George Croner
@georgecroner.bsky.social
Former principal NSA litigation counsel; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute specializing in FISA/Section 702; Penn Law; USNA;
I suggest she read “Seven Days in May.”
There is no scenario under which this is a good idea
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and any other missle heads as we fondly call them: what is the scenario for removing Trump by military coup? Under the banner of 'coup to restore democracy' how does it go?
and any other missle heads as we fondly call them: what is the scenario for removing Trump by military coup? Under the banner of 'coup to restore democracy' how does it go?
January 20, 2026 at 2:14 AM
I suggest she read “Seven Days in May.”
I was a bit more blunt in my assessment of Trump’s “crazycakes letter.”
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January 20, 2026 at 2:10 AM
I was a bit more blunt in my assessment of Trump’s “crazycakes letter.”
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As Trump destroys the order that has prevented another world-wide conflict for 80 years, the best protection from predation for a small/medium-sized nation is a nuclear weapon. Do you think Poland wouldn't have used a bomb in 1939? it's what protects N. Korea today. So much for non-proliferation.
January 19, 2026 at 3:58 AM
As Trump destroys the order that has prevented another world-wide conflict for 80 years, the best protection from predation for a small/medium-sized nation is a nuclear weapon. Do you think Poland wouldn't have used a bomb in 1939? it's what protects N. Korea today. So much for non-proliferation.
A business model completely abetted by the Trump Administration's budget and the largesse of the "Big Beautiful Bill."
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
January 19, 2026 at 3:34 AM
A business model completely abetted by the Trump Administration's budget and the largesse of the "Big Beautiful Bill."
No one needs to be "impersonating" ICE to terrorize communities. ICE is terrorizing communities on its own with no required assistance.
What worries me with ice is that the public has no way of knowing if they are really ice. They have unmarked vehicles, wear masks, show no warrants or legal paperwork, no identification, and appear very unprofessional and violent. Anyone could be impersonating ice to terrorize our communities.
January 19, 2026 at 3:30 AM
No one needs to be "impersonating" ICE to terrorize communities. ICE is terrorizing communities on its own with no required assistance.
This has been true since SCOTUS green-lighted this bigotry in Vasquez Perdomo. Read this:
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January 19, 2026 at 1:20 AM
This has been true since SCOTUS green-lighted this bigotry in Vasquez Perdomo. Read this:
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Trump has reunited the world—with China.
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
Trump Is Making China Great Again
America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.
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January 18, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Trump has reunited the world—with China.
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
It took you until Minneapolis? Good was the 9th time that ICE agents had shot at people since September 2025. Four others have been killed during deportation efforts, 2 were shot in Portland the day after Good, and feds shot another man in Minneapolis on 1/14. It's important to keep score..
"Until Minneapolis, I would have told you that as bad as Trump is, he’s not capable of ordering ICE agents to shoot people...at random, and that as bad as ICE is, they’d refuse such orders. Now I no longer believe either of those things."
Read @mjtoma.bsky.social:
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Read @mjtoma.bsky.social:
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We’re Nearing the Day When ICE Thugs Just Open Fire on Crowds
The United States is now closer to Assad’s Syria than to anything we recognize as fitting within the understood norms of American history.
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January 17, 2026 at 1:51 AM
It took you until Minneapolis? Good was the 9th time that ICE agents had shot at people since September 2025. Four others have been killed during deportation efforts, 2 were shot in Portland the day after Good, and feds shot another man in Minneapolis on 1/14. It's important to keep score..
Ted Cruz wants to impeach federal judges for their anti-MAGA decisions. I say it's time to impeach Annie Oakley Barbie.
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January 17, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Ted Cruz wants to impeach federal judges for their anti-MAGA decisions. I say it's time to impeach Annie Oakley Barbie.
My review of "Trump 2025" and why the 2026 mid-terms are the most important election of this century.
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January 17, 2026 at 1:35 AM
My review of "Trump 2025" and why the 2026 mid-terms are the most important election of this century.
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This does not look “defensive” to me, at all (left arm is braced against Good’s vehicle) as he aims his weapon www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
January 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
This does not look “defensive” to me, at all (left arm is braced against Good’s vehicle) as he aims his weapon www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
My recent post on the travails of 2025 and why the 2026 mid-terms loom as the most important election in this century. The slide towards authoritarianism must be stopped.
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A YEAR IN WHICH DIGNITY, DECORUM AND DEMOCRACY HAVE TAKEN A FRIGHTFUL BEATING - BUT 2026 OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESIST AND RECOVER
As the final days of 2025 pass from us, those possessing a respect for the Constitution and an appreciation for the history of the institution that is the American presidency can only survey the event...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:00 AM
My recent post on the travails of 2025 and why the 2026 mid-terms loom as the most important election in this century. The slide towards authoritarianism must be stopped.
georgecroner1.substack.com/p/a-year-in-...
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My article published today by Penn’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law.
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The Trump administration’s bias is polluting the integrity of the intelligence community and damaging the nation’s security - CERL
On a seemingly daily basis, the press provides a recounting of the indignities inflicted by the Trump administration on long-accepted government norms.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My article published today by Penn’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law.
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And now, he’s blaming the operational commander - who knows better. A lie.
And, if Ramsey tries to defend himself, they’ll find a way to call him disobedient and court-martial him.
This is unspooling as predicted.
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And, if Ramsey tries to defend himself, they’ll find a way to call him disobedient and court-martial him.
This is unspooling as predicted.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
And now, he’s blaming the operational commander - who knows better. A lie.
And, if Ramsey tries to defend himself, they’ll find a way to call him disobedient and court-martial him.
This is unspooling as predicted.
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And, if Ramsey tries to defend himself, they’ll find a way to call him disobedient and court-martial him.
This is unspooling as predicted.
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Events seem to have coalesced in a way that makes my Substack post even more timely.
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THE CIVILIAN LEADERSHIP OF THE U.S. MILITARY HAS COLLAPSED INTO A LEGAL AND MORAL ABYSS
Certain axioms define the Trump Administration’s embarrassing and overwrought reaction to the video made by six members of Congress who, not coincidentally, are all veterans of the U.S.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Events seem to have coalesced in a way that makes my Substack post even more timely.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Henceforth, all Coast Guard parades and military formations will employ the straight-arm salute and the goose step. wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Henceforth, all Coast Guard parades and military formations will employ the straight-arm salute and the goose step. wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
The attacks on the lower courts, especially by DoJ officials like the feckless and simple-minded AG and Deputy AG, are inaccurate, inexcusable, unprofessional, and just stupid.
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193. The "War" on Judges
Deputy Attorney General Blanche's attack on lower courts is an impressive combination of light on substance; shamelessly hypocritical; and profoundly dangerous. More people should be condemning it.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The attacks on the lower courts, especially by DoJ officials like the feckless and simple-minded AG and Deputy AG, are inaccurate, inexcusable, unprofessional, and just stupid.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/193-the-wa...
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If you want to know how you should feel about this - you can take your cue from this.
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October 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If you want to know how you should feel about this - you can take your cue from this.
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Essential reading for anyone who despises the tactics of this Administration, and fears for our democracy.
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Steady State Letter to Congress -- Reports of “Interagency Weaponization Working Group” and Implications for Oversight of the Intelligence Community
The Steady State | October 21, 2025
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October 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Essential reading for anyone who despises the tactics of this Administration, and fears for our democracy.
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"Only an administration as ... legally obtuse as this one can grope its way to the belief that the answer to ... protests of its immigration policies is occupying American cities using tactics that increasingly mirror Budapest in 1956 or Prague in 1968.
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XENOPHOBIA AND CONSTITUTIONAL DESECRATION: THE "PALMER RAIDS" ARE A HARBINGER OF THE EXCESSES OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
American cities are in Donald Trump’s cross-hairs as he looks to supplement his cadres of ICE agents with National Guard troops drawn from states run by Trump-friendly governors to invade metropolises...
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October 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"Only an administration as ... legally obtuse as this one can grope its way to the belief that the answer to ... protests of its immigration policies is occupying American cities using tactics that increasingly mirror Budapest in 1956 or Prague in 1968.
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“Sparking debate” is the sort of euphemistic phrase appearing repeatedly in mainstream publications that provides cover for the excesses, extremes, and flat-out lawbreaking of this criminal administration.
“Sparking debate”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sparking debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.
Here’s what the science actually says:
Here’s what the science actually says:
October 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
“Sparking debate” is the sort of euphemistic phrase appearing repeatedly in mainstream publications that provides cover for the excesses, extremes, and flat-out lawbreaking of this criminal administration.
Federal Judge William Young in his opinion in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio pointing out the ignominy of masked ICE officers:
“Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor — and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados /1
“Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor — and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados /1
October 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Federal Judge William Young in his opinion in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio pointing out the ignominy of masked ICE officers:
“Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor — and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados /1
“Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor — and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados /1
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If Mamdani did this, someone from the USG - probably State Dept diplomatic security - would release him and charge Mamdani with a crime. And that assumes the NYPD would even obey an order to arrest someone with diplomatic immunity with no local, state, or US charges.
Not sure why that matters. Us not having an obligation doesn't preclude him from grabbing the guy, locking him up, and then sending him to a country he has no connection to. Trump and the courts have seen to it that we can send non citizens to wherever we feel like.
October 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
If Mamdani did this, someone from the USG - probably State Dept diplomatic security - would release him and charge Mamdani with a crime. And that assumes the NYPD would even obey an order to arrest someone with diplomatic immunity with no local, state, or US charges.
What an incredible putz.
Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"
October 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
What an incredible putz.