Dan Tannebaum

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

the only phrase dems need for the next 4 years is “how does this lower egg prices” and i havent seen it once

Very excited to attend the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos for the first time this year! I’m also thrilled to be in such great company speaking at @wsj.com’s Journal House! Please do let me know if you’ll be there too.

a man is covered in green slime with a kids choice sports sign behind him ALT: a man is covered in green slime with a kids choice sports sign behind him

Only if someone gets slimed!

Happy New Year from Gardiner’s Bay! (air temperature 44, water temperature 40) #bringit2025

Boxing Day in South Beach

Last day in the office for 2024!

Just leaving this here…

Read in app 8 President-elect Donald Trump has communicated to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that he wants his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to become the Sunshine State's next senator - but it's far from clear that DeSantis will acquiesce and appoint her, people familiar with the matter said. Get the latest election news and results → Lara Trump's interest in replacing Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) — who is set to become secretary of state — complicates an already fraught relationship between Trump and DeSantis, who waged harsh campaigns against each other in the GOP presidential primary. DeSantis is tasked with filling Rubio's seat and could boost his standing with the president-elect by appointing Lara Trump, who announced this past week that she will step down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee. DeSantis is seriously considering Lara Trump and cares about the president-elect's view, according to one person familiar with his thinking who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private deliberations. But the person believes DeSantis is more likely to pick someone who has held public office in Florida and said other contenders include the state's attorney general, Ashley Moody, and former statehouse speaker Jose Oliva.

This deadpan Washington Post story reports on Trump’s blatantly corrupt effort to strongarm an appointment for his daughter in law—who has never held any public office—as a US Senator without a single acknowledgment that it might be some kind of impropriety. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

‘Political opportunists’ threaten to primary Republicans who oppose Trump’s picks, says GOP senator During an appearance on "Fox News Sunday" Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., blasted those threatening to fund primary challenges to Republican Senators who oppose Trump's cabinet picks.

Sen. Thom Tillis criticizes those who have promised to fund primary challenges against Republican Senators who oppose President-elect Trump's cabinet picks, calling them "political opportunists."

Do yourself a favor and read this story about one of the few Western individuals sanctioned for illegally trading in Russia oil 👇

We used to be expected as Americans to just do the right thing. That a country fighting to protect itself from a thug has to spend anytime on bullshit like this.

Happiness on a plate!

The march towards our Banana Republicization continues…

Amazing night at the 47th Kennedy Center Honors!

19 years ago today, these two kids met…

Has Assad been pulled out of his bunker yet?

Bashar-Al-Assad has learned his lesson.

by Susan Collins

Today is a bad day for Assad apologists.

Good.

In today's latest Russia sanctions designations package from OFAC, we see something you seldom see, an American company sanctioned!

For no particular reason this morning I am thinking of this example of the president-elect’s imbecility

this is an elaborate hoax I just know it

How very “glass half empty” of you!

It’s my favorite example!

I mean they've sanctioned more firms and vessels, but what about enforcing existing sanctions for those on the wrong side of US secondary sanctions related to Iranian oil. 🤷‍♂️

This is where the incoming Trump team is going to likely have to recalibrate for unintended consequences as it prepares to step back into power. The prior toolkit can certainly be utilized, but it could have far more devastating impacts on the US and global economies in kind as China has evolved.

I might have been okay with a pardon that covered any offense Hunter Biden hasn’t already been convicted of or plead to. But we’ve already spent too much time talking about this pardon. It’s hardly important given the torrent of abuses we are about to see from the incoming administration.