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3: The mechanisms of the payment can be complex, but there's a subsistence allowance built into military pay.

4: Enlisted troops get a larger subsistence allowance than officers.

5: IOW, a good chunk of the money for the food the article is whining/moral panicking about is literally payroll.

1: The ribeye and seafood contracts look like Defense Logistics Agency contracts spread around the world. DLA buys the food served at military dining facilities. Which are more frequented by troops than brass.

2: There's some subsidy, but troops generally pay for their DFAC meals.

This thread is dead on.

My mom didn’t work when I was a kid (couldn’t afford to; she had seven kids) but she did every home repair she could manage, never bought premade food, we wore hand me downs and rarely had ”new” clothes, AND…

missed yesterday’s so I’m doing two at once and they’re really fucking dark. 42yo Honduran dad dies of what ICE calls liver failure due to alcoholism (family calls bullshit). 39yo DACA kid from Mexico dies of sudden illness, mom says no prior health probs & explicitly calls it “medical negligence”

Both, in antiphon.

Masuma Khan has lived in Altadena for nearly 30 years.

Last year, despite having no criminal history, she was detained by ICE and denied the medication she needed to breathe. Her family contacted my office, and we successfully advocated for her release.

They finally got Bo Gritz

AMAZING

If you’re bitching about the Live Nation/Ticketmaster settlement w/DOJ for less than 1% of their profits last year and not mentioning Kellyanne Conway negotiated the settlement w/her friends in Trump administration you’re doing it wrong. This is how corruption works, folks.

Trump's assholery has killed a wonderful advanced X-ray astronomical mission that has been in development for almost a decade.

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4 frame comic. each frame shows a scene of destruction in Iran, with pillars of smoke rising up in the sky. text reads : joseph weizenbaum was an a.I pioneer and the creator of the 1966 early chatbot "eliza". in his 1976 book "computer power and human reason", he warned against the dangers of artificial intelligence. weizenbaum asserted that a.I. should never be used for decision-making, because it will always lack moral judgement. people in power, executing their will through a.I., would absolve themselves of moral responsibility. weizenbaum would have known about that. his jewish parents fled nazi germany. from 1933, the nazis spent considerable resources studying how to desen- sitize their agents to commit mass murders. the solution was automation and the removal of agents from decision-making.* (note : The Nazi Mind, Laurence Rees, 2025) I wonder what Weizenbaum would have thought about the rise of AI warfare.

AI and decision-making.

Senator blocks veterans benefits bill over cost in ‘dollars and cents’ The Major Richard Star Act would allow retired veterans wounded in combat to receive both disability compensation and retirement pay.

Senator blocks veterans benefits bill over cost in ‘dollars and cents’ trib.al/an765Tm

MARCY UPDATE! 📣

Thanks to the awesome vet team at Timonium Animal Hospital who fought tirelessly for her, not only did sweet street kitty Marcy survive her emergency c-section - beyond any expectation, all *three* of her surviving kittens did as well!

One of the babies… 1/9

Once again, need help.

I'm tired of fundraising. We have money for the move itself, but we have to pay rent one more time, other bills, and feed ourselves thru april. More info on how to help below.

This is an escalation by DHS.

Six US Citizens and permanent residents are now home after being held over 30 hours at O’Hare, transferred to Broadview, and moved across state lines.

Community pressure got them home. So many more do not have that support.

Nobody's making animated children's movies in which men hook up in a club bathroom or ladies try to make a dental dam work.

What precious few movies *are* doing is introducing the notion that gay is ok. THAT'S the "adult content" that counts as obscene & "forces conversations."

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🧵I think it's worth noting that in kids' movies, "gay elements" = same-gendered:

-parental hugs
-driving kids to soccer
-crushes
-other cute stuff

The issue, then, is that this frames same-gendered love as normal & wholly human & that framing threatens the male supremacy (patriarchy) we live in.

If I had a dollar for every person who asks how defense attorneys sleep at night, I’d be able to pay my student loans. If I had a dollar for every person who asks how prosecutors sleep at night, I could maybe buy a pack of gum. Broken society.

Top Trump officials plan to lock themselves underground and then cross their fingers that nobody welds their bunker doors shut and fills the ventilation intakes with cement.

The less empathy a person has, the more likely they are to inflict pain, suffering, and death upon others.

Learning to differentiate those who have empathy from people who feign empathy – may save your life.

A picture of all-time badass Stagecoach Mary Fields, holding her rifle.

Happy International Women's Day!

Remember, when in doubt, do as Stagecoach Mary Fields did, and either headbutt, shoot it, set it on fire, or let your horses trample it.

"She broke more noses than any other person in central Montana."

This video of the damages to the Chehel Sotoun palace in Isfahan is hard to watch. The finest example of Safavid architecture, the palace is a marvel of art & architecture that has survived more than 400 years. It is unbelievable that the “most moral army in the world” has cared so little about it.

Tell Congress: You cannot fund your War funding with wildfire aid The Trump administration needs another $50 billion to fund its illegal, open-ended war with Iran - And Congress doesn't want to pay. So Republicans are shopping a dirty deal to trade wildfire aid and ...

Monstrous: link between California's long overdue wildfire aid and a bill to fund Trump's depraved war of aggression. Congressional Repubs are talking about linking wildfire aid to a bill to pay for Trump's war, in order to attract Dem votes. Tell them: HELL NO. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.

Wealthy and "wealthy-ish" have ALWAYS been big shoplifters (also office and even household thieves), because of entitlement (including feeling entitlement to legal safety) and contempt for others and their belongings.

Hello. Tonight I sell sterling to get Becky's car back on the road. Thank you in advance.

Over $50 ships free in the US. Intnl USPS rates apply.

The rules.

You are about to see trays with numbers. If you want something, reply to that post with ME and the number. The ring #s correlate to size.

There is something deeply funny seeing racist dipshits who try to say there is no meaningful cultural difference between cultures in Africa or Asia turn around and crush down European cultures the same way. "English, Welsh, Scots and Irish people are basically the same" buddy there have been wars.

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The fuckin' audacity...

The “Iran strikes” version of the Democrats who are now acting contrite over having supported Trump’s deportation agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...