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On Morality People are essentially good.

My latest:

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17.02.2026 18:59 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

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The Political Industry Is About To Die I'm serious

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15.02.2026 12:33 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Choose Duty Most of the choices that shape your life don’t announce themselves as important.

About small decisions and duty.

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07.02.2026 12:28 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

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How a Startup is Using AI to Streamline Opposition Research The startup Civly is betting that AI can streamline the often-arduous, weekslong process of compiling opposition research

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06.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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Daniel Barkhuff (@dbarkhuff) I’m about to spend an hour and a half-writing how little of a shit I give about the Kennedy Center. Trump can name it “The Apprentice Fred Trump Marla Maples Central Park 5 Center of Excellence.” I...

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Civly.ai had this 30 minutes after the Files dropped. If you're a Democrat who wants to go on offense, finally, Civly is how you do it.

31.01.2026 13:31 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

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So Here's What I've Been Up To civly.ai

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30.01.2026 12:50 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

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Cowardice And My Rage

Good god.

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24.01.2026 23:57 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1

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Goodbye To A Frogman He is about ten years older than me, which in the Teams is not a small thing.

Welp. This is whats going on. Better dude than me.

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22.01.2026 00:19 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

NEWS:

Survivor Lisa Phillips backs request by Reps. Khanna and Massie for judge to appoint a special master to release the Epstein files.

"I have no confidence that the Department of Justice, already 30 days late in complying with the Act with no end in sight."

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Trump And why we can't keep up

We need to move faster.

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20.01.2026 14:21 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

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We Can Choose On Martin Luther King Jr.

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17.01.2026 19:53 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

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We Fell For It Nothing hardens the tribe like disdain

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14.01.2026 20:52 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0

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Grace And Time

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06.01.2026 19:13 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

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First Reports Are Always Wrong Like many of you, I clicked on the news just now.

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03.01.2026 13:22 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

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I Resolve Every New Year, I return to: This Is Water.

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31.12.2025 01:20 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

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Not Losing Is Winning

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28.12.2025 16:32 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

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Myth And Fatherhood

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23.12.2025 20:21 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

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First Principles When you learn to scuba dive, one of the first drills is this: your instructor knocks the regulator out of your mouth.

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Friction I did almost all of my Christmas shopping this year through Instagram ads.

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20.12.2025 19:33 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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Don't Lose Sight That there is truth and good, and you must live it

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18.12.2025 01:25 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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Choices There is something uniquely cruel about dying in a place built for becoming.

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16.12.2025 00:42 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0

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Flaubert's Parrot In America

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15.12.2025 02:47 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

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Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition I don’t usually write fundraising posts and have always hated, hated, asking for money for the organizations I have founded and supported.

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11.12.2025 15:48 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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All Politics Is Local I work in the emergency department at the University of Vermont Medical Center, and the other day, when I was on shift, our saintlike social worker told me “I’ve been here since 1997, and this is the ...

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09.12.2025 23:51 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

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Let's Get Real For a Moment Doctors are trained to think in probabilities.

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Thoughts on Navy SEALs There’s this thing I remember from around the time I had just “gotten my bird”, the colloquial term we used in the SEAL Teams to describe being “warfare qualified,” aka a SEAL, aka a lifetime pass to ...

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05.12.2025 00:53 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

@dbarkhuff is following 20 prominent accounts

LGrainna6206
@lgrainna6206

My grandkids call me "Nanny", my cats let me think I control the household. My mantra is; "You never stop learning".

Matthew Brice
@matthewbriceak

Old IT guy up in Alaska trying to understand how we got here. OG Never Trumper.

Zack Beauchamp
@zackbeauchamp

Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.

James Fallows
@jfallows

Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.

Eric L. Robinson
@uticaeric

Attorney & advisor on industry, investment, & war. Formerly OSC, JSOC, NCTC, & 101st Abn. Hoya, Eli, Orange. Co-host, “Second Breakfast” by China Talk. Aspiring author, committed line holder. “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world”

Brad Duplessis
@bradduplessis

Views my own. Army brat ➡️ retired soldier. Military Innovation and Effectiveness. #GeauxTigers

Jas Easterly
@jaseasterly

13th Gen Virginian. I bow and scrape for no one—neither should anyone else. Dietrich Bonhoeffer fan. Summum Nec Metuam Diem Nec Optem. Mon Mothma’s old man. JET's Pop. NYU MFA—still writing 1st novel. Afghan War Vet. Journeyman lawyer—no problem too small.

Shithole

Shithole
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derek guy
@dieworkwear

Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/

Mark Hertling
@markhertling

Former soldier. Student of leadership & national security; Professor, author (“If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal”), speaker. Always looking for civility & new adventures. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-hertling-dba-57987066

@stephd6

Serious Tom
@serioustom

Sometimes I post about music you probably haven't heard. Hanging out, learning things; mostly history, military and politics. Always up for a cheeseburger or a taco. Making it OK to wear sunglasses in a pickup again. Retired Marine airplane guy.

Major Reno, US Cavalry
@majorreno

Cav officer with an impetuous, careless, arrogant boss....he has excellent mustache and sideburns though. Cool hat too. Soldier for Life. #MilSky

Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum

staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum

@hotelalhamra

I don't want to regret the lifetime I've spent serving my country.

@jasperhermes

Trae Crowder
@thetraecrowder

Comedian and renowned blood traitor.

Barry McCaffrey
@brma64

Four star Ret US Army General. MS NOW Nat Sec analyst. Council Foreign Relations. Joint Commander Latin America. JCS strategic plans. NATO Brussels. 4 combat tours. 3 Purple Hearts. 14 years overseas. West Point. MA Pol Sci. Army Brat.

Patchouli Girl
@patchouligirl

California girl. Former school district CFO and current hop farmer. “Love owns us all, time owns us all, life owns us all, but the world doesn't own me.” Fair Warning-Todd Rundgren DM=Block

John Sipher
@johnsipher

Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere.