Gerry Doyle

I didn't even consider this tbh

so again I'll just say that congresspeople or whoever is going with the line that it's fine to kill people in the water after their ship is sunk would 100%, without a doubt, be singing a different tune if these were u.s. navy sailors in the water

won't this make cars more expensive to operate

airbus already is military airbus tho! the defense side of the business is not small....

just fwiw I can't express enough how this is not how hong kong was even 10 years ago

I wonder where this is, actually

it looks a lot like many of the "small town with a rail line and a couple of industrial businesses" locales of my midwestern childhood tbh

once again I have to ask how these same legal experts would frame a chinese frigate machinegunning u.s. sailors in the water as they tried to radio for help after their ship was sunk in action

one thing I hate about the legal profession is the way laws are treated as an academic exercise. yes, I realize that novel thinking wins cases. but it's insane how to make many of these theories work, we have to ignore common sense

yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head. no sellouts, no poseurs, we invented grunge and yet... here we are

Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?

As a Gen Xer myself all of this is familiar and once relevant. But the article leaves out the elephant in the room: that Gen X, which abhorred phonies, sellouts, which saw itself as too streetwise to get suckered…eclipses Boomers as fans of Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...

Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.

Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth’s use of Signal posed risk to US personnel, AP sources say The Pentagon’s watchdog has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen.

BREAKING: Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth's use of Signal to share details of airstrike posed risk to U.S. personnel, AP sources say.

holsey had been in uniform since hegseth was 8 years old, if my math is right

My guess is that this is representative for all of Europe.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?

That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

It appears that pretty much all Hong Kong-based newsfluencers, even those with international bylines or appearances, got a memo within the last 12 hours that they should shut up about the deadly fire, or else face consequences.

Related: the city's "Patriots-only" legislature has elections Sunday

Hegseth Stands Firm With Opposition to Next-Gen Navy Fighter Jet Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reiterated his opposition to Navy plans to develop its next-generation F/A-XX fighter jet, arguing it will overlap with plans for a different aircraft that has President...

poor the navy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."

Exhibit B: Lawrence, Kansas

(that one little spot all the way on the east of the map where the district dips south into Douglas county)

U.S. Diplomats Report Broken Morale and Abandoned Careers

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

NEW VIDEO: We uncovered footage showing Pete Hegseth in 2016 saying the military won’t follow unlawful orders — the same point he has recently criticized Democrats, including Sen. Mark Kelly, for making - and which Trump has said is punishable by death.

it's bad, philip

That's right... Harrison Ford

Finally, an internet service provider that invests in its network

Lead Post reporter on that story Alex Horton served in the infantry in Iraq.

Israel to Close $4.2 Billion Missile-Defense Deal With Germany Israel will complete the handover of the Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile defense system to Germany on Wednesday, marking the first time another country will have independent access to the high-end military asset.

Israel will complete the handover of the Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile defense system to Germany today

It's the first time another country will have independent access to the high-end military asset

as I've said before, the ukraine invasion has been a decisive strategic loss for russia:

-minimal territory gains
-massive losses
-2 new nato members
-permanently damaged relationship (economically and politically) with europe
-ukraine now stronger, not weaker, than prewar

this is a solid point.

also to the extent russia has learned/mobilized during the war with ukraine, it has also suffered staggering losses *and* europe has learned/rearmed too

I don't see any way russia has the horses for a war with europe, not even close

Survivors of one of Hong Kong’s deadliest maritime disasters and victims’ families who spent 13 years in a legal and bureaucratic maze seeking answers will have to wait a little longer for a coroner’s ruling to shed light on the tragedy. In full: hongkongfp.com/2025/12/02/h... Graphic: AFP.