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  1. We have no idea yet what happened in the camp in those hours and what they knew; it’s far too early to make them the primary point of failure and there will have been multiple points.
  2. The last three feet to the audience are always the most critical and most difficult. If you’re not on Facebook at 2AM, then a Facebook or Twitter post doesn’t help you. Radio is the gold standard.
  3. I have worked in crisis comms before. There will need to be a whole post-mortem so take this for what it’s worth but: all the major work and structure has to be done and in place well before an event. Counties and local governments, depending on the size, are often not staffed and trained on this appropriately. They’ll do a training and prep, get everything in order, and then a few people retire or get new jobs and things just slide. The strong likelihood here is that it was the 4th, it was late. Someone was on leave, someone was sleeping off beers, maybe a couple someones. And they just didn’t get someone with the keys to accounts awake and in the game.
  4. Completely agree. The Udvar-Hazey Center is likely the best flight and space museum in the world and an orbiter belongs there with the rest of America’s treasures. Moving it will simply deprive generations of aviation lovers and future aviators or engineers from marveling at what America can do. The correct answer for what to do was to put a line in a budget a decade ago to install the NY orbiter in Houston properly cared for. To fund NASA to tell its own story. Obama should have asked for it and Congress should have voted for it. This is just sheer idiocy at this point, they don’t like the “woke Smithsonian” and so the shuttle ends as it lived- far underfunded and directed at the wrong mission.
  5. It’s the point. They want Ukrainians to die and surrender so Trump can say he got peace. Peace of the grave.
  6. Calling from burner phones and refusing to ID yourself, then asking for secret information is a famously effective way of getting intelligence officials to talk.
  7. Sure this will be awesome, happy 4th everyone.
  8. Islamophobia is a whack term. It’s usually deployed in one of two ways: 1. As the accepted term for anti-Muslim bigotry (which is a real thing), although “anti-Muslim” would suffice. 2. As a subtle way to try and blend the lines between legitimate criticism of some types of Islamic belief and practice with anti-Muslim bigotry. Among some types of academics and commenters there is a pervasive effort to make people think they are talking about 1) when they mean 2); and to use it to immediately silence any justified scrutiny of Islam. Similar playbook to “Russophobia,” it’s possible to be an anti-Russian bigot who hates Russian people but “Russophobia” as a concept is just a way to try and silence any legitimate criticism of the Russian state, Russian state ideology, and Russian behavior.
  9. Apparently this was his unilateral decision. Blindsided everyone else, no coordination with other agencies. What happens when you have no NSC and stocked the apparatus with amateurs, drunks, and buttlickers.
  10. That’s Uma Thurman my man.
  11. Homeland Security is posting Thomas Kinkade.
  12. Excellent thread by David Frum and the interview with former Ambassador Brink will be worth listening to. He is correct at the core: Every decision to slow-roll aid and belief that the war could be delicately managed to avoid angering Russia too much set up the abandonment of Ukraine.
  13. This is a Bridge Colby special. And the goal is to help Russia win to try and get Ukraine to give up. A lesson for all involved is that you can do everything the admin demands and their word is worthless.
  14. There are some other branches of government where Mormons are very disproportionately represented; the ones where speaking different languages and having a squeaky clean background get you a good chunk of the way to hired. Mormons also believe that the Constitution is a divinely inspired document. It’s a bit beyond just a penchant for service.
  15. Thom Tillis is being forced to retire because of Trump’s BBB and his recognition that voting for it would cost him re-election. But at least he did his job and confirmed Pete Hegseth to show loyalty. Only kind of leopards because he will go home and be comfortable and not personally hurt by all the awful things he enabled. It is humiliating though and that’s something. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5375837-tillis-reelection-senate-north-carolina/
  16. Loving the implication of the CASA ruling. Trump can demand that every first-born be sacrificed to appease Stephen Miller’s wrath and unless you live in a lib state it’s happening for at least as long as it takes to certify a class. America is broken. And the hell of it is that I fundamentally agree that it’s a stretch of judicial power to issue nation-wide injunctions and we are beyond the norm. But there’s also a norm against just issuing facially unconstitutional executive orders. And at this point it’s just 6 people cherry-picking the norms that should continue to apply (and it’s the ones that appease Stephen Miller).
  17. One site didn’t get that ordinance, but two others did. The media mostly focused on Fordow (where they were used) but we also hit Nantz and this site. Submarine launched cruise missiles went to Isfahan.
  18. Pope Leo is so much better at this.
  19. This story is grotesque.
  20. Of course they have computers. We already know this. That’s how we win.
  21. Literally no one was debating whether this was an impressive, carefully coordinated and technically astounding mission. Then Trump made a Truth social post accusing people of downplaying it and badmouthing the pilots and now we are all debating it. Gotdamn, read up on reflexive control and maintain cognitive hygiene. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive_control
  22. Needs to be said bluntly that this is absolutely insane. CIA director tweeting blurry photos of a press release (why?) to satisfy a demand from POTUS. “Great sources at the CIA report that the emperor had clothes on and moreover they are the most fashionable clothes ever.” In real time we are watching the dismantling of the most effective and powerful national security apparatus, from intel to diplomacy to influence to defense, that has ever existed. By choice by bored people who elected the most boring and venal man alive.
  23. Makes me almost stroke out. There is not much about the Valley to attract an outsider; even less now that the citrus groves are gone and summer is hotter than it once was, as impossible as that seems. We have one state football championship. We have the cheapest houses in the country. We handed over a place of stark but real beauty. Home to shorebirds and pelicans and rattlesnakes and redfish. We were told the rich man would put us on the map. And he did. He blew up his rockets and showered the shorebirds with debris and closed the beach and the world knows where we are. Damn if that isn’t the story of the Valley.
  24. The truth on this is that Japanese intentions, the need to drop the bomb, and the motivations of Truman are bitterly disputed by extremely credible historians and specialists 80 years later to say nothing of the fog of war and politics HST had to work through at the time. Anyone who is dogmatic on this is arguing from ideology. It’s also extremely true that the planners who dropped the bomb had no clear understanding of the long-term fallout (ISWYDT) aside from “big boom.”
  25. Gotta be real dawg; rambling, conspiratorial, and incoherent is the right’s brand now.
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