I'm more than a little miffed that decisions were made to sully the F-15s impeccable record. Don't get me wrong I'm more worried about the crew and the recovery crews. But this really didn't need to happen.

With some trepidation, I've signed a contract to write a short Cambridge Elements (under 30K words) volume on Professional Military Ethics (part of the Elements in Philosophy of War and Peace series). I'm grateful to Graham Parsons to asking and for embracing my vision for how this volume needs

Come on jolly green. Be the professionals we all know you are.

Wild* that you can go as hard in the paint for someone as Karoline Leavitt or Pam Bondi and get tossed aside for "being bad at your job" of making lies, truth. *Not wild at all given a track record and an ounce of self preservation.

Lol. Based.

I’ve heard folks say that Muslims shouldn’t: - be allowed to serve in the military - be citizens - be permitted to run for office - allowed to worship freely Me: Too bad that pesky Constitution you promote w/religious zeal and swore an oath to numerous times protects those rights

Then why is it in my fucking work email?

As opposed to all the vaccine deniers that got reinstated? As opposed to the Active duty/ National Guard/Reserve folks at J6? As opposed to the convicted war criminals who got pardons? This ain't new. Good order and discipline has a hell of a road to recovery.

These pilots will get hand-selected for promotion. www.nbcnews.com/news/militar...

My favorite image on this day of trans visibility is more of general "don't be a dick" focus. But I haven't found a solely trans focused one that I like as much yet.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

This is either brilliant or scary: Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA. BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!

At war without a declaration or AUMF. Paying a department of the government currently not funded. Actively deporting US citizens. As we destroy fishing boats in the Caribbean. What does Article 1 of the Constitution do again?

Making America fight capitalism generally and the energy market specifically using the trappings of a democracy is actually pretty funny.

Apparently some senators remember their job.

Hey so just so everyone’s tracking, this is not the same school from before. This is a new, different school bombing.

#OnObedience #Profession (a huge reason I think the Profession is on life support)

PizzaINT = OUT StripperINT = IN

@puckthepilot.bsky.social you'll get a kick out of this.

The thing with aircraft is that LEGALLY as long as the data plate survives with the serial number. You can ship of thesus any aircraft back together. Made even more true when the AF has hulls in the boneyard. And it's a flex for the manufacturing we DO still have that it'll fly again.

Insurgency is when you fire off sophisticated ballistic missiles but Islamically

Seeing the bursts of artistic creativity in protests is probably my favorite part of them. Don't get me wrong. The organizers are amazing, the volunteers ensuring it's safe, there's water, and no one is acting up are rock stars. But In a world of AI slop "Not Today SprayTan" slaps.

Or... You know. They have a strategic goal. And have aligned their efforts towards that goal. Using operations that have historically been effective against the US and tactics they have developed for decades. I feel like we have a few manuals about this.

Nobody mention the crusades to him.

The largest protests in American history, & 👇 & 👆 It’s not subtle. I’ll give you that.

"in my experience."

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

... Does this mean I get a third NDSM?

Stop hitting me up about the "near miss" it wasn't. "According to FlightRadar24, the aircraft were 525 feet apart vertically and 1,422 feet laterally at their closest point." Anything under 1000 is gonna get investigated. But 500 feet is a normal flying altitude for a helo from the ground.

Too many syllables for the audience. They couldn't follow the thread.

The thing is they aren't shut down. They are still operating without finding. They are diving into couch cushions and functionally expecting employees to fund government operations on personal credit. Till there's a disaster. And credit won't cover.

Article 88 needs a threshold waiver.

Hope y'all are ready to see what private security contractors at airports look like. Because no way you can expect a TSA agent to float months of work with no pay in urban areas.

With Senate Dems voting for the DHS funding deal and House Dems prepared to vote for it today until it was killed by House Republicans, there is no longer even the slightest debate about who owns this shutdown. Republicans are blocking funding. They own it 1,000%.

Hard doubt. Even if we left tomorrow Iran has zero incentive to go back to pre bombing posture. Israel still wants them gone. Russia still wants them around. They still have proxies in Yemen and Lebanon. We hit the bees nest. They aren't going back to sleep.

There is an element of truth in the cartoon that makes the situation truly pathetic. Our sons and daughters are the cannon fodder for the sons and daughters of the oligarchs!

Well that's not great. Seems like all our destruction and claims of total annihilation and decimation (pedants will note, two very different claims) are both incorrect.

If this goes through then, truly, what does Article 1 of the Constitution do?

Let's count the straits that are closed.

It would be nice if anywhere in the eight paragraphs of this story the WP mentioned that this is illegal and not how things work. The president can’t “sidestep” Congress on funding and payments.

war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf

I hate how much the "Lions Led by Donkeys" podcast, who's namesake phrase I was unaware of until I heard the podcast, applies to armed conflict.

Continuing with the theme of OPSEC being "clean".

This is not, like, tremendously important, but it is funny

ICE: Dejected DOGE Division

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…