Bros being bros. ❤️

The USA has officially banned ALL new device models of "UAS and UAS critical component parts that are produced in foreign countries" as of today. Which means this ban extends beyond just DJI. This will devastate the currently-thriving drone data services market. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

My crew. ❤️

No, you can’t do that, airhead. It’s not within your authority and it violates several laws.

“Russell Brand Is Charged With Additional Counts of Rape and Sexual Assault” Not every MAGA member is a sex pest, but lord, do sex pests gravitate to MAGA www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/a...

The Party of National Security in 2 headlines

What if we built a Cybertruck for the water?

Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down

With recent events drawing attention to #ISIS, combating the resurgence of the group in #Syria is now more urgent than ever. Reupping this piece from Colin Clarke and me for Foreign Affairs, addressing ISIS’ evolution in post-#Assad Syria.

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

The iconic Billy Ripken “Fuck face” card. IYKYK

There is an entire English language available to describe Pete Hegseth’s tenure at the Pentagon - celebrating massacres like Wounded Knee, honoring Secession, purging women & black officers, military threats to NATO allies, extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean and Pacific - yet Ben Smith says:

CBS is cooked. It's been a few decades coming but we are witnessing the death of American journalism. Nothing good follows in the aftermath of that.

Today’s sunrise 🌅

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“”LLMs allow me to find research for the first time!” My brother in Christ, have you ever heard of a library?

It all makes sense if you’ve read Charles Mills. These folks desire a racial caste system. They will meet the advancements of any group of people they deem as unworthy with animosity and vitriol in an attempt to regain what the dominant group believes it has lost.

The group who has spent a lifetime decrying identity politics sure likes clinging to this Heritage American™️ bullshit.

New read.

A British colleague commenting on the US and UK selling arms to KSA to bomb civilians in Yemen: “Is the law a standard to be met or a game to be played?” Been on my mind the last year or so.

The sign welcoming folks to the “Free State of Florida” is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen. I want some sunshine™️ Florida: How about a broken insurance market and a case of the measles? Because, you know, freedom or something.

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This is like a balm for the soul

Sunrise

*At in-laws Walked in the family room last night to see Jesse Waters at AmFest. Fortunately, FIL quickly turned it off! 😂

Made it. View from the lanai towards the Gulf.

700 miles along I-95 yesterday. Every time we stopped for gas my son and I conducted 5-25-100s. Swerved under every overpass; built 3 schools and dug a well. Waited 8 hours for EOD to show up. Had a real counterinsurgency feel, like RTE IRISH during the surge!

Another Army spouse, me, said: “Fuck you, it’s illegal”.

If this is true, I know a lot of folks think the U.S. won’t fight just because the current POTUS wouldn’t want to and boy is that take really, really wrong.

That giant asteroid can’t get here soon enough!

Called it. Going to the car now (7:17), which means I’ll wait another 15 minutes. 😂

Wife has been doing Pilates for a month now. She won a plank contest (and a pair of Ray Bans) in class yesterday. While I’m proud of her, I know what must be done!

Hitting the road tomorrow. 2/3 are packed. Will we make our NLT 6am departure? NO What time will we leave? No one knows!!!

A photo of David Brooks palling around with Epstein in the latest Epstein files drop three weeks after he wrote a column chiding America for caring about the Epstein story is some serious Rafael Palmeiro shit.

My cousin’s boyfriend’s sister who dates a guy who knows a guy whose 3rd cousin would’ve enlisted but would’ve punched a Drill Sergeant told me that this is the start of mArsHaLL LaW!

oh good, more appropriations by executive fiat

Generative AI platforms are bullshit machines based on stolen intellectual property. Why are *any* of you still using then for anything significant?

Today’s walk.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

"The Sarin in artillery shells that debilitated Iraqi veterans is not a WMD but the fentanyl used legally in US hospitals is a WMD" is, forgive the pun, a helluva drug.

My backyard this morning.

If we cared about the “insider threat” still, Dort’s spiral would check off quite a few of the indicators.

We need to stop the flow of fentanyl from Venezuela, which is why I am demanding they give us their oil and land RIGHT NOW, and if they don't do it, we're gonna designate them TERRORISTS

Dort w/another banger showing he doesn’t care about the Constitution or understand the use of force in a democratic society. WTF is “regular war?”

After all, the best way to share classified information is on a group chat with random journalists.

Showed a slide to my CGSC students depicting American use of force since Spanish-American War, which made US a Pacific power. FAR majority are stability operations or limited wars. Of note, this does not include threat of force to deter. www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...