I liked it as much… some more depth into the aliens, and the swarm…

The only all-Black special operations Army unit kicked serious butt in Korea The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company is the only all-Black special operations combat unit in U.S. Army history.

They also ran deep‑penetration raids across the Han River — stealth missions targeting supply depots, patrol bases, and communication lines.
These were the kinds of missions only the most disciplined units were trusted with. But even as they (cont)

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Cartoon by @markdolk.bsky.social

Finished the new James A. Corey—The Faith of Beasts, 2nd of their trilogy The Captive’s War. Excellent, and the lads are adept at torturing their characters’ psyches in a way that’d make Stephen Donaldson proud 🤣
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Lot of people on the right crying about the Virginia redistricting vote.

We told you this would happen while you were celebrating the illegal off-cycle seat grab in Texas.

Stop playing stupid games if you don’t want to win stupid prizes.

These two editorials by the Washington Post expose how the Republican Party and Democratic Party are held to completely different standards by the media.

Texas gerrymander: “Not a threat to democracy.”

Virginia gerrymander: “Power grab by Democrats.”

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Aging comedy writer holding an art book from Star Trek: Lower Decks

Oh by the way: it’s real and it’s SPECTACULAR.

The Pentagon will stop requiring members of the military to get flu vaccines. Image Hegseth, wearing a blue suit, a tie and American flag pocket square, stands in front of an American flag. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that service members would no longer have to get flu vaccines.Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times The Pentagon will no longer require troops to get annual flu vaccines, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, calling the policy an “absurd, overreaching” mandate.

George Washington LITERALLY would not have won the Revolutionary War had he not vaccinated the troops against smallpox.

Meanwhile, this idiot: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

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Sec. Hegseth: "It's Just Gay" To Require Our Warriors To Wash Hands After Using The Bathroom

"Nancy! Nancy! Who are you wearing?"

Finished the new James A. Corey—The Faith of Beasts, 2nd of their trilogy The Captive’s War. Excellent, and the lads are adept at torturing their characters’ psyches in a way that’d make Stephen Donaldson proud 🤣
#booksky

This is almost always how I picked non-news topics for blog entries. There's something I don't understand or a question I can't answer without research, so I do research until I understand it well enough to explain it

No woke flu shots 🤮🤮🤮

A Michael Jackson movie that doesn’t even ALLUDE to him being accused of raping children is such a strange big budget project. It’s weird that it even exists. It would be like making Titanic and cutting before the iceberg. What a ridiculous display.

Read More Books: John Garrison Marks, Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (UNC Press, 2026) - Commonplace If there are two rules about early American history, one is that, no matter how vast, George Washington will always be instructive.

Today we launch Read More Books, a semi-regular Commonplace series featuring @kawulf.bsky.social asking authors five questions about their new book. We kick off with @johngmarks.com and his fascinating study of the long fight over Washington's legacy of slavery.🗄️

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In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.

Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.

This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

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In 1970, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, and Peter Falk appeared on The Dick Cavett Show to promote their upcoming film “Husbands”. They were embarrassingly drunk and rambunctious in a shockingly unmediated environment. They didn’t promote the film: they embodied its chaos.
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Starshippe Captayne: "To complete thys mysterious taske given us by the council, we must fynde a strepsirrhine primate!"

Startshippe First Officer: "Aye aye, Captayne."

Starshippe Captayne: "No, just a regular lemur."

HOW OLD DO YOU HAVE TO BE BEFORE YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON?

Good morning 🌞☀️😃 my friends
Life is very chaotic and confusing 🫤

If I Had A Rocket Launcher

Chef's kiss for this logo remodel.

I thought we could make this costume our library uniform.

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Astronauts’ brains don’t fully adapt to life in microgravity, new study finds New research shows astronauts tend to grip objects in microgravity as if they felt as heavy as or heavier than they would on Earth, a finding that could help future space exploration

New research shows astronauts tend to grip objects in microgravity as if they felt as heavy as or heavier than they would on Earth, a finding that could help future space exploration