More appropriate than not. Bill Mauldin's "Willie and Joe" fight WWIII, in a feature that ran in Colliers. mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2019/12/from...

The irony of using Sky Cards to check the airspace over conflict zones is not lost to me

Blumenthal: "I have emerged from classified briefings deeply concerned and very fearful that we're on the precipice not only of an escalating conflict that in region, but also putting troops on the ground b/c that is almost inevitably the path the admin has chosen by its current tactical approach"

News item. Al Stewart, "Nostradamus": Oh, the more it changes, the more it stays the same, And the hand just rearranges the players in the game.

Via a friend in the know: gpsjam.org A free site with data from airline pilots showing where GPS jamming (a good sign of other types of electronic warfare as well) is occurring in semi-real time.

As someone who, until quite recently, followed national security issues for my day job, I’ve found it hard not to stay plugged into what’s going on. With that said, everyone should remember to take a step back and not fall into the abyss of doomscrolling. Be aware/involved but self care first.

Two days into the war: - three F-15s shot down - U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames - six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded - State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East

Making Americans Unsafe Again

"We have a question submitted online...A Mr. Carl von C, from Germany and/or Poland would like to know specifically what you mean by 'win'"

L’ILE LONGUE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron announces France will increase its number of nuclear warheads for 1st time in decades.

NEW: a round up of some of the overhead imagery we’ve had of Iran (and what it tells us). Satellite images provide view inside Iran at war www.npr.org/2026/03/01/n...

ALL THAT JAZZ (1979) — 10:45 pm ET — 2h 3m (31 Days of Oscar: Oscar Goes Dancing) Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking; directed by Bob Fosse Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer. #TCM #TCMParty

Eh. Again, ~90% of the reason it's all politics all the time is <gestures at the daily onslaught of lawless authoritarianism>. This is not a Bluesky problem. It's a society/polity problem. We will all go back to sh*tposting about TV, cocktails, sports, music, food, & puppies in the after-times.

the CAF has a nice diagram of how LOAC works:

> @jimlaporta.bsky.social

The Defense Department teased the name "Operation Epic Fury" to describe U.S. and Israeli airstrikes against Iran.

12 ANGRY MEN (1957) — 8:00 pm ET — 1h 35m (31 Days of Oscar: Oscar Goes to Court) Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall; directed by Sidney Lumet A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty. #TCM #TCMParty

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library.” — Carl Sagan

“The constant bombardment. Democracy’s dilemma : to learn how to choose.” Survey Graphic. October 1939. Wilfrid Jones, illus. archive.org/details/surv...

In our forthcoming issue, @nuclear-jim.bsky.social reviews the collection "Counterforce in Contemporary U.S. Nuclear Strategy." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The youth 😍 Fugazi - Waiting Room - Cleveland School of Rock #punkrock #hardcore #posthardcore #fugazi #waitingroom #punkrockhistory

“The Thing Expanded would simply not have been complete without the participation of Kurt Russell. He and the Carpenter film are a Thing-like amalgam—a package deal that goes all the way down to a molecular level.” I loved Aliens Expanded, so I'll happily watch a 5-hour documentary on The Thing. 😁

#ComingUpOnTCM THE DEER HUNTER (1978) Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale Dir.: Michael Cimino 8:00 PM PT Three small-town buddies are traumatized by their experience in Vietnam. 3h 3m | War Biopic | TV-MA #TCM #TCMParty

Now it can (again) be told: We had a tagline for DART: “66 million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. In 2022, Earth strikes back”. Everybody loved it except some (1-whimsical) NASA folks, so it was never officially adopted. It did sneak into some things, though…

About ten minutes later, a second EAM crackled over the loudspeaker. Once decoded, it ordered them to a lower (though still high) level of readiness. By midnight, things were back to normal. The next day, Lanning and Weber returned to base to find out what had happened. This is what they learned:

In a Story Corps segment broadcast on @npr.org’s Morning Edition earlier today, former USAF Lt. Col. Randall Lanning vividly recalled the time in 1974 his Launch Control Center unexpectedly received a valid Emergency Action Message to prepare to launch the 10 Minuteman II ICBMs under its control.

This is me

Coming up on #KTLA: We already pay more in interest for the national debt than we do for national security. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the situation will soon get much, much worse, causing interest rates to soar for virtually all loans

SAHARA (1943) — 2:00 pm ET — 1h 37m (31 Days of Oscar: Oscar Goes to the Desert) Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish; directed by Zoltan Korda An international platoon fights off Nazis in World War II Africa. #TCM #TCMParty

#ComingUpOnTCM THE WIND AND THE LION (1975) Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston Dir.: John Milius 5:30 AM PT A Berber chieftain kidnaps an American widow and her child, incurring the wrath of Theodore Roosevelt. 1h 59m | Adventure | TV-MA #TCM #TCMParty

“Bring me my Yater Spoon, the 8’6”…”

The Olympic Team Pursuit event has some fun physics(?) stuff going on there. The physical contact of the other skaters give a 30% boost to the front skater?!

Outstanding reads on Soviet & Russian nuclear weapons oopsies and false alarms #Nukesky 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Luge team relay is crazy! Exciting stuff!

Man, the hype train for a certain “new” band is crazy. At first I’m like Principal Skinner asking if I’m out of touch but the nieces and nephews are like no, it’s totally a thing

I rolled a one on making the coffee this morning regardless of my skill level

We are curling fans in this house

Muskegon Chronicle January 25,1918

Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

My wife and I are Olympics nerds and will be mainlining this for the next two weeks

Today in 1958, an F-86L interceptor collided with a B-47 bomber on a simulated nuclear attack run, severely damaging both aircraft. To land safely at Hunter AFB, Georgia, B-47 pilot Major Howard Richardson jettisoned a 3.4-Megaton Mark-15 thermonuclear bomb into Wassaw Sound. It was never recovered.

WESTWORLD (1973) — 6:15 pm ET — 1h 31m (TCM Daytime: Western Wednesdays) Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Yul Brynner; directed by Michael Crichton A future fantasy park turns deadly when robot workers go on a killing spree. #TCM #TCMParty

Turning on the a/c in February is just wrong. #climatechangeisreal

The last remaining nuclear arms pact between Russia and the United States is set to expire Thursday, removing any caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century. https://to.pbs.org/4khD5xK

Listen to the poets.

Officials at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas, are working to contain a further spread of measles after two infections were reported this weekend.

#ComingUpOnTCM RABBIT Of SEVILLE (1950) Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan Dir.: Chuck Jones 5:10 PM PT Bugs gives Elmer a close shave as they sing and act out Rossini's opera. 7m | Animated Short | TV-G #TCM #TCMParty