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Good News?

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From comments in the last few Ukraine posts it seems that folks want some good news, and there is some good news. The ISW assessment has a good rundown of the what's going well and what's going not-so-well. At the Front There's some reason to believe...
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Bulwarks of liberty

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Maybe prosecutors can get a ham sandwich indicted, but can they get a box of Franzia indicted? Grand jury denials were (until recently) extremely rare www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...[image or embed]— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) Aug 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM Grand juries not returning indictments is indeed very rare,...
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The Alaska Summit

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To use the word “negotiations” about tomorrow’s meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, if we consider its historical use for other actions between representatives of their nations, is to commit a category error. Historically, negotiations on ending wars or treaties or trade or any of...
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The Negotiations

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I don't have any idea how negotiations between Putin and Trump are going to work out tomorrow, and I'm withholding judgment until we at least get a sense of the deliverables. Some general thoughts over at National Security Journal... Given the breadth of the differences between...

Arts and/or Sciences?

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Jacob Levy captures most of my disdain for this horsefucker: https://bsky.app/profile/jacobtlevy.bsky.social/post/3lwd3yfek2c2l Maybe it's just me, and maybe it's just that I'm grumpy after having sat through 82 (this may be.

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