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Giselle Donnelly

@giselledonnelly.bsky.social

I’m an author, musician, gardener, blissfully married trans woman. Emerita fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

259 Followers  |  112 Following  |  359 Posts  |  Joined: 25.11.2024  |  2.2266

Latest posts by giselledonnelly.bsky.social on Bluesky

Why only 2 badges? Send that man to Khaddafi School.

30.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Some” identity issues? Whatever could they mean?

28.10.2025 00:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today’s moment of Dartmoor zen….

27.10.2025 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Not so. 1930s.

22.10.2025 08:20 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Not everything sucks.

21.10.2025 14:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NATO Should Not Replace Traditional Firepower with ‘Drones’ Over-reliance on uncrewed aerial systems or ‘drones’ is leading to significant problems for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and is not something Western militaries should attempt to replicate

I missed this over the summer, but it is such an important piece!

”If NATO forces were to pursue massed UAS at the expense of rebuilding stocks of these traditional fires, Russian forces would find it significantly easier to mitigate UAS lethality than they have up to now in Ukraine.”

20.10.2025 08:35 — 👍 129    🔁 38    💬 6    📌 4

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

11.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 935    🔁 206    💬 6    📌 3

Now she knows what a bathroom ban is like….

04.10.2025 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great record!

04.10.2025 02:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can’t get over the tan brogues with the blue suit.

03.10.2025 18:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ouch.

03.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Poland-Lithuania, please.

03.10.2025 00:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So calming. Amazing that this could be a single.

02.10.2025 23:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside the anti-'woke' revolt that has American troops in its crosshairs Trump vowed to banish 'woke.' Now, the culture wars are infiltrating the military and spreading paranoia among American troops

The Administration’s political correctness is eroding trust within the military. Important reporting from @samfellman.bsky.social

02.10.2025 21:11 — 👍 87    🔁 25    💬 3    📌 3

It suits you.

01.10.2025 23:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Come on. No one understands Hegel. Now, Heidegger is clear as a bell…

01.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

These guys scream a lot.

01.10.2025 22:09 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Good one.

01.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The “Department of War” Is Designed to Fight American Citizens How to resolve the tension between "lethal war-fighting warriors" and "no more wars" isolationism.

Shout out to JVL: Hegseth’s screed yesterday was “gender-affirming care.”

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

01.10.2025 16:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Military Summit: Hegseth’s Lethality Meets Trump’s Enemy Within There’s a reason they sat there in stony silence: What Trump and Hegseth said they wanted Tuesday is anathema to military leaders.

For your entertainment: newrepublic.com/article/2011...

01.10.2025 15:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 747 was worth it.

01.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Resigning is not the honorable thing. Getting fired is.

30.09.2025 18:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He was clearly expecting - look at that smirk! - this to be a concluding applause line. But…crickets.

30.09.2025 18:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pete Hegseth is no George C. Scott.

30.09.2025 14:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
27.09.2025 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Double secret probation final.

26.09.2025 03:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

What do I wear to the Ba’ath Party Ball?

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

25.09.2025 18:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Only the guilty are accused.

25.09.2025 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Always leaping to conclusions.

25.09.2025 15:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Boston did not want to rule London, but London wanted to rule Boston and therefore put down the Revolution.

25.09.2025 12:53 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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