FrostyCWO
@frostycwo.bsky.social
Retired Army Intel CW4, now in biotech. AZ transplant. Failed politician. Lots of #milvet retweets, Orioles baseball & occasional cat videos. Married to a much more attractive and talented person.
It never occurred to me that my "betters" in terms of educational and career achievement would have a tougher time seeing right and wrong clearly than the guy who dropped out of college to join the Army. I can't believe I took rocket fire in Afghanistan and they're the ones who are afraid.
Shocked but not surprised to learn how many ~titans of industry~ who probably think of themselves as brave ballsy businessmen are actually cowardly pieces of shit when it counts.
September 18, 2025 at 5:09 AM
It never occurred to me that my "betters" in terms of educational and career achievement would have a tougher time seeing right and wrong clearly than the guy who dropped out of college to join the Army. I can't believe I took rocket fire in Afghanistan and they're the ones who are afraid.
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Every day we are further and further from DB being satire.
NEW: Following the surprise decision to provide military funeral honors to Air Force veteran and January 6th tourist Ashli Babbitt, Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier announced today that Elmendorf Air Force Base will be renamed in her honor. www.duffelblog.com/air-force-ba...
Air Force base renamed after Ashli Babbitt
Pentagon insists new base name will really bring the country together this time
www.duffelblog.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Every day we are further and further from DB being satire.
It's hard to tell what's satire these days.
www.duffelblog.com/ice-partners...
www.duffelblog.com/ice-partners...
ICE partners with Taliban to round up Afghan interpreters
Under the agreement, the Taliban will offer “on-the-ground expertise” in displacing and shattering the lives of former allies.
www.duffelblog.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's hard to tell what's satire these days.
www.duffelblog.com/ice-partners...
www.duffelblog.com/ice-partners...
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This is so, so bad. We have reached the point of the president's supporters calling other human beings cockroaches.
It is making me lose my mind that evangelical Christians support this.
It is making me lose my mind that evangelical Christians support this.
August 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is so, so bad. We have reached the point of the president's supporters calling other human beings cockroaches.
It is making me lose my mind that evangelical Christians support this.
It is making me lose my mind that evangelical Christians support this.
I've spent more than 2 hours today fighting to get insurance to properly process payments for treatments from two different providers. I STG if more people could wrap their brains around the idea that single payer/universal healthcare would eliminate all this extra hassle, we'd all be better off.
a man in a suit says " just basic stuff " in front of him
ALT: a man in a suit says " just basic stuff " in front of him
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July 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I've spent more than 2 hours today fighting to get insurance to properly process payments for treatments from two different providers. I STG if more people could wrap their brains around the idea that single payer/universal healthcare would eliminate all this extra hassle, we'd all be better off.
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A special Daily with a remembrance of my mother in the PS at the end on what would have been her 91st birthday:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place
Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
www.theatlantic.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A special Daily with a remembrance of my mother in the PS at the end on what would have been her 91st birthday:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Saw Superman with the wife this evening. Enjoyable. Silly, at times, even a little dorky. Nathan Fillon steals every scene he's in. Krypto the dog was fun too. Overall, adorable and, IMO, a worthy addition to Superman's canon.
a dog wearing a red cape is standing next to a man in a superman costume
ALT: a dog wearing a red cape is standing next to a man in a superman costume
media.tenor.com
July 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Saw Superman with the wife this evening. Enjoyable. Silly, at times, even a little dorky. Nathan Fillon steals every scene he's in. Krypto the dog was fun too. Overall, adorable and, IMO, a worthy addition to Superman's canon.
Turned 50 in April and just got my first "weird mole" cut off at the dermatologist today. Don't be afraid to get yourself checked out!
a cartoon of a man saying now you know and knowing is half the battle .
ALT: a cartoon of a man saying now you know and knowing is half the battle .
media.tenor.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Turned 50 in April and just got my first "weird mole" cut off at the dermatologist today. Don't be afraid to get yourself checked out!
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Marc Andreesen is Robert Moses, only rich af. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Marc Andreesen and the Billionaire Victims Club
The gripes of this bigwig of the tech right don’t stand up to scrutiny.
open.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Marc Andreesen is Robert Moses, only rich af. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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If you think that Elon’s AI project is designed to have any business application, the idea that a single engineer could make your infrastructure “go Hitler” would be anathema to that.
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If you think that Elon’s AI project is designed to have any business application, the idea that a single engineer could make your infrastructure “go Hitler” would be anathema to that.
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The median FBI agent today is a lawyer who joined up to prevent another 9/11.
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The American Police State Is Here
ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.
www.thebulwark.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The median FBI agent today is a lawyer who joined up to prevent another 9/11.
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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There are very valid critiques of Emergency Management plans at every level of government. Why no flood sirens? Why wasn't that camp prepared for a WARNED weather event? Shit we absolutely need to address.
But idiots asking why the NG wasn't there in 5 minutes to evacuate people? Get real.
But idiots asking why the NG wasn't there in 5 minutes to evacuate people? Get real.
July 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
There are very valid critiques of Emergency Management plans at every level of government. Why no flood sirens? Why wasn't that camp prepared for a WARNED weather event? Shit we absolutely need to address.
But idiots asking why the NG wasn't there in 5 minutes to evacuate people? Get real.
But idiots asking why the NG wasn't there in 5 minutes to evacuate people? Get real.
This might mean something if Republicans actually still believed in something. Too bad they only believe in Trump. And he believes in nothing but money and raw power.
Ronald Reagan spoke of the “the hope that is America” and how it inspired courageous immigrants to come to a foreign land for a better life. Read his Independence Day speech from 1986:
‘A Nation Built on a Universal Claim to Human Dignity’
[In 1986, President Ronald Reagan marked Independence Day on the deck of an airraft carrier in New York Harbor, where he had helped rededicate the Statue of Liberty the day before.
www.thebulwark.com
July 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This might mean something if Republicans actually still believed in something. Too bad they only believe in Trump. And he believes in nothing but money and raw power.
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It’s just around 1pm on a sweltering 87-degree day in the green fields and woods of Adams County, PA. The morning was rent by battle as Meade ordered the XII, XI, and I Corps to regain their hold on Culps Hill which is successful. It has been relatively quiet save for scattered skirmishing
July 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It’s just around 1pm on a sweltering 87-degree day in the green fields and woods of Adams County, PA. The morning was rent by battle as Meade ordered the XII, XI, and I Corps to regain their hold on Culps Hill which is successful. It has been relatively quiet save for scattered skirmishing
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To form a more perfect Union, implies as we all know, that we have something imperfect. But to strive for the betterment of all, and to keep striving no matter what - that is the American legacy. “For that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.”
We strive still.
We strive still.
July 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
To form a more perfect Union, implies as we all know, that we have something imperfect. But to strive for the betterment of all, and to keep striving no matter what - that is the American legacy. “For that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.”
We strive still.
We strive still.
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All I’m asking, as an American, is for another set of Americans on a hill to have the moral courage and tenacity to fight for the Republic
At the end of the day, this is the experiment of democracy
At the end of the day, this is the experiment of democracy
July 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
All I’m asking, as an American, is for another set of Americans on a hill to have the moral courage and tenacity to fight for the Republic
At the end of the day, this is the experiment of democracy
At the end of the day, this is the experiment of democracy
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one time I went to vote and one of the poll workers announced (with permission) that one of the voters just became a naturalized citizen and this was her first time voting in a US election. everyone applauded and cheered. and it drives me crazy knowing there are people furious about that
June 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
one time I went to vote and one of the poll workers announced (with permission) that one of the voters just became a naturalized citizen and this was her first time voting in a US election. everyone applauded and cheered. and it drives me crazy knowing there are people furious about that
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Great but sad article from @radiofreetom.bsky.social. No one can deny the courage @queenofthinair.bsky.social is showing here. We can, however, question why not a single senior uniformed leader is displaying even a scintilla of the same moral courage and/or outrage as her, Parsons, or McCarthy.
Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
www.theatlantic.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Great but sad article from @radiofreetom.bsky.social. No one can deny the courage @queenofthinair.bsky.social is showing here. We can, however, question why not a single senior uniformed leader is displaying even a scintilla of the same moral courage and/or outrage as her, Parsons, or McCarthy.
Today is my wedding anniversary (9 years) and Prince is my wife's all-time favorite artist. Seems fitting.
Album release anniversary today…
Released June 25. 1984
Prince - Purple Rain
#albumanniversary #vinylsky #nowspinning #nowplaying
#vinylcommunity #vinyl #records #music
Released June 25. 1984
Prince - Purple Rain
#albumanniversary #vinylsky #nowspinning #nowplaying
#vinylcommunity #vinyl #records #music
June 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Today is my wedding anniversary (9 years) and Prince is my wife's all-time favorite artist. Seems fitting.
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Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
www.theatlantic.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
NGL, late arrival to the Elton John concert from Dodgers Stadium on Disney+ and it absolutely f**ks. He's such an incredible artist, the backing band kills it, and the fans in the stadium are largely adorable.
a man wearing a looney tunes shirt points at the camera
ALT: a man wearing a looney tunes shirt points at the camera
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June 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
NGL, late arrival to the Elton John concert from Dodgers Stadium on Disney+ and it absolutely f**ks. He's such an incredible artist, the backing band kills it, and the fans in the stadium are largely adorable.
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WHISTLEBLOWER: “senior (Trump) Justice Dept official Emil Bove III told subordinates he was willing to ignore court orders to fulfill the aggressive deportation campaign… would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’…” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
June 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
WHISTLEBLOWER: “senior (Trump) Justice Dept official Emil Bove III told subordinates he was willing to ignore court orders to fulfill the aggressive deportation campaign… would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’…” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
If you're wondering how the US Bombing Iran/Israel conflict is landing in Gen Z, we have friends with 3 teen boys and they and their peers believe that there will now be a draft. This view seems to be reinforced by the fact that one just turned 18 and has to register for selective service.
June 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If you're wondering how the US Bombing Iran/Israel conflict is landing in Gen Z, we have friends with 3 teen boys and they and their peers believe that there will now be a draft. This view seems to be reinforced by the fact that one just turned 18 and has to register for selective service.
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i am BEGGING you before you pop off about paywalls to go to your local library's website and scroll through their digital resources. mine gives me access to NYT, WSJ, WaPo and if its linked with PressReader or a similar app, all the news magazines, sports, fashion, hobby etc.
FOR FREE.
FOR FREE.
June 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
i am BEGGING you before you pop off about paywalls to go to your local library's website and scroll through their digital resources. mine gives me access to NYT, WSJ, WaPo and if its linked with PressReader or a similar app, all the news magazines, sports, fashion, hobby etc.
FOR FREE.
FOR FREE.