New York Times columnist, visiting professor @lipscomb, Iraq vet, married to @NancyAFrench. This is a Memphis Grizzlies fan account.
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If a MAGA voter is bewildered today, perhaps he should stop making a meme calling his opponents “fake and gay,” delete the post declaring that Indian Americans worship demons, turn off the podcast that’s shrieking at him that every person who votes Democratic is a heretic, and take a very long and thoughtful look in the mirror.
Donald Trump is to blame, but no one — absolutely no one — made you imitate him. nytimes.com/2026/11/05/opini…
This is a remarkable tweet. Under what circumstances are unilateral tariffs, unilateral war, mass deportations, and large-scale crackdowns on free speech examples of "running to the middle"? His version of "bold conservatism" (which is really bold authoritarianism and bold corruption) is what turned the country against the GOP.
Saying, “We’ve got to start talking to independent voters,” here is Swamp talk for “run to the middle.” Running to the middle is not what got Trump popularly elected in 2024, but it is what got Republicans crushed in the midterms. Bold conservatism is what will attract independent voters and win elections.
World War I was a great catastrophe of the western world. It was almost like attempted civilizational suicide. More than 100 years later, we still live with its legacy.
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Flying back from London to US and just as I was going through security at Heathrow, they announced a minute of silence for Armistice Day. Bugle, everything stops, total silence, then bugle again. Incredibly moving and truly a national thing.
We could use something like that.
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BREAKING
Democrat Scott Colom is projected to win the U.S. Senate race in Mississippi, defeating Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Colom makes history as the first Black senator to be elected directly by Mississippi voters.
Until Colom, no Black candidate had won ANY statewide election in Mississippi since 1873.
Full Story: bit.ly/48fj8md
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BREAKING
Jensen Huang also had an affair with a Nvidia executive who reported to him.
The New York Times has five sources.
Full Story: nyti.ms/4AicDec
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After the midterms, Ron DeSantis attacked Mitt Romney. (Yes.) He said he was sorry he had voted for Romney in 2012 and that Romney was a "total squish." My own view is the opposite. I have written a piece contrasting the two men. See what you think. thenextmove.org/p/romney-and…
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Five of the last six SECDEFs (six out of last eight if you include acting) have had a CIB, CAB, or CAR with combat service ranging from Vietnam, Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq
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AWFUL. A family pleaded with ICE to deport their ill father so he could get out of detention. They even offered to pay for plane tickets. But ICE kept him jailed for two months after he accepted removal, his health deteriorating daily. He died hours after he was finally deported.
Ayaz Ahmed, 61, had no criminal record and had several diagnosed chronic health conditions when his children say he was detained, deported, and died mysteriously over the summer. abc7chicago.com/post/donald-…
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Peltola's lead is now greater than the margin of votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan — so even if you took the Trump approach and added his ballots to Sen. Sullivan's, it wouldn't change the outcome.
For almost my entire adult life I've heard elements of the GOP base blame failure on not being tough or aggressive enough. In the first two years of the second Trump term, they got all the aggression they could ever want, and the party got crushed at a level we haven't seen in more than 50 years.
So what happens next? With Stephen Miller and Jim Jordan, they double down on aggression. Nothing about those picks suggests the slightest sense that the MAGA base understands or even cares about what actually happened.
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NEW: The @nytimes confirms that ICE deliberately electronically "disappeared" tens of thousands of people in detention and ordered contractors to refuse to reveal where they're held to family or lawyers.
30% of all immigrants detained in ICE jails now have their location hidden.
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I find it amazing that we are supposed to carry on with our professional and personal lives as if the tech insiders telling us we are all going to die or be slaves "pretty soon" is not, you know, a thing that might stop us in our tracks and demand immediate, collective politics.
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If a Democratic president had approved a deal to allow a major U.S. tech company to sell its second-most-powerful chip to China in exchange for the U.S. government’s taking one-quarter of the proceeds, and that company had donated $25 million to the president’s White House ballroom vanity project, Republicans would probably start impeachment proceedings so fast you could measure it with a stopwatch.
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Which of the strategic objectives of Epic Fury have we accomplished?
Additional effects against the Nuke Program beyond Midnight Hammer? Nope
Assistance to the Iranian protesters? Nope
Overcoming the ratio of missiles to interceptors? Nope
Severing the links to their proxies? Nope
Preventing ability to effect the maritime domain? Nope
Anyone pretending that the obliteration and succesful restructuring of the world order we have allowed to persist for the last 47 years not materializing inside of 6 months is evidence of a lack of strategic accomplishment is being hilariously disingenuous.
The only real question that remains is: are they stupid, or are they knowingly lying in support of the creation of a particular narrative?
You don’t strike me as stupid; so, who is your master?
