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National security enjoyer. @DHSgov alum, recovering Hill staffer, and former Pentagon journo. Proprietor of @TheBigStick Views expressed mine alone.
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Why does Hollywood insist on letting Brie Larson ruin everything?
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@TByrne75
@AlwaysLegitWhit
How about literally every BCS and college football National championship for starters.
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@hasanthehun
Convenient that you didn't screenshot the rest of the article where it states that these were accusations and that there is no substantiated proof.
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@mehdirhasan
He’s got two masters degrees and is a president of a country. You complain on twitter.
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@SwannMarcus89
The long term political problem you've had for a long time is thinking about the electorate like this to begin with.
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@TLCplMax
Yes, let's shit on the cosplaying tacticool guys who are trying to be present fathers because "lol CRINGE" is much more important than offering a product for a different market segment.
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@CatDrawingGuy
The guys from your fraternity who used to smash beer cans on their head 20 years ago but would now like you to take their Facebook rants seriously, thank you very much.
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@JohnJHarwood
If you’re not familiar with ballistics “at all” maybe you should sit this one out.
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@BenjaminGoggin
Maybe they are leaning in to that rhetoric because the people attacking them are using identical rhetoric to the ones who attacked them back then?
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@LightningMcRib
McBib, coach is a licensed notary public and therefore an officer of the court. Your attack amounts to an act of aggression against the U.S. government. Delete this.
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@JerylBier
There was a time when stealth editing a piece in journalism was cardinal sin, bottom of the barrel stuff. Amazing to see the AP has sunk so low.
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@JoshChavis65
Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or Brock Purdy where he was on November 22, 1963
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@SimonHarrisTD
Will you be calling on Hamas to surrender in an effort to bring an end to the conflict?
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@justinbaragona
@SirajAHashmi
Mad props for turning yourself in to the list police. I have filed an amicus brief with
@SirajAHashmi
for leniency.
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@murphyb849
@JohnJHarwood
You’ve clearly never treated a 5.56/.223 wound if you actually believe it turns people into “pink mist.” Stop using your medical credential and Hollywood movie tropes to spread misinformation.
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Difficult to overstate how much of a strategic blunder this is.
NEW: President Biden plans to waive sanctions on the Russian-owned company in charge of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline
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@krystalball
The same peaceful protestors who were cordoning off public spaces to make sure Jews couldn’t pass? Those “peaceful protestors”?
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@nataliejohnsonn
Would be interesting to see how good samaritan laws could apply to potentially address this.
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@DanRiffle
The reason we can’t buy that small Japanese truck easily in the states is because of onerous regulations made by guys like you.
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@RedState
Imagine a judge saying "the 1st amendment doesn't exist in this courtroom." You may not like guns, but compromise on any of your rights and they are all up for grabs.
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This is a nice first step, but the amount needed to be at least 5 times larger.
🇺🇸🇹🇼 The US House passes the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, 385-34. Includes Foreign Military Financing for INDOPACOM countries, including Taiwan, and funding for the US Submarine Industrial Base.
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@allinwithchris
@chrisgeidner
Newsflash: Local Man Sells Stock Based on Publicly Available Information
Truly a Woodward and Bernstein moment right here.
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I only met Foster once, when I was a young reporter. Despite his success and larger than life persona, he treated me with respect and was genuinely curious about my work. His humility stuck with me. It was a great life lesson on how to treat people, no matter who you are.
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@wesleysmorgan
@alexplitsas
I want to meet the Navy recruiter who let the potential “Admiral Admiral” slip through his hands.
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@charlescwcooke
@_WilliamsonBen
I don’t understand how she keeps getting work. Who does Molly Jong Fast appeal to exactly?
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@NathanJRobinson
Did you watch the video? There was plenty of deference on both sides and they often made direct citations. Shapiro literally cited case law.
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@jaynordlinger
@JonahDispatch
Of all the bad analogies for this topic, this is one of the worst.
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@TByrne75
@AlwaysLegitWhit
Just checked and it looks like we’ve also got literally every Super Bowl. Is the rest of the world even trying??
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@NOELreports
Why is the Chancellor's aid calling the Ukraine fight an "existential" crisis while he denies support? Seems to be a disconnect.
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@NavyStrang
My guy, there is no way someone working at a Ford factory today can afford to have a stay at home wife, 2 kids, and that house no matter what they cut down on. A house like that would sell for a cool 750K easily in my area.
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@ElbridgeColby
"No clear evidence Japan would ever attack the US"
"No clear evidence Mao will intervene in Korea"
"No clear evidence al-Qaeda is capable of a major attack"
"No clear evidence Putin will invade Ukraine"
How many times are we going to do this?
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@ColbyBadhwar
Sure would be nice if the Assistant Secretary of Defense was familiar with things like the Laws of Armed Conflict and the Geneva Conventions.
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@ischinger
@ElbridgeColby
I disagree with your premise. It's Europe that needs to reassure the US that it is willing to meet its defense spending commitments for the good of NATO. The future of US security policy has focused on Asia for three consecutive administrations. It's clear our future lies in the
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@rickdicksonreal
@JerryDunleavy
I've met green berets who have PhDs, could converse in near perfect Korean, and were some of the most intelligent and open minded people I know. Anyone who knows anything about what they do knows that it's asinine to claim they are anything but empathetic and dedicated warriors.
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@RealCynicalFox
Becoming increasingly clear the real intent of this mission is to save face, not deter the enemy.
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@krystalball
Interesting that you take the Hamas run Gaza Health Ministry at face value while constantly calling for folks to be skeptical and double check their sources when it comes to the conflict.
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@paulkrugman
Another example of how you don't need to tweet every idea that comes into your head (much less write an oped about it).
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@esaagar
Dude unironically argues that we should just buy smaller trucks like they have in Japan without realizing we can’t thanks to regulations made by people like him.
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@cdrsalamander
My brother in law is at Parris Island right now. How can I get him a copy of this before he graduates?
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@Jewsarethegoat
The time for that cop to pull out the pepper spray and draw down was about 11 seconds in.
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@BillMelugin_
The previous solution to this problem was the Migrant Protection Protocols, or remain in Mexico program, which Mayorkas and the administration ended.
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@davidfrum
You seriously think IRGC leaders planned their attacks on US forces around the nuances of the US legislative process?
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@brianstelter
I sincerely believe that there is a huge portion of Playbook readers who wouldn't even have realized Ben guest edited today if certain folks on Twitter hadn't made such a big deal about it.
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@EODHappyCaptain
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have
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No one thought it could happen because it didn’t happen.
Biden tells ABC: “I’m the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen.”
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@walterolson
@TheFP
It's amazing how much this echoes Weimar Germany's similar refusal to prosecute the Brown Shirts in the late 20s and early 30s.
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@AndrewDesiderio
Spent many years in those briefings on the House side and I'm a little skeptical that "yelling" occurred. Those meetings were pretty cut and dry, even for the most contentious bills. Such dramatics would be unusual.
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There are some people out there who would actually have you believe the Houthis, operating out of the desolate Yemeni mountains, somehow obtained cruise missiles organically and without the assistance and direction of a foreign actor.
Update-
#usscarney
shot down 4 land attack cruise missiles, not 3 as the Pentagon said last week
We've asked for video of the Carney shooting down the missiles and drones.
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Wasn't the whole point of Robinhood to empower the retail traders from gatekeeping just like this?
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@yashar
Arabs can I either continue to tacitly support Hamas violence or work toward a solution. Anwar Sadat tried the latter and he was killed for it.
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@SwannMarcus89
Not really too incredible considering Sam Franciscans are getting what thet voted for.
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@datepsych
@Aleaiactaest23
The answer seems pretty obvious: they've been conditioned to be risk averse.
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@jshelat1
I believe you’re confusing “teaching” with “activism.” If you want to do the latter, by all means resign and do so.
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@AlecStapp
Nixon was the all time record holder of having good ideas and making terrible decisions.
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"For those communists, nothing comes without a quid pro quo .... No American would be allowed to run academic exchanges for a couple of decades, on the CCP’s dime, without MSS approval. It just wouldn’t happen."
"We need to ask what’s going on here ... What did China think it was getting in exchange for this investment? What did Walz think Beijing expected in return?"
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@ischinger
@ElbridgeColby
Sir, if your end goal is to maintain the NATO alliance through the 21st century, wading into US domestic politics and questioning the "adulthood" of the US electorate will have precisely the opposite effect. Having spent so much time in the US, you're surely aware of this.
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Every person on earth lost something on this day.
March 2001: Taliban destroy Buddhas of Bamiyan
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@wmata
A real WMATA perfume would smell like discarded chicken wing bones, mildew, and distilled frustration.
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@ThomasThorbur11
@3YearLetterman
Thompson, coach is a licensed notary public in the state of Georgia. I think he knows what he’s talking about when it comes to the government.
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@Julio_Rosas11
@MaryMargOlohan
This sounds recklessly irresponsible on the part of the command.
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@hasanthehun
Right, he just publicly supports an organization that endorses both. But hey, if he didn't say so on your show, it must be so!
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@yashar
St Nicholas was from Myra in Asia Minor, which was a well known trade route and cosmopolitan city at the time, so this was entirely plausible.
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Folks would be calling for fire and brimstone if Russia used its Little Green Men to attack American forces 12 times. Why is it crickets when Iran does it?
Another attack on U.S. forces in Iraq, this time in Erbil,
@PentagonPresSec
says just now.
U.S. have been attacked in Iraq 12 times and Syria four times between Oct. 17 and 26.
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@Noahpinion
Getting married, having a family, and working hard are actually not traits of a cultural outgroup in America... unless of course your prism is that of a commentary writer in San Francisco.
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Looks like my account got hacked. Remember to enable two factor kids 😅
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@MaryMargOlohan
@SteveGuest
Does
@GWtweets
endorse its students' defense of terrorists who behead babies?
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@lexfridman
“At all costs”? No Lex, there are some things worth fighting for. Like the right to not have 300 drones and missiles launched into your country. “Avoid at all costs” are the words aggressors love to hear.
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@JerryDunleavy
@SirajAHashmi
I petition leniency for the accused on account of his repentance and turning himself in.
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@SonofHas
@Harvard
@townhallcom
To future employers: This is what these students are defending. Do you want to be associated?
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I’m not opposed to EVs but it feels like we jumped too quickly from hybrids. Surely there’s a lot more to explore on that front.
“46% of American EV drivers want to go back to gas cars” — E&E News by POLITICO
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“We want you to vote!”
“No, not like that!”
SCOOP: "A confidential memo circulated among top Democratic donors has sparked a furious debate in Democratic circles about whether to narrow the focus of voter registration efforts to avoid signing up likely Republicans."
@sabrod123
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@AvivaKlompas
@nyulaw
Sent from an NYU email address I assume? Does
@nyulaw
endorse this statement? Does the President speak on behalf of all NYU SBA members?
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@World_At_War_6
@sentdefender
Correction, the world must wake up. Our partners and allies can’t even muster the will to defend their backyard much less the Red Sea. Until we see the west stand as a whole, we can expect bad actors to act up.
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@Culture_Crit
My favorite bit of history with the church is a ladder that has remained on the roof for 300+ years because no one can figure out which Christian sect put it there.
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But I was assured by Very Smart People on this website that the Houthis were just a local Yemeni rebel movement. Why would they attack Israel?
Unless....
Israel thwarted missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels. Houthis say more attacks to come. My report on
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@JBSDC
Golly gee, why are people upset that they are working a second and third job, don't they know things are objectively better??
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@yashar
I dont support Biden, but George Clooney's opinion on the direction of national politics should carry about as much weight as my opinion on him choosing to star in Spy Kids 3D: Game Over, aka zero.
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