Julia Ioffe
Founding Partner and Washington Correspondent at Puck
Founding Partner and Washington Correspondent, @PuckNews. All views my own. Void where prohibited. Also on the azure heavens app.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | Julia Ioffe
In between doing burpees and always-on-camera “P.T.” with the troops, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has declared, over and over again, that the American military needs to get back to “warfighting.” Now, less than six months into his term, the U.S. is indeed deploying troops, including an active-duty Marine combat battalion—not to a war zone, but to America’s second-largest city, to deal with a protest that absolutely did not merit it.
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3 weeks ago |
puck.news | Julia Ioffe
Around this time last year, Stacy Gilbert, a 20-year veteran of the State Department, resigned in protest over a report concluding that Israel was not blocking aid from reaching Gaza. A few weeks later, Andrew Miller, the deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, also quit over what colleagues said was frustration regarding how little sway he had over policy in his job.
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4 weeks ago |
puck.news | Julia Ioffe
To hear its founders tell it, the Ben Franklin Fellowship began as a scrappy, outsider effort to get conservatives their own cafeteria table at the very progressive, and very cliquey, Department of State. “There were a lot of these affinity groups,” recalled Simon Hankinson, a former longtime diplomat. There were groups for Black foreign service officers, gay officers, for women, and for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
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1 month ago |
puck.news | Julia Ioffe
On Monday, while flying back from Rome, Vice President J.D. Vance offered reporters his take on the war in Ukraine. “I think, honestly, that President Putin, he doesn’t quite know how to get out of the war,” Vance said aboard Air Force Two. “He’s got a million men under arms. He’s reengineered his entire economy. What used to be manufacturing facilities making products for people to use in their civilian lives are now making tank shells and artillery shells and drones.
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1 month ago |
puck.news | Julia Ioffe
On Monday afternoon, a group of 59 white Afrikaners waving American flags arrived at Dulles International Airport, just outside the U.S. capital. On his first day in office, Trump had frozen the admission of all other refugees, including people who had been vetted and approved, and who were already packing their bags, both literally and metaphorically.
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The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the Trump administration trying not just to weaponize the justice system, it's making it like that of other other authoritarian countries: a system that does not have a reverse gear. And that kind of system eats everyone but the king.
"They'll stop at nothing at all -- even some of the most preposterous charges imaginable -- just to avoid admitting that they made a mistake, which is what everyone knows happened in this case," said attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg.
NEW - Ben Schrader, the former chief of the criminal division for the U.S. attorney’s office in Nashville, resigned following the office’s decision to seek an indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. https://t.co/KeMDtWLQXv
RT @KFaulders: NEW - Ben Schrader, the former chief of the criminal division for the U.S. attorney’s office in Nashville, resigned followin…
