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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist

@davetheaveragedad.bsky.social

Views mine--natsec, politics and fun. (PhD, Harvard; Christensen Inst.; DARPA; dad of @garlic_gorl, et alia.)

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F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over War Coverage

I wrote about this, and what it means for the First Amendment, last night. Get the history & the analysis here: joycevance.substack.com/p/attacking-...

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

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4 hours ago

This thread has been going for months now. This now makes 70 in the thread, if my math is correct.

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Combat experience can teach you about yourself. It does not teach you about foreign policy, strategy, war, politics or governance

In honor of @bradduplessis.bsky.social fighting the good fight

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This isn‘t even good Calvinball.

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6 hours ago

All of this incredibly obvious and infuriating welfare fraud happened under the first Trump administration and I don't recall them ever threatening to block funding to the state of Mississippi as a result.

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B/w photograph of Mary Seacole. Her hair is braided and she is wearing an attire with a lace collar and a string of pearls. She is staring directly at the viewer with a strong and kind expression. Seacole's Times Obituary

May 21, 1881: The trustees of the fund established some time since in behalf of Mrs Mary Seacole wish it to be known that she died on the 14th inst. 
The deceased, it will be remembered, greatly distinguished herself as a nurse on the battlefield and in hospitals during the Crimean war. A Creole, she was born in Jamaica early in the present century, and from childhood was instructed by her mother in the art of nursing. In 1855, after it had been announced that no more nurses were required in the Crimea, she established a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers at Balaclava, landing there in the month of February. She was present at many battle, and at the risk of her life often carried the wounded off the field. Before Sebastopol she was a patient nurse among those stricken with cholera, and when she returned to England after the peace she was ruined in fortune and injured in health. 
The fund already referred to was then started, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Duke of Cambridge being patrons. In 1857 she published an autobiography, entitled “Wonderful Adventures in Many Lands,” the preface being written by Dr W. H. Russell. 
“I have witnessed,” he writes, “her devotion and her courage; and I trust England will not torget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices of her illustrious dead.” 
The sum raised for Mrs Seacole enabled her to end her days in comfortable ease. Strange to say, she has bequeathed all her property to persons of title.

On Mothering Sunday thinking about Mary "Mother" Seacole (1805- 1881)

Medical practitioner who used her sophisticated knowledge of pharmacology to nurse those wounded in the Crimean war.

Author of the first autobiography by a woman of African descent in Britain.

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"My girlfriend who lives in Canada."

*Immediately fires up Avenue Q*

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Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in their car as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip

“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.”

Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.

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A welcome sign with a tabby cat and behind it are the ruins of Largo di Torre Argentina A close up of the ruins One of the cats who lives at the sanctuary hiding behind some bushes

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

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Arsonist gets upset that firefighters aren’t arriving at the exact moment he decides he wants their help.

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I know as a white man I'm oppressed.

It's ludicrous and oppressive to me that there are so many insecure, frightened maga nazis walking around with impunity yet I'd get in trouble if I were allowed to do what's right and good.

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Of course the conclusion was gonna be humans doing the same jobs for even less money

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4 hours ago

We’re more than 2 weeks into this conflict, and we still haven’t heard a clear and coherent rationale about its aims and timing from anyone in the Trump admin.

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"My next guest is a supervillain who has trapped three NBA players in his medallion, forever. Hoopmaster, happy to have you, your thoughts on the Strait of Hormuz?"

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To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

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Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News

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HASSETT: The latest number I was briefed on is $12 billion


BRENNAN: $12 billion for six weeks of war?

HASSETT: No, I'm sorry. The $12 billion was what I was briefed has been spent so far.

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"So far"
We ALL know that there will be more to come.
MUCH, much more......🙁😥😡🤬

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Huh? He starts his answer with this weird response. The rest of it is not much clearer.

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22 hours ago
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The Cruelty is the Point The Deaths of Daphy Michel and Nurul Amin Shah Alam

They’ve found another immigrant tragically dead on the street after being released from ICE custody.

My latest piece for Substack:

substack.com/@katiephang/...

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12 hours ago
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

“Trump administration threatens news outlets over critical coverage of Iran

FCC chair says news outlets that share ‘distortions’ about US war with Iran could lose their licenses.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

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There is absolutely no bottom.

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

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Source for screenshot?

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MVP Kamala Harris with the delegates of the National High School Model United Nations Conference in New York City 💪🏼🔥

- 3/13/2026

“Yeah, they tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence” 🇺🇸🦅

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Where Mamdani Has Refused to Moderate The New York City mayor is not soft-pedaling his views on Israel.

The thesis of this article is that "opposition to Israel is central to Mamdani's worldview" and the evidence is that he posted a single photo with Mahmoud Khalil

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1 day ago

Arrest quotas

Palantir selected “targets”

No warrants

Random detainments

Despicable

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how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter

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NASA crashed a spacecraft into a space rock, accelerating two asteroids’ orbit around the sun | CNN The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. New observations now reveal that the planetary defense test was a success. https://cnn.it/47k4MRF

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Well…

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/f...

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2 days ago

I literally just posted “irony is dead” for another Fox News segment. I need a rubber stamp.

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