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Author: Robert Farley

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Puttin’ People on the Moon

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On September 2, 2025
There's gotta be a Drive By Truckers song in here somewhere... President Donald Trump plans to announce Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama, according to three people familiar with the decision. The cross-country move reverses former President Joe Biden’s decision...
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Who Joins ICE?

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On August 29, 2025
I know folks here hate this kind of anthropology, but I find it extraordinarily valuable: ICE’s pitch for meaning and purpose seemed to draw in many of the applicants I met. Some were military veterans with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who told me...

Witless Witkoff

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On August 29, 2025

Steve Witkoff is a catastrophe: People familiar with Witkoff’s style liken it to Trump’s free-wheeling approach of doing business. His staff, to the extent he has any, often doesn’t know.

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Trump’s Little Green Men

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On August 27, 2025
What the fuck? At least three people allegedly connected to U.S. President Donald Trump and the White House have carried out covert influence operations in Greenland, Danish public broadcaster DR reported on Wednesday. According to interviews that the outlet conducted with unnamed Danish government and security sources,...
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From Colony to Superpower

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On August 24, 2025
Way back when, Loomis and I collaborated to provide a running commentary on all twenty chapters of George Herring's From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776. A reader requested that those posts (which were distributed across several months and two blogs) be collected...
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