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Former Marine & M1A1 Master Gunner || Iraq War Vet || MA Russian Studies U of Illinois, Russian military doctrine & conventional ground forces || Casual enthusiast, spies & spy craft || Second World War junkie || Collector of books || More cars than sense
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'The Fifth Element' was released on this day 28 years ago! (May 9, 1997) Directed by Luc Besson. Starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Tommy Lister, Brion James, Luke Perry, Maïwenn, and more. [📽 via Columbia Pictures] #OTD #OnThisDay #TheFifthElement

Robert Francis is now Pope Leo is now the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Faith. He was hand picked by Pope Francis from the Augstian Order to be an Arch Bishop. So we know he carries the values of Pope Francis forward into this era. He is the first American Born Pope. May he be blessed & lead well.

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Ukraine’s Security Service uncovered a Hungarian spy network operated by an agent promoted by Orban, the network was gathering information to facilitate what appears to be a potential invasion by Hungary.

Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

As Russia celebrates victory day, on behalf of Americans, you’re welcome

80 years ago today, May 8th 1945, the German forces in Norway surrendered and we were free once again. This is our Liberation Day and also our Veterans Day.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Cinco de Mayo recognizes one of the greatest military underdog stories in history. It teaches us to keep fighting even when there’s nothing but hope. Today we celebrate that perseverance and the Mexican-American culture that enriches our country.

Happy National Astronaut Day! In APOLLO 13 (1995), Tom Hanks portrays mission commander Jim Lovell. The real Jim Lovell has a cameo as the captain of USS Iwo Jima who greets the recovered astronauts. Lovell wore his actual Navy uniform for the scene. #MovieMonday

Someone tell the Army the Marine Corps already bought this dumb thing in like 2007 and immediately got rid of it because it was dumb.

"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin' We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drummin' Four dead in Ohio." Neil Young Remembering: Allison Krause, 19 Jeffrey Miller, 20 Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20 William Schroeder, 19 4 May 1970

Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) #SmashingPumpkins #MellonCollieandtheInfiniteSadness #MusicSky #NowListening

Republicans: our Army is too woke, they'll never defeat CHIY-NA Also Republicans: let's get rid of our tanks

The Constitution forbids bribery *3 separate times*. So important to the Founders they included two emoluments clauses, and made it the only named impeachable offense besides treason. The Constitution is clear on banning bribery. It's just that Congress and the courts decided to pretend otherwise.

This comment on r/army about Pete Hegseth is maybe the most brutal one I've seen so far from A Troop™️ www.reddit.com/r/army/comme...

Disabled American Veterans (DAV) has the best, most effective, ballsiest, realest public statement I have seen in the Trump era. It's about President Trump's proposal to change the name of Veterans Day. And it's a single word. www.dav.org/learn-more/n...

It's National Bugs Bunny Day! After his tribute to the U.S. Marine Corps in the 1943 cartoon "Super-Rabbit", Bugs was made an Honorary Marine. By the end of WWII, he had been promoted to Master Sergeant. #NationalBugsBunnyDay

"In a way, Monica Lewinsky ought to be Gen X’s patron saint: we, too, got screwed by the Baby Boomers." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/reality-bi...

Very special Alfa Romeo 164. Built around a carbon tub designed and constructed by the Brabham F1 team. Behind the driver was a V-10 engine that Alfa Romeo began developing in 1985 for its F1 program sending 620 hp to the rear wheels via a manual gearbox. Sadly it was cancelled the same year.

California has officially surpassed Japan to claim the title of the world’s fourth-largest economy, boasting an astonishing nominal GDP of $4.1 trillion in 2024! This remarkable milestone showcases the state’s unparalleled leadership in technology, agriculture, and innovation. Great place 2 Live!

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

What’s going on in your comms shop shipmate?

I don’t want this iteration of the United States. I want what we still can be… if we value the freedom of all and fight against the lies of fantasy and hate.

Porsche lX XI 🌬️♣️ 🇩🇪 #BeautyInBlack #SaturdayVibes

The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen

Our cover this week.

"warfighter" is such a funny word. most of the time, servicemembers are not fighting in wars you generally do not, for instance, want the captain of a boomer to be a warfighter. "carefulstewardofminiaturesuns" does not roll off the tongue I guess

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Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died. He was 88. Follow live updates: apnews.com/live/pope-fr...

An entire nation was forever changed and lives were brutally ripped from us on this day 26 years ago in a preventable tragedy at Columbine High School. Since then, there have been over 400 school shootings due to America’s failed leadership, lax gun laws, and capitulation to the gun industry.

This is who you should be running, this is the kind of representation you need. The want you to “Stay poor, stay hidden and die silently” "I am a human being" #3E

Whoever made this, we are friends. Via Jeph Loeb via @one_true_nerdking #inconceivable #princessbride #starwars #theprincessbride #funnyvideos

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Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Happy 79th birthday to actor Tim Curry. As Dr. Yevgeni Petrov, he was duped by Captain Marko Ramius into abandoning the Red October.

#UkraineAlert – As Europe confronts the new geopolitical realities of an expansionist Russia and an isolationist United States, the continent’s most credible security guarantee is now the Ukrainian Armed Forces, writes Pavlo Verkhniatskyi.

... wait are we getting Star Wars: Top Gun?

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Marines Identify Two Killed in Vehicle Crash Near Southern Border - USNI News news.usni.org/2025/04/17/m...

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#OTD in 1969, a North Korean MiG-21 fighter shot down a U.S. Navy EC-121 reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace over the Sea of Japan. All 31 men on board were killed, making the incident the largest single loss of U.S. aircrew during the Cold War era.