Old Soldier

I used to work with a bunch of rugby boys. Crazy mofos but there was always booze close to hand, so there’s that.

The AUSA has resigned.

Has anyone involved in bombing the girls' school faced any discipline or been temporarily stood down from selecting targets?

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Always the obsession with young girls. These people have problems.

VANDYKE, Circuit Judge, dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc: This is a case about swinging dicks. The Christian owners of Olympus Spa— a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa—understandably don’t want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don’t want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit. You may think that swinging dicks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS You’re not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa— some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing. Sometimes, it feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds. Woke regulators and complicit judges seem entirely willing, even eager, to ignore the consequences that their Frankenstein social experiments impose on real women and young girls. Yet if harmful and unfortunate consequences were all this case was about, we’d have to shrug and say: “That’s what comes with living in a democracy.” Unless the Constitution is implicated, we get what we voted for “good and hard.”1

"This case is about swinging dicks." So begins unqualified Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke's latest unhinged dissent in a case about a traditional "women only" Korean spa's refusal to admit preoperative transgender women.

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h/t @andriskowalski.bsky.social

“We are better than this.”

Apparently not.

Excerpt from the 1910 Census, listing my great-great grandfather as a Railroad Laborer

Yay, trains!

@peterorlowicz.bsky.social

That’s cool. My granddad was listed in 1920 as a ranch hand. Simpler times…

This Trump Judicial Nominee Has a Pretty Alarming Twitter History Rarely has an aspiring Trump judge auditioned this publicly, or with this many hashtags.

Look, you can even set aside the substance if you want, no one who thinks Jim Halpert memes about Critical Race Theory are funny is qualified to be a federal judge

Like I always say…

If I were more conspiracy-minded I would point out just how useful the idea that a country isn’t a democracy, and elections don’t matter so why even bother, would be to an incipient fascist movement.

Media wants us to feel sorry for Israeli soldiers who committed genocide and killed 20 people a day.

Not for the Palestinians who suffered genocide
Not for the Iranian families who lost 170 children
Not for the tens of thousands of orphans in Gaza

Nah—I hope they enjoy their self made hell.

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

100000%

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We need more Democrats willing to talk about moral rot.

Ossoff is good on this stuff

They traveled 13 km before reaching Ukrainian defenders on the outskirts of Kostiantynivka. Russian drones circled overhead, and the road they followed was strewn with the bodies of people who had also tried to escape but never made it.

70-year-old Pani Natalia evacuated her husband from the kill zone in a wheelchair.

Video by Vadym Heiko.

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🤫 Unconfirmed rumors of paper shredders working overtime in some Orbán government-funded GONGOs, as well as mid-tier bureaucrats of state institutions stocking up on compromising material (on their own bosses) to help save their jobs in case of a government change

Yes, the same as it was with Trump 🤷‍♀️

🇩🇪👀 International Paralympic Committee investigates protest by German athletes who ignored Russian anthem during awards ceremony, — Athletic

Silver medalist from Germany and her companion turned their backs on the winner during Russian anthem and stood aside while taking photos on the podium.

ZELENSKYY: Yes. Because “peace” is just words from Putin. Who can trust him?

ZELENSKYY: If our soldiers voluntarily withdraw from Donbas, they’ll lose friends, homes, relatives, and memories there. The morale of the entire army and nation would collapse instantly.

POLITICO: Even if you get peace in return?

AI-generated image of weeping people looking at their mobile phones in front of St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow

1/ In recent weeks, an entire genre has sprung up on Telegram of Russian bloggers suddenly realising that they live in a repressive dictatorship. They complain bitterly that they were "fools", they are being "enslaved", and forced to endure a "cultural counter-revolution". ⬇️

Fire Point CEO Shtilerman added the Flamingo requires no military launch vehicles. Standard civilian trucks are used, ready to fire in 15 minutes. Strikes must target Moscow's decision-making centers and the Rublyovka elite district, not border regions, he said. #Ukraine

Lost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraft Center 795, which emerged after the start of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine and comprises elite units from the GRU and FSB, was established as a top-secret and fully autonomous entity designed to ...

Lost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraft

@christogrozev.bsky.social, @dobrokhotov.bsky.social and @michaeldweiss.bsky.social detail how hubris and Google Translate exposed Russia's most secretive assassination unit, Center 795.

'Self-defense' — Russia blames UK for Storm Shadow attack, London refuses to bend Officials in the U.K. dismissed accusations from Russia that London was responsible for what Moscow described as a "terrorist attack" after Ukraine struck a military-linked plant in Russia's Bryansk r...

⚡️ Russia summons UK, French ambassadors after Storm Shadow strike on military-linked plant.

Moscow demands a response and "unequivocal" condemnation of the attack.

Ukraine’s SBU thwarted a Russian attempt to assassinate the commander of Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps, Andriy Biletsky. A Ukrainian serviceman recruited by Russian intelligence was detained for trying to gather information to guide a missile-bomb strike on the general’s location.

The man planned to leak the locations of his brigade’s headquarters and training centre. He was reportedly recruited through his ex-wife in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia and now faces life imprisonment for treason.

Russian agent plotting strike on 3rd Army Corps commander detained, SBU says The Security Service of Ukraine said it detained a serviceman recruited by Russian intelligence to help organize strikes targeting 3rd Army Corps commander Andrii Biletskyi and his unit's positions.

A Russian agent who helped Moscow attempt to organize "a missile and bomb attack" in the combat zone targeting Andrii Biletskyi, commander of the 3rd Army Corps, was detained, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported on March 13.