Let’s look at the substance of the Signal conversation. One would like to think that there was a previous face-to-face principals’ meeting in which an attack on the Houthis was discussed: The purpose of the strike; the likely reaction, international and domestic; military advice; available...
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The courts are standing strong this week. USIP did what it could to slow down the vandals. At least three courts are building the basis for contempt of court charges..
Photo by Hans-Peter Gauster on Unsplash Toward the end of Ezra Klein’s interview with Gillian Tett, a more general strategic point comes up [The previous Washington consensus] is that America.
Sculpture installed at the Guggenheim Museum in 2016Artist, Maurizio Cattelan stu_spivack - DSC_0476 stu_spivack - DSC_0476CC BY-SA 2.0 Adam Tooze has a very good article today on the Mar-a-Lago Accord. What is the Mar-a-Lago accord, you may ask. Here’s how Torsten Slock characterizes it, from Tooze’s article. According to...
USIP Building, Washington DC. By Something Original, CC BY-SA 3.0 The United States Institute of Peace is not a government organization, nor is its building owned or leased by the.
Part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. DOE photo Like all the illegal cuts by Musk’s boys, the cuts at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are not thought out.
Not a good week for the nation, but oddly some good things for me personally. I guess we have to celebrate what we can and deal with the rest. Follow the court-watchers for the lawsuits. Chris Geidner (LawDork, Bluesky), Roger Parloff (Lawfare, Bluesky), and the...
One of my big questions about the slashing and burning of the government is what the slashers and burners see as the eventual equilibrium. What kind of government do they.
Next week is the kittens' first birthday, and the anniversary of Ric's death. Gotcha Day for the kittens is in May, when they were eight weeks old. They were tiny.
James Fallows, not one to exaggerate, says it. He's talking about this - https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lkbnlfsfwt2o I shared that on Bluesky, and got back a comment with a clip I hadn't seen. https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lkbpeiodkb2o I think it was a CNBC reporter who said it the other day too....
On Saturday, ICE arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led demonstrations on the Columbia University campus. He is a graduate student at Columbia, and the holder of a green.
I don’t recall Donald Trump campaigning on acquiring new territories by force. I don’t think it was in Project 2025, either. So it wasn’t clear when he first brought it.