Angry Staff Officer
@pptsapper.bsky.social
History person, Army officer, transplanted Buckeye, not really that angry anymore. Writes stuff. Some Star Wars. Refugee from Twitter. Views do not reflect or represent the DoD's. He/him/his. angrystaffofficer.com
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She had a senior non-commissioned officer buy her lingerie, passing it off as a joke. I didn’t know. She was mentally broken down and denigrated, day after day, by a male officer who was her comman…
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This was my pinned tweet over on Twitter. It will remain my pinned tweet here. Because the issue of sexual harassment and assault in the Army still persists. We must do better.
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The Heritage Foundation should go hang out with the Taliban, they’re kindred spirits
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The Heritage Foundation should go hang out with the Taliban, they’re kindred spirits
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This is why Ezra Douthglesias’ constant drumbeat of Just Do An Abundance of Popularism grates & misses the mark. Dems <can’t> Do An Abundance of Popularism because our institutions empower people who hold views contrary to supermajorities of the public. What is actually <popular> is not represented.
Once again, the Actual Thing the Actual Democrats Must Actually Do is to make institutional reform the platform & to explain to voters why & how Doing A Popularism is the <consequence> of that, not a prerequisite.
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is why Ezra Douthglesias’ constant drumbeat of Just Do An Abundance of Popularism grates & misses the mark. Dems <can’t> Do An Abundance of Popularism because our institutions empower people who hold views contrary to supermajorities of the public. What is actually <popular> is not represented.
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CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference - Slavery North
Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution Call for Abstracts: Academic Conference Dates: Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July 12, 2026 Location: Univers...
slaverynorth.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️
An everlasting W
ulysses s grant
who won virginia
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
An everlasting W
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Rhode Island has a chance to do the funniest thing ever here
(RI almost tanked ratifying the Constitution bc it really liked not recognizing debts from other states levied in anything other than RI’s currency, a system that benefited them immensely and made NY have a rage stroke)
(RI almost tanked ratifying the Constitution bc it really liked not recognizing debts from other states levied in anything other than RI’s currency, a system that benefited them immensely and made NY have a rage stroke)
They’ve all gone mad.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”
November 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Rhode Island has a chance to do the funniest thing ever here
(RI almost tanked ratifying the Constitution bc it really liked not recognizing debts from other states levied in anything other than RI’s currency, a system that benefited them immensely and made NY have a rage stroke)
(RI almost tanked ratifying the Constitution bc it really liked not recognizing debts from other states levied in anything other than RI’s currency, a system that benefited them immensely and made NY have a rage stroke)
Man, the “point blank sandwich” discourse made it feel almost like Olde Twitter which of course made me realize how much I miss Olde Twitter
Thanks, @johnrogers.bsky.social, for bringing a reminder of the joys we once had
Thanks, @johnrogers.bsky.social, for bringing a reminder of the joys we once had
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Man, the “point blank sandwich” discourse made it feel almost like Olde Twitter which of course made me realize how much I miss Olde Twitter
Thanks, @johnrogers.bsky.social, for bringing a reminder of the joys we once had
Thanks, @johnrogers.bsky.social, for bringing a reminder of the joys we once had
The surface danger zone for sandwiches really depends on the ingredients tbh. An Italian sub, for example, has a high frag rate because of the bread consistency but better aerodynamic range, while a croque monsieur and the Rueben have less range but more splatter.
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The surface danger zone for sandwiches really depends on the ingredients tbh. An Italian sub, for example, has a high frag rate because of the bread consistency but better aerodynamic range, while a croque monsieur and the Rueben have less range but more splatter.
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Alright gents listen up!
Yesterday we covered cone of sandwich fire and the beaten, or, “floured” zone. Today we will be discussing enfilade, plunging and flanking fires. As well as the preferred sandwiches for each.
Open your menus to page three.
Yesterday we covered cone of sandwich fire and the beaten, or, “floured” zone. Today we will be discussing enfilade, plunging and flanking fires. As well as the preferred sandwiches for each.
Open your menus to page three.
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Alright gents listen up!
Yesterday we covered cone of sandwich fire and the beaten, or, “floured” zone. Today we will be discussing enfilade, plunging and flanking fires. As well as the preferred sandwiches for each.
Open your menus to page three.
Yesterday we covered cone of sandwich fire and the beaten, or, “floured” zone. Today we will be discussing enfilade, plunging and flanking fires. As well as the preferred sandwiches for each.
Open your menus to page three.
Dressed up kinda vaguely as a 19th century naval officer to hand out candy for Halloween and let everyone guess as to my costume
Here’s a few of the guesses as to who I was:
Washington
Hamilton
A pirate
Napoleon
A doorman
A prince
And my fave, just “Bridgerton”
Here’s a few of the guesses as to who I was:
Washington
Hamilton
A pirate
Napoleon
A doorman
A prince
And my fave, just “Bridgerton”
November 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Dressed up kinda vaguely as a 19th century naval officer to hand out candy for Halloween and let everyone guess as to my costume
Here’s a few of the guesses as to who I was:
Washington
Hamilton
A pirate
Napoleon
A doorman
A prince
And my fave, just “Bridgerton”
Here’s a few of the guesses as to who I was:
Washington
Hamilton
A pirate
Napoleon
A doorman
A prince
And my fave, just “Bridgerton”
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BREAKING via AP
Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.
Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
BREAKING via AP
Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.
Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.
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Whose land this is I do not know
The statue fell down long ago;
No one will mind me stopping here
To watch the sand o’er ruins blow.
My camel friend must think it queer
To rest with no oasis near
And precious little shade these days
Gives Ozymandias, I fear.
(1/2)
The statue fell down long ago;
No one will mind me stopping here
To watch the sand o’er ruins blow.
My camel friend must think it queer
To rest with no oasis near
And precious little shade these days
Gives Ozymandias, I fear.
(1/2)
This is just to say
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Whose land this is I do not know
The statue fell down long ago;
No one will mind me stopping here
To watch the sand o’er ruins blow.
My camel friend must think it queer
To rest with no oasis near
And precious little shade these days
Gives Ozymandias, I fear.
(1/2)
The statue fell down long ago;
No one will mind me stopping here
To watch the sand o’er ruins blow.
My camel friend must think it queer
To rest with no oasis near
And precious little shade these days
Gives Ozymandias, I fear.
(1/2)
A college acquaintance on FB shared a long and overly verbose screed that can be boiled down to “people are poor because of what I perceive to be their sins”
We’re just really trying to get back to workhouses and company towns and debtors prisoners, huh
We’re just really trying to get back to workhouses and company towns and debtors prisoners, huh
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A college acquaintance on FB shared a long and overly verbose screed that can be boiled down to “people are poor because of what I perceive to be their sins”
We’re just really trying to get back to workhouses and company towns and debtors prisoners, huh
We’re just really trying to get back to workhouses and company towns and debtors prisoners, huh
Dreamt last night that Timothee Chalamet got the role to play a French general in WWI
And now I want to see this
And now I want to see this
October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Dreamt last night that Timothee Chalamet got the role to play a French general in WWI
And now I want to see this
And now I want to see this
At some point I’ll sit down and collate the overlap of progressive German 1848 revolutionary immigrants in Turner Clubs, Wide-Awake Clubs, and 1850s-1860 militia companies - at which point I will reach full limit of potential and probably self combust
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
At some point I’ll sit down and collate the overlap of progressive German 1848 revolutionary immigrants in Turner Clubs, Wide-Awake Clubs, and 1850s-1860 militia companies - at which point I will reach full limit of potential and probably self combust
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DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, D.C., a WaPo investigation found.
DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found.
🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nuDGwf
DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found.
🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nuDGwf
wapo.st
October 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, D.C., a WaPo investigation found.
DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found.
🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nuDGwf
DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found.
🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nuDGwf
Terrific thread (who doesn’t love a little Blair Mountain in the morning)
Stronger together
Stronger together
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Terrific thread (who doesn’t love a little Blair Mountain in the morning)
Stronger together
Stronger together
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I've always loved this little phrasebook for new (Jewish) immigrants to New York. It's got Yiddish instructions on joining a union! (The right-most column is English transliterated into Yiddish).
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I've always loved this little phrasebook for new (Jewish) immigrants to New York. It's got Yiddish instructions on joining a union! (The right-most column is English transliterated into Yiddish).
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Color me unsurprised that the war on terror tactics we used abroad are now being used by the panopticon state domestically.
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Color me unsurprised that the war on terror tactics we used abroad are now being used by the panopticon state domestically.
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Otis blessing our timelines tbh
Otis loves playing in the snow, but Fall leaves are a close second.
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Otis blessing our timelines tbh
Resisting the urge to give in to the pull of americas 250th by drinking like a founding father aka being functionally drunk on the daily
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Resisting the urge to give in to the pull of americas 250th by drinking like a founding father aka being functionally drunk on the daily
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I did not know that this conversation existed.
And now I do.
And so do you.
*boop*
lbjtapes.org/conversation...
And now I do.
And so do you.
*boop*
lbjtapes.org/conversation...
LBJ Orders Some New Haggar Pants | The LBJ Telephone Tapes
lbjtapes.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I did not know that this conversation existed.
And now I do.
And so do you.
*boop*
lbjtapes.org/conversation...
And now I do.
And so do you.
*boop*
lbjtapes.org/conversation...
Hey Siri, what’s the precedent for not paying the army
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Hey Siri, what’s the precedent for not paying the army