I care a lot about democracy. And dogs.
Veteran | Writer | Dog Dad
Baltimore fan in Southern California
Jon Duffy
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What exactly is our strategy in Cuba? The administration has increased pressure with little discussion about what outcome this pressure is intended to produce — or why ordinary Cubans must bear the cost.
My latest in the Los Angeles Times. PDF in the first reply.
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My latest in the Los Angeles Times on Pete Hegseth’s meddling with military promotions. It undermines trust in leadership, puts every military leader under a cloud, and weakens the force Americans rely on to defend the country. PDF in the first reply.
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The USS Arizona is a tomb. That should have been enough.
My latest in the LA Times looks at Kash Patel’s “V.I.P. Snorkel” there. The deeper disgrace was the Navy’s decision to accommodate it.
PDF in the first reply. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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‘The Navy should be able to tell the difference between honoring a visitor and dishonoring the dead… It should be able to look at a request like this and understand, instantly, that some things must not be done.’
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A visible pattern of removing women and minority officers from promotion lists sends a message to his military.
"Hello daddy. I hope you are OK. Tell everyone from my class hello."
here's some of what I saw and learned this week when I visited the Dilley ICE family detention center in Texas.
Jacob Soboroff
Lisa Fung
I wrote on Monday about Pete Hegseth and Gen. Francis Donovan ramping up lawless boat strikes, which amount to extrajudicial killing. This week there have been 3 more strikes! Truly out of control. Awful that the US military is doing this and the world barely notices. wapo.st/4tOygA5
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The military is not a concierge service for powerful public officials.
