Phil Klinkner

Tom thinks it’s not fascism until he gets arrrested.

Just another woke liberal.

“Infantry wins battles, logistics win wars.”

Gen. John J. Pershing

Seriously. Lots of scholarship on WWII pointing out that democracies can’t expect civilians to adopt the war-fighting ethos of Germany and Japan.

A related FYI, in WWII US soldiers were rationed 22 sheets of toilet paper per day while British soldiers got 3 ("one up, one down, and one to polish")

In WWII, one side exalted the "warrior ethos" and the other side built a giant bureaucracy that made its soldiers as comfortable as possible and used firepower over human lives. Guess which side won?

Two sides of the same token.

A few years back the Western political science meeting was in Seattle at the same hotel as the Pacific NW Anime Convention. Both groups looked at the other and thought to themselves, "Get a load of those nerds."

Do you even have to ask?

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

I'm not as familiar with that category, but I'll still go with full professors.

Why Aren’t Professors Braver? Fear and self-censorship in academe.

Spot on. Full professors are the most cowardly people I've ever known. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Not exactly a peak physical specimen

A child that only sleeps 4 hours a night? No way in hell, unless you are a wealthy enough to afford round-the-clock nannies.

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?' President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

Chauncey Gardiner has an epiphany.

Don’t laugh. Now Adams can concentrate 100% on his 2028 presidential campaign.

Big Fletcher Knebel energy.

It’s a cross between The Man, The President’s Plane is Missing, and Designated Survivor.

So the President, the civilian Pentagon leadership, and all the top brass in the military are all meeting at the same time at the same place. This sounds like the premise of a bad Cold War-era suspense novel.

Paula White-Cain took a somewhat different position when defending the Trump administration’s border separation policy and detention of immigrants. According to her, it’s true that Jesus was a refugee because he lived in Egypt for three and a half years. “But it was not illegal,” she insists. “If he had broken the law, then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah.

lot to unpack here

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

All too true. The House GOP will do anything they can to prevent D House majority in 2027.

Nice work if you can get it.

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty.

Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities.

"What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

Lake Oswego antifa stands in solidarity with Portland.

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

Yikes this is sobering