The American people have no way of judging just how foolhardy, how stupid, how unwise, how violative of international dictum and rule this war is.
-Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Gross
Rigging world war
<El tinte invernal de la mortalidad, el aliento gélido del miedo y la nada lo acompañarán hasta el día de su muerte, una muerte que esta vez no ha dado en el blanco, pero que probablemente no ha renunciado a sus derechos.>
-Serhiy Zhadan
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Your dad sounds like a great man.
The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations.
The complainant says troops in their support unit feel forced to endure their commander's "Armageddon views" and believe he thinks the entire chain of command backs him.
The report syncs "with a pattern of senior US figures framing geopolitical policy through explicitly biblical narratives.”
The NCO wrote that the statements "destroy morale and unit cohesion," calling the comments "toxic and over the line."
Such messaging violates constitutional church-state separation and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which bars using official military authority to promote religion.
The commander allegedly cited the Book of Revelation, referenced Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus, and claimed that "President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran" to trigger those events.
One noncommissioned officer's written complaint says a combat unit commander opened a Monday readiness briefing by telling NCOs not to fear operations in Iran because they were "all part of God's divine plan."
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation reports receiving upward of 110 complaints since fighting began on Saturday, alleging that officers in every branch have framed the campaign as part of a "divine plan" leading to the Second Coming of Christ.
Now an army may be robbed of its spirit and its commander deprived of his courage.
The responsibility for a martial host of a million lies in one man. He is the trigger of its spirit.
If an army has been deprived of its morale, its general will also lose his heart.
Thank you, Ms. Stansbury.
Word
Your team bus hope reminds me of my first game at Wrigley
Thank you for making those mighty t-shirts
“The world needs Gaza to learn how people can build hope from nothing.”
-Saeeh Al Haddad, in Israeli prisons for 19 years, released in the prisoner exchange deal in January 2025.
I refuse to play in situations of injustice when the "game" is not a neutral simulation but a structure of power.
When the rules of a game violate fundamental human rights, their symbolic pact is evil.
I disrupt evil games by refusing to acknowledge their authority & by acting outside their rules.
What do you like best about winning?
One of CB’s last interviews leaves the keys to U.S./Mexican relations under the doormat:
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Good karma
Nolan the Angel threw complete 125-150 pitch games on cruise control at 102-108 mph.
Bad karma
Good karma
Bad karma
Stereotyping and guilt by association are the calling cards of tyranny.
In his 1961 inaugural address, President John F Kennedy said we must build “a new world of law where the strong are just and the weak are secure and the peace preserved”. That is a path the US, and the world, must walk again.
