US troops arrived on July 1. When my uncle was killed on July 17, enemy forces tossed him into a fire. Trump thinks he’s a loser. Trump can’t even dream of having the character of the men and women who fought and died there. It’s the character he lacks that causes him to sell out our heroes.

My Dad would have willingly died for his country in this war. Donald Trump just spit on his grave, and the grave of my great uncle, who was one of the first Americans killed in Korea.

Fascists have an obsession with “virility” — that explains Trump’s social media posts, including this⬇️ But reality depicts a weak shell of a man. As he falls apart, expect more propaganda and, I fear, more unnecessary and illegal use of security forces as he tries to project masculine strength.

Many thanks to the @financialtimes.com and @a-mackinnon.bsky.social for their article about @thesteadystate.org and our concerns for democracy.

Dunno what’s happening here in TN, but we have Singapore’s humidity.

The basics are laid out in the 1961 Vienna Convention, and legislation in 1978 that became 22 U S C in our legal code. Those docs primarily govern diplomats — but heads of state have immunity that goes beyond diplomatic immunity, and is absolute. The state dept recognizes that as it notes here:

The dot on the molding to the right of the vent is a large spider. I may need to move my office.

Why only 11 stars on this “gifted” eagle? Dunno, but didn’t 11 states in the formally secede and form the confederacy? So who exactly gifted this to the White House?

Article I, Section 7, clause 2

They should be looking for this guy. He should be easy to find.

Good grief. They’re going to make the White House lawn “stronger than ever before.” It’s a lawn. No need for superlatives. Just make it green. You know. Like they did the reflecting pool.

At a restaurant with friends and a little girl sits this green object down on the table next to her when her family was seated. I was initially thinking it was a water balloon, thinking “hey, things are about to get interesting in here!” Turns out it’s a stress ball.

They tarped the scaffolding when they put Trump’s name on the Kennedy center too. Probably a safety issue.

The moon as putting on quite the show this evening.

The anti Japan sentiment in the 1980s was so bad that Congressmen took to the Capitol lawn to smash a Toshiba boom box with sledge hammers. Haven’t seen that level of contempt for AI, but I hope they get there soon.

Who wore it better? For context, pic on left is an albino water buffalo in Bangladesh. Pic on the right is an orange fascist in DC.

Pastor, have you never read Luke 14? Because I have. And if you’re going to insist the govt pursue a Biblical foreign policy, you should read it. Even Jesus noted that a wise leader would assess whether he could win the conflict he was about to undertake, and if he couldn’t he would negotiate.

Pic 1 has me thinking a lot about pic 2….

One might think I’d be fluent by now. You’d be wrong.

My students got me addicted to Red Bull. Found the summer edition last night. Sudachi lime. It is AMAZING.

One of my students just gifted me with this, and I am loving it. Anyone know who the four smaller Russians are? I assume czar Nicolas, Catherine the great, Peter the Great…but the tiny one eludes me.

Just a reminder that Hegseth is not the first Christian nationalist SecDef. But at least Rumsfeld used actual Bible verses.

Headline: “heathen who only darkens the door of a church for photo ops thinks he has a say in who the Pope is”

So Trump wants us to ignore that apparently this agreement recognizes Irans right to enrich uranium? Which confirms this was never about Irans nuclear threat to the world.

I will, in fact, hand it to Marjorie Taylor Green.

This guy only follows women, and just followed a significant number of women from my follow list (some are personal friends who he wouldn’t have reason to be following). If he followed you, or even if not, you may want to block him. Something isn’t right.

Im a Christ-follower, a patriotic American, and a former CIA officer. I don’t want this done in my name. I reject the lie that it is necessary. Im ashamed we are talking about it. And I deeply regret that American society has become so degenerate that we have elected people who will allow this.

Also, Studies in Intelligence did an article on Fecteau and Downey as well, in 2006, then republished I think in 2010 in conjunction with the movie. Pretty sure this is publicly available. (It’s definitely unclassified)

I spent some time outside over spring break a couple weeks ago, and wound up with a weird tan line akin to this ⬇️ The weather was so glorious this weekend that I’m pretty sure the sun filled in the tan line. Thank God.

Struck by how grateful I am that these are contrails from planes, not missiles. #PrayersForIran