smoothiex12
... any joy--because each time something like this gets posted I have to go to DJT's Truth Social account to check if I am fucking dreaming!!! No, I am not--and that's what makes it so horrible. Everything is being reduced to the level of a cheap Las Vegas cosplay away from the strip. Yes, and...
smoothiex12
... if not for him, new generation wouldn't know real love and care. God, what a great man! Omnipotent and omnipresent. Can we issue a statue (with Trump's face, of course) the parent of the century and give it to him?
smoothiex12
... this is not a joke, I checked, this is from POTUS' account. If you go to his account, it is filled with such neural network slop. How about this:This is national humiliation which continues non-stop (just the magnitude changes) since Clinton. “As democracy is perfected, the office of president...
Southern Fried Science
Let’s not mince words: current federal ocean conservation policy is a cocktail of chaos and disaster, with a generous sprinkle of incompetence. Following a brutal stretch of legislative and regulatory rollbacks (including the completely indefensible bureaucratic magic trick of removing habitat...
Steve Saideman
I am in London, having finished a two day Civil-Military Relations Network workshop, our very first, on Command. Run by Phil Lagassé, it considered from many angles and all over history what it means to command a military and who has the authority and such. The moment resonated quite a bit for...
Steve Saideman
It does not take an IR scholar or an historian to note the significance of Donald Trump signing onto a "deal" with Iran while he's at Versailles, site of the treaty that temporarily ended WW1 and set up WW2. I have a few thoughts to add to this perfect illustration of how dumb and tragic this war...
Steve Saideman
I have been arguing that the heart of NATO, Article V, has been dead for since January 2025. It took a while for the Europeans to believe it:Anton Hofreiter, a German lawmaker, said: “NATO’s main problem is that, as long as Trump is president, there is no longer any faith that the U.S. would...
Steve Saideman
Perhaps it is unfair to call Pete Hegseth a bad faith actor since he seems to be a real believer in Christian nationalism. But many of his arguments have been of bad faith--that the standards he applies to others he does not apply to himself. That part makes him fit in really well in the Trump...
Steve Saideman
Lots of stuff happening the past week or two:Canada decides to buy a Swedish plane (no, not that one), rather than the American one. Rumors have abounded of Canada cutting its F35 buy and getting 60 Gripens instead.Canada finishes the contract on the HIMARS launchersI attended a conference on...
Steve Saideman
I am looking for help: with the help of a fantastic RA, Alireza Mamdouhi, I have created a googlesheet to crowdsource a list of violations of American Civil-Military Relations norms by the Trump Administration. My inspiration was hearing about a panel on US civ-mil during the Trump era that...
Werner Pechmann
There is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in Leonard Cohen Die ersten wärmeren Tage des Jahres fielen auf eigenartige Weise mit dem Beginn der neuerlichen Barbarei des tumben Cretins aus Übersee zusammen. Ist das gewollt? Ist das Absicht? Fast scheint es so, als ginge es...
dak1024
In astrology, a natal chart represents the person the chart is for; to see how two people interact we can compare the charts of the two individuals. For example, if the Suns of the two people in question are exactly opposite, one can guess that the two people see things differently in some...
3amto5amclub
A Postcard for the 200 Million Weary Souls The Ghost at the Gate In 1903, a man named Wolf-Leyb Glosser arrived at Ellis Island. He was a refugee fleeing state-sponsored violence in the Russian Empire. Today, his great-grandson, Stephen Miller, is the architect of a system that would have...
3amto5amclub
By Stan Kaye Last night, I sat with my “Sentinel”—the wild black cat who has guarded my door for nearly a year. He is a creature of pure, divine instinct. When I look into his eyes, I see a soul that listens to the silence. But at 3:00 AM, my mind drifted to a different kind of presence: the...
3amto5amclub
A year ago today, we watched the second inauguration. Today, the world feels like it’s holding its breath. If you’ve been watching those circular YouTube videos that say a lot of nothing, here is the 4:00 AM reality check—the facts, the friction, and the faces leading the charge. 1. The “Nobel...
pleunipennings
As long as Trump is in the White House it seems that every week is a new low. With ICE killing people in Minnesota, Trump trying to run Venezuela and Putin on the Peace Board for Gaza? The good news is that people are protesting! If you need a sign for your protest, for your window or just...
pleunipennings
Hello readers, I got big updates! Some of you already know this, but it’s getting more real and more official every month: my family and I have left the US and moved to France! A few months ago I quit my job and a few weeks ago we sold our house in San Francisco. Last week, I signed a 3-year...
dak1024
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity I’ve previously talked about all the important astrological events taking place this decade. So far we’ve seen two of them already occur. The first item (#1) is the demi-return of Neptune to the US Neptune in 2021...
pleunipennings
Depressed about the state of the world? Print a poster for your window or to go to a protest! I am sharing two new designs below! Here’s a list of cities with protests on July 4th 2025: https://www.newsweek.com/map-lists-cities-trump-protests-2092556. Here is information about the July...
pleunipennings
Flyer about the McClintock letters from https://blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-initiatives/the-mcclintock-letters/ To change minds, we need to reach people with our message. A group of graduate students came up with the idea to encourage scientists to publish letters in local newspapers in towns...
pleunipennings
Update April 18th. I am horrified by what is happening to Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was deported to a prison in El Salvador while not being accused or convicted of a crime. BringKilmarHome_2pages.pdf BringKilmarHome_4pages.pdf BringKilmarHomeLessInk_2pages.pdf...
Jon Danzig
There is no doubt across the world, even in Russia, that Vladimir Putin was directly involved in the murder on Friday 16 February 2024 of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.Just as there is now little doubt that Russia directly interfered in the UK’s democratic processes – the Scottish...
Michael Neumann
This attempts to counter some of the foolish comments made about Trump's withdrawal from Syria. The least foolish of these is that the battle against ISIS is not won. No it isn't, and Trump's claim that it is, is plainly false. But to harp on this is absurd. For one thing, there isn't the...