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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 7h

This is obviously very bad, but I can’t get over:

“Dear World,

…”

ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 7h

Content of the speech notwithstanding, this sort of thing is pretty standard fare within DOD.

But frankly, everyone should watch it. It is, after all, good for service members to hear the priorities of SECDEF.

ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 2d

I still have a free WaPo subscription by virtue of having a .mil email address, but I might just go ahead and cancel it anyway for the opportunity to fill out a comment block.

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t understand this Patrick. You allow for the possibility that SCOTUS may become illegitimate, but maintain that they are not now because of precedents. There will always be precedents, no? Honest question, as someone who’s followed and agreed with you for a long time since the other place.

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 2d

I find it’s easy to hold both until I consider that the second part may be mostly superficial and/or performative, and then I don’t sleep.

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 5d

Especially on a Sunday evening.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 5d

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

www.rawstory.com

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 7d

LOL

An excerpt from the piece:

By now, many of us are familiar with the former Fox News commentator's ripped arms and chest, as well as the galaxies of tattoos covering his upper body. Online photos of his manliness are nearly unavoidable.

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 7d

👊🇺🇸🔥

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 7d

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 7d

Indeed

ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 7d

Among other things, this is an odd directive to give the “US Military”

Truth Social post from President Trump:

To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025 Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison. You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 7d

yeah any Catholic working for ICE should be put under interdict

alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 7d

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 7d

She doesn’t even sound like she believes her own bullshit at this point.

I mean none of them do, sure, except Trump himself and maybe Hegseth. But she’s just so obviously dead inside here. Marking time in gratuitous fashion until the anticipated annihilation.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 7d

Kristi Noem’s message to the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny for the halftime show:

“The NFL sucks and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe…”

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 7d

It’s been variously observed a million times, but why would anyone assume a guy dressed in a Gap Kids outfit is a law enforcement agent?

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 7d

Fast roping into American cities to drag naked children into the streets for the ‘gram.

ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 9d

Less

ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 9d

Ah, thank you!

ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 9d

I’m sorry, (g)rape?

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 9d

Well it’s October so I guess it’s ghoul season:

If you’re not a citizen, US hospitals should simply let you die.

If you ARE a US citizen, and you have a less than favorable ER experience, it’s an immigrants fault.

One can look around an ER and “notice” who is an illegal alien.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 10d

National parks left open during a government shutdown under the last Trump administration experienced permanent damage - vandalized petroglyphs, chopped down Joshua trees - but they plan to keep them open once again.

Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 10d

The Trump administration plans to keep national parks largely open to the public during the expected government shutdown, according to an internal email reviewed by @nytimes.com.
Conservationists say parks should be closed to prevent irreparable damage.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Update from Maxine Joselow

www.nytimes.com

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 10d

Chatting recently with a local sheriff’s deputy who said I looked familiar. “Were you ever in the Marines?” I asked. He was, turns out he got out ~10 years ago & we hadn’t actually crossed paths. “Yeah I got out when all that political stuff started.”

Weird, I thought. I must have missed that.

ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 10d

Hold up I’ve been allowed to have a beard this whole time?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10d

Pope Leo in remarks to journalists tonight: "Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.” www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Pope Leo criticizes 'inhuman' treatment of immigrants in US

Pope Leo on Tuesday appeared to offer his strongest criticism yet of U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies, questioning whether they were in line with the Catholic Church's pro-life teachings.

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ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 10d

Imagining myself standing up in front of Christian Wortman and imparting my wisdom from when I was a platoon commander at which point I collapse into a pile of dust as all the molecules in my body disassociate in shame.

Reuters @reuters.com · 10d

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slammed ‘fat generals’ and diversity initiatives that he said led to decades of decay in the military, urging officers to resign if they don't support his agenda reut.rs/42OO8qM

ROCK OR SOMETHING @admiraljack.bsky.social · 10d

“deserve peace”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."