Wouldn’t be Christmas without going to a show. This is the first time in six years that we missed “The Nutcracker” but “A Christmas Carol” at Ford’s Theater was well worth it. Great cast. Great production. I highly recommend it.

You're not the brightest dude out there!

Ok, but here is the thing, right, if I got angry about Saudi Arabian aggression against Yemen and decided to blow up a mosque in Brooklyn, that motivation would not actually be exculpatory, you know?

Here’s my holiday gift to my fellow intel nerds on this site: Working with the fine archivists at SUNY Albany, I’ve gotten Bill Casey‘s giant retrospective 1945 report on OSS ops in Germany digitized. Casey served as OSS ops chief in Europe during the war. archives.albany.edu/description/...

I don't understand this point of view. The dude is having kids snatched up off the street by masked goons. That he said something mean about a film director doesn't even make my top 25 bad things about this admin.

I've waited ten years wanting to read this article. Excellent old school detective work, exemplary journalism. The entire infrastructure that enabled Epstein should be burned to the fucking ground. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

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In celebration of the new Ace Combat announcement, we've opened up our in-universe Arkbird bonus episode. open.spotify.com/episode/2dxe...

You gotta listen to @failuretolaunch.bsky.social. It's so good. A deeply informative show for fans of history, space exploration and more. Ghaddafi shows up on occasion. People working for Nazis get eaten by crocodiles. There was the time an elevator repairman created a nuclear death cloud. It rules

“In the second half of 2024, the US cut off a live video feed from a US drone over Gaza [from the IDF] for at least a few days…The intelligence sharing resumed after Israel provided assurances that it would follow U.S. rules” in using the info from the feed. Tough stuff!

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity:

Since this seems to resonate, I want to point out I have a novel coming out in June which is a modern take on The Most Dangerous Game in which tech bros hunt people for sport, but this time they pick the wrong guy. An "ever meet someone you shouldn't have fucked with" moment for them.

The logical conclusion of every GWOT IED training lane coaching deployers to look for the "guy with the cell phone." And of course the role playing "bad guy" was always in a "man dress" (dishdasha) because JimBob the contractor, who retired at FT Dix in 1988, had never ever heard of a track suit.

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

although it's still extremely embarrassing we gave out a SSM for this

This would be news to the Coast Guard that's been conducting interdictions on go-fasts as of a day or two ago......just like they've been doing the whole time we've been blowing up fishing boats

Since SEAL Team Six committing war crimes is back in the news this podcast with Mathew Cole about his book Code Over Country is relevant, again. www.youtube.com/live/HJuqkU8...

Reviewing certain lists and then watching kill cam usually…

Just discovered an amazing photo. Pictured is Capt. Kevin Corcoran, CO C/1/5 1st Cav Div working his radios in South Vietnam at some point in the first half of 1968. Photo was taken by a fellow soldier, Dean Sharp. You can feel the weight of command on his face. Some may identify with that look.

Big problem with the idea that Europe will stand on their own two feet in the Trump era is that European leaders as a rule are bitchmade.

I can’t post the things I’d do if the government detained my autistic kid for 50 days. But you’d fucking read about it in the news.

Two things can both be silly/dumb at once: • A former SEAL specifying that he was in D Co at Army jump school rather than A, B, or C Co like that’s a flex • The idea of *GWOT* paratroopers being “used to being behind enemy lines”

No one understands Trump less than his followers

Wild

MY GOD

Don't know what the original intent was, but from the perspective of people living in the countries we bomb all the time I think the meme is true. They probably don't even know or care what party is in control, they just know the Americans blew up a school house and created CIVCAS.

Funny how incredibly spoiled Americans will suddenly start breaking from the fever psychosis and racism once the economy actually starts shitting the bed

🚨TOKEN WHITE GUY FLUENT IN KOREAN ALERT 🚨

Right. And three Guantanamo detainees were discovered in GTMO about a decade ago with their hands behind their back, rags shoved down their throats, hanging from a light fixture. That didn’t sound like suicide either.

I am hearing that on his deathbed Donald Trump is receiving the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. He has accepted Muhammad al-Mahdi as the Twelfth and final Imam. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

Lameness abounds.

Brings back memories of visiting mass graves and forensic labs in Bosnia. A grim and complicated task ahead. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Oh my GOD. Holy shit. Holy shit holy shit holy shit. To non-lawyers: this level of incompetence is BREATHTAKING. It is absolutely incomprehensible. This is a "mistake" that will be taught in criminal procedure classes for GENERATIONS.

this shop did not 'scrub' the Epstein files, guys

lol. lmao. lmfao.