What a wonderful night spent supporting the @newsanctuarynsc.bsky.social. Their tireless work and advocacy to keep families together is a guiding light in these times of darkness.
The evening was truly elevated by the beautiful hymns of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, still ringing in my ears. (1/2)
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Here’s last night’s story about USAID, why the Trump Administration has gutted it, who is being impacted, and how many nice things John can say about George W. Bush. It’s more than zero! By a very narrow margin, it is more than zero. youtu.be/tU8S13xYJNM
<<Laugh-cries in GWOT surge dwell ratio>>
But like who is responsible for the anti-troops frame here? It would be nice if Jake took some ownership
RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:
Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.
W/n last 48 hrs 4 families received notifications that forever changed their lives. 2 more will shortly; their unit is still very much in the fight. It is impractical to expect protection everywhere, but we should expect leaders to talk about the gravity of these losses with sincerity and reverence.
Is there enough state capacity and communication to organize that?
Rangers + IRF for the aura farming?
I know a tank bar that would go great with @patdonahoearmy.bsky.social
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There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana
(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)
The DoD autonomous weapons policy was published in 2023 (DoDD 3000.09) and auto weapons have been in development ever since. None of these things should be surprising.
Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.
Some heroes wear clocks 😊❤️
“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...
Your now-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress are okay with all of this...
words projected on the front of the USIP building that say “Trump destroyed this Institution, imposing his name on the building, a narcissistic attempt to associate himself with peacemaking.”
New — This was projected on the US Institute of Peace building this evening ahead of the first meeting tomorrow of Trump’s farcically-named “Board of Peace.”
Photo taken by person who was over there tonight. Unclear who’s behind the projection.
Don’t disagree. My point is that the lefty case for a robust military does not include ‘the military can do HA/DR.’ It’s more that if you really believe “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” eventually you need to put folks in harms way to stop the grossest injustices
The military can certainly be a force for good, but USAID was far better at getting into places. If the US could operate in a country, there were functionally zero AID denied spaces
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
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Wow.
It's also part of a very direct negation of the latest stupid tweet by Musk: people have given so much, two of them their lives, to defend a multicultural city and the rights of people not exactly like them. And that multiculturalism is American culture.
If you couldn’t bring yourself to vote against Trump because of Gaza, I need you to understand that you own a piece of each of those 9.4 million deaths.
Hey, how are things going in Gaza by the way?
I bought XvT on Good Old Games before I remembered it was joystick-only.
Cue sad trombone
The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape.
After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.
An American-made hunger crisis. A worsening cholera epidemic.
Our reporters journeyed to some of the places most devastated by Trump’s dismantling of foreign aid.
They spoke to hundreds of people who witnessed and experienced how political appointees cut programs in arbitrary ways:
