The world’s longest land border is the over 5000 miles between the United States and Canada. It is also the world’s longest unguarded border. This may be changing. Last week Canada revealed its military is modeling a US invasion. The Canadian response would reportedly involve mimicking the Afghan mujahideen and using Canada’s size and harsh […]
Availability of TikTok in the World Over the past weekend, like many other organizations and users, The Steady State experienced significant disruptions in our TikTok service. For nearly a full day, videos could not be loaded at all. When service appeared to resume, content that would ordinarily reach tens of thousands of viewers was registering […]
Political analyst shares three red flags with The Steady State Sentinel podcast guest host , warning that Iran, attacks on the judiciary, and targeting of U.S. citizens by the government are potentially incendiary threats to U.S. democracy and national security. Listen on Apple Podcasts or your preferred platform. New episodes every Tuesday, special features on […]
“WHEN A SQUAD OF FBI AGENTS marched into a Fulton County Georgia election office on Wednesday and started seizing ballots from the 2020 election, they were accompanied by a cabinet official who almost nobody would have expected: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard… “…It’s “outrageous [and] a significant abuse of power,” said Steven Cash, a […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel further underlined their lack of needed basic training and of competent leadership when ICE agents tried on Tuesday morning to enter the Ecuadoran Consulate in Minneapolis. Trying to do so violates one of the most basic rules of international law and practice and if the shoe were on the […]
Political analyst Jack Hopkins shares three red flags with The Steady State Sentinel guest host Margaret Henoch: warnings of Iran, attacks on the judiciary, and targeting of U.S. citizens by the government. And he offers advice about Americans’ response to these threats and associated stress management. Founded in 2016, The Steady State is a nonprofit […]
Executive Order 12333 is one of the publicly least well known, and most important, documents in American national security. First issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and last substantively updated by President Barack Obama, it is the foundational directive that governs what the United States Intelligence Community may, and may not, do. It defines […]
Autocrats and dictators demand loyalty as a one-way obligation. They insist on personal fealty from aides, allies, and supporters, but they almost never return it. In authoritarian systems, loyalty flows upward, while blame flows downward. When events go wrong, the autocrat survives by sacrificing those beneath him. When the autocrat thinks the wolves get too […]
Ice Recruitment Poster The killing of two American citizens who were demonstrating against aggressive ICE/CBP operations in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in early January has generated renewed concern about the immigration function of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in particular, ICE. Everything, from ICE’s bloated budget and expansion (it is now the highest-funded federal police organization […]
The Steady State takes the opportunity to re-publish this essay that continues to be very timely. The Trump Administration’s cascading lawlessness has now made us easy prey to “news fatigue” and its dangerous corollary – considering outrageous behavior as somehow normal or acceptable. This is one reason the national outpouring on October 18 of the […]