It might require 7 officers to take down Brock Lesnar. Alex Pretti wasn’t a heavyweight fighter. They had 7 officers all doing piss poor suspect control against a nurse who liked cycling. I’m dying to know how real law enforcement feels watching this.

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

Hard power is a bridge burner. The use of hard power builds a barrier between you and everyone else. And everyone else can begin to unify against you. Soft power is almost always the cheaper, more effective approach.

Hegseth at NATO summit: "We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values."

Someone should share with Elon the story of Marcus Aurelius Cleander. I am seeing parallels that maybe he should know about.

Yikes. Judge Coughenour, a Reagan appointed federal judge, just ruled on the birthright citizenship case. And the review was scathing. I’m glad there are still conservatives who have some principles.

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This is on the Bureau of Prisons website. It is the 9 star flag, which represents the 9 states that seceded to become the Confederacy. It is still there at the time of this posting. This is not an accident.

Well, ain’t that something? They just keep saying the quiet parts out loud.

Ms Legislature Bill 1484, Section 1, paragraph 3 states that the Mississippi punishment for being in the country illegally is a felony with a life imprisonment without parole, probation, or conditional release. This circumvents the 13th Amendment’s single prohibition on slavery.

I’m thinking that, by July, American crowds will be returning Musk’s “salute”.

A phrase has been on my mind a lot lately, and I wonder how many lives would be different in its absence. “If not for the kindness of strangers…”

Anyone else think that Luigi deserves a presidential pardon a lot more than Hunter? #luigididnothingwrong

I’m confident that the German high command of the late 1930’s had families that missed them, which doesn’t make me feel one bit sad for the manner of their demise. I feel similarly apathetic to the health insurance execs and the parallels between them are sickeningly easy to draw.

The utilization of violence is only appropriate when all other options have been exhausted. Is anyone else philosophically struggling to find any viable option for handling the medical insurance issue in this country without violence?

I would like to see engineering programs have a requirement that students help engineer prosthetic limbs for people in need. It would humanize their work, provide an obvious public good, and drive forward an important area of medicine, all while staying with the spirit of their major.

Eira looked fantastic at her show. Coaching her has been a lot of fun.