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Giselle Donnelly

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I’m an author, musician, gardener, blissfully married trans woman, former fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

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The Washington Post’s animus toward a pluralistic society explains why it is dying.

14.03.2026 13:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The idea that the state has a legitimate interest in making an individual “appreciate” anything is just insane. Not to mention the indeterminacy of what constitutes “appreciation.” Liberal states exist to encourage us to become what we aspire to be, not chain us to our condition at birth.

13.03.2026 16:16 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A flock of ‘Hawks, following their traditional migratory path.

12.03.2026 13:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of your best.

08.03.2026 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The way she smirks through this is just obscene.

06.03.2026 21:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Male hetero culture.

06.03.2026 21:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He’s exceeding design tolerances.

03.03.2026 17:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At least he didn’t say, “No dudes in dresses.”

03.03.2026 02:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Seizing on a scenario.” If you don’t know where you’re going, any path will get you there.

03.03.2026 01:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Republicans ignoring the Constitution does not, alas, boggle the mind.

02.03.2026 01:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Killing Khamenei Is Not the Same as Regime Change President Trump has committed to regime change, but doesn’t seem to know how or to what.

She lives, Part III:

Killing Khamenei Is Not the Same as Regime Change
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

01.03.2026 21:29 👍 40 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

It’s BORED of Peace.

01.03.2026 02:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If they hit the Green Bean, it will be a blessing.

01.03.2026 02:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Duke of Medina Sidonia.

01.03.2026 01:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That didn’t take long. But his hair is still perfect. A-hooo!

01.03.2026 00:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Angry Black Woman Alert!

27.02.2026 22:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Facts are gnarly.

thedispatch.com/article/asse...

27.02.2026 17:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is one of those I-can’t-believe-we’re-having-this-discussion moments.

27.02.2026 02:09 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kansas invalidates driver’s licenses, birth certificates of over 1,000 transgender residents The Kansas state government has invalidated the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who changed the gender on those documents, in accordance with a law that took effect o...

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

This is what Gavin Newsom would call “culturally normal.”

26.02.2026 20:41 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Punishing trans women, as Gavin Newsom might say, is now “culturally normal.”

26.02.2026 20:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I spy a snowflake.

26.02.2026 16:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We’d like to save whatever they’re paying you, Kev.

25.02.2026 22:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Political effectiveness” is a variable that depends on the audience. Ilan Omar is, as far as one can tell, hugely effective in regard to her district but not so much elsewhere. Also, one cannot dismiss the Dems’ desire - across the board - for “resistance.” We’re in an elastic political moment.

25.02.2026 15:00 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The shape of the truncheon is long.

25.02.2026 12:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So now I’m hating on the Olympic men’s gold-medal-winning hockey team. Trump ruins EVERYTHING.

25.02.2026 02:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Does that include the armed forces, Rick?

24.02.2026 16:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agreed, but it’s also the case that the whole op was misbegotten from the start. Also, this is a DOD leadership that thinks of war simply as strikes and raids - just like JSOC.

24.02.2026 02:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Is Considering More Iran Strikes. No One Knows Precisely Why. As has become a pattern, the use of force isn’t part of a coherent plan.

Still not dead, Part II.

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cons...

23.02.2026 12:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wait…did he score the winner?

23.02.2026 01:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They don’t want what we haven’t got. Trump Admin in a nutshell.

23.02.2026 01:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0