@j-jeffcoat.bsky.social
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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What do you do with unlawful orders?
The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
What do you do with unlawful orders?
The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
What do you do with unlawful orders?
The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told
emptycity.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
NEW
What do you do with unlawful orders?
The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
What do you do with unlawful orders?
The critical - and topical - issue of when the military and security services can refuse to do what they are told
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
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In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
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It's a testament to how much the Republican Party has changed that Dick Cheney's final vote was for the Democrats.
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It's a testament to how much the Republican Party has changed that Dick Cheney's final vote was for the Democrats.
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The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Exactly what we need: careful, considered, funny intelligence squaring up to our catastrophic, deadly, age of stupid (with Arendt's help).
Excellent piece @will-davies.bsky.social
Excellent piece @will-davies.bsky.social
My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Exactly what we need: careful, considered, funny intelligence squaring up to our catastrophic, deadly, age of stupid (with Arendt's help).
Excellent piece @will-davies.bsky.social
Excellent piece @will-davies.bsky.social
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That’s a fair TL:DR of the Brit version of what happened at Pristina airport (heavily influenced by the well-publicised reminiscences of the two individuals you mentioned). Watching it in real time from Moscow led me to a different conclusion though.
www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...
www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...
September 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
That’s a fair TL:DR of the Brit version of what happened at Pristina airport (heavily influenced by the well-publicised reminiscences of the two individuals you mentioned). Watching it in real time from Moscow led me to a different conclusion though.
www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...
www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...
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It is impossible to overstate the centrality of social media to our political collapse. Policy is being set in order to provide content for the MAGA social media hordes, who then spiral into greater radicalism, which then results in more extreme policy. Complete disregard for any other goal.
In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."
September 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
It is impossible to overstate the centrality of social media to our political collapse. Policy is being set in order to provide content for the MAGA social media hordes, who then spiral into greater radicalism, which then results in more extreme policy. Complete disregard for any other goal.
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"Restoring the ‘Department of War’ will sharpen the focus of this Department." I have worked alongside U.S. military personnel for many years - they have always had a sharp focus on the security of America & its people. The name change won't change this.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump to rebrand Defense Department as War Department
Trump is expected to sign an executive order Friday, though it is unclear if he can permanently change the agency’s title without legislation from Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
"Restoring the ‘Department of War’ will sharpen the focus of this Department." I have worked alongside U.S. military personnel for many years - they have always had a sharp focus on the security of America & its people. The name change won't change this.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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I endorse this message. Well said @markfergusonmp.bsky.social on why the fabric of the flag should be something to unite, not divide
August 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I endorse this message. Well said @markfergusonmp.bsky.social on why the fabric of the flag should be something to unite, not divide
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Almost four years out from an election & paying *the actual fucking Taliban* to torture & murder people who risked their lives to escape them is getting the full ‘both sides’ treatment in Brexit Britain.
August 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Almost four years out from an election & paying *the actual fucking Taliban* to torture & murder people who risked their lives to escape them is getting the full ‘both sides’ treatment in Brexit Britain.
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Right? Why is no one exploring the near-total failure of these protests, despite having pretty much the most generous political and media environment imaginable?
August 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Right? Why is no one exploring the near-total failure of these protests, despite having pretty much the most generous political and media environment imaginable?
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I can't shake the feeling that we are at a very unpleasant turning point where a lot of the Trump administration members are starting to get their bearings and realize just what an impossible position they have put themselves in.
There isn't a clear next phase of this. And he will die before them.
There isn't a clear next phase of this. And he will die before them.
August 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I can't shake the feeling that we are at a very unpleasant turning point where a lot of the Trump administration members are starting to get their bearings and realize just what an impossible position they have put themselves in.
There isn't a clear next phase of this. And he will die before them.
There isn't a clear next phase of this. And he will die before them.
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My sense is that we are at an incredibly unstable moment in history--almost no outcome should be written off as impossible. We're in the middle of a tech bubble and democracy failure. Things are looking flakey around the edges, to put it mildly. 3/x
August 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
My sense is that we are at an incredibly unstable moment in history--almost no outcome should be written off as impossible. We're in the middle of a tech bubble and democracy failure. Things are looking flakey around the edges, to put it mildly. 3/x
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Crimea is the original sin in the war. The West should not have encouraged Ukraine to give it up in the first place but put all the pressure they can to push Russia out instead. Crimea was a big green light for Russia. Enormous shame on Obama and Merkel for appeasing Russia.
August 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Crimea is the original sin in the war. The West should not have encouraged Ukraine to give it up in the first place but put all the pressure they can to push Russia out instead. Crimea was a big green light for Russia. Enormous shame on Obama and Merkel for appeasing Russia.
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not sure how many decades it will take America living down having elected Trump twice
August 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
not sure how many decades it will take America living down having elected Trump twice
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I think much of the English right built their identity on Brexit, which they never believed in their wildest dreams would happen, but when they got it they realised it solved absolutely nothing, left them bereft of ideas and office, and now they’re thinking, “ah, f—k it, let’s try revolution.”
August 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I think much of the English right built their identity on Brexit, which they never believed in their wildest dreams would happen, but when they got it they realised it solved absolutely nothing, left them bereft of ideas and office, and now they’re thinking, “ah, f—k it, let’s try revolution.”
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Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Kids today are learning that the fastest and easiest way to make money—the key value that has been modeled to them in America society—is to scam others, cheat your way through, and attract negative attention online that can be monetized. My endless sympathy to parents
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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It's really key to understand this: ***they don't need actual backlash of any substance or scale to run this cycle***. All they need is a few random comments, which they can always find, which means that you can basically run this cycle at will. You don't need libs to play along at all!
August 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's really key to understand this: ***they don't need actual backlash of any substance or scale to run this cycle***. All they need is a few random comments, which they can always find, which means that you can basically run this cycle at will. You don't need libs to play along at all!
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In a few years time when we look back at the first six months of the Trump administration, it will be those who knew what a catastrophe he was for the nation but found different ways to excuse his behaviour, who will be most discredited. This was the moment to speak the truth.
August 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In a few years time when we look back at the first six months of the Trump administration, it will be those who knew what a catastrophe he was for the nation but found different ways to excuse his behaviour, who will be most discredited. This was the moment to speak the truth.
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If I was going to launch into a potted history of England I'd try not to forgot the civil war. Or the relgious oppression of the Tudor years. Or the anti-catholic laws.
This is a genuinely mental thing for someone who thinks he understands history to say
July 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If I was going to launch into a potted history of England I'd try not to forgot the civil war. Or the relgious oppression of the Tudor years. Or the anti-catholic laws.
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cartoonists, have been the vital and necessary licensed Fools. Once they are silenced, as Shakespeare knew, all bets are off. /end
January 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
cartoonists, have been the vital and necessary licensed Fools. Once they are silenced, as Shakespeare knew, all bets are off. /end
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My latest in @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Nuclear Submarine Holdup Is a Gift to China
Why is the Pentagon risking America’s best military relationship in the Pacific to review a deal Biden announced?
www.bloomberg.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
My latest in @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...