JD Simkins

If Trump’s fascism is so bad, why aren’t the students protesting? We asked three right-wing oligarchs who bullied their alma maters into enforcing total bans on freedom of assembly on campus.

If "getting politics out of our teaching of history" is similar at all to, say, the way the DOD in early 2025 discussed "getting politics out of the military," it just means "we want it flooded with the politics that make us feel good"

The Army yearns for the mines, reopens WWII-era critical mineral site A gold mine in Idaho that once churned out critical minerals for the U.S. “Arsenal of Democracy” during WWII has been resurrected in a new Army initiative.

Got "yearns for the mines" into a headline today. Time to retire. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Sean Parnell's statement on the "Next Generation of the Pentagon Press Corps"

People, myself included, have covered up FAR more innocuous tattoos simply because the art sucks and what was thought to be badass as a 20-year-old is, in fact, not.

It's wild to go that long without covering THAT up

One game into an 82-game season and ESPN is debating whether it's time to panic. The intelligence rot at ESPN should be studied by future generations

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former ...

Notable, coming from the Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

WATCH: Masked men terrorize Alexandria family Alexandria police are investigating after a group of masked men terrorized a home near Duke and South Jordan Streets Tuesday night.

This ends very poorly at the wrong house

Shocked that the guy who championed the case of convicted murderer Clint Lorance would call our rules of engagement "stupid"

And then there's the irony of Hegseth presenting a medal to Hellfighter relatives after Hegseth personally stripped a base name honoring Hellfighter Medal of Honor recipient Henry Johnson to return it to something Confederate-adjacent. Oh and this was a Biden-era Act www.congress.gov/bill/117th-c...

... or that Black soldiers acted as a “constant menace to the American” and didn’t possess a “civic and professional conscience,” or that the Hellfighters were initially relegated to labor-intensive duties until they were ordered into battle in 1918 … after they were assigned to the French Army

It also fails to note Gen. Pershing's authorization of the distribution of a pamphlet advising America’s French allies against relying on — or associating with — their Black counterparts, or that Pershing claimed the men of the 369th were “inferior” to white soldiers...

You’d be shocked to learn that this blurb on the Harlem Hellfighters, which of course is filled with Hegseth adoration, leaves out any real discussion on racism, and suggests the most difficult obstacles the Hellfighters faced were shipping logistics on their way to France

Witkoff delivered Russian medal from Putin to family of American who was killed fighting for Russia in 2024 | CNN Politics US special envoy Steve Witkoff delivered a Russian medal to the grieving family of an American who was killed fighting for Russia in 2024, a senior administration official told CNN.

What the fuck

The most curmudgeon-y veteran sentiment I've ever received.

Salty, hard-charging reader upset that soldiers who heroically stopped an active shooter were not in proper uniform to receive recognition for stopping an active shooter

A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump

A conflict between two Americans: one, a West Point grad, combat vet, Rhodes Scholar, expert and academic. The other… a woman banned from Uber because she was too abusive to Muslim drivers.

Guess who wins.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Elite pull

His insistence on main character syndrome at the heart of all his grotesque arguments is totally vile

He’s still at it — just days ago

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service in 2022 as Ukraine retook territory from Russia

Winooski superintendent speaks out following hourslong interrogation at Texas airport "They said that I do not have rights, that my constitutional rights don't matter at a port of entry and that I should stop talking about rights," Chavarria said.

A prominent school leader in Winooski and United States citizen is speaking out after he spent hours in Border Patrol custody after returning to the country from a visit to Nicaragua.

South Park giving Donald Trump the old Saddam Hussein animation and voice treatment

The immensity of this reporting cannot be overstated.

@propublica.org made an archive of reported, fact-checked info on each of the individuals sent to prison in El Salvador.

Trump admin knew that only *six* had been convicted of violent offenses.

lol

"The Washington Redskins name is absolutely not offensive. I saw a poll once."

Never seen someone more committed to looking like an 80s movie villain

Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…

KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time