Men I don't read: David Brooks David French Peter Baker Ezra Klein Wait, these guys all have the NYT in common. 🤔
So we have a govt shutdown likely and on the last day of the fiscal year Pete Hegseth is gathering every GOFO across the Services together on a monumental bullseye at MCB Quantico. Russ Vought is talking about using the shutdown as a pretext for more mass (illegal) Federal employee firing. How could these two things go together...well, the law nothwithstanding, and as we know the law means next to nothing these days, you could fire a shitload of SES's and plop GOFOs into their seats. If that happens inside the military, there are rules against putting civilians in GOFO slots but I don't think the other way around. So that's one thing. But if you take GOFOs and plop them in the seats of fired non-DOD agency heads, that's a thing called martial law -- political leadership by military officers.
They have secure VTCs at every level on a regular basis. There may not be a JWICS VTC at every single GOFO location, but there is surely an SVTC. I'm not sure what is going on here but it's pretty much guaranteed to be extremely awful. #military #DOD https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/
RFKJr.: “It is now the official recommendation of the CDC that at-risk groups allow my putrid discharge to seep into their own immune systems"
"Accidental" disappearances, deportations? Sure. Accidental. Again, when we get these malicious pests out of our government, down to the lowest clerk, they all need to be investigated for everything they took part in. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html
Fourth SOUTHCOM boat murders. Still no evidence provided of any imminent threat requiring these attacks. "Under both international law and U.S. law, military force is tightly restricted outside of declared war zones. Killing civilians—regardless of alleged criminal ties—may constitute a war crime unless clearly justified by imminent danger." Will military officers be prosecuted in future for these actions? Will others? #military #DOD https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article312184848.html
I went down a Robot Chicken rabbit hole. I needed those laughs.
great shirt image