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Public, military, and social history, in this galaxy and beyond. Also TTRPGS and this space camp I went to one time.

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$270 million own goal.

04.03.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That Kuwaiti F/A-18 pilot probably felt so cool for about five minutes

04.03.2026 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 256    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Chapter One: Wait, What Do You Mean My Son Was There

03.03.2026 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dream book. Dream narrator. Dream author.

03.03.2026 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

WAJ ANTILLES

03.03.2026 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh shit!

03.03.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the Pentagon still has a lot of highly professional PhD level analysts and logistics and strategic wonks and they're living on pepto bismol and bourbon rn

02.03.2026 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 180    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

These guys have been smug pricks over there with their slave labour and are now shocked that moving a small stretch of water away from Iran puts you close to Iran

02.03.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œTurns out you can just kill bad people and everything is fine” - Gavrilo Princip

02.03.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 956    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 6
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I don't know why this is the image that popped into my mind.

02.03.2026 04:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here's me, Oct 2, 2022. "...apart from that print material, we’ve not stated his age with any specificity, so he could very well be well over 100 in Episode I if [you want] him to be."

02.03.2026 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 449    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 0

I would have loved it if they had filmed some of their scenes in Spanish.

02.03.2026 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That missile probably cost a considerable portion of what that Phantom was bought for.

02.03.2026 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Josh D'Amaro admittedly has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

01.03.2026 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking out onto the bridge as we waited to disembark, I told a fellow passenger "I worry that we shall not see her like again" and he started crying.

It was not, in the moment or in hindsight, an unreasonable reaction.

01.03.2026 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

youtu.be/PaNJQcc_lwg?...

01.03.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

dead in iran and pakistan because a few hundred thousand racists in pennsylvania and michigan and wisconsin are mad they aren't in their 20s anymore. not good that people this ignorant and unbalanced have this much power, but then again, this sort of has always been what's gone on.

01.03.2026 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.

28.02.2026 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2996    πŸ” 572    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 8

I can't get into Bridgerton because the story assumes that members of the British aristocracy are worthy of love.

01.03.2026 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
01.03.2026 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5486    πŸ” 1768    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 14

"What if foreigners are actually like real people?" is maybe the simplest and least understood principle of foreign policy

01.03.2026 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 314    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

www.dodea.edu

01.03.2026 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

28.02.2026 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6708    πŸ” 1484    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 40

haha he fuckin got our ass

28.02.2026 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 882    πŸ” 163    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy 40th old friend.

21.02.2026 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7862    πŸ” 2618    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 9

Top NYT headlines AT THIS MOMENT:
- Iran
- Elite doctors helped Epstein
- Kash Patel’s girlfriend
- OpenAI deal with pentagon
- ICE arrests
- Pentagon stalls investigation of boat strikes
- Pentagon cuts ties with Universities
- Park service revives statue of slave owner

This is a time of monsters

28.02.2026 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 201    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

If Trump can declare war without congressional authorization, then Congress has effectively disbanded itself.

28.02.2026 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2029    πŸ” 501    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 31

It’s time to grow up about the link between Epstein and this administration’s wars. I have lived through Republican administrations starting wars in the Middle East for 40 years. There’s no secret story, no conspiracy. The story in public is the story. It is a war for power over the Middle East.

28.02.2026 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

if you dont have nukes and give us everything we want in negotiation, we might still kill you as late night television entertainment for the demented emperor

28.02.2026 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 646    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

Every data center is a war machine

28.02.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 292    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0