The more I think about this battleship the more I think it’s a shiny distraction to keep attention away from the LSM and the frigate, both of which can be built in the near term. Some of these weapons don’t exist yet except on paper. No ship ever built could power all of these.

Feel like I watched James Ransone grow up onscreen. If not familiar with HBO's exemplary GENERATION KILL about Iraq invadion, it might be my favorite role of his. Going toe to toe with Alexander Skarsgard, Ransone was a live wire combination of hilarious & harrowing. RIP James, brother. #filmsky 📽

“We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story.”

Of GREAT INTEREST Unconfirmed reports from Russian social media, a Russian vessel attacked in Mediterrean and a high-ranking official of a security service was killed. Don't want to spewculate publicly at this stage Awaiting more information

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

The head of the NTSB is voicing strong opposition to provisions in the defense policy bill. The NTSB says the House bill would undermine safety improvements made after the mid-air collision near DCA. n.pr/48NP298

If Section 230 is the bandage keeping algorithmic social media’s rotten boil from leaking on the lace, then rip it off and call for a scalpel

Let's walk through all the variations of IGN Game Awards 2025 Flute Guy Flute #1: The Clarinot. He might have stuck a duck call on the end of a regular flute here.

Zelensky stood 1.3 km from Russian positions and 500 meters from the gray zone during his Kupyansk visit, DeepState map shows.

Let's walk through all the variations of IGN Game Awards 2025 Flute Guy Flute #1: The Clarinot. He might have stuck a duck call on the end of a regular flute here.

Do I show up at your job and complain that the goods and services have prices?

Serious question: Why does the Space Force flag in the Oval Office get military campaign streamers from actions in the 1980s?

This week's Oklahoma education notebook includes items on charter school applications, CareerTech enrollments, state Board of Education meeting dates, Mid-Del Schools and Oklahoma 529 #oklaed www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...

Returning these kids sounds like a pretty good job for the U.S. Special Forces in case they’re looking for something to do

The On Cinema Season 16 finale is tomorrow! Catch up on the whole Season now on HEI 🍿 www.heinetwork.tv/on-cinema-at...

Metallica Neutral Milk Hotel Insane Clown Posse The Judds Dr. John

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

far too many media orgs have been slow to learn that in the age of social media the headline IS the story

and on your left is the U.S. Air Force

lol they were already 18-1

🧵 Oklahoma’s $2 billion tobacco settlement trust just escalated its anti-ESG push — putting five asset managers on notice for not aligning with “Oklahoma values” in shareholder votes. 1/

there are way too many X screenshots posted here, all of which are ragebait

During the November 14 drone strike on Kyiv, 73-year-old Nataliya Khodemchuk was killed. She was the widow of Valery Khodemchuk, the first victim of the Chernobyl disaster. A Russian Shahed drone hit her building, leaving her with severe burns. She died the next morning in hospital.

This one’s for the softball fans out there

Records reveal the Oklahoma State Department of Education never launched any school investigations, underscoring a tenure marked by spectacle rather than action.

Some buffs may have noticed a particular clue in last weekend's New York Magazine crossword...

“War is no pastime; it is no mere joy in daring and winning, no place for irresponsible enthusiasts. It is a serious means to a serious end” - a certain Prussian a while ago

Jordan Baker found his life's work 20 years ago when he went to a baseball umpire school. Last weekend, he worked behind the plate during Game 7 of the World Series. Quite a ride for the Enid native and the Shawnee resident. www.oklahoman.com/story/sports...

Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX-1) a floating, self-propelled, mobile active electronically scanned array early-warning radar station coming into Pearl Harbor under tow - November 7, 2025 SRC: TW-@DRgoldstein9

The danger in watching this is you'll now be disappointed every time you rewatch it and this isn't the ending

Happy anniversary to the 2011 Oklahoma earthquake that caught everyone by surprise including Kirk Herbstreit

If this is being annoying, then okay. I'm saying this, too. Our small local metro news publication, @freepressokc.bsky.social , gets out to be there and cover a story. Then, later we see whole stories or photos scraped and shared by automated scrapers. Support the originators of the news.

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if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

This has been an incredible series to watch, unless you're a fan of either of these teams, in which case I suspect you aren't having very much fun at all.

Recent GPS interference near Venezuela and Trinidad, per GPSJAM, as noticed by a Bellingcat workshop participant. I believe this is a recent development for the area. CC @lemonodor.bsky.social

Visual representation of a blue jay call taken with the Merlin app this morning

🧐 https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state-of-local-news/2025/report/

every sports team is a Ship of Theseus

Going to record a podcast episode in a few minutes. Plan to declare it all “off the record” at the end.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

I should have clipped my fingernails this morning before I stuck my thumb in a viral video

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

Turned in the badge today. My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues. Danlamothe.30

happy birthday Paul Simon

“Little upgrade”