When four Americans died during an exercise in Lithuania, NATO was there for US forces and those soldiers. The country rallied, they surged mental health providers, they worked around the clock to recover the remains. Trump was not. Too busy with something else at his pedo club apparently.

HERE'S A GIANT CHUNK OF THE SCREEN DEVOTED TO EXPLAINING THE AI SUMMARY HERE'S A 250 WORD SUMMARY OF THE CONTENT AND "SENTIMENT ANALYSIS" **scroll, scroll** OH NOW HERE'S A POP UP ABOUT GEMINI INTEGRATION Email text: Thx V/R

This is from the 01 JAN memo on Military Health System optimization, released by an acting OSD(HA) less than a week before the actual appointee was confirmed, listing "domains of change." The language of DoD has become such a meme that "enroll old people" is now a readiness thing.

I've always thought that even more than Hegseth or Waltz, Signalgate exposed Vance bc he was out of sync with the guys who were starting to build real currency with Trump. Before that he was the hip sidekick (Zelenskyy meeting), but after that the only portfolio he's really had is the Kirk bullshit.

Years ago I turned right through an intersection as two Virginia State Police cruisers were turning left through the red and we nearly collided. They pulled me over at midnight on a rainy night with my 8 months pregnant wife in the car and a trooper proceeded to spittle-scream at me /

Real "we're gonna invade the sun, but we'll do it at night so they don't see us coming" vibes.

Name cropped bc not dunking on this, but I don't think the Gaza War strategic blunders were the result of ideologically-driven blindness as much as it was unattainable and contradictory strategic objectives (see also: Ukraine). They were consistently wrong in what they thought was possible.

Kind of weird how totally incomprehensible takes do real numbers on this site. Somebody reposted something I had responded to from a few months ago and I got a bunch of likes on a take so confused and unmoored I couldn't even determine what point I was trying to make.

Is Bluesky Day of Crippling Platform Self-Doubt like a January 5th thing or a first Monday in January thing?

When do you know when it's time to leave? Need some book/article recs.

**Stares nervously skyward** I really feel like the people stepping into this Maduro-sized hole have a Prigozhin level of self preservation.

100% all natural pork bungs

Thom Tillis come get your boy

This is very good, definitely worth a read. A good example of WotR's potential (and no AI image - THANK YOU)!

When everything "boosts readiness" nothing boosts readiness.

This is getting shared a lot bc it's very much insane and very much Trump, but I really think this is complete bs given everything else that's been printed about the raid. There was never commitment to overthrow the entire gov and install an opposition leader. The WH is masking that with stupidity.

It’s all in the details.  🎨     Designed by artist Sophia Yeshi, this year’s Black HistoryCelebration logo is layered with meaning, at once honoring the past and looking towards the future.

Cool shit:

20 years ago when I was running my college's CAP branch, they would've had a background explainer, talking points, suggested campus events, and a list of speakers ready to be invited to campus to speak on the topic for us after something like Venezuela - all by noon the next day.

This is your government with INT 1 and LCK 10.

Always impressed/mystified by the folks who somehow get permission to overfly the mall in a Piper twin

Part of this issue with officers deciding when an order has gone too far (legal/moral/ethical) is that, unlike medical, there's not really a post-service professional network that holds people accountable for the kind of stuff that happened at Bragg. 1/

I'm sorry going what now

"We need Ja Polis! What does the governor of Colorado think?" - Nobody literally ever

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I like how they made Trump take another cognitive test before they let him do a regime change. Rubio probably snuck "Can I knock over Venezuela and capture Maduro?" at the end.

Really like how we're coalescing around the definition of "blob" as "foreign policy stuff I don't like." We slopped blob. Good stuff.

Our adversaries are all the countries with no credible air defense network

Lol whatever, my CAC expires in two weeks I can quit whenever I want

What could Paul Ryan possibly have to say about "Betting on America?"

Whatever this actually means for the content and reporting is a story in itself, but this is a truly terribly written paragraph

Finished my first book of 2026. Definitely would recommend. It's concise but interesting and I liked the broad focus on elements of the air war often overlooked (naval aviation, ground attack, balloons and dirigibles, other fronts like the Balkans).

I put a box of records outside for free and have decided I'm going to take it as a good omen the tween girl who rode her bike over to take the Cat Power and Rolling Stones Let it Bleed albums.

I don't believe I've missed midnight on NYE since I was 13, but I am 100% watching the Chappelle's Show Charlie Murphy sketches and going to bed by 9 tonight.

My mom owned and ran a daycare and preschool for 30 years and the amount of information that's required to be freely available online about owners, teachers, and staff only really works in a trust-based society that the internet and RW trolls have destroyed.

A few of my Top of 2025 I've enjoyed and wanted to share (not all released in 2025, some just new to me): Albums: Jon Batiste - The New Americana Portugal. The Man - Shish Very different albums, but I've been loving both. Strong guitar licks. Top songs are Master Power and Tanana.

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Kind of interesting that the capability is envisioned to be by contract even after the pilot. www.twz.com/news-feature...

MAN TECH. Tech. For Men.

Lol, I'm sure this is gonna be a totally stable, not hilariously nutty gig. Step right up, Heritage is hiring a China Policy Advisor. Really interested in what the "right" interview answers are...

Once a month a bsky user unironically does the Dwight Schrute, "typical American arrogance that got us into a war we never should've been...," down to even leaving the punchline for the end. "The top 3 worst war crimes are Kosovo, Gaza, and the forced scuttling of Graf Spee."

Oh no I could win this whole fantasy league. How do I start sports betting?

This is one of those rare arguments on this website where instead of making an academic argument to a bunch of nodding acolytes, you actually have an opportunity to convince a skeptical targeted audience and start actually Doing Good Things.

The cinematography of some of MoCo's traffic cameras rivals that of our finest police procedurals.

Please help my kid wants to know if Black Santa or "Peach" Santa comes to our house

I am looking in earnest for the first time in 8 years and I can't really speak to how the job market actually is (plenty of friends still out of work or underemployed from early 2025 layoffs), but the job search process is completely dogshit, scam-infested, and extremely frustrating.

If anyone is doing year-end giving, might I suggest: 1️⃣ Trans Lifeline (translifeline.org) 2️⃣ American Indian College Fund (collegefund.org) 3️⃣ Manna Food Bank (www.mannafood.org)

Wanted to share something cool I just rediscovered. Years ago a friend doing a stint on the NSC gifted me a deck of CBRNE playing cards distributed by the CIA (and immediately recalled).