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Only took me a few weeks but here is a list of books to introduce one to all things military. My latest⬇️

👀 That earthquake-esque statement

When Chicago police recruit Alexus Byrd-Maxey reported being sexually assaulted by her peer, another recruit said she was “trying to victimize herself.” Her teacher never filed a sexual misconduct complaint. Weeks later, Byrd-Maxey was the one fired. W/ @invisible.institute‬

You may not see their names or faces commemorated this month, but please remember these men and women from across the Pacific who served and sacrificed around the world for our country’s ideas.

"Woke, Caring when some others don't." - Jerry Jones, Owner of the Dallas Cowboys

This is NOT what I was expecting

Booker, just minutes away from the speaking record: "This is when the most precious ideas of our country are being tested, where the Constitution and the question is being called -- Where does the constitution live? On paper? Or in our hearts? This is the moment."

They will take everything.

Trigger warning for basically everything. Apparently one of the seven people under charges for the torture and murder of transgender man Sam Nordquist coerced two children, a 12 year old and a 7 year old, into participating in the torture. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

🚨ATTENTION The deadline to register to vote in Florida’s special elections in CD-1 or CD-6 is THIS MONDAY, March 3rd. These two seats are crucial with a narrow majority in the House. Double check your status and register to vote at iwillvote.com.

The Trump Administration has made a big deal about the emergency waivers it created for "lifesaving" aid work. But these waivers are not working as intended. Even the most critical work—Ebola outbreak containment, treating babies with AIDS—is halted. My latest: www.wired.com/story/the-us...

it's like watching ants find their way around a puddle. you can do it little guys! keep working those tiny brains!

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

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James Madison nailed it "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

I wish I'd kept a diary every year of my life. I have several years, but huge huge gaps, and when I look back it's astonishing how much you forget, the versions of yourself that you have no recollection of. My one life tip would be - keep a diary. Start today. Write down anything at all.

'Reverse racism' in meme form

#BlueCrew - Quote of the Day

Sigh...fine

Gish gallop

Timeline cleanser. The Milky Way rising off the east coast of Tasmania, 2024. (Photo by me)

I think anyone who got a Hugo this year, or was a finalist (or should have been a finalist) get to process the behind-the-scenes nonsense however they choose to. For me, at least, there is no wrong answer here. The issue is not them, it is and always will be the bonkers acts of the administrators.

Wrote about China’s idea of global governance to 9DashLine: “China has already made considerable progress in planting the seeds of an international order that would make the future safe for its one-party rule at home by insulating it from outside threats.”