Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Too bad we don’t give general officers a headquarters and staff for help with decision making.
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In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number. n.pr/4obbfnK

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Fox or Newsmax will rationalize it for them.

Oh boy, we really need these wet wipes. It would really help us out to get those. I know you want to buy the toy jewelry kit with the 300 tiny beads. But we just love these wet wipes so much and haven’t been able to find them in stock anywhere.

With our first two kids, we didn’t do a baby registry. We had good incomes and didn’t need people buying us stuff. This time, we know better. People will buy stuff anyway. If there’s no registry, they will buy you a bag of 400 choking hazards. The purpose of a registry is to avoid certain gifts.

Reminder that there are streaming church services beginning pretty much anytime today that works for you. Here are a few with start times at 8:00, 8:55, 9:00, 9:15, 10:45, 11:00, 11:30, and 12:00 (all times eastern).

(Updated times and links)

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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I said that to my daughter, but I was really hoping that everyone around me would hear it, because I could tell some of them were getting very annoyed.

Be annoyed at the situation, but not the employees. The work they put in tonight was worth far more than whatever they were paid.

It was refreshing to see other customers being polite, even if noticeably disappointed or annoyed.

When my daughter asked why it was taking so long, I explained that they were working as fast as they could. I also explained that when we get our pizza, we can go home. They’ll still be here working.

I took a few minutes tonight to send feedback to Papa John’s to praise their employees. The local joint received an order for 90 pizzas from a school, on top of the normal Friday evening surge. It was a madhouse. The front counter packed with customers; everyone in the kitchen was toiling in fury.

Can it be? Yes. dodsoco.ogc.osd.mil/Portals/102/...

Should it be? Above my pay grade.

These leaders’ staff personnel are putting in lots of work to make this happen. That’s a limited gov’t resource that we’re using. I have no idea what the benefit is. And I suspect most of the public and most people within the military don’t know either. It’s a bad look. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Anyone know whether a Service member who begins a PCS move after 1 October can get travel, per diem, and temporary lodging expenses reimbursed while the gov’t is shutdown?

A reminder (from my 2019 @theatlantic.com reporting) that as military families go without pay this shutdown, many of them are single-paycheck households relying on the servicemember's income because the spouses have been pushed out of the workforce.

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George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

I once (2013-ish) had a battalion commander make a comment in jest about attorneys. I reminded him that in an upcoming court-martial, every JA officer in the court room would have a CIB and RGR tab - something that could not be said about the IN officers in any one of his companies.

Not asking sarcastically or rhetorically.

What is the benefit to the Army of sending personnel to the AUSA conference?

I’m struggling to understand priorities when furloughed employees’ work gets backlogged or performed by soldiers, and organizations still scramble to send people to AUSA.

“Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Come to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.”
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