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Kelsey D. Atherton
AthertonKD
It's hardly the most egregious thing in writing, but reporters using "we" to describe the actions of the US government is always weird. anyway I've just read the worst essay
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We absolutely cannot let the after-effects of the first War on Terror lead us straight into the second.Anyone trying to tell you we need new police power, tools, and laws,
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There's probably an urgent piece to be written on this as insurrection vs terrorism, and especially the legal implications of both, but the terminology debate obscures the greater problem: police
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I'd argue the most successful Secretary of Defense since the position was created in 1947 was William Perry, who had two distinct advantages: his time in office was the easiest
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this is true for basically everything that gets floated as "oh, we have this intel leak that some uniquely unethical technology is being developed over there and not here"https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/1168937118405746689 (
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This story is good, but there's a couple of caveats, I think, before we proclaim that drones were definitively the answer of what went wrong for Armenia in the war
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Ah, now to take a big sip of water and look at what happened as a consequence of avoiding a constitutional crisis in 2000https://twitter.com/ShalomLipner/status/1324397384294608897 of course, it's silly to even
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There isn't a deep state, there's just a state. What's worth noting is how, by design, foreign policy establishment and apparatus of the US is fundamentally anti-democratic, in the small-d
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For those wondering what happened in Albuquerque tonight, here's one of the local news write-ups.https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/one-man-injured-at-protest-near-old-town-albuquerque/5760821/?cat=500 Here's the NYT's story,
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