They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

Meanwhile I can't get funding to test my theory that autism is caused by white collar crime.

I'll believe China is a serious carrier operator when they respond to their first afloat carrier catastrophe.

In the future every company will be a bank and a lifestyle brand.

The common ground between liberal institutionalism and structural realism is weird outcomes.

"We only knock over the first domino, we don't go back and keep knocking over more dominoes like an idiot."

A rich and powerful man voluntarily bearing a cross onstage, but adding wheels so it's not remotely difficult, is the perfect picture for our country.

NEW: Hours after the Pentagon announced it was renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War, veteran-themed t-shirt companies launched an all-out sprint to design the douchiest War Department tee imaginable, sources confirmed today.

Your Party splitting before it's even actually formed or named may be some kind of record even for a leftist party.

I'm watching Trainwreck: Poop Cruise on Netflix. I love my fellow Americans, but as a veteran I'm deriving as much enjoyment from watching this as I'm supposed to get from being in a parade. It may be the breathless, horrified way they talk about pooping in bags.

F-35 vs. A-10 has been Newton vs. Leibniz for a long time. The loudest voices on both sides are the ones who can't do the math.

Seriously, nothing remains as equally striking and funny as the accounts of Taliban fighters-turned-government works being bored, missing life at war, complaining about traffic and admitting they're hooked on Twitter. time.com/6263906/tali... US lost the war, but we exported late-capitalist malaise

If St. Paul was around to see Christians like Kirk, let alone Catholics like Vance, the epistle he would write would be beyond Galatians or Corinthians. It would be like reading a letter from Kendrick Lamar to Drake.

Laura Loomer has manically been tweeting about the NCTC for the past 12 hours. I would like to take this time to congratulate the NCTC as this is the first time in its history where it has ever been relevant.

“The computer acts like a computer” is such a profound and such a mundane result, all at once. It’s far more shocking that reasonable-sounding people have argued that massive datasets contain within them a secret truth that only will be revealed by… multinomial logits

Me pulling up MarineOnline just to make sure I’m still listed as retired.

More niche Bagram variants:

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

We can blame Trump's dumb administration, but the truth is this is just the outcome of believing that CUI is secret lite and that everything anyone in the DoD does at work is CUI at a minimum. It leads to guys, especially in the IC, who see spillage everywhere, to include "unclassified spillage."

"What are some examples of things we've published in the past that we wouldn't be able to publish under the new guidelines?" -Jeff Schogol, probably

For all the shit they talk about younger generations, boomers talk about historical great events and achievements as if they took part, but 99.99% of the time they're just remembering something they watched on TV.

"No one has ever convened a court at sea before" says the world's smartest joe

This video is like something you'd show an enemy if you were trying to get them to turn on their gaydar and push enough power through it that you could target it with an AGM-88.

Don Adams was a better Marine than R Lee Ermey.

My big concern is that Trump is running out of things to claim are national emergencies that justify more sweeping powers. Immigration has been a bust. Fentanyl has been a bust. Crime in cities has been a bust. Kirk's murder is already a bust. He only has so long before the midterms.

Wait, Stancil played EVE?

Servicemember: "I asked my leaders to give me a letter saying I wasn't liable for anything illegal they told me to do." Judge: "Do you normally ask for your leaders to do that? Why did you do that in this case?" Servicemember:

Thank you for the live-action shot of me at #McMullen2025, Mark! hope everyone who attended—standing room only!!—enjoyed our panel on damage control. I plan to do *something* with The [Twenty] Tragedies of Scuttlebum: The Navy’s Damage Control Caricature, so stay tuned!

Would love to know whether the “Pokémon Go” Pokémon described as forlornly guarding their abandoned gyms at Bagram Airfield in the aftermath of the 2021 pullout are still there four years later www.stripes.com/theaters/mid...

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

I feel like a lot of us are probably having the exact same thought when we read a phrase like "Marines explore uses for 3D-printed concrete."

This guy was an FMF Corpsman who says he was booted for vaccine refusal. His further adventures included getting booted from the sheriff's office after two months, getting investigated for misappropriating campaign funds, and getting in hot water for making bigoted comments about Muslims.

This seems like as good a time as any to point out that basically nobody of any rank believes me when I tell them SPACECOM is a geographic combatant command, not a functional command.

There are two schools of thought. One is driven by ISR prioritization, and in that view no IR matters unless it is linked to a cdr's decision point. The other is driven by general SA, and attempts to turn reporting into a daily newspaper for the AO. Significantly, neither involves predictive intel.

I guess noted Gonzo journalist Olivia Nuzzi has a new job.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

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To be honest, I feel like the right way to oppose this is to let them do it, but to follow up by marking Charlie Kirk Day or whatever they call it by playing a bunch of Charlie Kirk clips to put them in the record.

Maybe the thinking is that the ad will explain that Charlie Kirk never served in the hopes that people conclude uniformed service is a way to be less like Charlie Kirk.

Coming on the heels of the Jonathan Majors Army ad. What would it take for the DoD to use someone who actually served to pitch the idea of service?

Does Vader even have a position in Imperial government? He's more like a nebulously powerful adviser who drops in randomly to terrify them. He's basically the Laura Loomer of the Galactic Empire.

Are we...are we trying to lease it from the Taliban?

Ah, the age old battle between protesters worried about ways not to get jammed up and protesters who think it isn't fun or meaningful if it isn't all about getting jammed up.

Maybe so, but I know a place where Supreme Court precedent doesn't mean squat.

I feel like a lot of weird shit would probably already be baked into the rules of most fantasy football leagues in any comic universe. Also, I assume Gunn will write this scene at some point.