Spaghetti
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Sometimes lawyer stuff, sometimes navy stuff. Plus dogs.
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Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.
1. The FPV drone tech Ukraine used here has been around for a while, though it was used very ingeniously.
2. The Ukrainian attack using these drones relied upon what sounds like over a year of extraordinarily precise logistics, planning, and training. This is not something just anyone could do.
2. The Ukrainian attack using these drones relied upon what sounds like over a year of extraordinarily precise logistics, planning, and training. This is not something just anyone could do.
This is going to start a personal rant that may well not be popular, but here goes:
This analysis is good and correct and applies to nearly everything in the defense/intel space, including/especially Tier 1 SOF.
This analysis is good and correct and applies to nearly everything in the defense/intel space, including/especially Tier 1 SOF.
Evergreen
9/9 Today would be a great day for Chief Justice Roberts and his five collaborators to finally stand up for the rule of law.
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Evergreen
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This FBI “pulse check” report on the dept under Patel and Bongino is a mixed bag - the fibbies love having no more sensitivity training but many hate going on ICE raids and think leadership is weak - but this anecdote is clearly gold: K$H Patel wearing the traditional FBI Director’s ladies clothes.
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This FBI “pulse check” report on the dept under Patel and Bongino is a mixed bag - the fibbies love having no more sensitivity training but many hate going on ICE raids and think leadership is weak - but this anecdote is clearly gold: K$H Patel wearing the traditional FBI Director’s ladies clothes.
I think the follow-up strike on survivors of the first strike is sticking around in the news cycle, other than Hegseth's direct involvement, is that there's something obvious about killing survivors in the water that Americans understand as especially dishonorable.
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I think the follow-up strike on survivors of the first strike is sticking around in the news cycle, other than Hegseth's direct involvement, is that there's something obvious about killing survivors in the water that Americans understand as especially dishonorable.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"
“Now this is the bat of a carpenter.”
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“Now this is the bat of a carpenter.”
Had heard good things about The Boys, and it’s hilarious, but how does no one mention the very obvious Opus Dei similac? It’s excellent
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Had heard good things about The Boys, and it’s hilarious, but how does no one mention the very obvious Opus Dei similac? It’s excellent
@profanity.accountant ok, what’s the score, boss?
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
@profanity.accountant ok, what’s the score, boss?
This is of course all bullshit, but “forced to fight” really does a lot of lifting and distinguishing here.
These strikes are a choice.
These strikes are a choice.
Hegseth included the below in a chapter titled “The Laws of War, For Winners”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This is of course all bullshit, but “forced to fight” really does a lot of lifting and distinguishing here.
These strikes are a choice.
These strikes are a choice.
Quit.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Quit.
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Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
My only contribution to the pie discourse will be this:
Once, a shipmate brought in a homemade apple pie he had grilled on a green egg. It was one of the best things I've ever eaten.
Once, a shipmate brought in a homemade apple pie he had grilled on a green egg. It was one of the best things I've ever eaten.
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
My only contribution to the pie discourse will be this:
Once, a shipmate brought in a homemade apple pie he had grilled on a green egg. It was one of the best things I've ever eaten.
Once, a shipmate brought in a homemade apple pie he had grilled on a green egg. It was one of the best things I've ever eaten.
Uuuuuggh
Going to wait for @gigansprogress.bsky.social to reference pee dee eff on what this means, but it sounds bad for the Navy so I'll give it a provisional "el oh el".
*US NAVY CURTAILS FRIGATE PROGRAM TO TWO VESSELS FROM SIX
*US NAVY CURTAILS FRIGATE PROGRAM TO TWO VESSELS FROM SIX
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Uuuuuggh
“Mr. Secretary, how much could you have improved barracks service-wide with the $2B you wasted on a nickname?”
Pete Hegseth keeps demanding to be taken seriously and then spends all his time talking down to accomplished military leaders, rebranding his department and renaming ships, engaging in culture wars bullshit, shitting all over the military's sense of ethics and generally making an ass of himself.
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Mr. Secretary, how much could you have improved barracks service-wide with the $2B you wasted on a nickname?”
I might phrase this differently.
When we don't speak accurately on who is struggling and how, it makes it very easy for folks to say, "Why should I help the family who can't eat tonight, *I'M* the one who needs help?!"
When we don't speak accurately on who is struggling and how, it makes it very easy for folks to say, "Why should I help the family who can't eat tonight, *I'M* the one who needs help?!"
And of course there is no shortage of actual material need in America, but I would maintain that the aforementioned social/emotional defects that trick people into feeling poor also make it much HARDER to build the political coalitions to help the needy.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I might phrase this differently.
When we don't speak accurately on who is struggling and how, it makes it very easy for folks to say, "Why should I help the family who can't eat tonight, *I'M* the one who needs help?!"
When we don't speak accurately on who is struggling and how, it makes it very easy for folks to say, "Why should I help the family who can't eat tonight, *I'M* the one who needs help?!"
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Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."
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West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
Every new batch of MBA grads recreates securities fraud and keeps my kids in braces and tuition
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Every new batch of MBA grads recreates securities fraud and keeps my kids in braces and tuition
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
Black hole sun, won’t you come
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Black hole sun, won’t you come
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Think we need a running list:
Special counsel for boat strikes
Special counsel for immigration abuses
Special counsel for Ukraine
Special counsel for gulf bribes
What else?
Special counsel for boat strikes
Special counsel for immigration abuses
Special counsel for Ukraine
Special counsel for gulf bribes
What else?
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Think we need a running list:
Special counsel for boat strikes
Special counsel for immigration abuses
Special counsel for Ukraine
Special counsel for gulf bribes
What else?
Special counsel for boat strikes
Special counsel for immigration abuses
Special counsel for Ukraine
Special counsel for gulf bribes
What else?
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The Tyrese Maxey Foundation turkey drive gave away 1,000 meals two years ago and 2,000 meals last year. This year, it's 3,000.
Tyrese Maxey's goal for the future?
"Just keep feeding families, man. Just keep making people happy."
Tyrese Maxey's goal for the future?
"Just keep feeding families, man. Just keep making people happy."
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Tyrese Maxey Foundation turkey drive gave away 1,000 meals two years ago and 2,000 meals last year. This year, it's 3,000.
Tyrese Maxey's goal for the future?
"Just keep feeding families, man. Just keep making people happy."
Tyrese Maxey's goal for the future?
"Just keep feeding families, man. Just keep making people happy."
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Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.