Rob Chmara

we are breaking new ground in Civ-Mil relations (I feel extremely nauseous ngl)

Our Favorite Prime Day Deals From Stores That Aren't Amazon You don't have to shop Amazon Big Deal Days to save on WIRED-approved favorites.

Amazon isn’t the end-all, be-all for Prime Day sales; if you’re anti-Prime, you can check out this guide that highlights small businesses of products we’ve tested and can recommend wholeheartedly.

www.wired.com/story/anti-p...

Hey I’m a Jets fan, half our starting lineup is on IR right now lol

The country can relax. McDavid signed.

Yes! Food wasn’t too bad on Leo 2 conversion lol

I can’t even begin to imagine what a German mess must be like lol

The UK DFAC was my favourite place to go whenever I was back at KAF lol. It wasn’t even that good but somethin’ about that curry.

Apple lol. The company that would unlock a mass shooter’s phone on principle is now assisting a fascist government to quel dissent. aPpLLe iS dIFeREnT!

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening

www.404media.co/google-calls...

Never in my life would I publicly admit that my penis is that small. Imaging getting this palmed to you at some shitty presser and not laughing out loud.

Of course they are. Cuz profit is the most important thing.

Used my civilian health number today for some imaging. First time I’ve used the civilian medical system, as a civilian. I felt like a 6 year old being dropped off at a new school haha. I’m a grown ass man lol

Making a Scarecrow of the Law: A Former Agent’s Reaction to Recent Events at the FBI My response to the ongoing politicization of the FBI under Kash Patel.

"I know that at least one agent held the potential of being an upstanding public servant, who embodied the best ideals of the FBI, and now will always be associated with an elected official’s unending quest for revenge."

@michael-feinberg.bsky.social discusses the politicization of the FBI.

He’s desperately trying to hold onto the Lorne Michaels philosophy and he, like the rest of them, absolutely doesn’t get that things are different. Also, he’s a gutless fucking coward.

This is Greg Bovino again, the emerging general of the CBP’s mobile forces. On paper he is in charge of a CBP sector in Southern California, but obviously their command-and-control arrangements are evolving with their rapidly expanding mission. We’re going to be seeing a lot of him.

More pointedly, the pope said, "Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

As a theorist, Schmitt is remembered for two things: his incisive Weimar-era critique of liberalism and his decision to join the Nazi party in the run-up to the Second World War.

In 1996, theologian Wolfgang Palaver introduced Thiel to these ideas at a conference.
www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

“The high points of politics,” Thiel quotes Schmitt as saying, “are the moments in which the enemy is, in concrete clarity, recognized as the enemy.”

In Thiel’s mind, Osama bin Laden was capable of this kind of politics. The West, with its fetish for individual rights and procedures, was not.

While Wolfgang Palaver, the theologian who first introduced Thiel to Schmitt's apocalyptic theories, did so in a way to speak against the Nazi jurist's ideas, Thiel took it, well, in another direction.

And Thiel's not alone in this belief. www.wired.com/story/the-re...

jesus christ

It's so clear that there's a huge number of professionals in the US who carry with them traumatic memories of being excluded, laughed at, or looked down up on by the Smart Kids and who have basically made hostility to Smart Kids their entire personality, ideology, & worldview.

If Carney really wants to differentiate himself from Trudeau, then he should be open about this and force a public apology.

The best part about the US 7th Cav at Wounded Knee is that they were slaughtered. Fuck them. Fuck their medals. Fuck Pete Hegseth. Murderers aren’t heroes.

Thaaaat, however, was a Try.

Boo yah! No Try

That’s not a Try

If we are not citizens by birthright, we are not citizens in any useful sense at all

Netherlands: Two teenagers arrested in spying case linked to Russia The pair were allegedly recruited by pro-Russian hackers and used a "wi-fi sniffer" on the Europol headquarters.

“One of the boys allegedly walked past the offices of Europol, Eurojust and the Canadian embassy in The Hague carrying a "wi-fi sniffer" - a device designed to identify and intercept wi-fi networks.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

To be clear: It's entirely possible this is about the Dan Richman stuff (as we catalogued in our piece for @lawfaremedia.org), not the Andy McCabe stuff.

We don't really know the factual basis for the indictment because the indictment doesn't say.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

@PeteHegseth on X: Cool story, General QT of @general_ben on X: July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser