MWhite
@pjmatt.bsky.social
Senior Editor, Task & Purpose; former USAF & Alaska ANG Pararescueman. Cited in SCOTUS brief (Nieves v Bartlett). Agatha Christie reader. Teach @unchussman.
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· Mar 15
An Army general's final 'walk' at the Tomb of the Unknowns
William Zana, the only guard of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to reach the rank of general, took a final shift on his last day in the Army.
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Hello to New Followers from the Arlington Cemetery/Website purge story! Drop me a line to say hi!
If you need to restore your faith in Arlington and its people, I wrote this story last year about an Army general and the Tomb of the Unknown.
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If you need to restore your faith in Arlington and its people, I wrote this story last year about an Army general and the Tomb of the Unknown.
taskandpurpose.com/news/tomb-of...
Apparently this post over on the bad site has blown all the way up to the top of the News. X list, whatever that is. But that's definitely better than what I would expect on something called News x, so go click on it cuz it's fantastic
ROOMBA SNOWBLOWER!!!!
I take back all those words I said, A.I.
(seriously click through to Tom's post on the Bad App, its INSANE!)
x.com/tommolog/sta...
I take back all those words I said, A.I.
(seriously click through to Tom's post on the Bad App, its INSANE!)
x.com/tommolog/sta...
January 25, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Apparently this post over on the bad site has blown all the way up to the top of the News. X list, whatever that is. But that's definitely better than what I would expect on something called News x, so go click on it cuz it's fantastic
"We're Here! No NIIT for net earners about $250! Get Used to it!"
- Bessent's 'Billboard,' probably
- Bessent's 'Billboard,' probably
1. Wasn’t at a protest
2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight
bsky.app/profile/atru...
2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight
bsky.app/profile/atru...
KARL: He was an ICU use who worked for the VA and there's no evidence he brandished the gun whatsoever
BESSENT: But he brought a gun
KARL: I mean, we do have a Second Amendment
BESSENT: I've been to a protest -- guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard
BESSENT: But he brought a gun
KARL: I mean, we do have a Second Amendment
BESSENT: I've been to a protest -- guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard
January 25, 2026 at 5:18 PM
"We're Here! No NIIT for net earners about $250! Get Used to it!"
- Bessent's 'Billboard,' probably
- Bessent's 'Billboard,' probably
Just saw a person i like very much on The Bad Site complaining that she can't get "news" about - YA KNOW, EVERYTHING! - without "subscribing or without ads."
YOU GOTTA DO THE ADS!!!!!!
otherwise you are just getting information from whoever can pay the most to put it in front of you.
YOU GOTTA DO THE ADS!!!!!!
otherwise you are just getting information from whoever can pay the most to put it in front of you.
January 25, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Just saw a person i like very much on The Bad Site complaining that she can't get "news" about - YA KNOW, EVERYTHING! - without "subscribing or without ads."
YOU GOTTA DO THE ADS!!!!!!
otherwise you are just getting information from whoever can pay the most to put it in front of you.
YOU GOTTA DO THE ADS!!!!!!
otherwise you are just getting information from whoever can pay the most to put it in front of you.
ROOMBA SNOWBLOWER!!!!
I take back all those words I said, A.I.
(seriously click through to Tom's post on the Bad App, its INSANE!)
x.com/tommolog/sta...
I take back all those words I said, A.I.
(seriously click through to Tom's post on the Bad App, its INSANE!)
x.com/tommolog/sta...
January 25, 2026 at 3:48 PM
ROOMBA SNOWBLOWER!!!!
I take back all those words I said, A.I.
(seriously click through to Tom's post on the Bad App, its INSANE!)
x.com/tommolog/sta...
I take back all those words I said, A.I.
(seriously click through to Tom's post on the Bad App, its INSANE!)
x.com/tommolog/sta...
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I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 AM
I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
these people are gonna be executed right? and we know that, right?
Iran said about 40 Iranian citizens will be returned from the United States to Iran on Sunday, after being held for months in US immigration detention centers.
iranintl.com/en/202601250247
iranintl.com/en/202601250247
Iran says 40 Iranians in ICE custody to be flown home
Iran said about 40 Iranian citizens will be returned from the United States to Iran on Sunday, after being held for months in US immigration detention centers.
iranintl.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:16 PM
these people are gonna be executed right? and we know that, right?
So far this AM on the Everything App:
- That Gun Was No Angel.
- Those Whistles Were No Angels.
- That Gun Was No Angel.
- Those Whistles Were No Angels.
January 25, 2026 at 2:49 PM
So far this AM on the Everything App:
- That Gun Was No Angel.
- Those Whistles Were No Angels.
- That Gun Was No Angel.
- Those Whistles Were No Angels.
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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H.I. McDunnough’s Arizona license plate number has been officially ACQUIRED by Clue Heywood
January 25, 2026 at 12:57 AM
H.I. McDunnough’s Arizona license plate number has been officially ACQUIRED by Clue Heywood
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I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
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I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
I agree that we can’t make Alex Pretti a Benedictine monk because that’s a trap, but we can talk about the good things we did because people will see and hear them and think “I do those things too”
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
At the very least, its the EQUIV of if the cops had killed Kyle Rittenhouse when he parked his car.
like, it's AT LEAST THAT.
like, it's AT LEAST THAT.
January 25, 2026 at 12:07 AM
At the very least, its the EQUIV of if the cops had killed Kyle Rittenhouse when he parked his car.
like, it's AT LEAST THAT.
like, it's AT LEAST THAT.
at least somebody is rising to the moment
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026
January 24, 2026 at 11:05 PM
at least somebody is rising to the moment
@kibblesmith.com im glad you nuked it but that duck one was a good one
January 24, 2026 at 10:52 PM
@kibblesmith.com im glad you nuked it but that duck one was a good one
Holy shit.
his name is Keaton Wagner. Freshman. Most points scored in the road game by a freshman in the Big 10 since 2009.
They just interviewed him.
I CANNOT EXPRESS STRONGLY ENOUGH HOW MUCH HE LOOKS 11 YEARS OLD.
46 on the road vs Purdue. Yikes.
his name is Keaton Wagner. Freshman. Most points scored in the road game by a freshman in the Big 10 since 2009.
They just interviewed him.
I CANNOT EXPRESS STRONGLY ENOUGH HOW MUCH HE LOOKS 11 YEARS OLD.
46 on the road vs Purdue. Yikes.
just tuned in to see end of Illinois beating Purdue 88-82 (was 2pt game late but Ill made free throws to pull away).
One Ill kid scored 46.
idk, that's no fun, right? "he's super good, and nothing else is gonna matter tonight..." its the youth sports trap. nothing 'wrong' with it, but lame
One Ill kid scored 46.
idk, that's no fun, right? "he's super good, and nothing else is gonna matter tonight..." its the youth sports trap. nothing 'wrong' with it, but lame
January 24, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Holy shit.
his name is Keaton Wagner. Freshman. Most points scored in the road game by a freshman in the Big 10 since 2009.
They just interviewed him.
I CANNOT EXPRESS STRONGLY ENOUGH HOW MUCH HE LOOKS 11 YEARS OLD.
46 on the road vs Purdue. Yikes.
his name is Keaton Wagner. Freshman. Most points scored in the road game by a freshman in the Big 10 since 2009.
They just interviewed him.
I CANNOT EXPRESS STRONGLY ENOUGH HOW MUCH HE LOOKS 11 YEARS OLD.
46 on the road vs Purdue. Yikes.
just tuned in to see end of Illinois beating Purdue 88-82 (was 2pt game late but Ill made free throws to pull away).
One Ill kid scored 46.
idk, that's no fun, right? "he's super good, and nothing else is gonna matter tonight..." its the youth sports trap. nothing 'wrong' with it, but lame
One Ill kid scored 46.
idk, that's no fun, right? "he's super good, and nothing else is gonna matter tonight..." its the youth sports trap. nothing 'wrong' with it, but lame
January 24, 2026 at 10:12 PM
just tuned in to see end of Illinois beating Purdue 88-82 (was 2pt game late but Ill made free throws to pull away).
One Ill kid scored 46.
idk, that's no fun, right? "he's super good, and nothing else is gonna matter tonight..." its the youth sports trap. nothing 'wrong' with it, but lame
One Ill kid scored 46.
idk, that's no fun, right? "he's super good, and nothing else is gonna matter tonight..." its the youth sports trap. nothing 'wrong' with it, but lame
If Bellingcat says it, im going with it.
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM
If Bellingcat says it, im going with it.
Where the F is Klobuchar?
She's super widely known and liked, she is an ACTUAL SENATOR, and this is game time.
Is there a voice in her head like, "keep your head down then show up in '28?"
She's super widely known and liked, she is an ACTUAL SENATOR, and this is game time.
Is there a voice in her head like, "keep your head down then show up in '28?"
January 24, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Where the F is Klobuchar?
She's super widely known and liked, she is an ACTUAL SENATOR, and this is game time.
Is there a voice in her head like, "keep your head down then show up in '28?"
She's super widely known and liked, she is an ACTUAL SENATOR, and this is game time.
Is there a voice in her head like, "keep your head down then show up in '28?"
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The officer in the grey jacket enters the altercation unarmed, reaches over the man as others hold him down and then walks away with a pistol in his hand.
It appears that this officer managed to disarm the suspect prior to the first shots.
It appears that this officer managed to disarm the suspect prior to the first shots.
January 24, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The officer in the grey jacket enters the altercation unarmed, reaches over the man as others hold him down and then walks away with a pistol in his hand.
It appears that this officer managed to disarm the suspect prior to the first shots.
It appears that this officer managed to disarm the suspect prior to the first shots.
there's a lady in the Main Video in a red coat who is obviously recording from about 10 feet away.
Activists an journalists should be going all out to find her and her phone.
Activists an journalists should be going all out to find her and her phone.
Witnesses are being taken to Whipple.
From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”
From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”
January 24, 2026 at 5:16 PM
there's a lady in the Main Video in a red coat who is obviously recording from about 10 feet away.
Activists an journalists should be going all out to find her and her phone.
Activists an journalists should be going all out to find her and her phone.
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I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
This list was my Wizardry expedition party roster when I finally beat Werdna.
Three of our stations met or exceeded the lowest temperature recorded by a Wisconet station. Knight remains the record-holder at -42°F!
January 24, 2026 at 4:49 PM
This list was my Wizardry expedition party roster when I finally beat Werdna.
!!!!!!!!!!!!
"ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
"ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident.
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.
Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 4:42 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!!
"ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
"ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
lady in red (pardon the music reference) got the view that will tell the tale
January 24, 2026 at 4:37 PM
lady in red (pardon the music reference) got the view that will tell the tale