Yes, this needs to be at the ready. Along with quotes about Waco and Ruby Ridge.

For a month or so, for the right kid, Wisconsin is pretty cool.

"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."

#Supermarine #Spitfire Mk.Ia, #Private (G-CFGJ) by Richard Parkhouse (#Duxford) #Warbirds (WW2 and before) #aviation #photography #avgeeks

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Minnesota is the best of us.

💯 Every. Fucking. Word.

I fought in Afghanistan as a Marine. Danes were in Helmand before Marines were. 43 Danes gave the last full measure of devotion because the U.S. asked and we had been attacked. I’m ashamed this man is the commander in chief. This isn’t how you treat friends who bled with you.

"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'" www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

#Antonov #An-2, #Air Service Hungary (HA-MEO) by Gábor Kovács Dödi (#Budaors) #Airliners #aviation #photography #avgeeks

I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying

“For the families of Danish soldiers who died in the American-led campaign against the Taliban, their country’s partnership with the United States is not an abstraction. Denmark’s loyalty to America brought Sophia Bruun to Afghanistan, and it ended her life.”

2 sexy. #motorcycle

Trump is the most corrupt president in US history. Where is our Navalny?

Only few pieces of furniture from early medieval times have been preserved. Due to the water-logged condition of the area, many wooden objects such as this terrific chair made from maple and ash wood survived in a burial at Trossingen. Dating 580 AD. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #archaeology

If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to use force to gain Greenland, it could set in motion a disastrous chain of events, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/nM4fmwGc

Note, the people who put out a version of the white power anthem referenced in an ICE recruiting propaganda poster are not to be confused with Pine Tree Riot, from Portland, Maine. www.facebook.com/share/1Mdpkr...

The Chemical Brother’s Block Rockin Beats on a Morgan Stanley commercial.

When philanthropist comes first in the obit. captimes.com/news/madison...

Just say non-white, this is taking forever.

Thinking of Venezuela in terms of the Iraq 2003 timeline, US troops will pull down Saddam Hussein’s statue two weeks from now.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

When you can block investigations into homicides and substitute propaganda for judicial findings, you have complete impunity.

David Koresh could not be reached for comment.

So much for the imperialism of free trade.

The killing of an unarmed woman by a masked federal agent in Minneapolis is a moral outrage and a betrayal of American values. There has been no justification offered—only deception and deflection from those in charge.

I have to hope that if the US loses a helicopter attacking Greenland that Trump is going to find out in a hurry what it means to lead the US into a deeply unpopular war.

In his first day in office, President Trump pardoned nearly 1,600 people in the Jan. 6th Capitol riot. Five years later, most of the officers injured that day have never widely shared their experience. Here are some of their stories, in their own words:

“We live in a world, in the real world . . . that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

"It is a sad fact that the prime minister of Denmark is closer to our Founders in her view of the world than the Trump administration. It is a sad fact that one can have more confidence in the government of Denmark to respect election results than in Donald Trump." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"We’ve never left the January 6 era. But what’s most staggering is how many people would prefer to pretend we never entered it in the first place...a large faction of more grudging GOP supporters, for whom the Capitol insurrection is an unpleasant memory repressed." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Whatever you think about the potential upside of removing Maduro, I would say that improving the US public’s opinion of the competence of the US military is not a morally acceptable justification for the use of force.

A reminder that in a democracy capable of defending itself, Donald Trump would have been placed in custody on the evening of January 6, 2021, and would have remained there ever since.

It seems like Representative Jake Auchincloss is unrelated to the writer Louis Auchincloss, which indicates that there are more Auchinclosses out there than I realized.

Research question: does the US attack on Venezuela make attacks by other countries more likely? Usual critique is that US attack makes US criticism of other countries hypocritical, and so less effective. But is that what really restrains them? US economic and military punishment are still there.

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

At the risk of disagreeing with the wonderful @profsaunders.bsky.social, I think the Venezuela operation shows that while the president is largely unconstrained in deciding whether to use force, he is constrained when it comes to scope and scale. 1/6

I think one of Trump’s core foreign policy beliefs dating back to the oil crisis is that we should directly control the world’s oil reserves and not let weak countries push us around. It was a big theme in his critique of the Iraq war.

Don’t mean to be cynical, but the abduction of Maduro seems well within the US foreign policy tradition stretching back more than a century. Don’t see how it provides much evidence for a radical break with the past.

Speaking of Roman citizenship laws, can’t wait to dig into one of my Christmas presents. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-romans...

My daughter put on Laufey’s cover of “Seems like old times,” which reminded me of Dianne Keaton singing it in Annie Hall, in 1977. The song was written in 1939, so we are further from Keaton’s version than she was from the original.

This looks like a destroyer. Not even a cruiser, much less a battleship.

I *highly* recommend watching this interview.

Motor Monday! #motorcycle

Happy shortest (longest) day in the northern (southern) hemisphere! Unfortunate that a more astronomically minded Pope did not declare today Christmas and New Year’s Day.