If you don't vet your candidate, the opposition will do it for you

For the better part of a year, I've been looking into the night LaGuardia Airport was bombed. I'd appreciate it if you'd give it a read. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I cannot even begin to explain how fast I would be running if I saw this instead of taking a picture Down the stairs and then keep running upwind

You would absolutely not be amazed at how many leftists assume that the "working class" they talk about who are violent ignorant racists because they don't actually know any of these people

A whole lot of the American Army at Gettysburg spoke other languages bsky.app/profile/ppts...

Recommended reading today:

Cape Verde rn

The Louisianans get amidst the guns on the hill, gunners wield handspikes & rammers - one Louisiana Tiger places his hand on the muzzle of a gun in Wiedrich’s battery: “I take command of this gun!” The German gunner says “Du solst sie haben” (you shall have it) & pulls the lanyard -

Woke College Professors Heritage Day

Happy battle of Gettysburg and Vicksburg weekend to all who celebrate

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

The only gambling I do is with random number generators in tactical WW2 sims. ... Also fuck the hertzer all my homies hate the hertzer

Vance has no idea who this is

JD Vance: as a Catholic convert let me explain why Jesus hated people My parish priest in the 1990s who looked like he boxed at Mickey's gym in his spare time: I recommend doing something to help the convicted felons at the halfway house for your eagle scout project they could use a hand

I'm a better Catholic than this loser and I don't even consider myself religious anymore

One of The Youths at the office has discovered the old lore of the Mojave Phone Booth and I ended up explaining zoned (print media!), blogs, and the fact that Sgt Zeno From The Pentagon was a real guy and I had interacted with him

Absolutely God damn not that flag is OUR flag, not the fascists bsky.app/profile/sodr...

welp time to start playing GTA V for the first time, probably on sale and all the bugs are patched

Very interesting discussion but ngl my main focus on where did he get that amazing shirt

return to tradition will this make the f-16 much less effective in combat? Yes. Does it have any advantages? No. But it looks so much better

I would like to thank the US Army for this three day weekend (among other groups obviously)

Lot of people in this thread don't understand that Coney Island is a beach on the Atlantic fucking Ocean and riptides will kill you on the regular.

When people read about this era in 200 years they're going to be convinced most of it was an allegory and not real

Accounts from contemporary Chinese observers must be dismissed as unreliable, a history written by the victors. There is no way that the United States, in the words of one Chinese scholar, “just handed it to us.”

historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new

Waded into this behemoth this afternoon. The amount of research alone is staggering, with over 140 maps and charts. The notes section alone will make for good reading. This is an important book and one every dad should have. @hoosierhomer.bsky.social you will enjoy this.

reading the news every fucking morning like

A murder for hire group carried out a terrorist attack and killed Constable Marc Pinizzotto when the police executed a search warrant. One perpetrator is still at large. www.tps.ca/media-centre...

In 2024, the NYPD, the largest police department in the United States shot three dogs. Shooting dogs reflects the policy choices of the department. If you tell cops to stop shooting dogs they stop shooting dogs it's pretty simple.

Turns out the last line of transparency in the justice system is just a random guy emailing chief judges around the country www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

legend

My country is not for cowards who fear difference, for lily-livered people who cannot bear the sound of a foreign tongue, the taste of a new food, the tempo of an unfamiliar kind of music. It is for the strong worker who welcomes new immigrants, not the slacker who fears the diligence of others.

Every so often I fire up the netrek client for windows and join a server just because I think the bots might be lonely

The missile knows where it is because it knows where it isn't. It knows where it isn't because of Pokemon Fucking Go for some dystopian reason.

Screwworm eradication was a parasitology moonshot. It was huge, ambitious, expensive, and required extraordinary international cooperation. It is one of the greatest technological marvels nobody’s heard of outside livestock circles and a select group of weirdos, of which I’m one.

once upon a time I went down an absolute rabbit hole on the internet that led me to discover the saga of Mike Sparks and the aerogavin the saga of the aerogavin cannot be explained to those who did not witness the Wikipedia talk page edit wars

ok I think I broke it

doing my best to give the sysadmin at NYAYAM a heart attack

I do think a lot of folks don't grasp that legal privilege is a reason *in itself* to hire a lawyer. If you find a person or tool who is *in every other respect identical* in advice, you should *still* pay for the attorney because the same words and the same conversations get different protection

there is not a single household appliance I own that would be improved by access to the Internet I want the dumbest possible appliances. I want loud buzzes and clucky switches.

I decided to see what would happen if I set the US aviator setting to "elite" in 1942 Fighters: re-enact the Marianas Turkey Shoot Dive bombers: 20 consecutive hits Torpedo planes: zero hits

youtu.be/c94bALAgENM?... "What's the most insane thing you've ever seen on the internet" well

THE BATTLE OF MANILA

Footnote in a new FBI sting that resulted in charges against three for material support for ISIS: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Russia & Iran are recruiting teenagers across Europe and the Middle East to conduct sabotage. From Kyiv to Tel Aviv, we reveal how minors are hired online, paid in crypto & exploited as disposable, deniable, single-use agents. From @christopherjm.ft.com & me www.ft.com/content/58da...

Nobody who has ever spent more than ten minutes around actual cows could possibly want anything to do with raw milk