As long as this has come up, two things. First, the work Space Force does is incredibly important, and its members' service is as valid as anyone's. Second, they will never outrun how dicked up their rollout was, we should seriously consider disbanding the entire service and trying again.

This is actually the normal and legal functioning of a blockade. Blockading ships can order ships running the blockade to stop for inspection - a ship that refuses to stop can be fired upon to make it stop. Ships with contraband or running the blockade can be seized.

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NEW: Iran plans blockade of American blockade of Iranian blockade www.duffelblog.com/iran-plans-b...

“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.” That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.

I am a Marine, and I am asking all of you to stop buying software from these idiots. There is no software we need that we can't make in-house for pennies on the dollar.

Whether the next dem admin proves them wrong is a fundamental question And the thing is there is ample reason to impose consequences - their execs are all drug addicts - their primary product is a rewarmed overpriced SharePoint - they say insane shit like "AI is more powerful than nuclear weapons"

Man, these tech oligarchs...

It is a strange experience watching this go on when even if the strait *had* opened today, there's a huge amount of disruption baked in here - we're hurtling towards the part of the problem that can't be solved by marketing. It may be too late to change course...but also we're not changing course.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

"bear suit insurance fraud"

The market today:

“The next president must say on day one: We’re tearing down this arch; we’re razing Trump’s ballroom…Washington ceremonial architecture must be returned to the purpose for which it exists—to promote democracy, not the demented, bruised ego of one sick man.” newrepublic.com/post/209211/...

With the Trump administration switching into anti-Catholic overdrive this week, I wrote about a time a hundred years ago when Catholic students from Notre Dame beat the shit out of the Klan. A feel good story for the ages. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

Next up: "Oil has climbed back to $110 following failure to agree on the shape of the negotiating table."

Well, this is nuts.

So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about. I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant

FDR literally had the president of Montgomery Ward arrested and the company seized for not negotiating with his workers

You know who struggles with class I? People lost in the wilderness. If you can't sustain with class I, it's time to go home.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

I don't know what the odds were that instead of the Pope this whole thing could have been about some brand's cartoon mascot that Trump started ranting about, but the odds weren't zero.

You’re too late Superman! As we speak I have just appointed you to lead the TRANSCOM Working Capital Fund, where your days will be spent running memos between the other COCOMs and ensuring that you are able to keep enough KC135s and C17s supported to meet GFM requirements! You’ll never survive!

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

House Democrats will introduce five articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of war crimes in connection with the Iran war, abuse of power and mishandling of the Department of Defense (DOD).

It's hard to top Korea as an example of a just war, so, if we're being charitable, WTF are these guys talking about? I'm guessing three things (for the few who aren't just tankies who hate the US or guys who think anti-militarism is like boycotting the concept of war).

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“General Lee…I have no tax subsidies now”

JD Vance shits in woods for first time, has advice for bears

anyway I'll probably address it more later, but the foundational issue is the people who "do defense" on the left (and are thus your primary USD/ASD/DASD pool) are mostly dipshits, there's very few in academia who a) know what they're talking about and b) want to take the gig (I can think of 2)...

Opposition to war, like war itself, is serious business for serious people. Right now it's like the left's equivalent of the right's cult of the operator, a bunch of fantasist cranks. A serious US anti-war movement will have FSOs at its core.

"Real war in Ukraine and the prospect of conflict over Taiwan ought to have made it impossible to pretend that military power, industrial might, and hard security don’t matter." www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Okay, I had absolutely no idea just how old Beretta was.

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From @elleewatson.bsky.social of @cbsnews.com (current as of Apr. 14, 2026) - 399 U.S. service members have been wounded in action during Operation Epic Fury. 354 have returned to duty and three are currently considered seriously wounded. Increase in WIA due to "delayed symptoms" / TBIs.

Congratulations to LTGEN Susan Coyle and our Australian Army allies for breaking new ground. 🇦🇺

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Obviously I read this headline as, “Paddington 4: Escape From New York’ Reboot in the Works and it’s fair to say I’m slightly disappointed now

I see no problems (multi-decade ground quagmires) here. H/T r/noncredibledefense

“I wanted the Pope to be the emperor of mankind, blessing holy war against the unclean for all time, but instead it turns out he’s got the politics of a social worker!”

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Hungarians have been swarming the comment section of the Return of the Jedi soundtrack on YouTube. One day... www.youtube.com/watch?v=II04...

President Zelenskyy: ❗️For the first time in the history of this war an enemy position was taken using only unmanned platforms - ground robotic complexes and drones. Russian soldiers in the position surrendered into captivity.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

If you're Pakistan, now it's just a question of when Saudi Arabia tries to call you into the war. They should have done the negotiations on Ibiza so both delegations' drinks would have been spiked with MDMA.

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