Also, moving an official to a meaningless job that you're inventing just for them is a classic African dictator move to get someone out of office without admitting faulty judgment in giving them power in the first place.
Defense is woke. Bad enough to call the head of war a “secretary”.
I feel like I probably should have known this, but the majority of US diplomatic missions have no confirmed ambassador.
Of the 190 permanent missions we have, 78 have confirmed ambassadors. 112 do not.
We have no ambassador in 58.9% of our embassies around the world.
Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Young Dogs www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cor...
I know at least three people who are stuck somewhere because they had flights going through Dubai or Doha and now they can’t get home. The vast majority of people connecting between the US, Africa and South Asia go through the Gulf. I wish there was more coverage of that human impact.
China-led security platforms carry major implications for African domestic security norms, governance, and strategic autonomy. African countries risk deeper entanglement in China’s aims without clear external engagement strategies that define long-term national interests.
Ahem.
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But I was told vague promises of US naval escorts and blanket risk insurance of dubious legality would fix this
1) Are there any extensive overhaul programs of the type “polled” here on offer? 2) Is there any suggestion that abolition is in contemplation of a majority of the current Congress or is this just a abstract hypothetical? 3) They category to the right of “conservative” is obscured in the image.
1) He’s right; 2) But he supported Trump and can’t claim to be surprised; 3) Would he speak up for “American interests” if the Emirates weren’t get hit?
In his last days Muammar Ghadaffi was incredibly unpopular within Libya. The thing that was shoring him up was his relationships with European politicians like Sarkozy and Berlusconi (and Blair) as well as other African leaders. When they assassinated him it radicalised his defenders.
THIS.
Since the CIA’s Watergate-era spying on civil rights and anti-war activists inside the United States, intelligence agencies have, with some exceptions, been prohibited from gathering information on the domestic activities of U.S. citizens.
Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
At risk CEOs will want to be that much more sure that getting fired is not financially detrimental
We’re in a Carl Schmidt world and there is nothing we can do unless we radically transform our system of government
Hemedti, RSF leader.
New: We've linked Hemedti, the leader of Sudan's RSF militia, to a Dubai property portfolio controlled by an apparent front company, Prodigious Real Estate Supervision Services.
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#KeepEyesOnSudan
One of the many lessons I hope people take from this entire thing is that being a billionaire is not a moral achievement or a sign of intelligence. Stop letting people pronounce on random things because they are rich.
Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service."
Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."
The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...
Legally there was $2.5B in this program that can *only* be used for electric school buses. By IIJA statute. Any attempts to reprogram the balance of funds for CNG/propane use (H2 and LNG school buses don’t exist) would be blatantly illegal..
www.sustainable-bus.com/news/epa-cle...
Comer: Les Wexner—he’s already been investigated by DOJ. We’re trying to focus who hasn’t been questioned by the DOJ.
Wexner: I was never approached or interviewed by the DOJ.
Has anyone in the Epstein Files who didn’t do anything wrong been punished? Maybe someone who was at a meeting Epstein was at. Never went to the island, didn’t get money from him, nor had a bunch of friendly emails.
Anyone get arrested, fired, etc.? Because moral panics feature that sort of thing.
Decency matters. For a time — a brief one, perhaps — there were limits to how racist or sexist a politician or celebrity could be in public and in private, too, if word got out. This wasn't a golden age. But it was a hell of a lot better than the era of Trump & Musk. Thread. 👇🏽
It wasn't only low-information voters who thought Trump would drop mass deportation. So did a lot of business people, who thought the tech wing of the Republican coalition would beat out the nativist wing by virtue of... spending money I think
Corruption is worsening globally, with even established democracies experiencing rising corruption amid a decline in leadership, according to the new Transparency International’s 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).
Hello Legal Minds of this weirdo site:
Trying to compile resources on how to handle federal immigration activity for my kids' after school program.
The program is held at school and a non-profit contracts through the school system to provide services.
Any tips? Suggestions? Resources?
Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Congressman Thomas Massie says commerce secretary ‘has a lot to answer for’ over ties to late convicted sex offender
For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism. Trump is not profound. He has been the same person this whole time. The question is why so many others have refused to see what he has never bothered to hide.
This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.
