Great, fast paced action book by @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social. Can’t wait for the next one. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Battle of the Rosebud 150th anniversary commemoration.

Stained glass at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum’s chapel in Pooler, Georgia.

1980s Army recruiting poster

May the Fourth by with you

Little 500 velodrome, Bloomington Indiana. Racetrack that played a central part in the 1979 movie Breaking Away.

Artemis II launch was amazing! 🚀

#BlackHistoryMonth Doris Miller is the first black recipient of the Navy Cross, and is also one of the first US heroes of WW2. READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficial/p/blackhistorymonth-doris-miller

Only took me a few weeks but here is a list of books to introduce one to all things military. My latest⬇️

Great article by TX Hammes on the arctic and its questionable strategic value and challenges of shipping through it. cimsec.org/the-arctic-i...

Happy New Year from Edinburgh Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Cool hike to see Highland Cows outside of Edinburgh.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” hits #1 today in 1983 It was originally “a vampire love song,” said writer Jim Steinman, “for a musical version of ‘Nosferatu’ .. When Bonnie came along, it was the perfect match .. her voice had that haunted, gothic quality .. pleading and defiant ..”

Jim Lovell passed away today. He famously said “Houston, we have a problem” during the Apollo 13 mission. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

as always, @patrickwyman.bsky.social piece on american gentry is essential patrickwyman.substack.com/p/american-g...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Projections on a Pakistan-India nuclear war climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/IndiaPak...

@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social Spotted in Los Alamos in the former house of Hans Bethe, a physicist.

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote. — David Foster Wallace

Good article on the Canadian-American tariffs

Ohio State is the national champions. #gobuckeyes.

Why are some flagship bikes a 0, and others a 9? escapecollective.com/trying-to-ma...

One of my favorite movies and books. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Great post on a group ride by Joe Laverick.

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

The West Point Foundry where Civil War Parrott Guns were manufactured and tested. The gun testing platform. @kejamieson.bsky.social

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

This is an exellent piece by @byjustinfox.bsky.social - truly comprehensive and fair www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

Found this plaque on my morning walk in Austin to Ranger legend James Rudder who scaled the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc on D-Day. Rangers Lead the Way!

Netflix right now.