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NYPD NEWS @NYPDnews • 1h The NYPD mourns the loss of Police Officer Sorffly Davius, who passed away yesterday as a result of a medical episode while deployed to Kuwait in support of Operation Epic Fury. X Officer Davius served in the 42nd Infantry Division in the U.S. Army National Guard and rose to the rank of Major. In 2014, he began his service with the NYPD where he was assigned to the 79th Precinct. Today, and always, we keep his family in our thoughts and prayers. May we never forget Officer Davius' sacrifice and may his memory be a blessing.

Looking forward to when a loaf of bread is $20 apiece, and NYT runs stories about poor Chet Heartland having to drive his F550 on $15/gal ethanol on a grocery run to the next town over so he can save a couple bucks on an $18 loaf

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

DOJ docs, FBI interview, raise new questions about Epstein's "suicide" Notes from an FBI interview indicate that prison guards discussed "cover-up"

New: Prison guards discussed cover-up in Epstein's death, inmate tells FBI. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

"Oil prices are up about 50%. You should expect gas prices to rise about 50%... Gas... about $3 a gallon... you should therefore expect gas to be a bit above $4 a gallon...

So if you get an opportunity to stop by the president's gas station when he's seeing it at $2 a gallon... definitely fill up "

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

One of the most persistent misunderstandings about radicalization, and one which is VERY prevalent in liberal spaces, is that it primarily affects the stupid or uneducated.

The guy who posted this is a military historian with a PhD from Harvard and is faculty at the University of Jerusalem.

Americans are not prepared for the reaping of what our government is sowing.

Reminiscent of Putin blaming Ukraine for bombing Ukrainian civilians.

Reminds me of what Trump said in 2017 when asked about whether Putin was a “killer”.

Trump responded: "There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?"

He was making excuses for Putin then. He’s making excuses for Putin now.

Here’s hoping Trump’s historical role is not to facilitate the emergence of a Europe dominant by Reform UK, the AfD, the National Front, etc that would basically reflect the outcome of WWII if the America Firsters of the 1930s and 40s had gotten their way.

Iran: a young, increasingly secular quasi-democracy with a top heavy religious fundamentalist government that is facing increasing pressure for reform

Israel: a radicalizing garrison state with no opposition or reformist movement to speak of

Again, the unifying 🧵 about Trump’s foreign policy is not realism or neo-royalism. It’s the extension of sexual assault/predation/partner abuse to IR. If he thinks you’re his macho pal, he’ll respect you/your sovereignty. If not, he’ll try to violate you & humiliate you. Epstein-ism, if you like.

The Vitruvian Man as a visual "gauge" or dial. The different arm angles of the figure correspond to labels along a color-coded arc (green to red), similar to a speedometer: REST – arm down (fully green) PET DOG – slight upward angle PET CHILDREN – moderate angle CALL TAXI – arm nearly horizontal CALL WAITER – arm raised high NAZI – arm fully extended upward at a straight angle (red zone)

Now you know.

incredibly funny for an American president to lecture the British about showing up to wars late

Atlantic cover story: Will Iran Be Next? Iran wants nukes. A Pentagon-style war game shows why military strikes would invite disaster. By James Fallows

Time is a flat circle.

(Cover of the Atlantic, 21+ years ago.)

Me, publishing an article on the mismatch between the US military's high operational excellence and Trump's strategic stupidity:

X: you commie bastard
Bluesky: fascist cheerleader

All while the original wrapping on the article remains undisturbed by reading

Pete Hegseth attempts to distract by being a Nazi

Nazi Pete wants you all to get distracted by his Sieg Heil instead of his very public capitulation to Russia, litany of war crimes, and failing Iran war strategy.

Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes. I’ve always loved that song.

This is a terrifying thread. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if the idiots running this war never considered it.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict." Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, 6/3/47 "Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war." Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box

Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered.

President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero:

“In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”

Stupid Trump post.

The tone is less “Commander in Chief” and more “guy who just won a 3AM fight in a Waffle House parking lot.”

“Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death” sure sounds like nuke talk

A classified U.S. National Intelligence Council report completed about a week before the war began assessed that even a large-scale U.S. military campaign against Iran would be unlikely to topple the regime.-WaPo

Glorious and free🇨🇦

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Putting groypers in charge of all public government communication while barring soldiers from going to any college with a liberal arts program and you quickly get into situations where no one in a press shop can remember the word "presumed."

Seems troubling.

More troubling would be the idea that the Administration might have bombed Iran without expecting this.