Cover of a book: "An Operational Necessity."
Who else remembers or has heard of prize-winning late 1960s novel 'An Operational Necessity,' by Gwyn Grffin?
It's about law-of-war consequences for WWII German U-boat crew that kills, rather than rescuing, crew members of a French boat it has torpedoed and sunk.
Worth reading again at the moment.
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"I’ll leave for later why reporters didn’t fact-check - there’s an ugly story there too."
"Did you know that Graham Platner was Ryan Grim's bartender back at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill, a fact that Ryan Grim acknowledged on X?"
"from start to finish, British class discourse has nothing on this"
I’ll leave for later why reporters didn’t fact-check - there’s an ugly story there too. But the urgent issue is, Platner would be crushed in the general. It's best to lance the boil now. Here’s the document, sourced and Wikipedia-ready. You should read it. The NRSC sure will. 11/
Markwayne Mullin is awful and corrupt for many reasons.
Not having a college degree is not one of them.
I know plenty of people W/O degrees who have more moral backbone, smarts, common sense, and compassion than at least half of Congress. Mullin isn't one, but not bc he did not graduate college.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Can’t fail to achieve your primary strategic objective if you don’t have strategic objectives!
you don't have to read graphic descriptions of SA even if the rapist is running the country right now
you don't have to read or watch graphic depictions of bombing innocents even if it's happening right now
you can be angry about and take action against wrongs without exposing yourself to trauma
feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined
[Exit Murderer.]
They have billions of multi year money from obbba
noem's big sin to trump wasn't killing innocents or detaining immigrants. it was looking bad on tv in his name. thats all he cares about.
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
This
I went up the chairlift and by the time I got back down the hill she was gone
Justice for Cricket!
Try your damndest to live your life so that if you were fired from your job and about to give a speech that someone would tell you.
OMG!
Only in America would there be a guy named MARKWAYNE as head of Department of Homeland Security
honestly she’ll be replaced by someone just as bad if not worse but at least that person (probably) won’t be fucking corey lewandowski and our long national nightmare of being jumpscared by her melted face in ads will finally end
I know this won't fix much but it could make things just a tiny bit less awful
One ran a major power station in New York; the other was an accountant
it's so difficult! All my sympathy!
San Francisco’s Alice Marble won 18 Grand Slam titles and was ranked #1 in the world in 1939. She also edited DC’s Wonder Woman and fought to desegregate professional tennis — one of America’s greatest yet least-known athletes.
RSVP —-> sfcityguides.org/tour/bohemia...
it really is!
my dad had a trust and everything was in it, and it still took over two years to get everything settled
might be worth looking into who that pilot is and who he is friends with. IJS.
Inside Plastic Executives’ Late-20th-Century Campaign to Blame Consumers for Their Industry’s Waste talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...
it's my favorite Trek, I cannot lie
Here's a link to a @fisheries.noaa.gov illustration of how difficult it *already* is for a right whale calf (red dot) to avoid vessel traffic (blue dots)
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...
oh my god
