Congratulations!!!

Same!

Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.

Always good when the trash takes itself out. I just worry that their reliefs will be COMPETENT bad guys.

“Everyone who serves matters.”
 
Cassie is a veteran and Air Force base engineer. She volunteered to help remove barriers for military women – until a “diversity” ban shut down the team.
 
They weren’t pushing politics. They just want to make a difference. Her story 👇🏼

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

I need this tattooed on my forehead or something. Especially because sometimes when I’m just trying to express excitement it comes off as condescension. Ask my sister if you don’t believe me.

WSJ: The S&P 500 just ended the day with its biggest loss in the first 100 days of a new presidential term since Nixon's in 1973.

Road Runner. Maybe Bugs Bunny.

Oh, this did my little P-3C/ASWOC heart so much good! I want it to be a movie.

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I’m sure I’ll never manage a SCIF again. But if I did, he and Tulsi Gabbard would be permanently banned. I wouldn’t let either one of those two put their treacherous little paws on anything classified higher than an unmarked, empty burn bag.

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Okay. What moron in IT approved THAT? I want their security clearance too.

The ping-pong is a diversion. Line dancing is the real threat to warfighting and lethality.

Boatswains’ mates swear that Real Warfighterz™️ only go to Institutions of Modern Interpretive Dance (which always involve mysterious props called “poles,” “pasties,” and “thongs”) on Dollar Beer Night.

Sending best wishes, and prayers for your diplomatic success! Bring him home! - A Fellow Marylander

Same!

Would men need to provide a marriage certificate to vote? No? Just women? Got it.

Stay on it, @johnismay.bsky.social. BZ.

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see
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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

This is high art

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold