Tonight, I’m taking a moment to remember Kenneth Scissons, a Lakota Indian who distinguished himself fighting Nazis in North Africa. www.southdakotamagazine.com/kenneth-scis...

If one wanted to effectively lead a large, globally distributed org with extremely complex & diverse missions, perhaps the worse thing you could do is make the people implementing your will jump at capricious demands. If, instead, you’re consolidating power, well, destroy all ownership & initiative.

Always a good time to reflect on how we’ve address systematic moral failings in the past, to give us a model for how we should address them in the future.

Look at this. LOOK AT THIS CRIME AGAINST NATURE. Somebody wanted quad exhaust, but when given single outlet mufflers thought, “I can just stick an extra exhaust tip on the side and that’s good enough.”

Germans at a pop punk show some years ago

Hang the banner.

The Seattle Mariners win the American League West for the first time since 2001. Homers tonight by Geno, Polanco, Julio, and #60 for Cal. Four games left in the regular season and then, "might as well..."

Cal Raleigh hit his MLB-leading 59th and 60th homers on Wednesday night, solo shots for the Seattle Mariners in the first and eighth innings against the Colorado Rockies.

They've lost the 9yos

West, you're next.

ok well this certainly opens up the scope of ideas for a GWOT commemoration statue

Some Streisand effect possible here. To wit: I hadn’t heard of this show but boy howdy now do I want to see it.

Seattle's Cascade PBS announces it will layoff 17 people and end its longform, local online journalism after losing $3.5 million when the federal government ended funding for public media. DETAILS: https://loom.ly/NoNUcXk

a Muppet waiting for godot would be great

THE best call I’ve seen from an official in the last decade was in my son’s last water polo game. One of his teammates got mouthy after she called a foul, so she ejected him. Sports aren’t sports if you aren’t including human interactions in the competition.

“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. Oh wait, is she trying to get an abortion? Give me that stone.” (John 8:7)

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

Anyone who has tried to award a federal contract gets frustrated with the process. But don’t know why there is such a cumbersome process? Because we are acting in the best interest of the people. We’re expected to be stewards of the trust they’ve bestowed on us.

Howwwwww do you lede with this without debunking it out the gate

I don’t think it’s dramatic to say that the Mariners sweeping the Astros is one of the biggest series wins they’ve ever pulled off. What a squad.

Guy who has only fought in a GWOT war, watching his second war: Getting a lot of 'GWOT' vibes from this...

1. Coffee and fresh bagels my daughter scored from her work 2. Editing senior photos of my baby girl 3. Cruise to the hardware store in the 'vert 4. Tacos for dinner A perfect day to ignore everything else in the world.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

it me

If Aaron was in charge of tech policy, 100% of unmanned development would go to log support.

This is minor if you aren’t an ICE flight tracker, but I’m also revealing here for the first time that the sneaky GIV that has been doing ICE flights to Africa since mid-August is operated by Paradigm Jet Management. I obtained FAA docs proving it. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.

Beating the Astros twice?

For anyone interested, should Humpy the Salmon (0 W, 52 L) win the Salmon Run during the Mariners' final home stand, I'm willing and able to arrange a private meeting for $50,000 in unmarked US bills Just sayin'.

One win. One blink. One pull back. On any front. Illegal killings. Domestic deployment. Homan. One flip. One defection. All they know how to do is double down, retrench, push, scream, overwhelm. Stop the momentum once, hold fast once, keep them from taking an inch once, and they’ll crumble

idk if disney/sinclair/nexstar understand how bad they fucked up by angering the disney influencers. i don’t fear god or kpop stans but i do fear disney adults.

everyone except the Marines get out of this conference room, I want to hear more about Operation Everywhere Can Be A Littoral Once

In conclusion

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

The thing about unchecked power is it often makes grave mistakes. One of the reason Putin decided on the folly of war with Ukraine was the lack of those willing to tell him he was making a grave error. I fear @realDonaldTrump will stumble into a war, costing troop’s their lives.

📌WARNING: As a former managing editor of Stars and Stripes, what Hegseth's Pentagon is pulling with the press is dangerous as hell, anti-American, and will HURT THE TROOPS. 📌Any news organization that advocates for THEM and reports on their quality-of-life issues will potentially be squashed. 🧵

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

That’s not how a Venn diagram works?

Authorities - what a lot of people don't appreciate (mostly because until recently it was taken for granted) is that there is (or at least is supposed to be) direct traceability between any order for military action involving the use of force and the authority authorizing that action

Yooooo

Hickey’s deadpan delivery is 😙👌. “Most R&B songs…were aimed at adults & had adult concerns like sex, or paying the rent, or your partner cheating on you, or your partner cheating on you because you couldn’t pay the rent and so now you have no one to have sex with.” 500songs.com/podcast/epis...

Exactly what I’d expect from a former Marine. Rah.

get their ass, Mike

The Defense Commissary Agency is asking the commercial grocery industry to weigh in on the possible privatization of 178 stores that provide discounted groceries to military families in the U.S.

This is wildly illegal and he has no authority to do this