@stcwhite.bsky.social
PhD in Military History. Linux partisan, cinephile, gamer. Retweets and links indicate interest, not endorsement. Still mourning Google Reader.
Also found @[email protected]
Also found @[email protected]
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This was my best work today.
Democracy dies in drowsiness.
“.. A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds of the meeting Tuesday showed that during nine separate instances, Trump’s eyes were closed for extended periods or he appeared to struggle to keep them open, amounting cumulatively to nearly six minutes.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This was my best work today.
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Russia failed to conquer Ukraine. So Trump is handing Putin what he couldn’t win on the battlefield. Territory. Limits on Ukraine’s military. And $300B in assets. Shameful. Dangerous. Unacceptable.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Ukraine Is Winning — So Why Is America Ready to Force a Surrender?
The Hidden Agenda Behind Trump’s “Peace Plan”
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Russia failed to conquer Ukraine. So Trump is handing Putin what he couldn’t win on the battlefield. Territory. Limits on Ukraine’s military. And $300B in assets. Shameful. Dangerous. Unacceptable.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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1. This is not what fog of war means.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
1. This is not what fog of war means.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
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🚨BREAKING: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee advanced a blatantly unconstitutional bill Tuesday to exclude noncitizens from the decennial census counts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
GOP Advances Bill Limiting Census Counts For Congressional Seats to Citizens
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee advanced a blatantly unconstitutional bill Tuesday to exclude noncitizens from the decennial census counts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Here's my statement for Cato about Trump's pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández @cato.org /1
Cato Scholar: Trump's Latest Pardon Raises Questions about Selective Clemency
The presidential pardon power can serve real and legitimate purposes, and Trump himself has used it in some deserving cases. But history will long remember his use of it to free political allies and p...
www.cato.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Here's my statement for Cato about Trump's pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández @cato.org /1
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I just can't not see it
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I just can't not see it
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Let's say ... 88%
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Let's say ... 88%
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It's giving late-Brezhnev era vibes
Trump appears to be sleeping as Sean Duffy talks during his Cabinet meeting
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It's giving late-Brezhnev era vibes
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The OR GOP influencer posting this was indicted for felonies he committed on January 6. Those charges were then dropped after Trump was elected. Irony is dead.
December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The OR GOP influencer posting this was indicted for felonies he committed on January 6. Those charges were then dropped after Trump was elected. Irony is dead.
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Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
Hegseth: “I watched that first strike, as you can imagine, at the Department of War, we've got a lot of things to do, so I didn't stick around for the one hour and two hours…Admiral Bradley made the correct decision.”
Q: “So you didn't see any survivors?”
Hegseth: “I did not"
Q: “So you didn't see any survivors?”
Hegseth: “I did not"
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
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Every ICE thug today gearing up to hunt brown people in the city of New Orleans can eat an entire sack of stale, unsalted dicks. They and the administration they serve are displaying our fallen nation as an ungrateful, soulless shitpile of gutless, frightened race-hate. We are forever shamed.
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Every ICE thug today gearing up to hunt brown people in the city of New Orleans can eat an entire sack of stale, unsalted dicks. They and the administration they serve are displaying our fallen nation as an ungrateful, soulless shitpile of gutless, frightened race-hate. We are forever shamed.
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Ukraine is showing that it still has cards left to play
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Ukraine is showing that it still has cards left to play
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They didn’t read Luigi Mangione his Miranda rights? And searched his bag without a warrant???
globalnews.ca/news/1155242...
globalnews.ca/news/1155242...
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers seek to ban evidence from trial in CEO killing - National | Globalnews.ca
Among the evidence lawyers want to prevent from being presented to jurors are a 9 mm handgun and a handwritten notebook.
globalnews.ca
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
They didn’t read Luigi Mangione his Miranda rights? And searched his bag without a warrant???
globalnews.ca/news/1155242...
globalnews.ca/news/1155242...
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New from me this morning www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement
Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
New from me this morning www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Compare with the original scene and not only can you see how they used an alternate or pre-FX version where they haven’t digitally removed the crew, you can also see how horrible the colours and the lighting looks in this new one.
youtu.be/qvRHzvoCf_s?...
youtu.be/qvRHzvoCf_s?...
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Compare with the original scene and not only can you see how they used an alternate or pre-FX version where they haven’t digitally removed the crew, you can also see how horrible the colours and the lighting looks in this new one.
youtu.be/qvRHzvoCf_s?...
youtu.be/qvRHzvoCf_s?...
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A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
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And the thing is, this is yet another example of Trump's lack of discipline and laziness bouncing back to undercut one of the only policies he truly cares about.
Tariffs are bad! But also, Congress has delegated BROAD tariff-making authority to the president. There are some small constraints. 1/
Tariffs are bad! But also, Congress has delegated BROAD tariff-making authority to the president. There are some small constraints. 1/
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
And the thing is, this is yet another example of Trump's lack of discipline and laziness bouncing back to undercut one of the only policies he truly cares about.
Tariffs are bad! But also, Congress has delegated BROAD tariff-making authority to the president. There are some small constraints. 1/
Tariffs are bad! But also, Congress has delegated BROAD tariff-making authority to the president. There are some small constraints. 1/
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Also, a lesson to every DOJ lawyer & law enforcement official. A lesson to everyone.
Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Also, a lesson to every DOJ lawyer & law enforcement official. A lesson to everyone.
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On this day 70 yrs ago-Dec. 1, 1955-Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, AL bus to a white man who demanded it from her. Her subsequent arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement.
Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.
Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
On this day 70 yrs ago-Dec. 1, 1955-Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, AL bus to a white man who demanded it from her. Her subsequent arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement.
Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.
Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.
Badly, is my guess.
That petition drive for a non-binding referendum for Alberta to STAY in Canada is now verified.
One in 7 Alberta voters signed it.
Wow, did Lukaszuk's bid worked. Lessee how Danielle Smith gov handles it.
One in 7 Alberta voters signed it.
Wow, did Lukaszuk's bid worked. Lessee how Danielle Smith gov handles it.
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Badly, is my guess.
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Siri can you die from acute schadenfreude?
REPUBLICAN MAYOR IN KANSAS FACING DEPORTATION OVER VOTER FRAUD
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
December 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Siri can you die from acute schadenfreude?
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Civilizational collapse
December 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Civilizational collapse
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I designated the intruder as targetControlSystem. I hoped it was sentient enough to hurt when I killed it.
December 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I designated the intruder as targetControlSystem. I hoped it was sentient enough to hurt when I killed it.
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a good and thoughtful read here, in which a "strategist" (read: dumbass O-4) gets taken behind the woodshed
My latest this AM with @warontherocks.bsky.social. Of note: "[Military officers] will be active participants with choices to make about the degree to which they continue to serve civilians intent on undermining the liberal values enshrined in the Constitution."
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warontherocks.com/2025/12/the-...
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warontherocks.com/2025/12/the-...
The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
The American political system today is indeed in crisis. Government function is in doubt, the administration has politicized and weaponized a previously
warontherocks.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
a good and thoughtful read here, in which a "strategist" (read: dumbass O-4) gets taken behind the woodshed