Dannagal Goldthwaite Young

[adding to list if things I must do to understand the world around me] 😂

Trump fires the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Trump announced the dismissal of Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and said he would nominate Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, a retired three-star general, to succeed him as the top U.S. military officer.

I think this guy had the plan:

www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

😂 is “Babette” a term of art? Or like slang for Barbara Streisand? Help me, Colin!!!

I’m just wondering why the OP used “Babette“ instead of “kitchenette” or perhaps “dinette”

The New American Dream

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

Ban Polymarket.
It’s immoral and will corrupt our foreign policy decisions and likely has already.

This seems like it will end well.

🎯❤️
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WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

👀👀👀

Probably Because you already know how to think because you are an adult who has had to solve problems cognitively your whole life. For students under 30 years old? Not great:
www.media.mit.edu/publications...

People that argue otherwise do not understand what a) learning or b) thinking actually are.

Anyone who reads this as closing rather than widening the achievement gap is quite simply… a moron. Reliance on LLM renders students less (not more) motivated and able to learn.

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

now I can't unsee it.

Dumb AF? Not a problem.
kissing the ring is the only prerequisite

Yay! Awesome!!

Personal news update: I'm delighted to announce that as of today, I am an actual Bluesky employee! I'll be working to welcome indie media and local govt to Bsky—and supporting those already here.

I'll always want to hear your thoughts on how we can make Bsky the sort of social media we all want!

Is it just me or is Bibi looking more and more like Peewee Herman every day?

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

Everything about this story is a perfect distillation of the moment.

YouGov's state polling has been very good recently (nailed the NJ and VA gov races last year). Primaries are a different beast, but worth indexing on this new poll of TX. Has Talarico +13 and Paxton +4

yougovamerica.substack.com/p/polls-on-t...

People on here are always mad at him for some bullshit, Danielle. It’s so so very tired.

New addition to the bookshelf (hi randy)

“And in conclusion, please disregard the more than 100 Iranian school children my husband just helped kill. They did not be best.”

BREAKING

CENTCOM says six U.S. service members have now been killed due to ongoing military operations related to Iran.

Apparently those “stupid rules of engagement” Hegseth so proudly tossed included “not shooting down our own planes”.