Kevin Drum's guest writer today is Debra Dickerson a former military officer and currently a no-holds-barred writer. Strong stuff.
Recent Bluessky Posts- I ask out of genuine ignorance: those you list are all low-population polities. How confident are we that their systems would scale? What is the biggest example? March 28, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Name two? Germany and ??? March 28, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Believe me I get what's wrong with our presidential system and our Senate. But I strain to see why the UK is a good model for much of anything. Ok sometimes they dump bad leaders (but see how long Thatcher lasted) yet they keep finding more really bad ones. Starmer included. March 28, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Got close to 1000 at peak. March 28, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Miami people are late for everything March 28, 2026 Michael Froomkin
Don’t worry, just as extremist muslim men are outdoing the rest of the world in the “atrocity” department, so too their women:
“Chechen women were the perpetrators of the Moscow attacks. In the first incident, two Chechen females, one only 20-years-old, strapped explosive belts containing metal pieces around their waists and went to an outdoor rock concert. There, they detonated their deadly packages fifteen minutes apart at the concert entrance, killing 14 people and wounding 53. A second incident saw a 22-year-old ‘Black Widow’ attempt to enter a fashionable Moscow restaurant with a sports bag containing ball bearings and 400 grams of explosives.”