Ethan Wilson

This 100%

Here’s the shot.

Most American women can’t hack the infantry.

It must also be said -

most American men can’t hack the infantry.

US political violence overwhelmingly comes from the right -

the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it

Political violence is bad because civil conflict is absolutely fucking terrible for everyone. It empowers the worst people within a society and feeds into endless cycles of escalating violence that get harder and harder to stop.

You know what wins real wars against peer opponents? Warehouses full of bombs and bullets and tourniquets, maintenance crew to service the vehicles that move them and "warriors" to where they need to go, and boring spreadsheets to tell you how much of everything you have. Logistics! Logistics!

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard.

The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.

If the 250-year-old American experiment does end up collapsing under the weight of Trump, the fact that we spent the last two years abetting this atrocity will be a particularly shameful coda

Very interesting. To my admittedly non-expert eye, this looks like the sort of thing a military serious about incorporating lessons learned from Ukraine should be experimenting with. I like the idea of putting it in a cav unit.

YouTube video by Battle Order Inside France’s New HUNTER-KILLER DRONE Squadron

youtu.be/OVohl7wLiHM 🇫🇷 New video on a Hunter-Killer Drone or "Drone de Chasse" Squadron the French Marine Cavalry (1er RIMa) are testing. It goes in-depth with their current and planned equipped, structure, and employment during a recent exercise in Estonia.

Liberals should go out of their way to join the military. If libs joined the army en-masse, the military would become heavily liberal because liberals would easily outcompete conservatives.

A baby step forward, but at least a step.

White text with red accents over a dark background: Why MAGA tried (and failed) to shut us down.

When we decided to build ResistMap, our goal was simple:

Create a centralized map that tracks ICE activity, hate crimes, police violence, government abuse & more.

It's no wonder why MAGA tried to stop us. But they failed. We're not going anywhere.

We built ResistMap to verify and map ICE activity in real-time, giving communities crucial information to protect themselves.

The GOP is reviving forms of racism not seen in America since approximately 1952

The police militarization debate is over Quaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force

New at The Watch:

radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-police...

I do think there is a crown in the gutter waiting for the first major metropolitan police force to stand up to ICE, just massive amounts of public goodwill up for grabs

An Axis of Authoritarianism, one might say

Trump’s Finances Were Shaky. Then He Began to Capitalize on His Comeback.

This oddly gives me hope Trump is *maybe* just trying to steal all he can and break the system enough that it doesn’t come after him and his family after he leaves office, as opposed to ruling an authoritarian kleptocracy till he dies www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

New Trump-Branded Mobile Phone Plan Blasted as 'Latest Marketing Ploy From the Trump Family Business' | Common Dreams Trump Organization launches Trump Mobile, a new wireless service with $499 gold smartphone. Watchdog groups criticize the move.

"The limit to Trump family profiteering does not exist," wrote the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-m...

Aggression is aggression and it’s bad no matter who does it.

Again, I ask people, in good faith & without trying to be overly alarmist, what exactly they have seen to make them so confident that the 2026/28 elections will be free/fair/competitive in the "normal" sense of 🇺🇸 politics?

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

It's essential to understand the deeper historical, cultural, and economic roots of political alignment, what and why these people believe what they do. But at the end of the day a lot of the MAGA stuff is just shitty people having free rein to indulge the worst parts of themselves.

Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.

Trump says he will consider exempting some US companies from tariffs

This is a 12 alarm fire for the economy. If being friends with the president and giving him kickbacks makes you exempt from large import taxes Vs your competitors, it will stratify the whole economy and push corruption and loyalty and political controls deep into the private sector

Always good on Appomattox day to remember that Robert E. Lee was a vile human being whose historical portayal as a reluctant defender of slavery is based on complete fabrication. He was a committed white supremacist who believed slavery reflected a natural order and commanded his army as such.