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romad1

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  1. well duh https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=119923733 https://archive.is/Yp8Hf#selection-677.0-681.217 USAID employees better not speak with accent or have tattoos or they will be sent to El Salvador.
  2. My god. Ubergruppenfuhrer Martin is pretty devious to swat the US Institute of Peace.
  3. More on Dropkick Murphys. I'll be doing a deep dive on The Pogues and the bagpipe Green Day cover band Green Daye shown in the first season of "Community" next.
  4. Reading "Island Infernos" from James McManus about the US Army in the Pacific War. Why this is interesting to me: most WWII history of the pacific dwell on the USMC and USN to the exclusion of the Army. About 50% through this. Most interesting insights: MacArthur's Army commanders Kreuger and Eichelberger were as different as US Army generals could be and hated each other. McManus always raves about the tremendous logistical footprint of the US in the Pacific in the podcasts I listen to with him, and here he also goes into detail about the numbers a lot...one of those details was the number of baseball and softball leagues on Bouganville which was an important staging base in the Solomons. He covers the war in Burma and the Merrils Marauders campaign which appears to have been a creation to empower General Stilwell to say that US troops were engaged in the fight to rebuild the Burma Road. The unit was abused heavily by both Merrill and Stilwell and were basically combat ineffective from being forced to do things in the Jungle terrain you just can't repeat from a European or eastern United States climate template. Its interesting how many of these generals understood China from the inter-war years. Talking about General Wainright's POW experience. How much these leaders were consumed by depression over having to surrender and having no agency over their men's lives in Japanese POW camps. McManus goes into a lot of interesting detail on the f'ups these legends of history make. That alone is worth the read. Island Infernos: The U.S. Army’s Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 | JohnCMcManus.com
  5. My blood, my anger...is that of Lincoln's right now.
  6. They will go as Riley Greene goes.
  7. Jason Benetti is calling the game in Japan.
  8. 2026 Dem campaign needs to be "NO KINGS"
  9. He does not plan to leave in 2029 or he wouldn't be doing all this short-sighted crap.
  10. Here is it on the correct non-oligarch (as of today) microblogging app
  11. Get off X people.
  12. RB was never going to be his future and he missed that opportunity. He must suck as a route runner or everyone on multiple Michigan offensive staffs missed that. If he demonstrates Amon Ra St. Brown level route awareness he would be as good or better than the latter's career possibilities. Another player with elite speed who had a middling and truncated NFL career was Denard Robinson.
  13. downgraded for twitter content
  14. I note the nice field-drag capability she is using here.
  15. Most reasonable people would question his weird word choices here. "I almost never communicate with the KGB" "My estate has almost no graves on it and certainly none that you can prove were my responsibility, legally" "The baby isn't mine, except in that i impregnated the employee and she carried the baby for 9 months and gave birth"
  16. Shep, Craig Monroe and Rod Allen should get together and do shadow broadcasts.
  17. Partyglouberman: "Guy who said Hitler didn't actually personally kill anyone himself like 2 days ago wants you to know he's never PHYSICALLY hurt anyone" — Bluesky
  18. He's out of options?
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