NYT "analysis": Say what you want about ethnically cleansing 2 million Palestinians, but it would "disrupt a tired diplomatic paradigm."

A weird aspect of this is that both advocates and opponents of USAID are exaggerating the extent to which its just an adjunct of the US national security state hiding behind charity.

RT @mtracey: So to recap, someone published the names of the DOGE staff -- who currently wield extreme power dictating government policy --…

Yes. The lawlessness is the point. They are executive power fanatics.

With his insistence that Snowden is either a traitor or not, Warner seems to be standing up for loyalty to the national-security surveillance state as opposed to the country and to oppose Tulsi because she's nominated to be DNI without sharing his conflation.

The consequences of being behind China now on artificial intelligence are primarily economic, unlike the direct security competition of Cold War space and missile programs. And AI competition may be useful for most Americans, as technology consumers, even if hurts some US firms.

Still, it's foolish to put the word "legitimate" before "security concerns." It helps bad faith interlocutors say you're not just criticizing US policy but supporting Russia's. Just say NATO's open door to Ukraine was dumb and yet invading wasn't a legit security move by Russia.

And regardless of whether they proceed with the freeze they, especially OMB nominee Russ Vought, openly argue that they can violate the impoundment act and not spend allocated funds. No one should do a victory lap on protecting the power of the purse.

Trump is attempting to destroy the congressional spending power in the Constitution. Legislators and god forbid justices who go along with that cannot pretend to be constitutionalists.

From a political standpoint, it's kind of wild they don't seem to have excluded DoD from this. Might that wake some part of the GOP up to notice their spending power being stolen?

Funny that Trump wants everyone in the federal government back to working in the office except the NSC officials who can only work from the office.