first time really tuning into a war? welcome. Let’s go over some rules of how to behave. These are going to be especially important if it’s a war you oppose. 1. You are allowed an opinion. This is America. Whether you served or not. It’s done in your name so might as well speak up. 🧵

Fantastic news and worth celebrating. So glad we got them back, and happy for a family that gets to breathe a massive sigh of relief.

F-15 WSO recovered alive. Was escaping and evading. Massive fire fight on tgt. Iranians were actively looking for him in the area.

I started out wanting to tell war stories, to keep us from growing numb. Some incredible veteran authors wrote incredible literature to that end. Then, some of those writers were thinking the question they had to face would be "how to move past writing about war?" www.reuters.com/world/easter...

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Can’t remember who said it but someone commented that while American media is still trying to grapple with how to cover Trump, The Germans for awhile have been quite plain like “oh you’ve got a real Hitler on your hands there you’ll want to take care of that or it WILL become a problem”

Getting real tired of zoomers making fun of my ankle socks. It’s hurtful and frankly it’s problematic.

getting glowered at by an angry German while eating bran flakes? Most people have to pay good money for such a thing

All that no quarter no mercy bullshit Hegseth went out of his way to trumpet seems shortsighted when American pilots start falling behind enemy lines. bullshit posturing in lieu of actual expertise and authority which you insist is woke has consequences for service members, Mr Secretary

“Higher Ed” for a profile of a new university president named Edward is fantastic work

Leo is a war time pope. I heard someone say once Jesuit schools should alternate between a priest as president, and a lay person as president. The lay person tightens the wallet and makes sure it’s solvent and then the priest president spends to make sure the institution stays just and moral.

I sent a letter to the White House demanding an investigation into reports that Sec. Hegseth engaged in discriminatory interference in military promotions. No service member should be denied advancement because of race or gender. Join me: chamberlainnetwork.quorum.us/campaign/159...

Reporting indicates Secretary Hegseth engaged in discriminatory interference in military promotions. That's deeply concerning, and antithetical to military and American values. Use this link to send a letter to the White House demanding accountability: chamberlainnetwork.quorum.us/campaign/159...

So I'm Catholic, and I hate Pete Hegseth. But the letter says there will be a Protestant service, no Mass. Catholics don't have Mass on Good Friday. It's the only day of the year no Mass is said. So there is a world in which its just a reminder, no Mass today. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

I didn’t even know beaver policy was an option. I’m getting out of the veteran advocacy game and getting in to beavers.

Just a pale blue dot Space is incredible

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Greg Jaffe Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt on the byline with a source on background saying the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth’s directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers from the promotion list to one star general www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Greg Jaffe Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt on the byline with a source on background saying the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth’s directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers from the promotion list to one star general www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Nobody does one-off time loop episodes anymore.

"a war is not truly over if the enemy is still willing and able to fight — it doesn’t matter how many times U.S. leaders claim it has turned a corner." The lance corporal's correspondent, the incredible Jeff Schogol, with a rare opinion entry, worth reading. taskandpurpose.com/opinion/mili...

Loomered indeed. Ball knowers know.

"Hegseth has fired over a dozen senior military officers, including CJCS Gen. C.Q. Brown, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse." www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Artemis II giving two middle fingers to the world as it leaves, possibly forever, to find a better place on a cold rock in space.

IYKYK

I bring this one out every Thanksgiving.

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Watching Gorsuch torch a guy is like watching like watching Team USA basketball. It’s fun to root for the guy, on the incredibly rare instance he’s on your team.

May the Lord open (the Straits of Hormuz)

If you are a United States servicemember and you are concerned about illegal or immoral orders, or you simply need clarity on your rights and duties, a counselor at the GI Rights Network can help. 877-447-4487 girightshotline.org/en/military-...

the way he lies - maximally, aggressively, shamelessly - sparks a spiralling madness in my soul. the madness of his deceptive grandiosity makes me despair. the same as the solicitor general this morning. Without shame, spouting lies, and doing so to hurt. madness put him here, and madness reigns.

This would have been the time for someone to say, "The Ark of history is Wong, but it bends toward Kim." I SHOULD BE ON THE SUPREME COURT.

We are speaking out against yesterday's Exec Order on mail-in voting. Absentee & mail-in voting is how millions of Americans cast their ballots while deployed. We swore an oath to the Constitution including defending every American’s right to vote. 1/4 www.unite4veterans.org/press/vets-d...

What the fuck did you just fucking say about tribal sovereignty, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I authored the majority opinion in McGirt v. Oklahoma, and I’ve been involved in numerous statutory interpretations of the Major Crimes Act, and I have done over 300 land acknowledgements.

SOTOMAYOR!!! English rule was always by birth. Yes.

Alito says immigration laws have been enforced "ineffectively" or "unenthusiastically" in the past which is also how his past partners report Alito's sexual performance

public unapologetic refusal to hold military officers accountable, unlawfully seizing administrative power over the bedrock of our democracy - elections - via executive fiat the President attending oral arguments in a case about overturning a constitutional amendment via Executive Order

We’re going to need to arrest a lot of people if we want to impose adult supervision on the military before this is all over.

A group I co-founded that tracks military flights was mentioned for their work in monitoring USAF bomber flights out of RAF Fairford. great work, gang! (Gift article below)

American journalist Shelly Kittleson has been kidnapped in Baghdad. Searches are ongoing for her, Iraq's Ministry of Interior confirms. moi.gov.iq?article=20535

12/ The result was a farcical two-day stand-off, with a ring of 50 Italian policemen and soldiers surrounding the plane, and the Italians themselves being surrounded by a ring of US Delta Force operatives.

Hat tip to whoever the first person was to ever say the phrase “fungus among us” what a legend

had a thread about pendleton marines and the dumb things they do earlier today. and now this. yut. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

Hey man, I’ve been to war and I’ve got to tell ya, I agree. War don’t sex, not even a little War won’t sex, can’t sex. never has, never will. War don’t sex longer than war remembers, longer than war even wonders. Put that in your lethality and smoke it.

John Yoo Ilan Wurman Michael McConnell Michael Ramsay The sum total of law professors quoted in this article. This is the legal equivalent of diner journalism with 12 angry Trump voters. Other choices, as always, were readily available.

“Get me the Jesuits on line one. Tell them I want them to do a job. One to make Papa Frankie proud…”

Here we go. If you strip away, the myth, from the man, you will see where we all soon will be - on this note i'm sympathetic to Judas tbh.

For Palm Sunday, going to live post my rewatch of Jesus Christ Superstar. I will be watching the 2000 production, with Glenn Carter as Jesus, Jerome Pradon as Judas, and Renee Castle as Mary Magdalene. Why this version? Was the first version I saw as a kid, and so its locked in my head