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- Problem is there's a point at which money has power means marginal utility goes up again. And there's another point further along where people do anticipatory acts for you in hopes of a reward, so you don't even have to spend as long as you have a big pile. Utility isn't just stuff and services. May 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Further proof of the impoverished state of the modern British university. May 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- This story is so gently bonkers that it's worth registering to read. (Duckduckgo lets you create pseudonymous emails BTW.) May 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Murder on the high seas. Remember that there is no legal basis for these attacks, that the United States has the ability to interdict and board the ships if it wished. These are war crimes under international law and murder under US law. Illegal orders too. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... May 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- That can't be legal. Does the DoJ still have an IG? May 29, 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.”