Peter Lucier

ICE crackdown imperils Afghans who aided U.S. war effort, lawyers say Advocates fear President Donald Trump’s ambitious deportation plan jeopardizes Afghan interpreters and other allies who worked for U.S. troops during the war.

A disgrace.

“One former interpreter for U.S. forces in Afghanistan was detained by immigration agents after he showed up for a routine green card appointment. A second was arrested just minutes after attending his first asylum hearing in San Diego.”

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Shameful behavior from Treasury Secretary Bessent

never heard of Avi Loeb before today, but after some quick googling, seems like an astrophysicist Sy Hersh.

Undeniably great, once, huge contributor to the field, but ego and reputation led him to fall to wild conspiracy, so lost that those he inspired now must debunk his new baseless, nutty work

Do you think masculinity is something he is trying to sell or something he needs to be?

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

“My analysis of the network's FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees.” open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

^^^ that’s a gift link too, you non-contributing slackers. You are welcome

A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump

What a fucking kicker from Greg Jaffe

“Both she and Ms. Loomer were sharing their visions of America. For the moment, Ms. Easterly was the outsider.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Suffer what we must*

Chow to chow, lights to lights, sunday to Sunday

Was just gonna say, banger title for something, hold on to that one.

Colombia Brazil in Copa America is an absolute thriller

Marta scored my favorite goal in soccer for the equalizer in the final minute of stoppage. Loose ball bounces around, comes outside box, three step run up and blast on frame. Usually a defensive midfielder. Either goal, or row zed

Great names

its was in forging loving community with the other (dogs) that we learned how to be ourselves.

caring for these dumb lovable silly creatures isn't cringe, or silly. its the most human thing we can do.

which means dogs didn't just teach us to dream.

they taught us how to become human.

so the theory goes, our old old old team up with dogs let early man start to sleep deeper. start to dream.

and its once we started getting that deep rem sleep that we started to become conscious

there's a theory, i have no idea how accurate, but i like the idea of it, that:

humans sleep deeper and spend longer in deep rem phases when they can hear their dog's breathing. that part actually is true

Airborne soldiers be like. . .

a man standing on a stage with the words ladies and gentlemen written on the screen ALT: a man standing on a stage with the words ladies and gentlemen written on the screen

430pm on a Friday? Close enough

That’d make more sense honestly. They seem far wiser, all things considered.

The best decision, BY FAR, that humans ever made, was making friends with dogs.

It was pragmatic, but also empathetic, and brought us joy.

And we did it a long, long, long time ago.

The foresight. The dedication to cuteness. Honestly, looking at humanity today, I’m shocked we had it in us.

its when part of an organ, or the whole thing, gets displaced from its normal position, usually downward or outward, often resulting in it protruding from an orifice.

great word

This song was everything when I was at SOI in early 2009.

It predates terminal lance, but it like … primed us for TL, and then all the problematic facebook groups, JTTOTS et al.

crazy to me how a lot of what I think of as online veteran culture didn’t come around until later in the war years.

YouTube video by Alkohol2011 EAS Song

The war’s already over so let’s go home
Can’t wait to go on leave so I can get stoned

youtu.be/RoxdT2xhra8?...

Lance corporals of the world, rejoice, and be glad.
The hour we have awaited is at hand at last.

You know what Sydney Sweeney discourse and diarrhea have in common?

Both make me think twice about wearing jeans

Battle Buddies — #AfghanEvac

Afghan allies stood with us under fire.
Now they face ICE agents in courtrooms.
They will not stand alone.

Veterans across the country are standing up to support allies as they go through their immigration processes.Sign up today.

https://bit.ly/4nF9Uq1

Supreme Court keeps a pause for now on a ruling that weakens the Voting Rights Act The Supreme Court has extended a pause, for now, on a lower court ruling that struck down a key tool for protecting minority voters under the Voting Rights Act in seven states.

Two cases from the 8th Circuit threaten to dramatically limit the Voting Rights Act.

At stake: §2 (through a §1983 claim) and §208 of the VRA.

In 2022, overturning decades of precedence, 8th Cir. said §2 contained no private right of action.

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www.npr.org/2025/07/24/n...

There’s an Eddie Vedder song… yeah I needed more context here.

I just sing the lyrics to myself but insert other things for “society”

That’s the whole context. Figured I’d fling the thought out into the world and put it out of my brain for awhile