Jack Herlocker

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Troops with medical shaving waivers to face separation, Hegseth says Under the new guidelines, troops granted a medical waiver must receive treatment and see the medical condition resolved within a year or face separation.

TIL that I would not have been allowed to serve in Hegseth’s Navy. Before I was commissioned in 1980, I was diagnosed with pseudofolliculitis barbae and needed a waiver.
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At any time, at any place, the United States Department of “War” may kill you because their dear leader says you are a terrorist.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Have a nice day.

My Chats with Deb—Be Careful What You Ask For What do you get for the woman who has everything practical already? Funny you ask…

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Jack Herlocker (@jackh318325) Women writers who post on the Internet: take a few minutes to read some suggestions about staying safe, written by an experienced female writer. https://yaelwolfe.medium.com/after-six-years-as-an-onl...

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The Trump Administration Will Burn $9.7 Million Of Contraceptives The contraceptives were for women in bad situations in poor countries

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ICE Is Providing Security At The FIFA Club World Cup in Miami from June 16 to July 01, 2025 All non-citizens need to be prepared to show their papers

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Separating Truth From Fiction: Is The Government Trying To Take Away Your Social Security? So much misinformation is swirling around that keeping up with the facts is not easy.

A useful and well-researched article on what's going on with Social Security by an MD who has worked with the system:
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

A Canadian with a passport, who offered to buy her ticket home, was instead held for 2 weeks in a for-profit detention system:
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And sadly, this all makes sense:

Opinion | Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To (Gift Article) What will DOGE do with access to personal data on almost all Americans?

A technogeek’s take on what Musk & crew are up to. It’s worse than you think.

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But I’m sure he means well! 🙄

The Devastating Impact of Trump 2.0 on U.S. Farmers The fallout begins...

So much winning going on for US farmers thanks to Trump 2.0:

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Just sayin’!

Your wife now has a permanent excuse. “Dirty clothes on the floor? Wasn’t me, honey! Must be that worthless husband of yours!”

Seeing occasional “25 years ago, the millennium bug didn’t happen, so how can we believe it when so-called experts tell us <whatever>?”
Speaking as one of many many tech geeks who put in 80+ hour weeks fixing, testing, and testing again so nothing happened on 1 Jan 2000 — you’re f**king welcome!

I was in submarines and computers

I did not know that! OK, extra careful from now on…

December 3, 2024 For an astonishing six hours today, South Korea underwent an attempted self-coup by its unpopular president, Yoon Suk Yeol, only to see the South Korean people force him to back down as they reasserte...

South Korea underwent an attempted self-coup by its president, only to see the South Korean people force him to back down as they reasserted their democracy. So the question Americans will have to ask, when thing get dicey: What would the Koreans do?

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@aluncrn.bsky.social saw this in a local market the other day and thought of you:

Well, of course, for heaven's sake . . .