Cute. taskandpurpose.com/news/army-en...

“How do I stay safe?” There is no safe harbor. www.firstalert4.com/2026/01/12/v...

One of my favorite things online is somebody posting a video of DOD rail movements and people who are unaware how we move “stuff” around the country begin putting their conspiracy brains in motion. Twenty years ago it was the right. Today, it’s the left. Still just trains.

I was today’s years old when i learned that Russell Crowe was the runner-up to play J. L. Chamberlain in ‘Gettysburg.’ Man, that would have been a different movie.

You will never be this cool. It’s okay. www.instagram.com/reel/DTjcD_E...

So, is it a bad thing that the new Venezuelan president was identified as a “priority target” by the DEA a decade ago? I mean, if we’re fighting drugs and all…

I can’t beat this drum any harder: show up for your local, county, and state elections. These people have more effect on your daily life than your Congress critters. Look at what you can do.

What the hell is a “heritage American?” The notion that your ancestors’ arrival date conveys clout is something that belongs at a GAR meeting in 1950, not in 2026.

This is where the absence of grownups in the administration is keenly felt (I know). He does not care about the GOP’s future. He could care less if they never win an election after he departs the scene. If I’m a Republican congressman, this has to weigh on me.

At 6’7”, Newton Martin Curtis was among the tallest men to set foot on a CW battlefield. His imposing size wasn’t merely a facade. At the storming of Fort Fisher in Jan 1865, Curtis hurled a pair of spades over the enemy earthworks, yelling, “Dig Johnnie’s! I’m coming for you!”

Proud of my kid. He’s watching an ad for an alternative history game about the invasion of USA in WW2 and he asks out loud, “Where did the Germans get a navy from?”

“Italians were worthless as soldiers in WW2.” How do you explain this guy? It’s an extreme example, but if you think that Italians couldn’t or wouldn’t fight, you are ignorant of crucial contexts concerning the military effectiveness of soldiers and armies.

My town’s theater closed last year. I drove to the next town over to watch a movie with my son two weeks ago. So, Ted doesn’t know people.

In case nobody noticed the other day, work is actually getting done in the House. It does appear somebody’s grip is loosening.

Speaking as someone who grew up in a rural area, lived in a few cities, and chose to return to rural America to bring up my family, I have to laugh. There are virtues and vices to living anywhere, but this kind of broad brush take demonstrates the effect of the politics of division in America.

In normal times (remember those?), any president participating in a round table on rural healthcare would be an occasion for genuine optimism. This is not one of those times.

It is very fitting that he’s one of those Star Trek fans. I bet he weeps iron tears when, after a few mocktails, someone gets him going about Janeway. www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill...

My oldest kid and I are headed up to Springfield on Monday for a day of events at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. We all need a little Lincoln in our lives at the moment.

The army obsessed over whether its soldiers possessed sufficient hatred of the Germans in WW2, concerned that the “soft” children of a liberal democracy could never really acquire the necessary spirit and will needed to match the elan and esprit of the children of totalitarianism. They were wrong.

Our most prolific CW military historian is back with another work examining a neglected topic: combat defaulters. This will no doubt be an important contribution to soldier studies and one students of milhist more generally would do well to read. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640959/

The author of that comment sees himself as “well read,” I bet.

If people are just giving away awards, I’d really like that Student of the Month yard sign I was up for in fifth grade. I was robbed of the honor.

“We are bringing Stars & Stripes into the 21st century. We will modernize its operations, refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon [sic] morale, and adapt it to serve a new generation of service members.” Each issue will now feature a photo spread of Pete in PT shorts.

You will never find a more easily discouraged, eternally defeated and embittered crew than the posters on a ST subreddit who hate everything about the franchise since DS9. SNW is an “atrocity” btw. And I won’t share their thoughts on Discovery. Not family-friendly.

Thanks to my asshole congressman, SCOTUS has now made it possible for sore losers to sue when they fairly lose elections. The irony is that Mike Bost is in a safe seat in a district so red a can of paint with “Republican” written on it could win.

Imagine if this was 2010 and these were Tea Party protesters banging on the doors of congressional offices.

Mississippi. I’ll also claim the Meramec, Castor, and Current rivers.

@hoosierhomer.bsky.social I watched this. At first I thought it would be a German ‘Fury.’ It’s not. I’d almost call it a horror movie set on the eastern front. screenrant.com/prime-video-...

Dems doing well (again) this Tuesday. Another reminder that the electeds who have the biggest impacts on a person’s daily life are their local and state officials.

It’s not exactly a pleasure, but lowering the block hammer on irrational folks who somehow believe that Dems had a mechanism to prevent the furtherance of ICE raids during the shutdown, and are therefore responsible for Good’s death, is the kind of TL cleanse I could use more of.

@hoosierhomer.bsky.social This looks very interesting. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638734/

The funny thing about “one hit wonders” is that they have other content, some of it quite good. loudwire.com/1980s-rock-b...

No contest.

Yes, the folks running Congress are disingenuous ass clowns, but if Jack Smith could show up and make them look like fools, the Clintons could too. This is bullshit.

You have half a dozen guys who all seem to be on different pages of the script. That won’t confuse and frighten the citizen at all.

It’s all over but the crying. See ya, Arenado. I wish things had gone better for everyone. #STLCards

He thinks “asylum” means mental institutions. Change my mind.

In case anyone needed to know what a Harvard MBA gets you these days.

When the sentiment is laudable but the historical comparison is dead wrong. I can’t help it. It makes me cringe.

This photo. Troopers of U.S. 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts) trots past an M3 Stuart of the 192nd Tank Battalion during the withdrawal to Bataan. The 26th Cavalry executed the last U.S. horse cavalry charge on January 16, 1942.

The reanimated corpse of Toby Keith sings a medley of David Allan Coe songs with Kid Rock?

I’m happy for Lindsey Graham. He’s had to go along with all this neo-isolationism for eight years now, and suddenly we’re talking about another war (or two) and he’s as giddy as a school boy.

Republicans control both houses of Congress. Schumer and Jeffries are leaders of the party in minority. Neville Chamberlain was the prime minister of Great Britain. He led the British government. The mechanisms available to Dem leadership are limited to floor speeches and introducing legislation.

I was not a big Dead fan, but the musicianship in that band was phenomenal. More importantly, they always seemed like a group of guys who genuinely loved the community they built through their music and were deeply loved in turn by the fans.

If Trump thought any of this shit would really float, he’d be out front. He’s not. He’ll let J. D. and Kristi fall for it. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbies-...

My small Illinois town has had a wonderful day long anti-ICE demonstration in downtown. Of course a redneck driving a beat up Harley drove circles around them, flying an oversized Trump flag, cussing at..nuns.

Slightly diminish a band. Jolly Crue

I recall a much neglected FBI report from over two decades ago warning about the infiltration by white nationalists and anti-government types of law enforcement. Nobody wanted to touch it.

Interesting turnaround on WW1. There was fairly broad consensus in the years after 1918 that our involvement had been a mistake.

Pipes made a comeback in the 80’s. I remember my grade school principal walking the halls with his unlit pipe. Not entirely sure what started that.