Sean Michael Ragan
@seanragan.bsky.social
Is this the second Battle of Britain or just a huge wasteful jerk-off? www.newsweek.com/india-pakist...
India-Pakistan jets clash in one of the largest dogfights in recent history
Fighting between the two nuclear rivals has intensified amid international concerns and calls for cooling off
www.newsweek.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Is this the second Battle of Britain or just a huge wasteful jerk-off? www.newsweek.com/india-pakist...
Everyone needs to stop freaking out about Trump and face the fact that WWIII is here, and it's only going to escalate during his term. However much you hate him, he's the only President we've got now.
January 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Everyone needs to stop freaking out about Trump and face the fact that WWIII is here, and it's only going to escalate during his term. However much you hate him, he's the only President we've got now.
I voted for Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020, and Harris in 2024. In each case, I was voting *against* Trump rather than for his opponent. But he's won now, and handily, and though I have grave concerns about his fitness, I do not think he is the biggest threat we face.
January 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I voted for Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020, and Harris in 2024. In each case, I was voting *against* Trump rather than for his opponent. But he's won now, and handily, and though I have grave concerns about his fitness, I do not think he is the biggest threat we face.
I despise what Russia is doing to Ukraine as much as anyone but Elbridge Colby is probably right that China has to be our priority. It is entirely possible that Russia and China have been planning a squeeze play from the beginning.
January 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I despise what Russia is doing to Ukraine as much as anyone but Elbridge Colby is probably right that China has to be our priority. It is entirely possible that Russia and China have been planning a squeeze play from the beginning.
It has astonished me to see a small but vocal minority of Americans seriously advocating for monarchy. As I see it, there can be no more fundamental betrayal of what it means to be an American. Even segregationists and communists are more authentically American than monarchists.
January 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It has astonished me to see a small but vocal minority of Americans seriously advocating for monarchy. As I see it, there can be no more fundamental betrayal of what it means to be an American. Even segregationists and communists are more authentically American than monarchists.
Commentary in #theatlantic today to the effect that there's "zero national security reason" for the US to resume control of the Panama Canal is naive. If we control the canal, we can weaponize it: our friends get through, our enemies can go another 8000 miles and try their luck in the Drake Passage.
January 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Commentary in #theatlantic today to the effect that there's "zero national security reason" for the US to resume control of the Panama Canal is naive. If we control the canal, we can weaponize it: our friends get through, our enemies can go another 8000 miles and try their luck in the Drake Passage.
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I am begging otherwise-smart people to realize that often the answer to “I just saw something enraging on social media, why have I never heard about it before” is “because it’s not true.”
January 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I am begging otherwise-smart people to realize that often the answer to “I just saw something enraging on social media, why have I never heard about it before” is “because it’s not true.”
Conspiracy hypothesis: China knows it can only take Taiwan by force if it does so quickly, which will be much more likely if it can achieve strategic surprise. But this is not 1944, and Taiwan is not Normandy. How to surprise your enemy in an age of smartphones and ubiquitous overhead surveillance?
January 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Conspiracy hypothesis: China knows it can only take Taiwan by force if it does so quickly, which will be much more likely if it can achieve strategic surprise. But this is not 1944, and Taiwan is not Normandy. How to surprise your enemy in an age of smartphones and ubiquitous overhead surveillance?
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Somebody tell Trump to tell Bezos to let me filter my Amazon search results by county of manufacture. If I want to buy American it should be as easy as ticking a little box next to "USA."
January 23, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Somebody tell Trump to tell Bezos to let me filter my Amazon search results by county of manufacture. If I want to buy American it should be as easy as ticking a little box next to "USA."
It occurred to me today that a person can be a Christian in the same sense that a person can be an Aristotelian or a Cartesian or a Jeffersonian--that is, in the sense of subscribing to the philosophy of Jesus, without necessarily accepting the personal divinity of Jesus himself.
January 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
It occurred to me today that a person can be a Christian in the same sense that a person can be an Aristotelian or a Cartesian or a Jeffersonian--that is, in the sense of subscribing to the philosophy of Jesus, without necessarily accepting the personal divinity of Jesus himself.
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You have to finish it in under an hour without throwing up. Otherwise you have to pay for it and you don’t get the free novelty t-shirt.
January 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
You have to finish it in under an hour without throwing up. Otherwise you have to pay for it and you don’t get the free novelty t-shirt.
I am not sympathetic to Trump's immigration agenda but it says something about the state of the debate that this sentence can appear in the New York Times: "Throughout his campaign, and during his first term, Mr. Trump often portrayed all migrants crossing the border illegally as criminals."
January 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I am not sympathetic to Trump's immigration agenda but it says something about the state of the debate that this sentence can appear in the New York Times: "Throughout his campaign, and during his first term, Mr. Trump often portrayed all migrants crossing the border illegally as criminals."
Russia will only be free when the chekist cabal that has secretly controlled the Kremlin at least since Dzerzhinsky, and which is now formally institutionalized as the FSB, has been completely purged.
January 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Russia will only be free when the chekist cabal that has secretly controlled the Kremlin at least since Dzerzhinsky, and which is now formally institutionalized as the FSB, has been completely purged.
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Naming a proposed law after a dead person, particularly a child, is fundamentally a demand that everyone be credulous, unquestioning, and obedient.
It may be even simpler than that: No politician dares vote against terrible policy with untold downstream consequences for many—for the simple fact that it's named after a victim of an unspeakable/inexcusable act of violence.
God help us all if that's all it takes to create criminal legal policy.
God help us all if that's all it takes to create criminal legal policy.
January 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Naming a proposed law after a dead person, particularly a child, is fundamentally a demand that everyone be credulous, unquestioning, and obedient.
It will probably be impossible for China to conceal its short-term preparations for invading Taiwan. However, they could try to stage an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever in order to do so. Quarantine could mask all kinds of logistics, including massive blood drives, that would otherwise be tells.
January 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It will probably be impossible for China to conceal its short-term preparations for invading Taiwan. However, they could try to stage an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever in order to do so. Quarantine could mask all kinds of logistics, including massive blood drives, that would otherwise be tells.
Trump's pick for SecTreas worked for George Soros for 25 years and is gay with two children: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Scott Bessent Sees a Coming ‘Global Economic Reordering.’ He Wants to Be Part of It.
Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary has been a fierce defender of his activist approach to trade.
www.wsj.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Trump's pick for SecTreas worked for George Soros for 25 years and is gay with two children: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Tim Wilson has had enough: youtu.be/RfukVS1aRIc?...
Putin's claim that it was not-quite- an ICBM that hit Dnipro
YouTube video by Professor Tim Wilson
youtu.be
November 22, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Tim Wilson has had enough: youtu.be/RfukVS1aRIc?...
This is at least the second Russian-compromised embassy security guard I've heard about since the full-scale invasion started.
BREAKING: Security Guard at the US Embassy in Oslo, Norway, arrested on espionage charges.
The guard was reportedly spying for Russia and Iran.
www.reuters.com/world/securi...
The guard was reportedly spying for Russia and Iran.
www.reuters.com/world/securi...
Security guard at US embassy in Oslo arrested for espionage
A security guard working at the U.S. embassy in Norway has been arrested on suspicion of espionage on behalf of Russia and Iran, a Norwegian security police official said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:34 PM
This is at least the second Russian-compromised embassy security guard I've heard about since the full-scale invasion started.
My take on the UAP/UFO phenom is that it has always been a psyop. The important part of the story is not that aliens are among us but *that the US government has recovered alien technology.* The point is to introduce additional uncertainty among near-peer military competitors about our capabilities.
November 21, 2024 at 5:22 PM
My take on the UAP/UFO phenom is that it has always been a psyop. The important part of the story is not that aliens are among us but *that the US government has recovered alien technology.* The point is to introduce additional uncertainty among near-peer military competitors about our capabilities.