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Good Tactics Do Not Add Up to a Strategy on Iran My take on Operation Epic Fury.

If Trump thinks Iran will play out like Venezuela that’s a good indicator of a bad U.S. strategy. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Analysis | With Stephen Miller running America's domestic policy, Benjamin Netanyahu running its foreign policy, and Donald Trump heading up interior decorating and bribe-taking, the executive branch has tripled its efficiency.

The Diplomats Who Carry Trump’s Grievances Abroad Some of the president’s ambassadors keep getting into needless conflicts.

Even by the low standards of political appointees, some of Trump's ambassadors are scandalously embarrassing.

That's they point. They're meant to be.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

My Fellow Americans, We Are Richer Than Ever Before. Well, You Aren’t, but We Are “My fellow Americans, our nation is back—bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before.” — Donald Trump during his State of the Union - - -M...

"My fellow Americans, we’re no longer going to have to pay taxes. You will, still. You’ll have to pay a lot of taxes, actually. But not me and my guys. We’re done with taxes. We beat taxes. Taxes lost very badly, and now we don’t have to deal with them—you do."

I worked at Dulles in the late 1980s and they were planning to get rid of the people movers. I guess if it keeps him busy...

Lucky Winner Mike Johnson Gets Dream Trip to State of the Union Send me someone who looks at me the way Mike Johnson looks at Donald Trump while he rambles about fountains of blood.

Lucky Trump Fan Mike Johnson Gets Dream Trip to State of the Union

How To Flunk Coercive Diplomacy 101 The Trump administration's uncoordinated, nonstrategic, haphazard approach towards Iran.

Maybe Trump stats on his lucky streak when it comes to the use of force — but he’s an unmitigated disaster when it comes to coercive bargaining. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?

If wannabe Nazis now confidently roam the halls of power—and the streets of American cities—it is because Republican leaders have made them feel at home.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Belated Thoughts About Trump and Tariffs Schadenfreude? Maybe just a little bit!

It’s gonna be fun to watch Trump attempt to resurrect a God-awful foreign economic policy. Yes, it’s bad for the economy.— but it’s even worse for Trump. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

We Can Reform the Atrocity Machine My dear constituents, Like you, I am deeply troubled by the Atrocity Machine’s recent activity. It is a stain on our nation, and we must take actio...

"If history teaches us anything, it is that modest reform is the most effective way to tame a rogue, fire-spitting Leviathan."

Upon Review, It Looks Like President Nyarlathotep’s Small Business Soul Harvest Is Technically Against the Rules “The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to President Trump’s economic policy on Friday, ruling that he had exceeded his authority when he imposed tar...

"And lest anyone think this is purely a selfish ruling on our part—we know plenty of Outer God sycophants who are feeling the same pain right now. But not, you know, the same pain that comes from your humanity being sucked out of your ears by an infernal soul vacuum."

I Falsified the Data in My Bestselling Book Everyone Poops It was all lies. Everything that I put forth as true in my book was fabricated, and I can’t keep the secret balled up inside of me anymore. I’m let...

I fudged the data.

I forged the studies.

I ask for your forgiveness.

Go Mammoths!

So Is Trump Gonna Bomb Iran Again? And to what end?

I don’t know if Trump is gonna bomb Iran again, but I do know this would be a war of choice, not of necessity. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

The DHS Death Spiral So many knives in backs and so much tea to spill and so many more knives in backs!

The leaks will continue until morale improves. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Welcome to Books, For Men™ From the people behind Books, come Books, For Men™. Books, For Men™ have thick, sturdy pages. Built for a man’s eyeballs. Books, For Men™ are nonfi...

"The pages in Books, For Men™ come from the harsh papermill operations of remote Siberia—something you can read about in Books, For Men™."

Consumptive Capitalism On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein

Professor @sarasilverstein.bsky.social is someone to whom I listen on issues of health and history. This essay helps us to situate the present American health drama in the history of health care, and thereby to see much more clearly what we face.
snyder.substack.com/p/consumptiv...

Please Stop Ripping My Bodices Lathaniel, thou knowest how I crave thy touch. Many a night—and morn, and afternoon!—have I lain enfolded in thine arms, as thou tendered thy lips ...

"Surely, thou canst sate thy lusts upon mine person without turning every garment I own into confetti? I look upon my shredded silks and weep, Lathaniel! My bosom heaves with anguish. And what shall support it? Not my bodices!" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ple...

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where The Sun Goes At Night

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney.

If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

What Fabulous Timing for Gallup to Stop Tracking Presidential Approval! Why stop with BLS data and jobs reports?

The pollster was leaning against the split-rail fence, looking at the horses. (The horses had started to appear 88 years ago due to a misspelling of Gallup. A new one arrived with each completed poll.)

In Order to Stop the Radical Democrats from Rigging the Election, We Will Be Rigging the Election “President Trump called in a new interview for the Republican Party to ‘nationalize’ voting in the United States, an aggressive rhetorical step tha...

"If you have nothing to hide, why would you be afraid of an unaccountable, violent paramilitary force asking for your papers at the polls?"

The Earliest Adopters of Bitrock Two cavemen stand by hundreds of long lines of rocks. —Gnog still not get it. Explain it like Gnog five mammoth hunts old. —So, it called “rockchai...

"Gnog still not get it. Explain it like Gnog five mammoth hunts old."

This proposal deserves serious study

Should You Buy a Newspaper or a Yacht? Advice for Jeff Bezos

Your yacht will never find out anything damning about your business.

I Am a Baby Staring at You from Between Two Airplane Seats, and I Know When You Are Going to Die Look upon me, for I am the baby staring at you from the hollow gap betwixt two airplane seats, and I know when you are going to die. Do not turn aw...

"Gaze into my eyes and follow the icy blue to the truth you inherently seek. The truth that we all seek. You claim that fear forbids you from finding this truth, but fear is the slop we gobble from the trough. Hear me now: Goo Goo. You are going to die. Gaa Gaa."

There Is Limited Money in Our Big, Beautiful Budget, So We Need to Spend as Much of It as Possible to Keep Ruining Immigrants’ Lives “The $170 billion price tag for immigration enforcement eclipses other law enforcement expenditures at the federal, state, and local level…. The la...

"Instead of spending a small amount of money that would lead to a productive, prosperous national population for generations, we should spend a large amount of money on deportations."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Oh, Look, Some More Renovation Projects for Donald Trump! Is any building safe?

What DC Landmarks Will Trump Destroy Next?

Unrelated to everything — but relevant to everything — this map is worth spending some time examining and thinking about. We know so little of our own history — and this wasn't that long ago.

Your grandparents' grandparents' grandparents were likely born around the time of this map.

Why Trump's Militarism Won't Split MAGA Local Area Political Scientist Points At Sign Again

Trump’s militarism is not playingterribly well with the general public — but I doubt it’s gonna split his MAGA base. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/why-trumps...