Dannagal Goldthwaite Young

Last fall I explained the plot of House of Dynamite to a foreign policy class and said it’s mostly plausible and they looked completely shell shocked. Mostly they have no idea.

Every year I teach my students what a “proxy war” is. Every year only like 10% know the concept. I explain how most times the REAL war, the one we’re maybe hoping to avoid by fighting these smaller wars, is nuclear war with Russia. And they are shocked because the think if that as an old 80s thing.

My money is on this. These are not sophisticated thinkers.

Nobody should take messaging advice from me, but democrats might make a lot of mileage just by repeating facts about Iran like “it’s incredibly mountainous” and “there are 90 million Iranians”

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Hubris: that outrageous arrogance.”

Someone show Trump ”the Day After” - the 1983 film that was rumored to have scared Reagan enough to get him to talk deescalation and disarmament.

“Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death” sure sounds like nuke talk

Watch the polymarket/Kaish gambling on "nuclear strike", "nuclear explosion" etc... If it ever jumps up suddenly without a corresponding Trump lunatic statement, beware of insiders profiting from death and destruction.

Attempted federal prosecutor Lindsey Halligan sent me a screenshot of a Trump Truth Social post which featured a screenshot of a Pam Bondi X post which said Lindsey Halligan “did a great job!”

YouTube video by Mark Morrison Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack (Official Music Video)

We could probably prevent a number of wars if men would listen to "Return of the Mack" daily while flexing in the mirror...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1D...

It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”

Nobody has ever gotten so much unearned benefit from the non-existent attention span of mainstream journalism

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

This is not a message that is going to divide Iranians against their government. It's going to unite them against the country trying to "kill them all".

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

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”no more woke rules of engagement” = no more explaining why you are starting a war to begin with

Looking forward to finding out why this administration has started this war

This was a very hard piece to report out, but an important and urgent one. If you care about the safety of women and girls online, I hope you’ll read it and share it with others.

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I guess we will see but I think actually they’re sick of hearing about it and are going to be annoyed with Collins if that’s all she’s got

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

How odd that so many military veterans who saw their friends get killed in the last stupid in the Middle East feel compelled to speak out against this stupid war in the Middle East.

Imagine serving as a Marine and then being injured at home, on purpose, by a sitting Senator while exercising your constitutionally-protected rights.

mom’s dad: school principal who championed education for all his offspring
Dad’s dad: farmer 1920s-1960s when severe draught in MA forced him to sell part of the land. He went to work at a paper mill where he lost his pinky finger but was always chipper, faithful, and creative.

Trump 2016: The Iraq War was stupid
Trump 2026: And we’re going to do it even bigger

OTOH: I have always said Dunkin coffee must be laced with crack cause there’s nothing else that does what Dunkin does. Signed, a native New Englander