“In the corridors of the Estonian foreign ministry last week, I saw a large reproduction of the vote tally from last February’s UN debate on Ukraine, in which the US voted with the Russians. The message seemed clear. Don’t assume that Trump’s America is on our side.”

Vessels at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington - September 22, 2025. USS Bunker Hill (CG 52), USS Mobile Bay (CG 53), and USS Lake Champlain (CG 57). SRC: TW-@BulletOneOneTwo

Just a reminder that, despite what these freaks would have you think, antivaxx is extremely unpopular and we need to attack them relentlessly for putting insane dipshittery over our health

"His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when Rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they had long had but never before used or wanted." - JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit. (Smaug's reaction upon discovering the theft of a gold cup.)

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

The whole administration in one quote

Sure would've been nice if the consequences of stove-touching were noticed at the speed of posting but alas, folks have whole ecosystems built up to protect themselves from noticing this shit. Doesn't mean they can avoid noticing forever, or even a full year.

“.. The ECB found that around 26% of its survey respondents reported switching away from U.S. products.” “.. High-income households are more likely to switch away from U.S. goods ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/eur...

#Germany's Surgeon General Ralf Hoffmann said the number of wounded troops in a potential conflict would depend on the intensity of battle and which military units were involved. "Realistically, we are talking about a figure of around 1,000 wounded troops per day," he told Reuters in an interview.

1. Okay, I'm just gonna say it: as a matter of politics and sociology, Douthat is not entirely wrong. Social-media companies did censor people. People who have never experienced actual government oppression, and have no frame of reference. For beliefs that they saw every day on right-wing media.

The UK’s nuclear deterrent programme reached another milestone on Monday as steel was cut for HMS King George VI, the fourth and final Dreadnought-class submarine. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-cuts...

The US Air Force has boosted its BACN communications gateway fleet with a ninth Bombardier Global-series jet: an adapted 6000. flightglobal.com/defence/usaf...

😳 “think it's really important to note here that this would represent a dramatic reallocation of Congress's war powers to the executive. It would be the president deciding who the United States goes to war with and where that takes place.”

The description here by @jamellebouie.net of Trump administration propaganda as 'real life AI slop' is a remarkably on-point way to describe something I have been trying to put into words about the MAGA pagentry, cosplay, of authoritarianism in the absence of actually consolidating control.

Lorna Shore is incredible. What a great fucking show.

The older I get the harder it is to escape the conclusion that the typical American reads approximately 0 books or even articles a year.

~post-literate~ society

None of these people are serious about winning against a peer to peer adversary

First time seeing The Black Dahlia Murder. They put on a good show!

Technologically regress a band: Led Aerostat

A good essay would be "I'm a multi-war combat veteran and my assumptions about war are probably worse because of it"

I fucking love Shadow of Intent

TBF we spent like a decade considering buying modern A-1 equivalents without actually doing it

300 sequel but it's the Battle of Leuctra: Oh, you Spartans built your whole military hegemony on a tiny irreplaceable caste of elite warriors? Be a real shame if half that caste got wiped out in just one battle...

PeelingFlesh kicks off the evening with their brand of brutality

Un revirement qui sourit à Hendrix Lapierre 😁

two misters

So the F-35 had two core problems: - the SWAT effort that became necessary to save the -B (STOVL variant) - concurrency The original JSF program got its start with a USAF program to replace F-16s and a USN program to replace F/A-18s; combining these wasn't the worst idea post-Cold War

What movie do you consider perfect?

The next few years are going to be littered with millions of untold stories like this. Mothers watching their babies die of starvation because Musk took a woodchopper to USAID www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/a...

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

CAS is no longer about platforms but TTPs; a well-trained JTAC is more important than the platform characteristics. The A-10 debate is nonsense.

Huh.

Whoever wrote this @washingtonpost.com editorial has no understanding of military affairs-- and has not been reading two decades of the Post's coverage of the war in #Afghanistan: ♦️There is no way to hold #Bagram without the cooperation of the Taliban, or a Berlin Airlift level of resupply. Brief 🧵

good question, with lots of moving parts/uncertainty. But if you take 751k as the high estimate for Iraq (Lancet 2014 numbers), then we'd likely breach it in about 3-4 months, assuming linear effects in USAID-related death rates. If you take Lancet's mean estimate (405k), we're already past

Not to be contrary but I think that's the same America or at least the same Disney. They were eager to jump in the direction they thought power was going 2019-23 in order to make profit and now in 2025 they think power is going the other way, they jump the other way. There was never a spine there.

Check out Sonny Milano. He hasn't really played NHL hockey for almost two years, but some things you don't lose. He wants to make this team. #ALLCAPS

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

You can just say he has no clothes YOU CAN JUST SAY THAT

Drone A-10s *ducks*

I'm going to have to make an F-35 version of this honestly.

Incredible vibes at the MGM as normies are faced with a horde of deathcore fans for a show signaling through death metal band shirts

The idea that the US needs to prioritize homeland defense is so totally bonkers that we have to assume it’s either a) just a bullshit line to justify ideological animus toward Europe or b) a euphemism for “we need troops to suppress domestic dissent.”

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Problem of course is that the US *dominates* the global arms trade. It’s 43% of the market, and number 2,3,4,5 are a fraction of that.

Department of War is gender-affirming care

Boiue makes good points, but it is David French who goes on to nail the central question surrounding the future of the US that means the midterms may be a crucial turning point. If this was any other country there would already be discussion of severe potential risks of civil conflict.

One thing here is critical. Democrats should only negotiate/talk whatever directly with Trump. Not Thune or Johnson. They're just Trump's messengers. Third tier members, at best, in the MAGA organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Again Bouie from the top rope