“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan

Trump Is Supporting Transnational Repression Instead of sheltering pro-democracy dissidents, America is now returning them for arrest.

New from me in @foreignpolicy.com: how the US has gone from leading a global push against transnational repression, to proactively supporting it:

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I’m sorry when you’re in bed next to YOUNG HELEN MIRRIN and you’re the smoke show, that’s skill

Look can I say something that will make no one mad

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Really all I did was read the CFR section related to the Guard

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I am a coward at heart

This is what the CA lawsuit is about

Title 32 is normal national guard deployment under the state governor, and while it’s paid by DoD it doesn’t get paid for the specific mission costs related to Title 32 deployments. Title 10 is when the guard is federalized and under DoD command, tho orders still need to flow thru the governor

U.S. Northern Command & @USNorthernCmd X.com Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area. These soldiers are employed to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property. For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

My K2 is the full DoD Acquisition history series which is like 16k pages

Furlough Madness setting in

He sure has a lot of time on his hands

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It’s Not Great

Few things made me laugh harder than in the first watch of Day of the Jackal when the Jackal makes a b-line for a Turkish bath in Paris cause he knows he’ll be able to find a gay man to seduce and murder

What’s great about gay representation in British 70s espionage/criminal thrillers is that it shows we exist and that we deserve to be murdered as disgusting deviants d

On the list it goes

He’s almost unintelligible it’s incredible

“We’a a leadin’ Uropeen Steat” is an all timer by King Bob

Bob Hoskins in all his Hoskinsness to the point that I need subtitles? Yes thank you kindly

Why yes hello cruisy honeypot Pierce Brosnan in a speedo, how are you this October evening

My friends and community failed me by not alerting me to The Long Good Friday sooner

Next up
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Grink spotted, we have eyes on Grink

two terminally on-line nerds (2025)

can't recommend more highly

Was completely on purpose

a lot of which were Nicholas II's fault!

in fairness to the Tsar *spits* Tsushima was at the tail end of a whole chain of fuck-ups

No?!?!