Mark Willard

And when all these publications dissolve, Google will have nothing to scrape for new information.

Killing jobs and killing industries that will eventually lead to their own demise.

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What Does Russia Have on Trump? Americans Deserve an Answer As Russia reportedly shares intelligence with Iran that could endanger American forces, the White House chooses to ease pressure on Moscow instead of confronting it.

Ukraine offers to help defend the West from Iranian drones.

Russia helps Iran track American forces.

And the White House eases sanctions on Russian oil.

Explain that to the families of U.S. troops. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Well, it was intended as irony. I know that Trump is never going to take advantage of that particular opportunity, sadly.

Men such as Eisenhower and Marshall weren’t excited about killing people. They weren’t giddy. They thought it was their grim duty, and they went about their business with full recognition of its awfulness, whatever the necessity of it. That’s how leaders ought to be, I think.

So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Russia clearly sees value in assisting a proxy state to target 🇷🇺's enemies without risking any 🇷🇺 troops. What a shame that the US doesn't have another nation willing or even begging to let them use 🇺🇸's intelligence & soon to be decommissioned weapons to attack and degrade 🇷🇺 forces.

Oh wait...

What?! Signage has been removed from Carnation Café, revealing the old Carnation Ice Cream Parlor porcelain (?) sign still on the building. This sign dates from Disneyland’s opening in 1955 and has been covered over since the late 1990s. Cool that it’s still there!

You come for my shahed interceptors but you do it without respect

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

Pretty sure the position of "Shield of America" is already taken.

That's Noem, Lewandowski, and Bovino out.

Wannabe fascists, perhaps, but you are not living in a fascist country. Public pressure, embarassment, legislative opposition - all of them helped to turf these folks. That's what I mean by "the levers of democracy still work and you should use them."

Zelensky should make Trump and Vance fly to Kyiv and verbally thank him multiple times on live TV as a condition to this.

Does this mean Markwayne Mullin inherits Corey Lewandowski and the blanket?

She should never have been appointed, and has been the worst ever Secretary of DHS.

But if anything will move Trump to fire her, its the visuals of her being pummeled in Congress, including by Republicans.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I guess in fairness they also didn’t anticipate governing for the sake of generating memes and engagement on X.

The Founders were pretty smart about human nature and the corrupting effects of political power, but one thing they definitely didn’t anticipate was party politics incentivizing one branch of government to willingly cede 90%+ of its authority to another branch.

Ukraine named a drone interceptor after male genitals and is selling it to the United States

Suddenly, its turns out that it is not smart to arrogantly shit on an ally that has learned how to down 200 Shaheds every single night and then wipe out and oil refinery or a military airfield with a handful of cheap drones.

Pentagon eyes Ukrainian interceptor drones to counter Iran Kyiv has pioneered cheap and mass-produced machines to battle Russian versions of the Shahed attack drone

Wow. Has Vance said “Thank you” even once????? www.ft.com/content/d077...

I officially have premium card fatigue. I can't even begin to pretend to muster the interest in another one.

Also the structure of that Doordash credit might be the most ridiculous/obvious attempt at forcing breakage I've ever seen.

Things are quite bad. I think we need more new Muppet Show episodes

Lastly, they are for the soul of your nation and your cause. Limits on war preserve humanity. Mercy transcends violence. After the fighting, there has to be something more. Rules of engagement and the laws of armed conflict protect you; abandoning them is dire.

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

I am Graham Platner's age. I too was in the post 9/11 military. I also grew up in a small town in the Northeast US. I am also a college dropout with PTSD. And I am telling you: anyone from my demographic who had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years is either a Nazi or too dumb to be an effective US senator.

Exactly. Post-WW2, the U.S. has been relatively unconstrained in using airpower to rain down destruction, everything short of nuclear weapons. They have often been constrained by a reluctance to use ground troops.

Which is exactly the same constraints that the Trump admin is operating under!

There is an ahistorical belief, epitomized by just about everything Hegseth says, that the US has been somehow ineffective in warfare since WWII because it was somehow constrained in delivering destruction. To put it bluntly, this is dumb.

Yesterday, Trump met with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and in the presser thereafter, he spent all his time defecating all over NATO allies the UK and Spain. This is highly abnormal conduct, but in the US no one even notices.

For all its dire implications for the people of the Americas, it’s starting to seem like the worst impact of the Venezuela raid is how it convinced a handful of very powerful, very stupid men that they could dump the “risks” section of the analysis into the trash

An image of a Disneyland commemorative park ticket for the opening of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Forbidden Eye . [Eric Chu - March 3, 1995]

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