I listened to an interview from The Modern Warfare Institute with a J1 in the Rangers - basically the toughest, baddest Human Resources person in the Army. It got me thinking, what other mundane-sounding positions exist in elite military units? Seems like a @lethalityjane.bsky.social question.

Paging @riana.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

Received my copy of @qntm.org’s “There is no Antimemetics Division”.

I'd like to thank this site for informing me that PowerWash Simulator 2 exists.

This is the kind of filing that lawyers love and everyone else hates - an appellate court staying a stay from one if its own panels, which stopped one (and maybe two but probably not) TROs which themselves prevented government action.

There are several interesting things in this paragraph.

Another instance where I think "well, we can't expect a random person to remember 1973", and then click through to find the author is a Harvard professor of government studies.

Part of the Forbes-to-Prison pipeline: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...

We all, of course, fondly recall how compulsory service united the country from 1969-73.

Mike Tyson punching Mr. Beast is the healing moment this country needed.

An interesting newspaper correction:

He will be missed.

“MacArthur park represents an area of historic lawlessness” - lol I used to go there in the 90s as a teenager. Heaven help these people if they have to go south of Pico.

A thread for interesting, unresolved cases that I am following.

Tried to explain the Abrego Garcia situation to someone who summarized “…so the gov wants to keep him in jail in order to prevent the gov from jailing him, which would prevent the gov from jailing him?” Yes, pretty much exactly that.

So 106(1) ended up being important in a fair use case before Judge Alsup? Huh. I wonder who could have predicted that?

This house brought to you by Bethlehem Steel.

Interesting article, and I was struck by the repeated description of one person as “the man with the gold-tipped cane”. I’ve seen this in DC reporting when the reporter has a reason to not identify a person by name, instead using a distinct personal attribute that is obvious to insiders.

Worth nothing that counsel for the US was wrong when he said the NORTHCOM General’s declaration states CA Guard was only being used to guard facilities. First - the General’s declaration states the Guard is helping “personnel performing official functions in downtown Los Angeles”.

It is not, in my experience, a good thing when the judge pulls out a copy of the constitution and asks you what specific provision you are referring to.

I pulled up the opposition in Newsom v Trump and, uhh… okay. Bit of a rough start.

To paraphrase Rick Blaine, “Well there are certain sections of Los Angeles, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade.”

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

@aresluna.org, the tower says hello. :-)

DC Bar ballots were distributed today. If you are a member I *highly* recommend voting, this is a consequential election.

It’s all fun and games until you mess with the CA berry harvest: www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

The plot setup of Lethal Weapon 4 is remarkably accurate:

Jets are the new elephants.

I always assumed the Supreme Court (mostly) avoided fact finding due to its position as a (mostly) appellate institution and not because justices struggle to comprehend material written at a 1st grade reading level.

There is a corner of the internet devoted to noting that Maine Coon cats look like Ron Perlman.

Here’s what I don’t understand about Alito’s dissent: - Alito knew detainees were being moved to an airport on Friday and that the gov reserved the right to have a flight depart Sat morning. - Alito knew that the public also had this information, and that the public knew that Alito knew.

AARP is recommending that retirees get a burner phone. Amazing. www.aarp.org/travel/trave...

Sad to report a complete lack of crunk in this aisle.

Seb Gorka drives a four cylinder Mustang with an automatic transmission. #UnAmerican

This is utter nonsense. We would only have to fly them 12 miles* offshore, not 100. *I acknowledge there is a reasonable argument for 24 miles, and much weaker argument for 200. However, in no circumstances would the distance be 100.

"Sure there was a global recession and 80,000,000 died in war but Dems secured the House for 60 years" is quite the take.

Tired: Ghibli-style LA riots. Wired:

This exactly the kind of commie nonsense that’s gotten out of hand in California. Here in *America* we decorate our walls with guns made by Eugene Stoner or John Moses Browning.

Bonus points if you can name the large bronze item on the wall.

In case anyone is confused about this Evangelicals vs Lutherans thing: - Lutherans are the generally Midwestern people who do charity work, feel good about it, then worry that they might have felt *too* good about it. - Evangelicals are the people on TV who stole money from your grandparents.

The rationalist movement, previously engaged in rational activities like stealing billions of dollars and advocating for bombing data centers, appears to have spawned a 1970s style death cult. sfist.com/2025/01/29/s...

Do people remember 2004 when all Iraqi government spending was managed by a handful of interns with no experience? That worked out great. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...

Just another January day in San Francisco.

If you are confused about Snoop performing at the inauguration: - Snoop got his start from Dre, - Dre founded Death Row, - Death Row was funded by Harry O, - Trump commuted Harry O’s sentence in ‘21. That’s it. Snoop is paying back a debt.

The bottom of that plume is 3000MWh of lithium ion batteries.

I appreciate this as someone who likes a good long-form insult and as someone who used to toot the loud pretzel.

It will be extraordinarily lazy if the writing team for 2025 repeats the “hostage release on Inauguration Day” gimmick.