Mike J
@mikejason.bsky.social
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Once a Soldier; NATO and Allies matter. History, Food and Typos. CivMil & Professional Ethic. Government is Serious Business for Serious People. Tanks. Decency. St. Francis stan account. I delete and block liberally. Not Stanley Tucci. All views own.
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I think the only reason I kept my Twitter account up was to save my leadership thread. I wrote it while still in the Army and was one of my favorite tweets. May be time to deactivate the account, so am going to rewrite the thread here.
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No Carabinieri on this October afternoon, but Vittorio never misses.
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Hot dog costume meme.
cnn.com
CNN @cnn.com · 5h
Tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan have flared in recent days with the exchange of deadly gunfire between the neighbors that has stoked fears of a wider conflict. https://cnn.it/42GXK71
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It's late afternoon on a crisp fall day. You walk up to the bar, Vittorio nods; he knows you are a regular---and a perfect espresso appears in a scalding cup.
Next to you, are two tourists, clad in full Lululemon.
They ask for cappuccinos, to go.
The Carabinieri show up and arrest them.
Fine.
dieworkwear.bsky.social
You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.
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When I was a kid, Robert Redford's Brubaker was one of the first movies that really affected me.
It's truly sick that so little has changed in our penal system.
Of course, you can trace it back to our nation's original sin.

Shame on us.
themarshallproject.org
Roughly 13 minutes into “The Alabama Solution,” filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman got a tip about an incarcerated man who had been beaten so badly he was taken to the ICU at an outside hospital.

By the time Jarecki and Kaufman arrived, Steven Davis was dead.
‘The Alabama Solution’: A Humanitarian Crisis in Grainy Detail
Here are five takeaways from the documentary exposing abuse and neglect that is all too common in U.S. prisons.
www.themarshallproject.org
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This is "paint balls for the vision blocks" level of cope.

IYKYK
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2025 is the year where I finally get David's motivation for creating the xenomorph.
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Which, thanks to our long record of basing choices, will disproportionately hammer Army families.

Something I screamed about until I was blue in the face while serving on the E ring.
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My thesis has long been that all of us was this was an overcorrection after the 507th Maintenance debacle. That's when we got the "warrior ethos," combatives, the notion that EVERY soldier had to be kitted out like an 11B etc.
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...baker, whatever, can't keep up with the fact that a large org just has to be synchronized and run a certain way. And what you did to get to the point of being in charge, is no longer relevant to your organization's success. You have to Manage and Lead.
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This is happening everywhere. A newspaper, a tech company, a clothing company. At some point organizations grow to the point where they have to face the same challenges: strategy, budget, hiring, training, real estate, maintenance, tech upgrade, property, IT. And the best reporter, coder 1/2
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Right. If you can't comprehend the concept of "span of control," maybe you shouldn't run anything bigger than a Dairy Queen.
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I am begging the corporate world to hire some retired military officer as your chief of staff and have him do a transition plan for you.

Like seriously, organizational leadership is a thing and most of you suck at it.
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Why did I miss?
Impossible to get local news over here.
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Been waiting three decades for this moment:

The f$&&ing Lee Greenwood song.
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"Don't be an asshole."
----Pope Leo
apnews.com
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
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Incredible tough but important read. I was in CJSOTF-A in 2012. Reading here about my then commanders and new context to what was happening to the left and right of our task force.

Bales, Gant, Haas, Kunduz, Thomas...
Hell of a trip down memory lane...
mikejason.bsky.social
I began organizing a group of military veteran la and volunteers to help Afghan Allies get to the Kabul airport which turned into a nonprofit that raised over 7 figures and rescued nearly 3000 human beings.
conradhackett.bsky.social
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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Proof:
The girlfriend AND one of the original founders of AntiFa.
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See 2008 housing crisis.
You may not be interested in globalism but globalism is interested in you.

Stock market is great, until it isn't.
premnsikka.bsky.social
Bank of England warns of growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets - financial crash.

AI boom will burst.
Share prices inflated
Real economy weak.
Trump creating uncertainties.
Shadow banking unregulated.
Govt deregulating banking.

Bankers get bonuses, people will pick up the tab.
Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst
Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee
www.theguardian.com
mikejason.bsky.social
You know what ruins anything?

Lee Greenwood.
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Every five years Lee Greenwood crawls out of an American Flag Snuggy from his top secret bunker hidden deep below a Cracker Barrel to trend again.