Better yet - eliminate it altogether.
Elderly White Hippie@marieinsedona.bsky.social · 8h agoRaise👏the👏FICA👏cap.
Eric Coulson
@ericcoulson.bsky.social
Author, retired diplomat, ex- forces, recovering lawyer, husband to Karen. Bond, Springsteen, and dog fan. He/him/his. Author of the Chrysalis Option https://linktr.ee/coulsonwrites
Elderly White Hippie@marieinsedona.bsky.social · 8h ago
Did you know MLK spent much of 1966 talking & working with Chicago gang members? King was a listener, Stones leader Jeff Fort explained & saw a "wealth" in their potential. He drew their respect because King "stood" on his commitments-a "warrior without a gun". www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/02/o...
Jeanne Theoharis and Erik Wallenberg: The unknown history of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Chicago housing movement
Chicago’s movement too often appears as a failure, but Black residents organized to expose the city’s relentless segregation in housing.
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it’s kind of a sad shell of its former self now but yoots believe me when i say that at its peak mtv had a seismic influence on culture
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago“Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” MTV goes live 45 years ago today. 🤘🏼 🎸 $VIAC $TWX $PARA
Jack Ramsey, Bill Walton, Maurice Lucas, Clyde Drexler, et al just shaking their heads.
amb@amb.fyi · 6d agoAfter enjoying fifty years of devoted fandom and support I find it downright shameful for a pro sports team to send their lobbyist to city hall and just flatly say into the mic that the city sucks, in an effort to shake ‘em down for hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars with zero accountability
This reminds me of the fact that the greatest source of un-told stories of spec ops derring-do reside among former and current members of the RLC. Those crazy bastards get up to some shit you cannot imagine.
Jill Sargent Russell, PhD@jsargentr.bsky.social · 2w agoI gave a talk at a SERE trainers conference, all badasses. You could ID the musclemaxed Americans. The actual hardest guy was a Norwegian who looked like Kris Kringle. Second was the oldest RM sniper who talked about fishing. And third was Grandpa RAF NCO, whose signature move was "cuppa tea?"
Eternal gratitude for your sacrifices. Rest in peace. 🙏 Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina
She was being born when o went to Iraq. This is a tragedy.
Molly Ploofkins@mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is 19-year-old Pvt. Isabella Gonzales. The North Texas resident was one of three U.S. service members killed in action during an Iranian retaliatory attack on a base in Jordan.
This correct. Because Hegseth never went though PME and served a t such a low level he cannot conceive of the Operational and Strategic impacts a SECDEf needs to be prepared to deal with.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2w agoExpert opinion: warfare has changed since Achilles and Odysseus. (Seriously, Hegseth's obsession with muscles and masculinity seems based on pathetic fantasies of hand-to-hand combat more suited to MMA than modern warfare.)
Myth: The severity of a sentence serves as a deterrent on crime. Fact: “General deterrence is primarily a function of the certainty of punishment, not its severity." It's all in our model motion: datafordefenders.org/wp-content/u...
datafordefenders.org
In case it wasn't yet clear, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have no qualms about sacrificing your children in a stupid war in Iran. They don't care. They view your children as cannon fodder in service to Trump's narcissism and never-ending incompetence.
Professor Kreis has been all over this from the beginning. He has deconstructed Wurman’s nonsense from the beginning. Thanks for good work.
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3w agoI have grown tired of Prof. Wurman’s defense of his own bigotry by claiming I “lack reading comprehension.” I will waste no more time on him and his evidence-free dreck after this. Yes, his blanket moral claim is racist. Yes, his “evidence” is ahistorical. His arguments are sloppy and confused.
It still surprises me how true this.
The Liberal BoJack@thelibbojack.bsky.social · 3w agoOne of the most jarring things about adulthood is the realization of how many truly incompetent people are in the most important jobs. When I was a kid, I just assumed everyone “important” was smart or they wouldn’t be important. Boy, was that fucking wrong.
I mean we pioneered this at Nuremburg. No issues with this whatsoever.
Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 3w agoI have no struggle with this at all. Who is this "most of us"?
PeDonald’s corruption and criminality probably drove Lindz to an early grave. Imagine the stress & pressure of trying to defend a degenerate on a daily basis - has to be unbearable!
Graham dead, Mitch Missing. Dems in disarray. NY Times probably. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
I served with Eric in Iraq, He convinced me to apply for and join the JAG Corps. He was a former Infantry Officer who also served with the Ranger Regiment. He will be missed. www.propublica.org/article/eric...
Senior Military Adviser to Joint Chiefs Is Retiring Earlier Than Expected
Brig. Gen. Eric Widmar, senior legal adviser to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is retiring “for personal reasons.” He is the latest high-profile departure among the military’s top lea...
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Furthering my theory that this entire website is for people who owned Doonesbury collections as children and understood about a third of it.
The people calling this a whites only refugee policy are importantly wrong, in that none of the Boers are refugees come on. It's a zero refugee policy and an insultingly stupid whites only special migration program
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 4w agoBREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
", is a globalist, is a rootless cosmopolitan, is a Jew/is controlled by Jews."
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last mo.Trump: "They say 'Social Democrat.' No, a Social Democrat is a communist."