On April 25, we're hosting our spring fundraiser in DC to launch the NEW Equal Service Working Group.
You'll here from former USAF Secretary Frank Kendall and other NatSec leaders. We hope you'll join us!
Address and details provided after RSVP, please email
development@outinnationalsecurity.org
Calling all “weird”* Episcopalian/Anglican young adults in the DC area, save the date!
*For an explanation of this term, see: www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/o...
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Adrian Vermeule, quote posting the pope: Adrian Vermeule O @Vermeullarmine I take the first sentence, especially in the context of both current events and perennial Church teaching, to mean "God does not bless any and all conflicts," rather than "God blesses no conflicts."
this is the most AV thing that has ever been AV’d
This article confirms what has been obvious since January 2025: there is no functioning interagency or professional staffing process at the highest level of the USG. Decisions are being made within an enclosed epistemological bubble filled with hacks and sycophants. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
Two reminders:
First, Robert E. Lee was never a general in an army recognized by the United States. You can annoy all the right people by referring to him as Col. Robert E. Lee, his actual rank.
Second, the primary flag of the Confederacy is the white one of surrender. To wit:
How is this not insider trading? The next Democratic administration needs to ban Polymarket.
Thirteen Americans have died in this war, thirteen families ripped apart who will deal with their loss for generations.
And some worthless people - people who are clearly close to decision making - have the gall, the greed, and the arrogance to go make money betting on it.
Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...
description from Huntington library: "A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave." https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033
to all who celebrate...
This is an incredibly important development in the U.S.’ ability to operationalize contested logistics. news.usni.org/2026/04/07/p...
Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.
It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:
The times they are a-changin…
On this Good Friday, I thank God for the witness of the church: www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/not-sponso...
this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.
It's like we're in a competition with Iran to see who can run out of general officers first
From the OSINTdefender account: “osintdefender The U.S. Department of Defense has given President Trump a plan to seize nearly 1,000lbs of highly-enriched uranium from at least one nuclear site in Iran, that would involve flying in excavation equipment and building a runway for cargo planes to take the radioactive material out, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to the Washington Post”
If true, Lee’s July 3 1863 infantry assault remains a relevant teaching point because hubris is timeless
>Allies we’ve been publicly threatening and extorting for the past year are refusing to help with a war they weren’t told about and aren’t obligated by treaty to participate in
USS Rushmore (LSD 47) Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship westbound in the Singapore Strait - March 31, 2026 SRC: INST- sgshipspotting
Friendly reminder that a PRC annexation of Taiwan would be neither “peaceful” nor “reunification.” 1) Even if the Taiwanese government capitulated, annexation would inevitably entail violence; and 2) Taiwan has never been part of the PRC, therefore it can’t “reunify.”
The sponsors of the Archbishop’s installation service have disproportionate representation of America and booze.
A Key Lesson for China: Preventing Japan from Becoming ‘an Israel of East Asia’ While China is not a direct party to the conflict, it must learn from it. China should proactively work to prevent Japan (and potentially the Philippines) from assuming a role in East Asia analogous to Israel’s in the Middle East. The risk is that these U.S. allies could manipulate Washington’s strategic focus, dragging U.S. into conflicts to serve their own national interests, thereby forcing China into a war it does not want.
See below from Zheng Yongnian. You would think this is mere CCP propaganda, and yet Zheng actually believes this. Chinese experts, and the CCP generally, fundamentally misunderstand Japan. www.chinaffairsplus.com/p/21-china-s...
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Oh no.
Don’t tread on my bike lane!
