Brexton O'Donnell

It was told by a Flying Tiger pilot who was shot down over enemy territory in China. Fortunately, he was picked up by villagers and hidden in a couple's house. "The first thing they did was to take his boots away. He thought: 'They're going to take everything I have of value and then turn me over to the Japanese,'" Jobe told the audience. When the Japanese came into this house, they mercilessly beat the couple, and then another Japanese soldier came and mumbled something, and suddenly all of them left the home and the town. Touching story The pilot later discovered that the couple had given his boots to a young man who left a trail out of the town; the Japanese believed the trail was left by the Flying Tiger, so they followed it. The pilot waited at the home till a missionary arrived to help escort him back to his base. Before leaving, he asked the missionary to ask the couple why they risked their lives to save his. "Their answer was simplicity itself: 'When the Japanese come, we see fear in the eyes of the Chinese; when the Flying Tigers come, we see fear in the eyes of the Japanese,'" said Jobe.

man, reading about the Flying Tigers (US pilots flying for China during WW2) makes me feel like sobbing 😭

This makes the Tyrell army and the population of Kings Landing a lot less of a headache.

I was assuming drow are Aussies, what with being from down under.

(I know, the door is that way)

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

More shells is never the wrong answer.

For all the conversation around Orcs and racism in fantasy, in Tolkien it's mostly a single not-great letter while the Dothraki stuff is far more flagrantly racist and written half a century later.

Throwing your least favorite sibling overboard at the first opportunity is a traditionally monarchical pastime.

Even the most conservative of elected Democrats now are largely extremely solid on LGBT rights and abortion!

all i’m saying is, if you drive by my house and you see an xb-70 sitting in the back yard, no you didn’t. and you’d do well to remember it’s a bad idea to snitch on someone with strategic delivery capabilities

I can hear this in the Disco Elysium narrator voice.

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

Greg Sargent posted a few days ago about how 2024 swing voters just didn't believe Trump did any of the things of he did in his first term and didn't blame him for COVID, and there were a bunch of replies about how that proves Dems weren't trying hard enough and I want to scream.

This is like something out of a horror movie, my god

The Malort theory of entertainment.

Popehat's hair trigger block finger is probably the only way you can simultaneously be That Online and also one of the most thin-skinned people alive.

Athletes are insane (laudatory).

He walks among us in many forms.

I have a mental image of Skubal and Skenes looking at Dylan Cease's contract and cackling manically.

Beginning to approach Taylor Lorenz levels of "yes lots of people are cracked but nobody else is cracked in this exact way."

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

Also every single person who has decided to make this discourse Their Thing is just pretending not to know the guys were masked?

Apparently goonfleet.

He's too online, a politics guy, and most importantly, an EVE Online guy, it was like someone made him in a lab for this.

Please stop leaving us unattended, we're not ready for the responsibility.