capacity and capability does not prevent the election of morons into the highest office.

Or this proves that the bougie weapons of peacetime force displays aren't effective in significant conventional operations.

If this is enduring, American arsenals will adapt. That sort of arsenal looks like what you need, not what you want. It's spare, lean, no frills. See Ukraine.

No military --

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

BREAKING NYT:

An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

This doesn’t happen with a competent government.

1 of the things that pissed me off about Biden bashing…nobody ever talked about how he had some of the most capable cabinets & staffers ever.

Even if he got sick we were still going to be in good hands & that matters more than people realized.

Just lead them a lot more.

🔥💥 A mobile air defense unit of Ukraine’s Border Guard shoots down a Russian Shahed-136 drone with small arms.

STEAM izglītība ir viens no pamatiem Latvijas nākotnes attīstībai. 🔬🇱🇻

Ir iedvesmojoši redzēt tādus cilvēkus kā Linda Liepiņa un Jānis Aļeksejevs, kuru privātā iniciatīva, zināšanas un entuziasms rada “Roboskolu”, kur bērni var attīstīt radošumu, tehnoloģiskās prasmes un interesi par zinātni.

When child care disappears, parents – especially moms – are forced to reduce hours or leave the workforce entirely.

These actions have consequences, and these consequences are making your life more expensive.

I'm not arguing that diplo failure won't exist, so agree re Budapest. Just looking at the causes. And I'm not sure apathy is better than antipathy, so it's not even a defense against the outcome. We fucked up.

"Viva" is UK for dissertation defense.

I'm tired Cliff, not offended. I've had to defend my position to a punctilio. And, at the end of the day, you tell me it wasn't a position worth taking. Woof

Meanwhile, the OP was objectively bad. Do you think the French need winter explained to them? FFS.

Local paper and City Hall at odds with each other? Heaven forfend!

See, you call it "the paper of record", excise it from its context, then blame it for something normal in local dynamics. Read it as a NY thing and correct for that.

Erika Kirk in Black Dress with Donald Trump. It looks like a terrible wedding photo.

It looks like a deranged wedding photo, I'm sorry. 😬

Well now, that's just a challenge. 🤣

I don't need to be vivaed this hard.

I'm willing to bet that, given how the campaign is running - an airpower, stand-off fires event to attempt strategic effect - that SecDef/POTUS were warned Hormuz would be in play, and that defense would be highly difficult to impossible, and those warnings were ignored.

Recall Iraq. Shinseki had a plan for a correctly-sized force to deal with the aftermath. Nobody liked that cost or the political message it sent. The administration chose a different plan.

And the corollary to this is: the plan for Hormuz was, don't start nothing, won't be nothing. Because all of the ways to fight it open are terrible. That's why JCPOA was such a boon to the US.

It's almost never a planning failure, always a choices failure.

There's a COA to keep Hormuz open: it costs a shedload in money, ships, personnel, and escalation risk. It isn't, oops we forgot the coats!

And Venezuela made it even worse and more obvious.

The problems are the choices.

It's an empty box with a note: "No."

My worry as a historian is not "AI will replace me" but "AI could eventually make it impossible to replace me"...

-- better way to phrase it. But it's not "yes, and".

"Yes, and" isn't my argument. I use that device all the time. I understand the rhetorical power of advancing by including.

And so I specifically use No constructions when I mean them.

I was owed, if we're being collegial, more effort on your part to understand my argument. Maybe there is a --

Do you need bigger shoes with lifts? Look at that foot.

-- If I want to workshop my ideas, I know where to go. But this has been my focus and work for decades. Unsolicited advice, without the least effort to understand my position, is unwarranted. And I doubt you'd rock up on a man of my qualifications so nonchalantly.