Tony Dewan

Wikipedia images of celebrities are always so hilariously bad

The limited efficacy of air power alone has been known since the Battle of Britain in WW2. This is why combined arms is the standard for every nation-state military since.

...and there are enough of us that if we show up, it matters!

Recap: we're aware, educated, hungry, burned, motivated, and numerous.

...many overeducated, many sandwiched between kids and parents and thus with the maximum view of the cost of degraded institutions on daily life, many should be in maximum earning years and instead are seeing incomes decimated by oligarchy and decades of bad antitrust policy...

...too young to have brains destroyed by lead poisoning as children, too old to have brains destroyed by social media as children, native to technology, came of age in the relative peace and prosperity of post-cold-war US hegemony AND the epic failures of 2 decades-long wars in the Middle East...

I'm probably just @runforsomething.net pilled, but I think that if our our democracy (and society as we've understood it) is to be saved, it'll be by millennials...

...to the dash cam recs, not to the hit and run

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Harrison Ruffin Tyler - Wikipedia

John Tyler, 10th US President, was born in 1790. His last surviving grandchild, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, died on May 25, 2025.

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A picture from a Dr Seuss book that says “And you don't have to stop. You can think about SCHLOPP. Schlopp. Schlopp. Beautiful schlopp. Beautiful schlopp with a cherry on top.”

Making software in 2026

The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.

It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

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Main long-term lessons of "war game" I was part of 20+ years ago:
—Short-term vulnerabilities: oil markets, world trade via Strait of Hormuz.
—Medium-term: attacks on US bases, allies
—Long-term: terrorism inside US, on Americans abroad
—Longer-term: who's responsible for country of 90m people?

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.

Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.

A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

(And also the party of tax cuts without spending cuts, tax cuts the disproportionately favor the wealthy. The deficit creation party)

For my entire life, from before I have memories to middle age, the GOP is the party of preemptive, undeclared wars in the Middle East, each one less just than the last.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
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the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

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One of the greatest bollard walks in history.
#WorldBollardAssociation

Hypothesis: “Artificial vs authentic” is the defining attentional axis of 2026 - in marketing, in politics, in art, in social media — all of it. I am hopeful in which one will win, but tbd!

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

She’s my state senator and a friend, she’s fantastic!

King Dough? More like King Slow amirite