Youngest US soldier killed by Iranian strike was an Eagle Scout who helped homeless youth
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Youngest US soldier killed by Iranian strike was an Eagle Scout who helped homeless youth
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Depends on the store. REI is definitely a niche experience, but to your point just as REI gobbled up the indy outdoors stores, so shall Amazon gobble up REI. Which could result in some rebound of indies, bc there is a demand in certain places for legit outdoors expertise at the counter.
New giant dinosaur incoming. Let’s focus on the important stuff.
Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after AI facial recognition mistakenly linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case
willful destruction of cultural/heritage sites or artifacts is a war crime. When it's conducted as policy, it's a crime against humanity.
Failure to take due care to avoid the destruction of cultural/heritage sites or artifacts is also a war crime or crime against humanity.
They lost a REFUELING TANKER. Gotta be honest, I'm not sure this is a thing that had ever happened in a combat zone before the present administration.
4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute.
Damages awarded: $42 million.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...
Preparing reading questions for my students on James Scott's Seeing Like a State, and it's just full of little delights. Such as:
"Telling a farmer only that he is leasing twenty acres of land is about as helpful as telling a scholar that he has bought six kilograms of books."
I just love for us, and the team, that this delightful WBC is going to be a source of fun memories for the foreseeable future. Just think of the Hudler content alone, just from Vinny and Italia.
You asked, I answered. The first 2026 mailbag is live on Inside the Crown right now! Thanks for all the great #Royals questions!
Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."
The NFL absolutely needs to investigate the Baltimore Ravens for voiding the Maxx Crosby trade.
www.sbnation.com/nfl/1105949/...
A post from Yoni Appelbaum that reads "Albuquerque turned a wall of its airport bookshop over to its local university press, and goddamn, now I want this in every airport." The post includes a photo of a wall of books with a sign that says University of New Mexico Press.
I usually avoid posting things from the other place but I will make an exception because this is so damn cool. @yappelbaum.bsky.social
Calling my shot. The Royals are going to be America’s darlings this year.
"I'm caffeinated. I'm beaned up right now"
Vinnie Pasquantino
Be fair, it wasn't like we learned nothing in twenty years, it was more like we learned nothing in a year twenty times.
When I say officers must write and be published in order to contribute to the profession, I expect editors to screen this type of dumb shit out. Then again, if competent officers were indeed writing and contributing to the profession, this dumb shit would be drowned out by quality articles.
Alas.
Ridiculous - author wants a poll tax to make and hold rank.
If the Italian Americans run out of espresso, yes
It’s a cumulative effect. You hit one tater, you get a shot. Gives you energy. You then use the energy from the first shot to hit a second tater, earning a SECOND shot. More energy. Science.
Mamma mia, there he goes again!
#WorldBaseballClassic
“Missouri State left the Valley? Sacrilege. Wait, they beat Liberty? Carry on.”
“this just proves MJ would average 50 in today’s NBA!” my friend if you dropped Michael Jordan into the 2026 NBA his career would last exactly one day after he found out about FanDuel
That deadly attack on US service members also left "dozens w/ injuries including brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns. At least one may require the amputation of a limb."
More than 30 are hospitalized.
And credit where due: This is a strong story from CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com/news/strike-...
Worth watching "The Bombardment" on Netflix. The tragic story of a Catholic girls school in Copenhagen that was accidentally bombed by British planes attempting to hit the nearby Gestapo HQ in 1945. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4jV...
@michaelhorowitz.bsky.social
With the war in Iran and Iran’s ability to use drones as a cheaper and effective means to inflict shaping and retaliation, I find myself thinking a lot of Horowitz’s elegant adoption-capacity theory on the diffusion of military power and its effects on interstate politics.
