These colors don't run - they progress forward 🫡 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 #TDoV

a very festive (?) TDoV to all who celebrate. we see you

we spent the last 80 years building a network of international alliances to secure global peace and prosperity and in the space of 14 months we've blown it all up for no reason whatsoever.

Cooked me? Are you 12? A grown man put on a wig, copied my face, my voice, my mannerisms, and turned me into a circus act for millions, and you weirdos are in my comments talking like this is a game. If that's your definition of 'cooked' _____________________________________________________________/

Official United States war strategy.

like how do you say this when this headline exists

I'll take "Things Which Are Not True" for $2,000, Alex. That's another Daily Double!

C Kirk redux: a guy stole Johnson County's Pride flag a little bit ago, while taunting custodial employees. We will have a Pride flag up tomorrow. If we can't source one on short notice, it'll be the Trans Pride flag from my office.

Oh Pete. You've lost *another* AWACS?

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

Missiles will always beat interceptors, active defense is only worth doing in defense of very specific very valuable discrete point targets (of which ships are one category but airbases as a whole are not), and airfields aren't defendable but they are (very quickly) repairable

"I moved to Chicago ten years ago and as a true and legitimate Chicagoan, it is my unshakable belief that everyone who moves here after me is an elite coastal gentrifier colonist."

"never has so much been seen, so precisely, by so many people who understand so little of what they are seeing." damn

To run apologetics for it out of a misplaced sense of ethnic shame (which by the way, get over yourself: your self-hatred is profoundly self-absorbed) is to perpetuate the perception of the conflict as zero sum in the minds of ditherers. In other words, you are aiding Netanyahu.

"Expelling the Jews to the Sea" is actually a /wildly/ unpopular viewpoint among Palestinian public opinion. This has been polled. It is a tiny minority opinion among Gazans, West Bankers, East Jerusalemites, Palestinian exiles, or '47 Palestinians.

Here's the deal: if you cite TrackAIPAC for anything, you get blocked. It's an antisemitic conspiracy site run by a Ron Paul nutjob who lies consistently and her numbers are made up bullshit.

Pretty flabbergasting how much of the fringe left is now openly in the thrall of this antisemitic conspiracy site and its carefully distorted data

The thing about Donald Trumps very clear desire to leave a lasting imprint on the country as a way to assuage his fear of death is that he already *has* secured that. Tens of millions of ppl are going to spit at the mere mention of his name for the rest of their lives, long after he's gone.

another night, another dust-off. patient will be OK, another successful response by Baker EMS.

Duke sucks

...if it wasn't for good luck, Alex Palou would have no luck at all.

Managing visitation at national parks through capacity controls is absolutely critical to protecting them for future generations.

"Pete Hesgeth destroys essentially the entire JSOC in a single night" would be something.

Wake up babe the Pope just said that Trump isn’t going to heaven

The only acceptable answer from 2028 presidential candidates is "yes, I'll demolish it."

It's always fun when someone replies to your reply with a snarky accusation then turns off replies so you can't respond. #subskeet

the NYT loves Trump and wants him to rule us like a king

okay tbf this is actually like vietnam insofar as the US is doing historical revisionism over the tactics used by iran in real time so we do not have to admit that we are losing a conventional war bc our goals are not alligned with our willingness to accept costs / commit resources.

It probably doesn't belong in a museum.

Oliver Bearman's crash saw him suffer a 50G impact, Haas have confirmed. He has had X-rays and luckily has suffered no fractures. He has a contusion to his right knee but seemingly no further damage done, which is great to hear!

Yikes Bearman!

NGL, I'm legit concerned for those other planes that have been labelled "damaged."

dropped by a military historian convention to see a friend today, and about half of the conversations I eavesdropped on in the lounge (as well as our conversation) were basically 'I can't believe how goddamn stupid this war is'

scratch one AWACS.

Evelyn Normielib has shooters.

the first raid that gets its exfil helicopters jumped by RPGs is gonna look really, really bad on TikTok

never change, Martinsville

“Now that we’re weeks into a war that has seen us touch a load-bearing wall of the global economy and burned through our weapons stockpiles, I’ve got some scores to settle.” My latest: open.substack.com/pub/breaking...

There is no broader military or IR theory at work here beyond the fact that Trump and Hegseth are stupid assholes who thought that their regime change op in Venezuela was repeatable in Iran despite the vast differences in resiliency, capabilities, and leverage. Any attempt do claim one...

having read the article, i think its a good time to share this great Joint Forces Quarterly piece again ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/N...

Going back further, it was political scientists and economists at RAND who pushed that forward based SAC bombers were too vulnerable to Soviet theater nuclear missiles (Wohlstetters Balance of Terror article came out of that)

ah yes, our deep California ancestral connections to Canoga Park and Coto de Caza and Blackhawk. sure, these suburbs literally didn't exist 100 years ago, but nonetheless they are the legacy of our ancestors.

Our ecologist did the Baker Creek snow survey yesterday - located in the Snake Range of eastern Nevada, within Great Basin National Park. At 8,200 feet, zero snow. At 9,200 feet, 12% of normal. At 9,500 feet, 53% of normal. The whole Great Basin is in trouble this summer.

same applies to the idea that we should charge overseas tourists more to visit American national parks. reasonable user fees are an important revenue source for parks, but $100 per person - on top of the standard fee! - is unreasonable, IMO.

In retrospect maybe a fifty year, ideological push against all government services, expertise, and education in favor of transferring public funds to private hands might have weakened our institutions in ways that were easy to predict

the crumbling remains of America's second newspaper got the wrong team winning in the Sweet Sixteen.

What did you think land back meant? Papers? Essays? Vibes? Losers. It means building skyscrapers in single family neighborhoods while the rich NIMBYs cope and seethe

holy shit Verstappen won't make Q3? lmao Red Bull is cooked

The first images of a burning American warship are gonna break people's minds.

this is a seriously good point. we've spent the last 25 years inculcating the American people that war means a bunch of faraway small-unit actions against guerrilla fighters armed with nothing more threatening than small arms and IEDs. we have absolutely no idea what real fucking peer-war means.