I’m not solid on age verification as a panacea, but I firmly believe if engineers as talented as those at Apple & other tech companies wanted parental controls to be intuitive & functional… they would be. wapo.st/4nOaelx

Everything else may be… what it is, and it’s only week 3, but Detroit versus Everybody is fun this year.

Question for tax lawyer friends: if the feds hand me a $50k bribe, but my friends get into power and kill the investigation, do I keep the taxpayer dollars? Is that reportable as income?

Barracks lawyering at the highest levels.

may God give us a double portion of the Spirit that the Freedom Riders had

Go Rainbow Warriors!

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Picked this up from the library on a whim and it was *fantastic.*

When the 10 year old wants an Oreo flavored cat cake, you get to work on a cookies and cream cat cake.

“Operational Law was woke so we beat it to death.”

As case names go this is top tier. Like, up there with United States v 95 Barrels of Vinegar (1924) and Ward v Rock Against Racism (1989).

Beside the point, but how hard would a Billy Bragg version of “Battle Cry of Freedom” slap?

A great way to get “officer discretion” severely curtailed is for the public to learn how 👮‍♀️ use their discretion. *assumes a functional judiciary/legislature, individual experience may vary, offer not currently available in the U.S. mainland.

Epitaph of the mountain west

Unholstering/brandishing a weapon is almost certainly covered by the agency’s use of force policy, & for mine required a report. The lack of patches/clear agency identification mean holding this bozo to account is not straightforward. Body type, poor training scream ICE or Border Patrol to me.

This, combined with the immunity ruling in Trump v United States and the pardon power, keeps me up at night.

Like, the 2025 version of a photograph reflecting “the power of the law” is totally different and it depresses the hell out of me.

RLTW, regardless of occupational specialty.

Quick question, does anybody know how this worked out for this Nixon character?

It’s wild that the “benefit of the doubt” position is a ruthless war with shocking indifference to civilian harm.

The idea that US-PRC Pacific conflict would produce catastrophic casualties is not a surprise. Article highlights US Army Pacific view of battlefield 🚑 as possible ‘hole’ in allied swing. Baked into this quote is assumption that CCP would not adhere to Law of War protections for medical folks.🧵

Thoughts and prayers.

I’ve been looking into post-Army careers where I can continue to be of service. Cops here start at $20k more than EMTs. Wild.

🇦🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 Proof positive of the ability to develop and deploy credible, land-based, long-range precision fires to hold maritime targets at risk and complicate the calculus of those who seek to coerce neighbors and threaten regional peace and stability.

Reminder that Rangers regularly raided literal Al Qaeda without needing to hide behind a mask.

Like the "1949" bit of the 1949 Geneva Conventions is a date and it's not just a massive coincidence its so close to the end of that war

This appears to be primarily about a stupid has-been boomer-ing over the beach, but is actually about a profoundly stupid law.

Good thing neither THAAD nor magazine depth are critical concerns in any future Pacific Theater.

Secondary sources can be the thread that unravels the whole historical sweater. Great 🧵and I’ve ordered TJ’s book on the strength of his insights, plus having seen a made-for-TV movie on Custer called “son of the morning star” at an impressionable age.

Some things (battle rhythm management, plans-to-ops handovers, joint fires) probably age well. Other GWOT habits (elite forced as risk reduction method; legal review of individual dynamic targets; utter dependence on unfettered bandwidth and air superiority) are in the spoilt milk category.

Linchpin gonna linchpin. “For the Talisman Sabre 25 live-fire exercise, the Typhon was operated by the Army’s 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force, which forward-deployed to Australia and then worked alongside the Australian Army, as part of a joint, multi-domain Land Effects Coordination Cell.”

For good measure, we need union civil war propaganda too

This is why the “AI won’t replace lawyers but lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers who don’t” trope instigates an automatic wanking hand motion from me. Until you fix the hallucination problem (even on ‘closed universe’ models) it’s a nope for anything of consequence.

Army long-range and maritime strike platforms mean every commander in the Indo-Pacific, regardless of the color of their camouflage, should know Law of Naval Warfare.

Strangulation is a high indicator of lethality in intimate partner abuse/domestic violence. Worth thinking about how normalizing sexual strangulation distorts a jury pool for those types of cases, to say nothing of harm to women from the behavior itself.

I love it when a plan comes together.

WW2 sub skippers were insane to a man. A killer who went by “Lucky” sank an absurd amount of shipping… and when the ocean didn’t yield enough targets went ashore and crumped a train. www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-to...

It’s almost as if being the partner of choice is important in a world where sovereign partners have choices.

Bruckenheimer’s Independence Day as civ-mil case study. Schrödinger's Article II Section 2 power.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

There are worse places to soldier…

Sick burn.

just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism

the pancreas has rights! it’s less about the whether the pancreas is guilty or not guilty, all about holding the endocrine system to the burden of proof!

Every 90’s Hip Hop video

100% and then some.

Took advantage of a vicious SATO layover to explore Seoul. Spa/sauna/bathhouse, War Memorial, Changdeokgung Palace, what I think was a park recounting Japanese atrocities, & delicious bibimbap. What a cool town!

this seating chart absolutely holds up, totally independent of any dungeon or dragon-related shenanigans afoot.

It’s Decoration Day

This is a deep misunderstanding or a deliberate conflation of the distinct Law of War obligations for distinction and proportionality. Distinction says you may only attack lawful targets. Civilian gov’t officials are not lawful targets absent role in military command/control or sustaining the war.