James Horrocks

@senorloadenstein.bsky.social

Happily married over 25 years. Retired Army. Father of teenagers. Physician Assistant. Mediocre guitar player. Office fan. Rebel scum. Not interested in crypto, conspiracies, illimunati, or porn bots. 🚫 DMs and definitely 🚫🍊💩.

I feel like the posts saying we can’t vote our way out of this - without expounding further - really need to emphasize that voting is still a big part of change-making. Pressure campaigns on those we do elect still have a better shot with those in the D camp than any MAGAs that win.

🔥 Jon Stewart Defends Democratic Socialism: “When you call it SoCiALiSm, I think it’s a misnomer — It’s about strengthening a safety net for a country that has suffered too long overvaluing capital and money, and undervaluing labor and work. That’s it.”

/🧵 Again, the right’s attitude towards SA is to warn the potential victims and not the perpetrators. If toxic masculinity had a core around which all of the other attributes coalesced, this sickening worldview would be it. Anchored in male entitlement to the physical www.huffpost.com/entry/jesse-...

'Beyond Disgusting': Critics Appalled By Jesse Watters' Joke About Women And U.S. Troops

“Well done Rupert Murdoch, well done,” one commentator wrote sarcastically.

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METT-TC - the “C” being civilians on the battlefield (CoB) - is at the core of military operational considerations. This is basic knowledge taught to young service members in the earliest stages of leadership development to stress the importance of factoring in potential for non-combatant casualties

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

NEW: Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administration’s gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the military’s moral standing and may violate federal law.

MAHA brainrot demands research on vaccines (which has already been done and proved safety/efficacy). The same crowd gobbles up AI trash and supports massive data centers without the same level of skepticism or insistence large bodies of research on the negative impacts. These are not serious people.

I am one of roughly 16M veterans of the armed forces in this country. I used to square my shoulders, head up, with a tear in my eyes at the anthem. I used to believe the things I was taught in school about what America was and what it stood for and felt an obligation to serve it. That young, đź§µ

If anyone needs images to illustrate fascism wrapped in the flag and disguised as patriotism, I can think of few better than this. Cowards desperately clinging to cultural dominance and an idealized mythology of the founding and subsequent quarter-millennium in this colonial exploitation project.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last mo.

Patriot Front came out of their moms’ basements, dusted off the Old Navy khakis, put on the white masks so they don’t get fired from their day jobs, and headed to Washington for America’s 250th birthday celebration. Four hundred self-described patriots, not one ounce of bravery.