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What good is seeing-eye chocolate? What good is a computerized nose? What good’s Sanskrit read to a pony? Not much, I guess, not much at all.
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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

submitted 16 hours ago • 94 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1010 comments

Let me tell you a true story about the Naqshbandi Order. The Naqshbandi Order is an Iraqi Sufi military order. By that I mean the members were/are Iraqi Sufis who had served in the Iraqi military until the Coalition Provisional Authority geniuses - Paul Bremer, Larry Diamond, etc - fired them. 1/

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Great thread on how Delaware — with the American economy poised to tip over into a morass of scams, greed, and corruption unseen since the Gilded Age — is ready to burn its unparalleled reputation for even-handed corporate oversight for the interests of a few oligarchic billionaires.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Making every p-card expense into something requiring a form 1164 submittal and review sure will save time and money, brilliant move there folks

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Gangster capitalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

Two DOGE workers are now at CISA (DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) I've confirmed. Edward Coristine, the 19-yr-old known as Big Balls, and Kyle Schutt, a 37-yr-old software engineer. Marisa Kabas (bsky.app/profile/mari...) was first to report about Coristine. My piece for Wired

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

NEW: SpaceX engineers were onboarded at the FAA under Schedule A, which allows government managers to “hire persons with disabilities without requiring them to compete for the job.” @telliotter.bsky.social & @aarianmarshall.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Here's a story about the community counterdisinfo school I have been helping get started, @darktimesacademy.bsky.social. We had to tell the Trump State Department to take a hike after they started demanding student lists and class materials

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Everything gets worse with each additional detail.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Telling that the politically-correct framing here is that Trump voters, and only Trump voters, are “good people” who deserve special treatment, while Levi thinks the rest of America can go hang.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Memo for those who believe the courts are unable or unwilling to arrest our slide into lawlessness and cruel caprice:

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I know this site got the juice, where my Merit Systems Protection Board explainers at?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We’ve come far enough that for many the bare facts of history —lynching postcards! Mississippi operating a literal Stasi! — seem impossible to have happened, and we’re going backwards because for many the bare facts of history seem impossible to happen again.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments