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Marine Veteran. Writer. Talking democracy, civmil, veterans, gun violence, war stories. War is bad. Books are good. He/him. STL. Go Cards. LGB. AllForCity

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He has friends everywhere

06.03.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pete don’t go easy on the red and blacks. We don’t raise soft round here.

06.03.2026 21:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the kind of shit 9 year olds say when you stomp them in checkers

06.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
Astronaut gun meme: 

Wait, it's all proxies and heuristics?

Close enough

Astronaut gun meme: Wait, it's all proxies and heuristics? Close enough

06.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Dime a dozen

06.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s the pitch. Politics that is grounded and practical but better.

If it’s all bullshit then what are we doing? The money’s better on the right, and fighting is exhausting.

06.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not in the carrying water for Totenkopf rich kids business.

You want people to believe politics can still be realistic, efficient, practical, while also more just, more human focused, more ethical and good?

you’ve got to embody it. Otherwise it’s all self-serving bullshit

06.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not like he’s some generational political talent who repented, this rare special find that can win.

They just took their dc bartender who was from the state and were like β€œhey he’s a veteran we can make this work” and now are mad anyone dare question their genius

Fuck all the way off

06.03.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They had nothing but time to find somebody

It’s pure laziness that they shoved a generic rich white vet bro at us because hey we can make him seem working class

And it’s arrogance now to double down

We deserved better. It’s embarrassing. It’s not a purity test. The dirt bag left is just lazy

06.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

when platner loses, all the operative types whose search for a candidate extended as far as their dc bar,

who really believed they finally had found what real America wants: a rich kid, fail son, Nazi-tattoo bartender Marine vet

They are gonna blame everyone else and be soooo insufferable

06.03.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the one Jerry, I can feel it. That blue check is coming on the back of this one.

06.03.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Found the Calvinist

06.03.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Strait of Hormusic make you lose control

06.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC HOT DOGS

06.03.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 22
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a close up of a white goat with horns looking at the camera . ALT: a close up of a white goat with horns looking at the camera .

He’s not evil. Mom and god just don’t understand. It isn’t a phase

06.03.2026 13:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"He was the most beautiful of all the angels"

"So...you have a thing for goats then?"

06.03.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

MAN: Tell me about this Satan guy.

GOD: He is a great and terrible fallen angel, the Morningstar who in his pride rose against heaven. The source of all evil. He-

MAN: So he looks like a goat, right?

GOD:

MAN: Goat hooves, goat horns, etc. Definitely getting a goat vibe from this guy.

06.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Safe and sound at home again, let the waters roar, Jack.

06.03.2026 00:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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11 years ago today Tom Ricks changed my life. This was the first piece of writing I ever published. He lent me and a bunch of other E-5s and below a platform he had built.

I had no credentials, but a lot to say. And I’m doing a version of the same thing today, for a living. Thanks Tom.

05.03.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Unauthorized War The Constitution grants Congress, not the president, the power to mobilize the militaryβ€”and for good reason.

β€œDemocracy allows people the freedom to make stupid decisions, so long as they make them collectively. But a system that allows a country to be dragged into war at the whims of a single person is not much of a democracy at all.”
@qjurecic.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

05.03.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a black and white dog is sitting on a couch with its tongue out and says `` wait ! what ?? '' . ALT: a black and white dog is sitting on a couch with its tongue out and says `` wait ! what ?? '' .
05.03.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I once saved a Rembrandt painting from getting a hole punched through it.

05.03.2026 02:43 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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EKG and troponin.

05.03.2026 02:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These fucking cretins, man. It’s cliche and not new and it’s not some piercing insight I know. But just… I hate them with the heat of a nova, I really do. It’s just fucking disheartening.

05.03.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

forever and ever, fuck em man.

04.03.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know how to market the message that treating killing like a game is bad to persuadables worried about tarriff policy and the economy.

Some things are just bad and wrong and the truth has to be enough.

I can’t spin it so it’s palatable. People who do what this video is doing are unfit.

04.03.2026 23:24 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

January 31st, 2012. We called in A-10s. Killed four Taliban. I remember the bodies. Teenagers. Twisted wrecked flesh

Making killing a video game isn’t just obscene. It’s a lie. It papers over what violence is and what it does to the human body, and to our soul. Truth is always the first casualty.

04.03.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
Tom Waits - "Day After Tomorrow" (Remastered)
Tom Waits - "Day After Tomorrow" (Remastered) YouTube video by Tom Waits

They fill us full of lies, everyone buys
about what it means to
Be a soldier.
I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel
about all the blood that's been spilled
Will God on this throne
Get me back home
On the day after tomorrow

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yi3...

04.03.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We know what it looks like when the infrastructure for care isn’t ready when those who fought the war come home.

We cannot let it happen again. Now is the time to be investing in the VA, not cutting jobs for providers and slashing the budget to pay for private jets and kickbacks on ad campaigns.

04.03.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Embrace Harry Truman thought

30.12.2025 23:46 πŸ‘ 363 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4