Angry Staff Officer
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History person, Army officer, transplanted Buckeye, not really that angry anymore. Writes stuff. Some Star Wars. Refugee from Twitter. Views do not reflect or represent the DoD's. He/him/his. angrystaffofficer.com
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She had a senior non-commissioned officer buy her lingerie, passing it off as a joke. I didn’t know. She was mentally broken down and denigrated, day after day, by a male officer who was her comman…
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This was my pinned tweet over on Twitter. It will remain my pinned tweet here. Because the issue of sexual harassment and assault in the Army still persists. We must do better.
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Just got the best idea for a Halloween costume:
Wraith Vaughan Williams
Now just need to get some incredibly nerdy musical friends who will actually get the joke
Wraith Vaughan Williams
Now just need to get some incredibly nerdy musical friends who will actually get the joke
December 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Just got the best idea for a Halloween costume:
Wraith Vaughan Williams
Now just need to get some incredibly nerdy musical friends who will actually get the joke
Wraith Vaughan Williams
Now just need to get some incredibly nerdy musical friends who will actually get the joke
I have a bad habit of getting drunk and promising swords to people
I only know this because I have several notes on my phone reminding me that I promised a sword to so and so
What is wrong with me
I only know this because I have several notes on my phone reminding me that I promised a sword to so and so
What is wrong with me
December 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I have a bad habit of getting drunk and promising swords to people
I only know this because I have several notes on my phone reminding me that I promised a sword to so and so
What is wrong with me
I only know this because I have several notes on my phone reminding me that I promised a sword to so and so
What is wrong with me
Christmas greetings from 1863 Ohio - where the “limits of ‘Dixey,’ are becoming slightly contracted.”
I find solace in these small pieces of joy, written when the idea of a “United States” was an uncertainty. May we all find that peace that surpasseth understanding…or just a little peace.
I find solace in these small pieces of joy, written when the idea of a “United States” was an uncertainty. May we all find that peace that surpasseth understanding…or just a little peace.
December 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Christmas greetings from 1863 Ohio - where the “limits of ‘Dixey,’ are becoming slightly contracted.”
I find solace in these small pieces of joy, written when the idea of a “United States” was an uncertainty. May we all find that peace that surpasseth understanding…or just a little peace.
I find solace in these small pieces of joy, written when the idea of a “United States” was an uncertainty. May we all find that peace that surpasseth understanding…or just a little peace.
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“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.”
-Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol
-Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol
December 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.”
-Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol
-Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol
I’ve decided that, although it takes place in April through some other months, “Master and Commander” is a Christmas movie
I have no defined logic and I don’t care.
I have no defined logic and I don’t care.
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I’ve decided that, although it takes place in April through some other months, “Master and Commander” is a Christmas movie
I have no defined logic and I don’t care.
I have no defined logic and I don’t care.
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"But what horrifies George the most about Pottersville is how desensitized the people living in it seem to be to its harshness and cruelty – how they treat him like he’s the crazy, deranged one for wanting and expecting things to be different." Commentary from Nora Gilbert @us.theconversation.com
The dystopian Pottersville in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is starting to feel less like fiction • New Hampshire Bulletin
Along with millions of others, I’ll soon be taking 2 hours and 10 minutes out of my busy holiday schedule to sit down and watch a movie I’ve seen countless times before: Frank Capra’s “It’s a…
newhampshirebulletin.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"But what horrifies George the most about Pottersville is how desensitized the people living in it seem to be to its harshness and cruelty – how they treat him like he’s the crazy, deranged one for wanting and expecting things to be different." Commentary from Nora Gilbert @us.theconversation.com
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That schools named themselves and their mascots after the confederacy in the mid-1950s as a response to desegregation is the central premise of Rebel Spirit podcast. @akilahhughes.com and I even did a segment about this high school.
Fascinating story from VA: the Confederacy on trial, with a microcosm of the national dynamic that brought us here: the George Floyd protests and racial reckoning, and the furious backlash. Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
The Confederacy Goes on Trial, Along With Schools Named Jackson and Lee
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
That schools named themselves and their mascots after the confederacy in the mid-1950s as a response to desegregation is the central premise of Rebel Spirit podcast. @akilahhughes.com and I even did a segment about this high school.
I’ll make it easy for ya: cut the WaPo, since it ain’t news anymore but a Bezos mouthpiece
As the year-end approaches, it might be a good time to audit all of your expensive and unnecessary subscriptions.
Take time this holiday season to make sure you aren’t overpaying for important services. Here’s where you can start:
Take time this holiday season to make sure you aren’t overpaying for important services. Here’s where you can start:
Start 2026 by paying less for your phone, internet and other services
Take time this holiday season to make sure you aren’t overpaying for important services.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I’ll make it easy for ya: cut the WaPo, since it ain’t news anymore but a Bezos mouthpiece
Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is the complete and utter collapse of the entire AI industry, to include the fortunes of those involved in it
Please and thank you
Because I’d like there to be some semblance of a world left for my niece and nephews in
Please and thank you
Because I’d like there to be some semblance of a world left for my niece and nephews in
December 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is the complete and utter collapse of the entire AI industry, to include the fortunes of those involved in it
Please and thank you
Because I’d like there to be some semblance of a world left for my niece and nephews in
Please and thank you
Because I’d like there to be some semblance of a world left for my niece and nephews in
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In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
Just had the most absurdly realistic dream that I somehow befriended the cast of “Scrubs” and was invited to be a part of the show’s reboot as a reoccurring feature of JD’s daydreams. I was reading the contract and NDA and trying to figure out how to square this with the army when I woke up
December 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Just had the most absurdly realistic dream that I somehow befriended the cast of “Scrubs” and was invited to be a part of the show’s reboot as a reoccurring feature of JD’s daydreams. I was reading the contract and NDA and trying to figure out how to square this with the army when I woke up
UPDATE: Madeira has been found. Thank the heavens for immigrant communities and their lovely niche shops; may they ever be protected from big box stores, tech bros, and nationalist loonies
“Hunting for Madeira in the Ohio valley and other stories:” a Christmas narrative autobiography
December 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
UPDATE: Madeira has been found. Thank the heavens for immigrant communities and their lovely niche shops; may they ever be protected from big box stores, tech bros, and nationalist loonies
Good morning from me and my escapist dreams last night of running off to Yorkshire and becoming a sheep farmer
You know it’s bad when your dreams consist of looking at wool prices and figuring out if you can turn a profit this quarter
You know it’s bad when your dreams consist of looking at wool prices and figuring out if you can turn a profit this quarter
December 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Good morning from me and my escapist dreams last night of running off to Yorkshire and becoming a sheep farmer
You know it’s bad when your dreams consist of looking at wool prices and figuring out if you can turn a profit this quarter
You know it’s bad when your dreams consist of looking at wool prices and figuring out if you can turn a profit this quarter
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
What a shining light for over a century. We need more Betty Reid Soskins in this world.
Betty Reid Soskin, once the nation’s oldest park ranger, has died at age 104
She co-founded Reid’s Records in Berkeley, dated Jackie Robinson, delivered cash for the Black Panthers and published a memoir.
www.berkeleyside.org
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What a shining light for over a century. We need more Betty Reid Soskins in this world.
May there be peace, justice, and hope.
December 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
May there be peace, justice, and hope.
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The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...
February 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“Hunting for Madeira in the Ohio valley and other stories:” a Christmas narrative autobiography
December 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“Hunting for Madeira in the Ohio valley and other stories:” a Christmas narrative autobiography
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A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle
It also robs students of learning *how* to research.
December 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle
Run this on repeat
🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
December 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Run this on repeat
I hate this future.
“Rather than relying on an implant or a patient's own body fat to add volume to hips or augment breasts, alloClae — which can cost as much as $100,000 per procedure — uses donor fat from a cadaver as a first-of-its-kind body filler.”
Corporate types are clamoring for a new kind of plastic surgery — using dead people's fat
Corporate types are waiting weeks for — and spending big on — alloClae, which cuts out the recovery time typically associated with body enhancements.
www.businessinsider.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I hate this future.
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SOF fetishization has done so much damage to the both the military and LE.
The main thing here is the anecdotal suggestion of Bovino’s persona maybe helping recruit right-wing military veterans to CBP, but note also how Bovino calls some CBP personnel “operators” (presumably he means BORTAC).
GWOT SOF aesthetics, language, etc. are going to be with us for a long time.
GWOT SOF aesthetics, language, etc. are going to be with us for a long time.
December 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
SOF fetishization has done so much damage to the both the military and LE.