Because oh-so-discriminately obliterating an adversary's nuclear weapons and nuclear war-making infrastructure is more justifiable, more moral, and less repugnant than slaughtering their population, vaporizing their cities, and laying waste to their civilization.

“What I’m telling you is, don’t be afraid to get your hair mussed.”

Absent the dominance of SAC in the nuclear war planning process, interservice rivalry, and the political influence of the congressional airpower caucus, Polaris could have become the backbone of the US nuclear arsenal and we would have spent far less taxpayer money to build many fewer weapons.

He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars The far-right influencer Nick Fuentes has pocketed roughly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025. Some superfans see him as part of their families.

A disturbing report (even if it concerns “only” about 11,000 truly hateful people), but also one highlighting a use of AI I can fully support:

“The Post analyzed more than 1,400 hours of Fuentes’s streams, using artificial intelligence to tally the donations, which flicker on screen in real time.”

Laughter is the second best medicine (voting is the best).

Based on her last name alone she's got my endorsement.

Sackcloth is the only correct answer.

GEORGE: Would you go to bed with me again?

DORIS: Oh George, I can’t.

G: Why not?

D: Because we’d just feel worse afterwards.

G: Oh no, no, I’m over that now. I just remembered something.

D: What?

G: The Russians have the Bomb. We could all be dead tomorrow!

— “Same Time, Next Year” (1978)

A color photograph taken today of President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sitting in chairs and singing "The Wheels on the Bus" with a group of toddlers (who are sitting on the floor in front of them) at the Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx. Obama and Mamdani are smiling and gesturing toward the children with open palms, mimicking the "wipers on the bus."

Trump sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office in August 2018. He is waring a dark blue suit jacket and a blue and red striped tie. is arms are crossed in front of him like a petulant child, with a look on his puffy face to match.

Adults playing with children (left) vs. child sulking in front of adults (right):

Trumpian priorities!

Okay. They have a similar … look. And Leavitt frequently accompanies Trump on trips. In any case, the aide and the satchel are almost always the next-to-last to board Marine One and Air Force One (the former because the satchel is stored by the rear door), followed only by a Secret Service officer.

Karoline the Spinmeister.

Aaron, you seem to have accidentally posted a Trump clip from 2016.

Oh … wait …

On the upside, if you're under surveillance you must be doing something right!

But he'll still collect the hefty Mar-a-Lago event rental and catering fees, which in the end is all that really matters.

The White House Military Office Army aide was on “Football” duty this afternoon for Trump’s departure from Las Vegas for Phoenix. The ~45-pound satchel accompanies Trump 24/7, enabling him alone to authorize the use of any of our ~1,770 deployed nuclear weapons—up to 900 on alert—at any time.

While out running today, I saw a nun walking toward me a few blocks away. As the distance closed, I thought about raising my arm as I passed and and shouting “Go Pope Leo!,” but I turned before our paths crossed.

👍

Trump is currently in Las Vegas and it won't be 1:26 PM (the timestamp for the post) on the east coast for hours. Something isn't right with this.

"NUKEM" The Board Game Commercial- as seen in RoboCop (1987) YouTube video by JRock the GameRocker

In a similar vein, 1987’s “Robocop” (directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Paul Neumeier and Michael Miner) featured this memorable fake commercial for Nukem, an electronic strategy game for the whole nuclear family, whose slogan is, “Get them before they get you.”

I’d buy that for a dollar!

A four-panel black and white "Doonesbury" cartoon strip showing Mike (wearing a dark vest and a white long-sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up), Boopsie (wearing a white long-sleeve blouse), Mark (wearing a dark turtleneck), B.D. (wearing his white football helmet—decorated with two dark stripes running from the front to the back, and a white star on the side—and a white polo shirt), Bernie (wearing a black bow tie and white short-sleeve dress shirt), and Zonker (wearing a light-colored t-shirt, holding is head in his hands) in the Walden computer lab. Mike is sitting in front of a computer terminal in panel one and standing in the rest. In panels two through four, Mark and Bernie are also standing behind Boopsie, B.D., and Zonker, who are sitting in front of computer terminals. Small, three-ring binders lay open on the table between Mike and Boopsie's terminal and between Boopsie and B.D.'s terminal. In the background, part of a large, standing, reel-to-reel magnetic tape drive cabinet is visible. PANEL 1: Mike: "Hey, my terminal is down!" Bernie: "The blast shock waves are knocking out communications! Everyone gather around terminal five for Armageddon!" PANEL 2: Mike: "Where are we in succession? Who's in charge?" Mark: "Watt [Secretary of the Interior James Watt]. Looks like he finally got rid of all those trees." Bernie: "Okay, here it comes." PANEL 3: Mike: "Good lord! ..." Mark: "Wow ..." B.D.: "Jeez ..." [Every character's face except Bernie looks shocked, stunned. Bernie looks like he's seen it all before.] PANEL 4: Mike: "So that's what the end looks like ..." Mark: "Not a bad piece of programming, Bern." Bernie: "Thanks. I was up all night getting the little houses to blow down."

April 17, 1982: Bernie’s nuclear war game no longer feels like a game. The destruction is so widespread that profoundly anti-environment Secretary of the Interior James Watt is now the president. No longer able to control anything, the gang gathers around a terminal to witness the end of the world.

After Air Force One landed at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, the Army aide disembarked via the aft door and handed off the Presidential Emergency Satchel to a new female military aide (Space Force, I think).

In case you're wondering why Bluesky isn't working as smoothly as usual ...

Impressively, the aide (who is a Special Forces paratrooper) took most of the stairs two at a time:

The White House Military Office Army aide is on “Football” duty this afternoon for Trump’s trip to Las Vegas to talk up his tax cuts. The ~45-pound satchel accompanies Trump 24/7, enabling him alone to authorize the use of any of our ~1,770 deployed nuclear weapons—up to 900 on alert—at any time.

Trump exits Marine One at Joint Base Andrews on his way to board Air Force One for a flight to Las Vegas, Nevada, oblivious to the fact that his red tie is thrown over his left shoulder (and was that way even before he walked out of the door).

True. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Strategic, and Theater Nuclear Forces T.K. Jones got most of the attention (and ridicule).

Maybe I will try again. I think I got turned down the first time because I wasn't using an actual photograph (which I don't think was an explicit requirement at the time). Everyone knows me by this image and I'd prefer to keep it if possible.

Are you required to keep that photo the same as long as you have your account? When I applied for a checkmark last year, I think the requirements said you could change your avatar (and even your alias) once approved.