The State Department Is in Disarray

The Atlantic today: The State Department Is in Disarray It hasn’t received as much scrutiny as some parts of the Trump administration, but its personnel decisions reflect both disturbing ideas and general incompetence. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"Sometime soon, we might get a chance to learn what happens when diplomacy is fully in the hands of the least diplomatic people imaginable." Marco Rubio's State Department is a mess. @dgraham.bsky.social explains why...

“The State Department under Marco Rubio is overrun with personnel problems,” David A. Graham writes. He explores the disturbing ideas and general incompetence of some in the department's staff: 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Disarray at State indeed plus, you know, all the embassies without ambassadors because this crew fired the career people and haven't bothered to replace them www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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"The Justice Department acts as a private law firm for the president; the Department of Health and Human Services seems dedicated to undermining both; the Hegseth Pentagon is breaking globes, both physically and metaphorically. Yet the State Department has escaped some of the taint ." It shouldn't.

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“Sometime soon, we might get a chance to learn what happens when diplomacy is fully in the hands of the least diplomatic people imaginable.” My old stomping ground is in its death throes.

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Marco Rubio is a hypocrite and will never be POTUS. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Especially when you staff up with Nazis. 🤬 "One of the guiding philosophies of the second Trump presidency,... from Project 2025, is that personnel is policy: The success of an administration depends on who staffs it. State shows how this can go very wrong." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"Sometime soon, we might get a chance to learn what happens when diplomacy is fully in the hands of the least diplomatic people imaginable." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“The State Department is trying to get people to quit,” one officer told the Sun. Sometime soon, we might get a chance to learn what happens when diplomacy is fully in the hands of the least diplomatic people imaginable. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... #MarcoRubioIsATraitor #FuckRussia

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Such ineptitude, and we all suffer. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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A look behind the curtain of the White supremest’s House. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

"“The State Department is trying to get people to quit,” one officer told the Sun. Sometime soon, we might get a chance to learn what happens when diplomacy is fully in the hands of the least diplomatic people imaginable."

"leaders are working to promote political loyalists but squeeze out senior foreign-service officers, the most experienced members of the nonpolitical career staff trained in foreign relations. “The State Department is trying to get people to quit” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The State Department Is in disarray; its personnel decisions reflect both disturbing ideas and general incompetence.

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An incompetent President hires a bunch of incompetent sycophants to do important jobs and they fail at them. Almost like it was by design, eh, Krasnov? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

#FWakeTheAtlantic #TheAtlantic #WreckedUSA /\ #NATOlost /\ #Halloween 2026 #StateDepartment memebombed www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The State Department Is in Disarray It hasn’t received as much scrutiny as some parts of the Trump administration, but its personnel decisions reflect both disturbing ideas and general incompetence. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The real problem at Trump’s State Department is not just the oddball appointees. It is the reported squeeze on career diplomats while loyalists rise. A foreign service that fears giving candid advice becomes a political prop. Campaigns can work that way. Diplomacy cannot.