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I feel like pretend you don't see the LT by looking at your watch so you don't have to salute should have made the top 5.

Your five bullets could literally be actions reacting to such emails and announcements. It's becoming a self licking ice cream cone of inefficiency.

Last week, my innie: 1. led his team in an ORTBO 2. visited the Posterity Wing 3. improved relations between the Optics and Design and the Macro Data Refinement Teams 4. was rewarded with a Music Dance Experience upon reaching 75% on Sienna 5. had an unsanctioned erotic entanglement

Lost one of my closest army buddies to this. Game changer. It's why we fund science.

We don’t need the Russian economy. Make a list of everything in your home made in Russia. Throw out the bottle of Vodka. Could you do without everything else? There’s your answer. Western business returning to Russia does not advance American interests; it makes Putin more powerful.

Executed resistance fighters, partisans and victims of course extermination camps. As seen in Bologna today. Me and women will always rise up and die to give their communities a better future free of oppression.

Joe Berger was my cadet company commander at West Point in 1991. A prior enlisted Soldier, later MP officer before he went to law school. A straight up, even keeled good guy who did not deserve this humiliation.

Re-endorsing @waitmanwbeorn.com 's book Marching into Darkness; he shreds the myth that the German Army had no role in the holocaust. One of the many insights was dispelling the rumor of consequences for those who refused to participate. The fact is, soldiers could refuse. Some did. Not enough. 1/

This data is funny because it suggests it’s just the same generation of people buying houses over and over again.

If you aren't following Jill, you aren't serious about defense.

Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

Look at this chart! Half of all homebuyers in 1981 were under 31?! And the median age has just gone steadily up by a *generation* since then?!

Fellow veterans, former coworkers, former clients, my kid's best friend's dad, childhood friends, the girl that sat next to me during driver's ed...all federal employees - dedicated civil servants - all lost their jobs over the past 10 days at the whim of the richest man in the world.

General Brown is a brilliant, amazing leader. I worked at the Air Staff for three years and it was known that he read everything the staff wrote for him. He believes if an analyst took the time to write it, it’s his responsibility to read it. Very few generals do this.

MTV Real World guy tackles FAA "inefficiencies."

You still need to lead. You need to be there for people. My latest move is to walk around, full of false motivation, smile, and thunder, "how's morale?!" Today I engaged with one of our young marines. I let her know that despite what she might hear, there are many of us who cheer for her success.

I am once again begging for a punk cover of "John Brown's Body," that shit would get a zillion plays on Spotify (99% of them from me alone) and would get the people pumped the fuck up to get to the polls for the midterms, plz and thnx

This site is the only thing keeping me sane right now. Pure gold.

FO phase has begun.

US military personnel killed in the Europe/Atlantic theatre of war 1942-1945, that is, fighting the Nazis so they wouldn't salute a dictator like this anymore: About 250,000 (US Department of Defense, January 2025)

Hey @uticaeric.bsky.social this one is for you.

I realize now the pic obscures the thumbnail of the attached article. Please read the article.

The press is not the enemy. For decades they have been sharing danger at our side to inform the American public per the 1st amendment. Here is a pic of ABCs Bob Woodruff and I, 15 minutes before he was severely injured in a complex ambush. We remain close. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military...

The Roman stuff cracks me up. The Roman secret sauce was inclusivity. The Roman Empire and Republic was wildly multicultural and diverse. Massive freedom of movement. It also spent the equivalent of trillions of dollars in public sector infrastructure like roads and aqueducts.

Still slaps. "Strengthen and increase our admiration for honest dealing and clean thinking, and suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy and pretence ever to diminish." www.west-point.org/academy/malo...

A country with 400,000,000 firearms should be more concerned.

This was all inevitable once Disney started retconning story arcs sympathetic to the empire stormtroopers.

We call them "the Greatest Generation" for shooting Nazis.

Pssst: The bureaucracy is the professional volunteer backbone that keeps the engine supplied and running and keeps crisis from boiling over into full scale war. Should big war come, the backbone quickly absorbs drafted citizens for the ranks. Worked for 80 years. Flipping the model will fail.

This is smart.

Pretty much anyone who says anything about NYC. And sure, it was sporty in the 1970s and 1980s but it was still banging and most people around the world still thought a) they wanted to go there and b) was the U.S. capital.

28% of federal workers are veterans per this story. www.newsweek.com/he-served-fo...

Britain coming around to their senses.

Yeah, but if we become friends they can get back to buying Harleys and Bourbon from us.

Again, there are about 3.5 million trips on the Subway on an average working day, substantially more than go through every airport in the country combined. MTA Mass Transit as a whole—Subways, Buses, and Commuter Rail—sees almost 5.5m trips on an average workday.

The abuse of Ukrainian POWs has been consistent grotesque and instigated from the very top of the Russian hierarchy down to individual soldiers.

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

Rereading the book and came across this quote last night and was thinking of posting it myself.

sure, mitch mcconnell cynically masterminded the plot to destroy the US constitution and american democracy, but you have to at least credit him with lifting up his own constituents in Kentucky to make it one of our richest and most prosperous... (touching earpiece) wait I'm getting new information