Bryce

@dubeeous.bsky.social

"a cancer to our society and to our children’s future" OIF and OEF vet, former AUS (the airport, not the country) and Army spox, now talking energy. Generally helpful, usually on background.

If I had a nickel for every time someone I knew personally won the Democratic nomination for a congressional seat this election cycle, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

I’m a fifth-generation logger and the son of a public school teacher. My dad worked 16-hour days, and it still wasn’t enough. Susan Collins didn’t stand up for working people then—and she certainly isn’t standing up for Mainers now. Watch our first ad:

I'm on more or less a self-imposed boycott of Drafthouse because all their new "features" suck and are crazy expensive now, but Bruce Campbell posted online that he's going to be in Austin doing a screening of his new movie and a Q&A, and I've never hit the "buy tickets" button so fast in my life.

A grim thing to think, but when I read pieces like this, there's a part of my brain that makes me thankful that this stuff wasn't around when I was in the army. Utterly harrowing technologies that in no way will be contained to just that one conflict. www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...

Inside Ukraine’s Kill Zone

Drones now dominate the war in Ukraine. Fly through the front line’s deadly “kill zone” and discover how surveillance, kamikaze drones and new tactics are reshaping modern warfare. An immersive Reuter...

reuters.com

From the great TM Gibbons-Neff: “Regarding the mujahedeen who were killed by your side, I do not know whether they or their families would forgive you,” Mr. Gulab said. “Those civilians may not forgive the foreign forces, but for me personally, I have my own authority and I have forgiven you.”

Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought (Gift Article)

First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.

nytimes.com

In my previous PAO life, I released service histories for soldiers on an almost daily basis to media - it a routine and completely reasonable practice. Honestly can't wrap my head around the justification for this move by the Navy.

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