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The right loves to 😢 about censorship, yet they have more pod casts & discriminate against the written word by respected authors. They ban books with things that are actually in the bible the book they hold most dear. Now, if there is some1 or thing he dsnt like, it's goodbye. Congratulations.......

Hegseth written all over this!

Does anyone in the armed forces have a backbone anymore?

What can’t we not expect from these corrupt AH’s?

Anyone joining the military rn yikes why.

After reading that, I have so much respect for Mr. Holiday

How pro-Trump is the military, these days?

Too far

Only feeble man with feeble causes is afraid of truth, free speech, and free thoughts.

www.youtube.com/live/GQ2FgD7...

Embarrassing #GOPClownShow

"THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH"

smh

I think the cancellation makes the point of his intended speech.

Way to far. It is sad.

Far, real far.

CENSURESHIP! Call it what this is!

Complete and utter failure of Academy leadership. Supe and Dant should resign in protest. I was taught at the Academy that you will have one chance to disobey an immoral order and to use it wisely. Supe/Dant are just careerists. Show the Mids some leadership. Pathetic.

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Ryan Holiday? No one is more positive and moral. I suppose they’ve crapped on President Carter as well? JHC

God Bless USA ❣️ long live the King 👑👀 AllHandsOnDeck

Cloning/arrested development is Job1.

There is no part of Trumpism or republicanism that is true one started with voodoo economics and was further dissembling moving forward. Until we ended with Trump and his lies.

Self censorship. Step one of any dictatorship.

Grooming the military to turn against its own people…how hard would it be? Devise a method to sort out current loyalists, early discharge non-loyalists and begin to enlist nothing but loyalists? Trump made himself 25th proof. Even if Trump is out in 28 doesn’t mean he won’t install a predecessor

It's terrifying to think how pathetic the Military leadership is at standing up to Trump. It makes me shudder to think what will happen when he declares martial law and starts handing out illegal orders like candy.

Hey NY Times, We Told You So and you gaslighted the nation. Get fucked.

Elbows up!

These conservatives are so cowardly. They want everything whitewashed to protect their ignorant privelege

For all of the brief optimism created by the Harvards and APs, there are far too many institutions willing to offer up another nail in the coffin of democracy. And the hammer may be forged by MAGA, but the blows are being delivered by apathy.

Republicans will go for a pre-Truman segregated Military before long

When Der Fuehrer in 1930s Germany finally controlled the military...well, you know the rest. Not a pleasant story.

My wife didn’t serve in the U.S. Navy for twenty one years for this to happen! How embarrassing it has become to be a citizen of the U.S.

Next they will be listening to speeches by Hitler!

So sad for the country that my immigrant parents dreamed of emigrating to….

Dictatorship of dolts is just destroying us for fun or Russia... Why not both.👹👹👹

All Republican education policies indicate that they want unquestioning true believers in their vision of the world, not adults who can think critically. That is a main component in cannon fodder.

We always used to tease the Boat School guys about going NROTC to get an actual education not just a commission… Apparently that’s now true. Thanks, “Republicans” for politicizing the Naval Academy

Why is it? No one will stand up to Donald Trump so you lose your job? What about your moral compass?

The crazy part to me is that these are adults, not fourth graders. They don’t want the adults, adulting?!

Our military has been compromised!

Can’t script this any better on a comedy standup tour.

Adam, how much of fox is televised at our military basis? I fear it is wide spread and they will follow the orders of propagandists instead of the constitution.

Wrong and very shortsighted. Sad.

“When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?” ― Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

Students or pets? Students learn to think. Pets learn to obey. Here use what they need to understand. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8j4YpYA/

He is Anti-American, and Article 3 of the 14th Amendment MUST be invoked. www.youtube.com/live/GQ2FgD7...

From someone who lives the Naval Academy, you can sense the weirdness from the cadets.

And no one is doing shit about it.

They bend over backwards trying to prevent critical thinking. Isn't that what higher education is supposed to do?

“Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die”

Censorship does not belong in a DEMOCRACY!

Our country is being run by fucking cowards.

These will be members of the military whose job is to follow orders. They're not allowed to question those orders. If they learn that orders that are immoral or illegal should ignored, then they won't be following the illegal orders given them . No room in Trump's military for morality or truth.

This is so wrong!!

You KNOW where this is going Adam.

So sad. We are here.

They cancelled Ruth Ben-Ghiat last year…..

These are future officers, not twelve year olds. How long do they plan on hiding reality from them ?

We need to put a group of people together to defend us from this mutiny! Trump is a traitor

A spineless naval academy. That's got to be good.

Shameful

But of course no ban on Hitler's book, which they evidently do not find full of uncomfortable or controversial ideas.

Snowflakes

No irony to see here.

Not surprising to anyone who is remotely familiar with one or more of the service academies, Adam. USAFA has become a joke overnight.

Psychopath Trump is like a mass shooter about to enter a school believing he is only trying to help. Burn America to the ground and rule over the ashes because he loves America so much.

Thank you for the gift article. We live in dangerous times. I do wish the NYT understood that the use the acronym DEI instead of using the words is a gift to the Trump admin. I would guess a large number of their readers couldn’t say what the words are without googling.

A tragic error committed by the Naval Academy that, as the author says, has put them on a path to future cowardly, unpatriotic actions.

Navy guys

Bless them both!

Thanks for the free link. But, I read P2025. Any news regarding this administration is redundant at this point. We know what they're doing. We need to organize against this crap. I wish you were in government to help fight the orange blob.

Many wise comments on this excellent, yet unnerving article and what it portends. Mine is simply: this is just plain nuts! Thank you, AK for sharing.

Again the justices have to r stop this absolute insane mania trump cannot handle the truthIt’s time for him to be removebefore he does any more damage to this countryIt’s bad enoughthat everyone around is so angry with us. They’re trying to make common sense out of what he’s doing, but there isnone

This is 100% on brand for the USA military.

Gives new meaning to the infamous “You can’t handle the truth” movie line

The Trump administration only want to protect themselves from the repercussions of the truth. The more sinister aspect of this is that accurate intel is critical to troops when their deployed. Lies cost lives. Trump clearly has no interest in protecting these naval cadets from anything at all.

Why? Big mistake. Stand tall. We’re all in this together.

It's because it not the midshipmen can't handle the truth, THEY can't. And because of that, their little panties are all in a wad, frustrated because they don't like when others have a better understanding than they do. What immature toads.

Enraged? Not yet engaged? I got ya! Here’s tools to contact your Governor, the Supreme Court and Congress on various topics! And while you’re at my Substack with 4,500 others, you can bone up on civics with retro social studies handouts on the government. 🇺🇸💙

Ironic

Thankyou my liege

Courage, discipline, and reason. We stand together, or we die alone.

This is too much . If he wants the military to fight his battles he needs to STFU about all this.

Ask Ruth Ben Ghiat about her cancellation by the Naval Academy.

To be a midshipman at the Naval Academy means you are a young adult… yet the Regime thinks they should not be able to listen and make up their own minds. We have become a totalitarian dictatorship.

And they want to take over Harvard? "I love the uneducated" was our first clue ...

Censoring a speech about censorship is very on-brand for fascists

So he should hold it in a park on his free time.

😝 did anyone else channel Jack Nicholson as the voice reading the title in your head? And not on purpose 😅

Keeping our military out of the social loop only hurts us. Our future officers need the truth

They also cancelled a speech by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social, if I'm not mistaken (she's a scholar of fascism).

OMG whenever I see those words, I died a little inside, mostly because I had to memorize that entire poem in 8th grade. At the time, I didn't realize what it all meant.

Unconscionable

If Naval Academy graduates can’t handle the truth then we and them are in trouble.

Excellent article.

This regime and their “ideas” are truly pathetic

We need to understand and acknowledge, is that there’s no bottom to their depravity, dishonesty, or any other malfeasance displayed.

Those cadets will not take kindly if they have learned anything at all about democracy.

Rebrand the speech as dangers to the first amendment

Fascism came pretty quickly.

Backwards 🤦‍♂️

As one from a Navy family, this pisses me off. If they can't handle the truth, they have no business being in uniform

The Trump Administration is abolishing the right to free speech. The strength of our democracy is dependent on questioning authority and speaking our minds. 🇺🇸

Irony squared.

Abhorrently wrong. Thank you for allowing access by gifting the article

School of lower education

The Regime is preventing some information from being shared because it does not fit in with their propaganda. They are trying to indoctrinate children into believing right wing ideology is okay. It Is not. White supremacy is not what we want our children to grow up believing in.

Damn another one that lost their balls. How fucking disgusting.

Ignorance about the enemy does not protect you. It enfeebles you. If Warfighters cannot recognize fascism from patriotism, they will entrust their lives to an autocratic idiocracy.

In all fairness, it’s paywalled