Wesley Morgan

During Bennett’s time with SEAL Team 6, the unit ran JSOC’s air campaign in Somalia and Yemen (first as TF 48-4, then as TF 111, while Delta was running the command’s Iraq/Syria task force and the Rangers the Afg task force). Before becoming DDSO, he was JSOC’s assistant commander for operations.

The Navy rear admiral was Brian Bennett, the Joint Staff’s deputy director for special operations. He has a lot of experience with previous *congressionally authorized* drone strike campaigns in Afg/Yemen/Somalia from his time as SEAL Team 6’s deputy commander, Black Squadron commander, and J-3.

Comparing the Caribbean Extrajudicial Killing Spree to Afghanistan is a smear against people who upheld their obligations to the Constitution and the LOAC in Afghanistan.

Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels

Quite a double standard here: "Despite concluding that an armed conflict is underway, the memo also says the operation is not covered by the War Powers Resolution" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Vladimir Putin’s sickening statistic: 1m Russian casualties in Ukraine His regime uses payouts to salve Russian families’ grief

"Before November ends, Russia will probably suffer its millionth casualty since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, based on current trends of about 1,000-1,200 soldiers killed or injured every day."

The IDF laid the groundwork for the destruction of whole cities with the rural 1km border buffer zone and the Netzarim, Philadelphi, and Mefalsim Corridors that it declared and cleared of all structures in 2024, and then the widened buffer zone and Morag and Magen Oz Corridors in spring 2025:

Here are Rafah and Khan Younis without the Yellow Line overlay, so it's clearer that the area between them is farmland and not undemolished urban neighborhoods

Here are Rafah and Khan Younis without the Yellow Line overlay, so it's clearer that the area between them is farmland and not undemolished urban neighborhoods

Central Gaza (Deir al-Balah, Bureij, Nuseirat, prewar population 310,000) has not seen sustained IDF ground operations since early 2024 so it's the most intact, except for the smaller towns of Juhor ad-Duk and Mughraqa that were fully demolished in 2024 for the Netzarim Corridor

In the north, the Gaza City/Jabaliya/Beit Hanoun metro area (prewar population ~1.2 million) has had about two-thirds of its 24-square-mile area demolished: a belt 0.5-1.5 miles deep around Gaza City, Jabaliya reduced to pockets, Beit Hanoun completely gone

Southern Gaza:

Rafah (left, prewar population 175,000) has been almost completely erased by a year and a half of sustained IDF demolition operations

Khan Younis (right, prewar pop 200,000) has been reduced to two pockets of standing neighborhoods, one still under IDF control and being worked on

Central Gaza (Deir al-Balah, Bureij, Nuseirat, prewar population 310,000) has not seen sustained IDF ground operations since early 2024 so it's the most intact, except for the smaller towns of Juhor ad-Duk and Mughraqa that were fully demolished in 2024 for the Netzarim Corridor

In the north, the Gaza City/Jabaliya/Beit Hanoun metro area (prewar population ~1.2 million) has had about two-thirds of its 24-square-mile area demolished: a belt 0.5-1.5 miles deep around Gaza City, Jabaliya reduced to pockets, Beit Hanoun completely gone

Southern Gaza:

Rafah (left, prewar population 175,000) has been almost completely erased by a year and a half of sustained IDF demolition operations

Khan Younis (right, prewar pop 200,000) has been reduced to two pockets of standing neighborhoods, one still under IDF control and being worked on

What's left of Gaza:

Black—urban neighborhoods the IDF has fully demolished with earthmovers etc.

White—undemolished urban neighborhoods (with varying levels of major damage from 2 years of bombing, artillery, and ground fighting)

Yellow—IDF-controlled (white areas liable to further demolition)

She’s just already built up a very high tolerance level over the course of her career for hanging around extremely repulsive and reprehensible men, and a system for doing that without examining what it says about herself

YouTube video by WestStainesTV Da Ali G Show - Richard Thornburgh, US Attorney General

They’re doing the bit

youtu.be/_IL5wTCLEiY?...

Unless I’m just spelling it wrong, which is possible

By the end of 2026, this one’s going to be in the Apple iOS dictionary without the red underline, I predict. About to have its big year

(Thinking about the phrase “the naked eye” because of the Northern Lights articles/pictures)

An eye with a contact lens on it should not be considered “the naked eye.” It is clearly clothed

Different Wesley Morgan!

I’ve seen a lot of boomers use the triple comma instead of an ellipsis,,,but I’ve never seen a space double comma space before

Bugonias

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.

Although the Gaza ceasefire bars “all military operations” in Gaza, the IDF has interpreted that *not* to include neighborhood demolition operations on its side of the Yellow Line (which includes Rafah and most of Khan Younis) and it has demolished 1,500+ buildings in the past month, BBC finds.

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

Rabbinical judge and IDF bulldozer commander Avraham Zarbiv takes credit in documentary for IDF’s Gaza policy of mass demolitions: “We changed the conduct of an entire army. Rafah is flattened, Jabaliya is flattened, Beit Hanoun is flattened, Shejaiya is flattened, and Khan Younis is flattened.”

Event Horizon is great, shut up

Airport Transporter Crashes at Dulles, Causing Injuries and Damage

Hoping a silver lining to this unfortunate event is that when they retire the Dulles people movers, the prices for surplus ones will be lower

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Cheez-It Creates a Savory Twist on the Gingerbread House TLL Staff A holiday staple is getting a bold new twist this year, as Cookies United and Cheez-It unveiled the Cheez-It Holiday House Kit, a limited-edition tak

Seems to me that a peanut butter derivative would probably have been better than traditional icing for the cement component, but I’m still going to bring one of these Cheez It house kits to every party this holiday season and make it my weird thing