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like the republican campaign said she fucked her way to the top and she allowed immigrants to devour peoples pets and we’re debating whether she overused the phrase birthing person in her stump speech quoting angela davis, a thing that never happened

Huntington Won't Save Us This isn't a Problem of Civil-Military Relations

Here, I wrote about how Trump's use of the National Guard and active duty military in American cities isn't primarily a problem of civil-military relations.

othermeans.io/p/huntington...

The Destruction of NASA Would Be a Blow to Our Collective Imagination As NASA grapples with major proposed budget cuts and losing some of its most brilliant minds, America’s willingness to look outward is also at risk.

A wonderful piece of writing in which Richard Warnica spoke to a senior ex-NASA engineer about the grief surrounding Trump's cuts to the agency and what it means for our capacity to wonder and look beyond ourselves. "Like witnessing a death of an ideal.”

www.wired.com/story/the-de...

Wyoming Launches First State-Issued Stablecoin Wyoming has launched FRNT, the first U.S. state-backed stablecoin, fully collateralized with cash and Treasuries for digital transactions.

cryptonews.com/news/wyoming...

Article 1 section 10
"No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debt..."

Nothing made slavery’s toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers “learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter.” The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the “goodlooking” daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, “every private in the ranks” cursed “that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women,” according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, “By G–d I’ll fight till hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on.” 131

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

overheard in the discord

Here's an interesting one if you're a sicko

American Bushido has locked the U.S. military into a futile chase for an unworkable force structure wholly unprepared for a conflict with a “near peer competitor,” supercharged by the cult of lethality and VC-backed defense bros pushing AI and drones as one-size-fits-all solutions. Part II ⬇️

Great Week for Pandemic Flu Enthusiasts If you're feeling nostalgic for 2020, don't worry. The next pandemic will be bigger than COVID.

I wrote a new thing about Bobby Kennedy's crusade against vaccines in the context of H5N1. He trashed Moderna, and if there's a pandemic, he'll cash in on that decision.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/great-week...

SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

Pacific Marines Strategy 2025 - USNI News The following is the U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific document: Pacific Marine Strategy 2025. From the report The Purpose The U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (MARFORPAC) Strategy is the Commander o...

Every Marine (and our allies and joint partners) in the Indo-Pacific should read this: the Pacific Marines Strategy 2025.

news.usni.org/2025/05/30/p...

A screen shot of Elon Musk’s post on X, stating “Did my best.” This occurred as he reportedly stepped down from DOGE after he spent 5 months firing essential workers who had to be re-hired or replaced, firing others without replacement for no valid governmental purpose, lied about canceling contracts that were either not canceled or were already scheduled to expire, cut off food and medical aid to impoverished people in Africa who have life threatening diseases (likely causing 300k deaths), and employing unqualified kids who were security risks to conduct tasks that were patently unlawful and put critical infrastructure and sensitive personal data at risk.

Tech bros: “Move fast and break things!”
Observers: “Why are you breaking things? Now 300,000 people are dead.”
Tech bros:

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Can of Deschutes Lager

Deschutes’ white-ish label lager for Costco is outrageously good for the price ($14.99 for a 12pk). Really improves the math on filling a cooler for a cookout.

Line graph titled "Public opinion on the 'Most Important Problem,' 1950 to 1979." The y-axis shows the percentage of respondents citing a given issue as the most important problem, ranging from 0% to over 60%. The x-axis spans years 1950 to 1980, with vertical dashed lines marking presidential elections from 1960 to 1972. Four colored lines represent different issue categories: Foreign Affairs (f): Dark blue line, dominant until mid-1960s, peaks around 1965, then declines steadily. Economy (e): Yellow-green line, declines from 30% in 1950s to below 20% in 1960s, then spikes dramatically around 1974 to over 60%. Civil Rights (c): Purple line, nearly flat at low levels until a sharp peak around 1963–1965, then falls sharply. Social Control (s): Teal line, low and flat until a sharp rise in late 1960s, peaking around 1970–1972. Two red arrows highlight peaks: one for "civil rights" around 1963–1965, and one for "social control" around 1970–1972. Scatterplot points with letters ("f", "e", "c", "s") show individual data points used to estimate trend lines. Source: Omar Wasow (@owasow), with URL to research: http://j.mp/agenda-seeding

In 1963, Bernard Cohen wrote the press may not tell people what to think, but it does tell them what to think *about*.

Similarly, in 1960s protests and media made civil rights salient.

All to say, politicians may struggle to shape mass opinion, but they can influence which issues are salient.

Highly recommend these great writers.

Please let me know if you write on military affairs and I’ll add you to the list!

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'We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can't go on five holidays' Labour's VAT raid forces six-figure families to make lifestyle sacrifices

An actual tragedy is playing out in real time on the pages of the Telegraph.

If you are the praying kind then please pray for them.

This is phenomenal.

Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.

It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

>people stopped drinking in 2016 and became teetotaling nerds

I have a revolutionary new theory of how everything went wrong if people are willing to hear me out

This post is the closest I’ve gotten to being able to put together a master theory for Why This Is All Happening: why Trump could get elected, why Biden never got any credit, and why certain stuff never seems to break through open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

Sobering report from CBO: Nuke modernization cost expected to reach nearly $1 Trillion the next decade, 25% more than projected last year. www.cbo.gov/system/files...

This train wreck has been 15 years in the making as officials downplayed cost/risks of excessive modernization.

Guys, you're still trying to replace FDR. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him. Re-create him in the aggregate.

Taiwan’s Biggest Problem in Steeling Itself for War with China is Cultural - War on the Rocks General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly wants to prepare China for a war over Taiwan. The measures he is taking to ready its people, economy, legal system,

Washington can send arms, but only Taiwan can fix its military’s culture. warontherocks.com/2025/04/taiw...

So the Fort Belvoir campus is not all of the CGSC (which is actually centered in Leavenworth) but my understanding is it is a big part of it & if similar cuts are coming for all PME (professional military education), the results will be very bad for both military readiness & military history.