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Giselle Donnelly

@giselledonnelly.bsky.social
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I’m an author, musician, gardener, blissfully married trans woman, former fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Antipater speaks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t42F...
youtube.com
Marco Rubio urges Europe to defend Western values and strengthen alliance with US
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just so: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
theatlantic.com
Hegseth’s One Percent
A cult of military superiority over civilians is not only unwarranted, but actively dangerous.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This shit will get out of hand: global commerce (and not just shipping) is incredibly vulnerable. Anyone for freedom of navigation. kyivindependent.com/russian-dron...
kyivindependent.com
Russian drones strike cargo ship in Black Sea, kill captain, Zelensky says
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky confirmed that a civilian ship was attacked by two Russian drones, adding that it was a Turkish-owned ship transporting corn.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I want to be a Russian or Chinese intelligence operative in Venezuela. I’ll hand out guns and money, but keep the lawyers out. My career looks promising, even though I need a personal slush fund, an escape plan and untraceable ID. Just gimme a few years to make the Yanquis and their stooges suffer.
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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
LOL
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
By Steve White…
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Steve White
1a • •
The Toilet Police
In uniforms tailored by Rowling The Toilet Police are prowling
It's their first shift on this particular grift
With their ill-fitting caps and beady eyes And fixed ideas about shape and size They're on guard for the non-conforming They're looking hard; this is a warning
A top pocket row of auditor's pens
No need to ask why they ain't checking the men's
They're at large, in charge, and full of hate Do you look the part, or do you look a state?
And if you fit in but you still ain't vexed
Better ask yourself
Who's next?
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We really need to stop laughing at Trump and his administration. They are beyond embarrassment, beyond shame. Even the Reflecting Pool incident shows they just don’t care. The Iran war is a strategic humiliation that they simply ignore. They must be removed from power, prosecuted, and punished.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Mercy. Thank goodness that’s over with.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
From here on out, I stand with HR Ladies.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Just when you think it can’t get worse: the Platner condom-removal story confirms (OK, re-confirms) the level of misogyny that is rampant in Trump’s America. It’s more than just ick, it’s evil.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well, at least we made them bench de Bruyne.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Once again, an excessive amount of added time.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Come on, lads.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Trump ruins everything. As a 73-year-old footie-mad American with finally a cohesive, talented, gutsy side to root for, and a really talented Number 9, I have suffered enough. I don’t deserve this!
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Blow the damned whistle!
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
TEN minutes?????
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Paraguay!
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It’s poignant to read the bittersweet posts about distant or cruel fathers. My dad was a kind and deeply generous man - I am sure that, had I transitioned while he was alive, his love would not have diminished in the least. I love him, too, still, always.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We have passed through the Manosphere before, and liberalism beats tribalism. Occasionally my writing holds up: www.the-american-interest.com/2020/04/02/a...
the-american-interest.com
A Short History of Decline - The American Interest
From 18th-century Britain to Trump-era America, concerns about geopolitical weakness have gone hand in hand with sexual panic. Rarely do the worst-case scenarios come to pass.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
No Trump here. No MAGA. No UFC. Not the manosphere.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Holy shit, these people have no idea: The people launching the pogroms against immigrants in Belfast are loyalists, i.e. loyal to the British crown. They hate the concept of being Irish.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Nothing like cracking open the box of author’s copies….
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
People don’t know what to make of Graham Platner, but he looks to me like a manosphere misogynist.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This house is full of Pride.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Trumpmenbashi
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Coming this month (but likely only to your university library or Amazon)! A roping good read, with lots of atrocities by all concerned, and at a bargain price! AND Volume 3 in the works! sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
sunypress.edu
The Fourth Kingdom
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 09/04/2026
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...
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My Mahanian hot take: www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
thebulwark.com
Donald Trump’s Unfreedom of the Seas
The president is giving up on centuries of wealth and power.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in some time; it applies especially to trans experience. To transition is almost to preclude assimilation, which is a hard lesson to learn. Queer is good - be queer!
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It took my neighbor and me 15 minutes to figure out ho to get this costume on him, but it was worth it. No Kings in Takoma Park!
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Can’t wait for the Helen Lewis essay saying how this proves - yet again! - that women can’t lead.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I just gotta say: it takes real political talent to make Americans oppose killing people named “Ayatollah.”
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The Washington Post’s animus toward a pluralistic society explains why it is dying.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
She lives, Part III: Killing Khamenei Is Not the Same as Regime Change open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com
Killing Khamenei Is Not the Same as Regime Change
President Trump has committed to regime change, but doesn’t seem to know how or to what.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Facts are gnarly. thedispatch.com/article/asse...
thedispatch.com
Assessing the Military Strength of Russia and Ukraine
Russia may not the hold the military advantage media reports indicate.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/govern... This is what Gavin Newsom would call “culturally normal.”
reuters.com
Kansas invalidates driver’s licenses, birth certificates of over 1,000 transgender residents
The Kansas state government has invalidated the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who changed the gender on those documents, in accordance with a law that took effect o...
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
So now I’m hating on the Olympic men’s gold-medal-winning hockey team. Trump ruins EVERYTHING.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Still not dead, Part II. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cons...
thebulwark.com
Trump Is Considering More Iran Strikes. No One Knows Precisely Why.
As has become a pattern, the use of force isn’t part of a coherent plan.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Excess in the defense of liberty (and sound strategy-making) is no vice. Heaven save us from the Lethality Boys.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
www.facebook.com/share/v/189k... I am, more than occasionally, pleased by my writing. However, I would not be able to conjure the word “shark” as a verb. The distance between my and Shakespeare is nearly infinite.
facebook.com
Redirecting...
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
When Congress is serious, it’s an amazing place. This makes me proud of my service on a House staff.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Wearing a cowboy hat always makes you look like a dude-ranch fool.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The Trump admin as defender of Native peoples.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
You say Greenland, I say Iceland - let’s call the whole thing off.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
If, indeed, Rene Good was a “trained wine mom,” then she had more professional development than Jonathan Ross or other ICE goons.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I repeat: if we just take the hair wands away from their women, MAGA will collapse.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I’m not dead yet.
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Giselle Donnelly @giselledonnelly.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The power has driven them mad. Caligula category.
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