Well, the Twitter bug bit again. About 20 minutes ago, Trump fired his national security adviser, John Bolton via Twitter, cuz,of course he did. In his tweet, Trump explained that he advised Bolton that "his services were no longer...
(Above: Sir Kim Darroch, reaching the right conclusions.) Kim Darroch, the former Ambassador from Great Britain to the United States, who was forced to resign his post last week after memos leaked that recounted him calling the Mango Misogynist  "inept and insecure", which...
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1140304282501242882 https://twitter.com/JimAdamsGeo/status/1140306111700131840 https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1140305087434317824 https://twitter.com/PeterBrannen1/status/1140306878649397249 https://twitter.com/warren__terra/status/1140304947440836608 https://twitter.com/JonEHecht/status/1140304703076495361 https://twitter.com/dj_ir0ngruve/status/1140304555319746560 https://twitter.com/bdclarke/status/1140305912189472768 https://twitter.com/ChrisALadd/status/1140304828415074304 https://twitter.com/08mms/status/1140304523619176448 https://twitter.com/paslow_cb/status/1140313850597670913 https://twitter.com/durrati/status/1140314524236603398
Turkey just had a Presidential election.  Accounts are that it was fair, at least when it comes to issues like ballot box stuffing and similar shenanigans.  Voter intimidation was something of an issue but it's actually more subtle there. ...
Hoo boy — the stupid, it burns…. https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1134611937193578501 Luckily, Twitter was on duty: https://twitter.com/BrodyBroshears/status/1134666534561996800 https://twitter.com/SheilaDRead/status/1134613710536728576 https://twitter.com/AnneT313/status/1134616197406830592 https://twitter.com/JamieGump/status/1134612421144928258 https://twitter.com/fsujuan93/status/1134613823581806592 https://twitter.com/trackallan/status/1134625230121553921 https://twitter.com/Sr0bi/status/1134662794975072256 https://twitter.com/ElizCab/status/1134665881949265920 https://twitter.com/durrati/status/1134820737095798784
Donald Trump thought that his shock jock comments about Kim Jong Un and what a great guy he was and how swell their rapport was ("he wrote me beautiful letters" "we fell in love") would amuse his base. Little...
(Above: Who are you gonna believe, this guy or Major Chickenhawk Bolton?) Business Insider “The US has spent the past week and a half warning that it has credible intelligence that Iran was plotting attacks against US interests in the region. A British...
A question is being posed, and sometimes by military experts including retired generals that appear on networks other than Fox.   The question is why we didn't choose to maintain a (more or less) permanent small force in Afghanistan to...
This week in Trump World was an epic exercise in Orwellian doublethink. As GOP strategist Rick Wilson points out it was a time to terrify our allies and legitimize our enemies. Not many people could figure out a way...
Dryad Maritime, a  maritime intelligence company, to provide specialist navigation and risk mitigation services for vessels transiting or coming alongside in high risk areas, has assessed the incident in the Gulf of Oman reported this morning and, unlike Pompeo, is not...

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