Prior to modern medicine, disease killed more soldiers than combat. I’m guessing that weakened our war-fighting capabilities.

New Civil War just dropped...at the Supreme Court | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, can Big AI buy off the Democratic Party?

Last weekend's big bombshell didn't fall on Iran, but at the U.S. Supreme Court. A stunning leak both exposed the corporate hypocrisy of John Roberts and revealed 9 justices in open warfare

They are sending us a 'bat signal.' Democracy is in danger

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Objectively bad for readiness.

This is very cool!

NEW: Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in as U.S. House member within the hour.

Further narrowing GOP majority

Two men in fatigues with their hands ziptied being arrested by Capitol Police

Dozens of people in fatigues lined up in the Capitol Rotunda with signage demanding an end to the Iran War

Dozens of US military veterans were arrested at the Capitol today during a protest against the Iran War.

Photos via @frankthorp.bsky.social

PSA: I imagine many of my followers know the story of the pallets of cash, but for those who don’t:

Before the Iranian revolution, Iran was run by the Shah, who had TONS of money and a virtually unlimited appetite for US military hardware, including big things like aircraft etc.

TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear
🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman
📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon

@tompepinsky.com was right back in 2017 about the banality & ordinariness of authoritarian politics. We have normalized concentration camps, government murder on the high seas & our streets, & unprecedented daily corruption. It is maddening & stupid & also most have pretended nothing has changed.

We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.

He’s just burning your tax money.

I would have prefered a different green energy initative for sure.

Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 | Live at Tanglewood (1970) YouTube video by Chicago on MV

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAU...

Just came out recently I think.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Holy shit.

Science is amazing y’all.

We should invest more in it.

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

The Thirty Wars Year.

Fantastic system

Who is apparently still alive and married Fawn Hall last year.

Surprised Ollie North face.

From the cages of "Alligator Alcatraz": "he has learned that a large number of Cubans are being held at the Everglades facility. 'Predominantly, the population are Cubans whose families voted for or supported Trump'".

It’s been overshadowed by Venezuela and especially Iran, but the deadly boat bombing campaign is still going, even though:
-There’s no war
-The US wasn’t attacked or under threat
-Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists
-These may not be traffickers
-It’s blatantly illegal
-With no clear strategy either

Smell of feces, vomit fills crowded ICE facility, detainee's wife says Conditions at the ICE facility in central Phoenix mirror the conditions at a Mesa facility, where people were being treated worse than "animals," lawmakers said.

Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

Superintendant of Schools where I grew up was Dick Butt, so could be.

Kind of an internship, really.

I would like to teleport to a waffle house.

Already solved this problem.

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I don’t know, but I’m glad for you nonetheless!

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.