Nothing against this feller, but more troops was never going to win Afghanistan. the same story every year was more troops just brought more contact. Which always meant more civilians cas. They hated us, because we brought the war with us. They always hated us least when we weren't present.

For record, it is very possible that Flynn was a top-10% MI officer in the Army. For the MI officers out there - that's an insult. I'm insulting you and your kind.

Because she reported the truth.

The American officer corps not reconciling with how a guy like Flynn could reach the highest levels of American military intelligence is part of the reason we’re in this mess

💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B 💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M. 💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M. 💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.

Glonzo is canonically real in King of Tokyo

Holy shit

The Malthusian warp stone economy and constrained resources of the underworld make a cycle of booms and busts inevitable.

We used to be a proper country

Russia’s poor performance in Ukraine has likely been caused by several factors: 🪖Reliance on dismounted infantry and mechanized forces 🚀Failure to coordinate operational fires 🛡️Ukraine’s effective utilization of defense in depth Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/rus...

skaven karl marx convinced that the forces of historical materialism will make it so rat society will soon move on from slave economy to feudal serfdom

And that’s part of the problem a lot of people assume Black thinkers are simply acting out of revenge and hatred against white people rather than examining and exploring the dynamics within their communities and larger context.

extremely post-Brexit UK coded

I spoke to her attorney yesterday; she is still in the country as far as they know bsky.app/profile/aila...

This is very bad.

They’re taking the hobbits to fucking Isengard

The bloody ghost of my ancestor Lt. John Bacon, shot dead by a redcoat musket during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19th, 1775, appeared at the side of my bed last night and said anyone can be American as long as they aren’t English

Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too. www.wired.com/story/us-tra...

I'm begging for feminists to add an ounce of goblin mode to their politics.

The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities. Lawfare's Domestic Deployments tracker and map, updated by Loren Voss, shows we know—and don’t know—about certain domestic military deployments.

If ICE can threaten arrest for filming, then journalists, watchdogs, and protesters can all be silenced the same way. You don’t have freedom of the press if recording police is treated as terrorism.  #holdfast www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

BRAZIL is a Christmas movie

This one is also good.

Happy Crisis

This is disgraceful. You don't abandon your allies. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

Someone’s enjoying Klaus for the first time

the people who make "war" and "violence" the center of their everything assume that their focus on such things makes them more wise, more grounded, and inherently superior at it than those who pursue other fields but endlessly repeating "we are good at a thing" does not in fact make you good at it

thomas chatterton williams, whose main literary output is three memoirs of declining quality, and who has written the same essay ad nauseam for 10 years, nonetheless has a sinecure at the atlantic, a teaching job at an elite college, and a nice handful of prestigious fellowships

“Joshua, a former world number one and highly-decorated boxer, reduced Paul to a bloody pulp over six rounds, eventually breaking Paul’s jaw and drawing a knockout victory. Many people of my general political disposition took to social media to gleefully share images of Paul”

DOGE was bad, but it did show us one thing: we can arbitrarily just kill all these contracts immediately on taking power.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Worth answering on main: infantry depth is primarily psychological and only secondarily about replacing losses or changing out ranks. But that psychological factor is so important that functionally all contact infantry fight with depth and usually quite a lot of it (4 to 10 ranks being normal).

lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time

and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, nor can he be said to still live, not until such time as his box is opened and the quantum entanglement is resolved

My quick and dirty thoughts on Trump's short-sighted, stupid, and self-defeating ban on foreign made drones. Banning foreign drones won't make us safer. Instead, it'll encourage people to build their own drones - which are way harder to track and to control.

kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass

The full quote is “I’m forcibly selling my $30M house because I’m 500k in the hole”

Oh shit

An ode to James Ranson, who, in just seven episodes, churned out one of the most relatable on-screen depictions of life as a junior enlisted Marine www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...

1/ The concern many European leaders are reacting to is that the Trump administration’s articulated logic increasingly mirrors the rationale Russia has invoked to coerce Ukraine—claiming security necessity, questioning a neighbor’s legitimacy, and treating sovereignty as conditional,

a) this is pathetic regime shit from CBS. b) this is genuinely his dream, he would so much rather be a TV host than president.

the cybertruck of naval vessels, crewed by only the most divorced sailors in the fleet

“Working toward the Fuhrer” is a well established principle in authoritarian systems

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.