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2 weeks ago | 
dogshirtdaily.com | Benjamin Wittes |EJ Wittes
Good Evening:I will have something to say, perhaps a lot in the long-run, about the purge at the FBI that last week triggered the resignation of my friend Mike Feinberg—a 15-year veteran counterintelligence specialist who was serving most recently as assistant special agent in charge in the Norfolk field office.
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3 weeks ago | 
dogshirtdaily.com | Benjamin Wittes |EJ Wittes
Good Morning:This baby also spent the night in her rather swanker bomb shelter:She’s fine, by the way. In my “The Situation” column yesterday, I took a close look at the legal authority behind the president’s most recent attack on Harvard University: To allow 1812(f) to be invoked in this fashion, for all the breadth of its language—which is real and which we shouldn’t underestimate—thus allows it to be turned into an instrument of domestic coercion and retribution.
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3 weeks ago | 
dogshirtdaily.com | Benjamin Wittes |EJ Wittes
Good Morning:The sunflowers we planted across the street from the Russian embassy are starting to come in. I will be plating about 70 more this weekend. Yesterday on #DogShirtTV, we started off with some old Swedish men playing Bach on the nickleharpa. Then the estimable came on to tell us that the topic she was planning to discuss was actually fake news.
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3 weeks ago | 
dogshirtdaily.com | Benjamin Wittes |EJ Wittes
Good Morning:Yesterday on #DogShirtTV, the estimable and I congratulated the estimable on personally blowing up the Kerch Bridge. Then all three of us welcomed the estimable to talk about founding The Bulwark and the process of journalistic writing:Compiled by the estimable Caroline CornettKori Schake responds to Graham Parsons’s argument that the military has an obligation to resist legal orders when the civilian authority threatens civil society and the neutrality of the military.
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3 weeks ago | 
dogshirtdaily.com | Benjamin Wittes |EJ Wittes
Good Evening:This morning, I woke up to fabulous news, about which I found myself texting almost immediately with the estimable and the no-less-estimable and, over morning coffee, live-streaming with Lapatina and the estimable Fabian Hoffman, of the Substack. It’s very hard not be encouraged by this sort of news.
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1 month ago | 
dogshirtdaily.com | Benjamin Wittes |EJ Wittes
Good Morning: ChatGPT and I went for a walk on the beach and saw some sea shells arranged in an interesting design. Find out the deep dark secrets that live below the paywall. You know you’re curious. Who could possibly have seen this coming? Here’s what’s coming next:Musk says negative things about Trump. Trump attacks Musk as a loser. Musk, feeling like nobody loves him, tries to get back in with the left and center, spending money and making statements to do so. It doesn’t work. Confidence: High.
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1 month ago | 
dogshirtdaily.com | Benjamin Wittes |EJ Wittes
Good Morning:There was drama across the street from the Russian embassy yesterday. The sunflowers are all fine, but I suspect this may have been a dry run for an attack on them. I’m honestly not sure. Here is everything I know. At 2:04 pm, a gentleman who has not yet been identified came sauntering down Wisconsin Avenue, carrying a “Stop the War” sign that had previously stood on private property in front of a house across the street from the embassy.
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1 month ago | 
dogshirtdaily.com | Benjamin Wittes |EJ Wittes
Good Morning:I spent the last two days finishing the rough laying of the Canadian hardwood floorboards at the Cabin in the Woods and trying to detach from The Situation. There’s still a lot of fine work to, but it’s basically done:It’s the last days of the Trolling Sale, so if you want to support Special Military Operations, join the Greek Chorus/Collegium, get my notes on The Confrontation, and generally support mayhem and mischief at a cut-rate price, this is your chance.
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1 month ago | 
dogshirtdaily.com | Benjamin Wittes |EJ Wittes
Good Morning:Especially to this baby, seen here spending the night in a bomb shelter in Kyiv. While she slept, her mother, the very estimable and very sleep-deprived , crept up to street level to do a Substack Live with me:Live from a Swank Bomb ShelterA reminder that our #SpecialTrollingSale is still going on:Also if you want to support this baby, you can subscribe to : Just saying.
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1 month ago | 
dogshirtdaily.com | Benjamin Wittes |EJ Wittes
Good Morning:USA!USA!USA!The Trump administration has just taken an action with which I fully and wholeheartedly agree: Getting rid of the penny. Reports Politico:The Treasury Department said Thursday it plans to phase out production of the penny, making good on President Donald Trump’s directive that the U.S. government stop producing its one-cent coin after more than two centuries.
