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Injecting it into fruit.

1. Exposing service members to challenging ideas is the intellectual equivalent of the hard PT that the Secretary reveres. Removing those ideas creates weakness by eliminating the kind of cognitive friction that service members need to get used to if they are going to operate effectively.

Every time Russia appears Trump's response is to punch Zelenskyy. Telling, immoral and ignorant. Just like everything else he says.

My first question would be where dis you get that plastic truck stop cowboy hat?

Of course it is only Democrats that disrespect "The Troops". Simple con artists and grifters now own the GOP.

Read this. This is God Damn important.

with govt insiders betting on nuclear war they've got the potential to become a serious threat to the future of humanity tbh

In other words, the short term will be an absolute shit show, and I hope your viewers can appreciate that all their problems are caused by someone else.

Solidarity with @kschake.bsky.social. The US military gains nothing from this systematic banning of scholars. It snacks of fear of facts- another sign that there is a design of ideological indoctrination.

The star of Deuce Bigalow who also was well known as The Copy Guy from SNL taking part in a "riveting discussion on humanity".

(Nixon Voice) Good God.

For those of you wondering why all the nerds are pouring one out for this Habermas dude and wondering why he was so important. If you've ever heard or used the terms "public sphere" and "private sphere," you are using Habermas terms.

Trump claimed yesterday that he doesn’t need Ukraine (spoiler alert: he does), but other countries have requested Ukrainian assistance in building up drone systems, both with offensive and defensive capabilities. The latest requests have come from Japan and Israel.

Portland, South Portland police texted with immigration agent during surge operation in Maine Records obtained by the Press Herald reveal how local officials communicated with a federal officer, including on the surveillance of protesters, when more than 200 arrests were made in late January.

These messages, which only came to light through FOIA requests, are deeply disturbing—and a serious betrayal of public trust.

They include veiled threats toward protesters, crude jokes about "shithole countries,” and quips about “pissing off the libs.”

This is the toxic culture DHS has created.

To put this in language that members of this administration can understand: Pete Hegseth is scared of a girl.

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

Sending LOVE to our friend & hero Jello Biafra, pictured here w/our own Spit Stix. This was taken in SF in April of 2018, @ Orphan Andy's restaurant. Last year, Biafra appeared in the video for our song 'The Maker' (which is on his Alternative Tentacles YouTube channel). @alternativetent.bsky.social

I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.

I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran).
The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.

so cool how he was warmly welcomed at a semafor event two weeks ago

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

Inside the Department of War are two wolves:

"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."

"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

The two DBs who voted Republican

"I ASSUMED the US Military had an active plan to open the Strait." How can people who are paid to understand geopolitics be so bafflingly naive?

Your daily reminder that day drinking hits hard

A man threatened me at my town hall last night. I want to tell you exactly what happened. 🧵

#mepolitics

3.69 in the Burgh today, up from 3.15 on 2 March.

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

This 6-part 🧵is important reading for all Americans who care about their voting rights.
Thank you @jennycohn.bsky.social for all your research and information about the #DangerousSaveAmericaAct

The Strait of Hormuz is perfectly safe...

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.

Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:

Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.

And recognized as such by the US Government.

From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.