Exploiting the All-Volunteer Force, one might say mars.gmu.edu/bitstreams/7...

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3h ago

Who knew ridiculously long deployments and demanding op tempos run a ship and crew into the ground!

I just had the misfortune of reading Douglas MacArthur‘s farewell speech at West Point because I saw it was required reading in Texas. I don’t know the irony didn’t kill him on the spot.

Welcome to the USMA DELENDA EST team, administration 😌

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d ago

Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum

Has anyone wrote a "Coddling of the American Mind" about the right?

Thomas M. Keck@tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 6d ago

This guy’s qualifications for serving as college president will surprise no one

The American government has been running grocery stores for 201 years and the sky has not fallen. Public option for grocery proposals are unfairly compared to the USSR. I wrote an article about this history as a response to the "consumer socialism trap" Atlantic piece.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.

Politics aside, do people believe city-run grocery stores with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? Would you implement them if not running for election? I'm sincerely curious in people's answers here.

"War has never been free; it has only recently been made to appear so." This is actually a continuation of the GWOT status quo pioneered by Bush. The issue isn't the way the appropriations are done, it's who's running the DoD. www.usni.org/magazines/pr...

Epic Fury's Hidden Bill: The Case for a War Tax and a National Defense Trust Fund

War is not free; it has only recently been made to appear so. The United States is paying for Epic Fury in future readiness rather than present taxes.

usni.org

Adding this example to my “the military hates being held accountable by the courts (read civilians) and resists judges orders“ file. The judicial branch needs to claim and enforce its role in civilian control of the military.

Thad Zajdowicz@docthad.bsky.social · last wk.

wapo.st/4fo0lts Gift article. This retired Navy officer worries a lot about the damage Trump and Hegseth are doing to our military.

I see the administration has hopped on the abolish the academies train 😂 that’s one way to do it! www.foxnews.com/politics/wok...

'Woke' military academies targeted in new blueprint for sweeping warfighting overhaul

A conservative group urged Congress to codify Trump administration military academy reforms, proposing sweeping changes to admissions and curricula.

foxnews.com

A dozen eggs are $.66 at the commissary right now btw

brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is where I disagree - I remember distinctly being in the Commissary in '22 and seeing a Marine get into a huge argument with the clerk as to why the price of everything had changed over the past two weeks and how the Commissary kept upping prices.

Virginia could pull a Hawaii and remove corporations ability to spend in elections.

Blue Virginia@bluevirginia.bsky.social · 2w ago

During 1H26, state-granted-monopoly Dominion Energy gave disproportionately to VA Senate Rs (in terms of % of total $$$ coming from Dominion, 10 of the top 11 VA Senators were Rs, with Mark Peake getting 86% of his money from Dominion!) over VA Senate Ds. WHY??? bluevirginia.us/2026/07/grap...

Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers

Abstract. Right-wing populist leaders often seem to love soldiers (especially fallen ones) and the trappings of military life. But their love affair with the military rarely endures. This article expl...

direct.mit.edu

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

New sociologist in the Senate! Darline Graham the junior senator from SC has a bachelor's in sociology!

Hots and Cots and other military apps were using foreign code and that data is being used to target soldiers. 👀 www.wired.com/story/apps-m...

Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code

A first-of-its-kind analysis found more than one in eight apps built for US service members carried foreign code—some from firms in nations the Pentagon designates as adversaries.

wired.com

I really don’t get all the (CIVILIAN) liberals who are now so obsessed with mandatory national service. It’s not good!

My grad school research found that people overestimated the amount of casualties from the GWOT still thought it was worth it 🤷‍♂️ AVF has severed some casualty sensitivity

Silverman on Security@silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 3w ago

Last I saw reported the official US KIA was 13. So either Senator Marshall is innumerate or he’s just broken some major news!

Wow. OPM says it will no longer administer the yearly FEVS survey. Agencies will be left on their own to complete the congressional requirement.

Also, people with no experience don't deserve a seat in the most powerful senate in the history of the world!

“I can always tell when people have had work done.”

It’s so crazy how the only two people eligible to run for senate in Maine were Nazi tattoo guy and old lady. No other choices. Sad!

A lot of people also (justifiably) do not want to sacrifice when certain industries or prominent members of society are tearing the social fabric apart. www.newsweek.com/teachers-ask...

Teachers asked to "turn off lights" in county packed with data centers

An email seen by media outlets said the adjustments in Henrico County are being made due to "the impact of higher electric costs."

newsweek.com

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · last mo.

One of the reasons why the ongoing meltdown about Zohran asking people to set their A/C to 78 bothers me is that it seems to be a symptom of post-COVID unwillingness for individuals to do anything for the common good, and if we don’t have that we’re in a very bad place as a society.

2029 president needs to stoploss the detachment 201 people when they try to resign and make them go to the field.

Let them theory @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Public intellectual Cass Sunstein has lost it. About 20% of the content is footnotes starting like, "I asked Claude if it cares about its continued existence." "If and when AI has emotions, it has moral rights, and it should be entitled to legal rights as well." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The military asking this on the PHA questionnaire is wild

We need mandatory sociology indoctrination for every law student so we get less takes like this: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

Opinion | When I Left Big Law, I Learned This

nytimes.com

During the Revolutionary War, the military appointed a commission to draft a petition to congress then voted on representatives to take it to them. The Supreme Court ruling in Brown v Glines (1980) said that service members have no right to collectively petition Congress.

Breaking: Pope is Catholic. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Iran War Saps Money From Other Pentagon Needs, Leaders Warn

Republicans and Democrats have pushed defense officials to submit an emergency supplemental spending request to replenish depleted coffers, but the Pentagon has yet to do so.

wsj.com

Reading @kschake.bsky.social 's book right now! Traduce has now been cemented into my vocabulary!

alina@ramshackle78.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The best way, for the modern reader, to understand Huntingtonian mode is to read @kschake.bsky.social fierce but good faith critique (read demolition) of it

Babe wake up, Rahm Emmanuel is expounding on defense reform. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

The U.S. Military Needs Another Revolution

New forms of war have developed since 1986, when Congress enacted the last major reform.

wsj.com

A golden statue you say? The biblical references are getting more niche

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Gas is $4.56 a gallon Let's check in on what the president is working on today: