Cool excuse, still illegal.

there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18 reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011 all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

In the two years since our previous #Caribbean Firearms Study was released, how has firearm-related violence and trafficking in the region evolved? Find out on 2 December 2025 #pathwaytopolicy @caricom.bsky.social @germany.diplo.de

Just LOL. Government acquisition process needs a complete retool. I get that boats are uniquely hard, but it's indicative of a greater issue. Especially when we watch other agencies roll up and buy 10 of something at a trade show.

MORE: Under questioning by the judge, prosecutor Tyler Lemons said that he’s under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether there is a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey

Comey hearing just ended. Govt admits 2d indictment never shown to full grand jury. Judge concerned. AUSA also admits DAG Blanche’s office told him not to disclose if previous prosecutors prepared a declination memo (saying why there was no case).

#OnThisDay in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address, widely considered one of the greatest speeches in American history. But even today, there are still a few points about the speech that are misunderstood. https://ow.ly/yYB750Xnn7x#OnThisDay

If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.

Why now?

www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/online-exclu... #MilitaryEthics

Uh. Kind of duty and statute bound not to follow illegal orders. Any mil law talking guys what to check this for me?

"The announcement comes five months after Eastern reported it could not complete the OPC contract without taking an “unabsorbable loss,” and as a result the service issued stop work orders on hulls three and four." news.usni.org/2025/11/18/e...

New Battlefield map offers the authentic experience of conducting an ICE raid on an upper class suburb that voted for Harris

Socialism of fools rears its ugly head. A secondary issue is seeing it slip into left wing spaces through Anti AIPAC messaging.

“Does he even Grond*?” *Newest tech startup named after the battering ram that smashed the Great Gate of Minis Tirith; it provides HR consolidation for other defense startups

An important ringing moral condemnation for an approach that would put the military’s judgment above that of their civilian superiors, which creates a different kind of problem.

you would think that a new york times columnist writing regularly about the fact that the vice president pals around with neo-nazis would prompt literally anyone to do some reported work. but nope!

I do have to say, props to prison abolitionists for shifting from "prison abolition requiring going back to lynching is a horrific lie by our enemies" to "lynchings and blood feuds are actually European peasant indigenous ways of knowing."

That’ll show them papists they cackle wistfully thinking back to the 30 years war

A few thoughts about Episode 1 of Ken Burns's new documentary about the American Revolution. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

I want everyone to realize that this is what Ukrainian SOF are wearing as kit. The kind of stuff our gunners dreaded wearing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? Because in LSCO your swimmer cut plate carrier just isn’t enough.

these posts--from the same poster--a leftist!--speak to how the lure of the imagined natural grips even people on the left. but actually what is "natural" to humanity fucking sucks. most of human history is a story of violence, scarcity, and rape from which we have only recently escaped

This is very worth your time. Holly’s disturbing quote is just one of many.

So @50501movement.bsky.social is circulating a video of a guy saying candidates "are being paid to be Israel first, to be loyal to the Zionist project and not to their constituents, not to the American people." Which is just a hairs breadth away from saying "Zionist Occupied Government." Not great!

That doesn’t say Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Glock 19 is Fudd coded.

Sports leagues used to avoid any association with gambling because they recognized it as a threat to their integrity, and the occasional scandal was met with severe penalties. Now they embrace gambling and seem to regard the arrests of players as a regrettable cost of doing business. wapo.st/4r4FLly

I wonder if there’s any appetite for a break down of just what tactical gear the ICE/CBP guys are wearing? Just show an understanding of just how Gucci gear these guys are? Like I’ve seen Crye JPCs, HSGI pouches, AWS inc belts etc.

Diplomatic reality: Japan never needs to call Taiwan a “country” Japan can maintain: • “Taiwan is a region” (外務省の建前) • “Taiwan contingency is a Japan contingency” (安全保障上の現実) Because the legal basis is independent of Taiwan’s statehood.

When I was stationed at Fort Drum I had to draw a weapon when we ran ammo convoys because there was credible intelligence that the local Neo-Nazi compound was talking about hijacking our ammo convoys to start a race war but y’all tell me more about racist southerners.

A potential prelude to military action against Venezuela—even though the FTO designation as such confers no authority to use force. (And this supposed cartel may not even exist.) A regime change campaign in the guise of counterterrorism.

Somehow we’re initiating a regime change war that is more illegal and misguided than Iraq. There is no AUMF, they’re making up a cartel to pin it on. When the airstrikes and SOF raids DON’T work, what comes next?

1) Please stop replying with the refusal to follow unlawful orders thing. I know, and I promise you troops deployed in the Caribbean are not seeing your reply to me on Bluesky. 2) This buildup isn't out of nowhere, this isn't a sudden "distraction." Navy has been amassing forces since August.

Cat sulking cos this sauce is not made from actual gooses.

From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, America’s militarized “supply-reduction” strategy has consistently failed to cut the flow of illegal narcotics to the United States, Liliana Devia and Michael Kenney argue.

Pillar of Autumn? Absolute nonsense but cool sounding. It’s funny that the name of Master Chief’s ship was pretty much the USS Pumpkin Spice.

There’s got to be something about “war simulation” ending up in fantasy nonsense if given enough time. Wargames turned into a 40k functional monopoly. CoD has turned into this nonsense. Tom Clancy’s brand is just toast. War films became Star Wars. Total War: Warhammer?

Can’t you blame people for the reflexively anti-elite politics of our era when these are our elites?

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

Once wasn’t enough. Trump pardons a J6 rioter for a SECOND time. @politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

ICYMI: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fastened the final screw into a new Department of War plaque at the Pentagon's main entrance for visiting VIPs, marking the latest effort to cement a name change that still requires congressional backing.

M7 supporters

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I genuinely think Olivia Nuzzi wrote a book that has zero audience. MAGA folks won’t stand for anyone besmirching their steroid riddled lunatic and anyone with a brain is too grossed out by the idea of her being attracted to said lunatic

You know what they call Nancy? They call her the throat GOAT. That's the greatest of all time. The greatest. Not pelosi, she's not great at anything. But actually I'm the greatest. The greatest there ever was.

It’s wild that Biden doing something no one had the courage to do: get the fuck out of Afghanistan tanked him.