JD Simkins

@jdsimkins.bsky.social

Editor-in-Chief, Military Times & Defense News. Would rather be outside.

We need especially right now to remember the model of integrity and vision for public service by the Greatest Generation and leaders like Robert Mueller — I tried to distill some of the core leadership lessons that Mueller always talked about: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-leade...

Five Leadership Lessons from Robert Mueller

His critical refrain — “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. And if you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” — matters especially now.

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The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

One thing I’m thinking about today is the hollowness of all the “Don’t Tread on Me” extremists, who turn out to be just far-right extremists. Dems should retake the Gadsden flag. Is there a good blue maker of Gadsden flags that doesn’t support far-right causes?

"Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act." Didn't think we'd ever see this quote from Jim Mattis applied to operations in our own country. DHS is spawning an army of pissed off citizens

💯. We treated enemy combatants - who may have been very recently trying to violently kill us - with a level of restraint and professionalism that appears to be beyond the imagination of a federal law enforcement organization handling non-violent American citizens.

brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

So I always like to go "What would have happened had a Marine done this in Afghanistan" and it's so obvious in this case as to make the exercise moot.

"Which Way Western Man?" is a book by white supremacist William Gayley Simpson. It was published in the 1970s by an imprint affiliated with the neo-Nazi group National Alliance. I'm sure this language is coincidental

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Remains insane to me that in Iraq — in an active war — when encountering a potential hostile vehicle, we're told to wave/yell, use lights, fire warning shots at tires-engine-windshield last resort. But in Minnesota you just shoot into the driver window of a mom with your partner in the field of fire

People really watched tape of Josh Johnson playing in Washington in 2018 and said, "Let's run that back in 2025." Would rather watch Josh Harris play QB. Pain

Tashan Reed@tashanreed.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The #Commanders will start Josh Johnson at QB against the Cowboys tomorrow, per HC Dan Quinn. It'll be his first start since 2021. Jeff Driskel will be his backup. Sam Hartman will be third string. Marcus Mariota (hand/quad) wasn't able to get cleared in time on a short week.

Iowa National Guardsman writes a message on a GBU-31 munition used today against the Islamic State in Syria. Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, were killed in an ambush last weekend.

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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.