Agreed, at some point it is still time to quit loudly. Maybe especially so if not consulted and clear you can’t be effective advocate.
It’s not just the one thing but cumulative acts that harm your airmen, sailors, soldiers, marines. Not seeing our leaders show any strength of character.

Just more proof that Caine and whole crop of GOs have backbones made of gummy worms.

Health readiness is woke, apparently

Flu is a readiness and lethality issue wtf are we even doing?

This stuff is soft as baby shit. "The warfighter must never be inconvenienced or so something scary like get a shot," is loser shit.

True. And if solo. Have connection you need to make. Etc.

I’ve missed one flight in my life and it was with family during PCS.
Next flight only had 2 seats and follow on flight wasn’t until next day. It cost no $ but stress and cold sleep in an airport with a toddler.

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Love that we have to do Kremlinology for factions in the Pentagon.

“Waiting on VP JD Vance’s negotiations in Pakistan to see if Iran will reopen the strait or we’ll need to kill Ayatollah Khamanei Jr” sounds like shitty IR fiction, until now

The Film That Explains Contemporary America The Sorrow and the Pity has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it.

A four-hour documentary from 1969 about life in Nazi-occupied France chronicles the way that many ordinary citizens simply lived their lives as if nothing had changed, @dgraham.bsky.social writes. "The Sorrow and the Pity" is more relevant than ever:

Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears The president’s impulsive style has never been tested in a sustained military conflict, and he’s been ruminating on Jimmy Carter’s failure in Iran.

Astonishing WSJ piece documenting the entirely broken national security policy process of this admin, incl how decision to attack Iran was made; that Trump is kept out of the room and loop during sensitive mil ops for fears he will wreck them; to those 25th Amendment social media posts over Easter.

If anything, this moment should lead us to shed indefinite, sanctimonious terms like “The West” or “Global South”, to stop assuming solidarity or collective action or culture, and speak with precision.

If there ever was “The West”, the current government of the United States is not any part of it.

a man with a beard is smiling and says do it ALT: a man with a beard is smiling and says do it

Do it, full mask off on the demented narcissism

Now they're just writing Torment Nexus fan-fiction as justification for building it.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Cultural chauvinism isn't the opposite of moral relativism - and it presages some really dark stuff.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

John Roberts is and always has been Sam Alito with better PR

he has declared himself and his fellow republican justices the unelected rulers of America and they have wielded their power in favor of making Donald Trump of all people untouchable

the court as it exists today must be broken

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet, using 🇺🇸American GBU-62 guided aerial bombs, destroys 🇷🇺Russian infantry positioned in abandoned buildings in Rodynske.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

At this point I want the court packed out of spite

At least someone is making a ton of money on market bumps, maybe on both sides.

Ukrainian Su-27 fighters have supported ground forces near Rodynske, striking Russian positions and preventing Russian troops from regrouping. #Ukraine

Abolish ICE.

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Ukrainian Yak-52 crew engaging Russian Shahed drones in an aerial interception role, with pilots from the 11th Army Aviation Brigade taking part in counter-drone operations. #Ukraine

Jury awards should be taken out of the pensions.