I don't even care about the title, SecDef was always a euphemism. But Hegseth just made this up! There are laws that create these organizations! Sigh.

Reporting on any guarantees from the Trump admin uncritically, without the context that the present US leadership is ideologically aligned with the Kremlin and actively hostile to the western alliance structure, is journalistic malpractice.

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

I know being hopeful is a fool's errand sometimes when you are a Democrat, but in my heart I do believe that a lot of progressives all over the country smell blood in the water (in a good way) and feel HUGE momentum behind not just flipping R seats, but knocking out weak Dem establishment dinosaurs

Pragmatic leftism is a place where you get hit from every direction even though it's probably the most morally centered place to be.

liberalism is going to require something martial and vicious and somewhat fanatic if we want it to survive. it won't be the liberalism we grew up with. it will be an uglier, harder thing for an uglier, harder world.