Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini

When America finished the election & opened its fortune cookie...

@Muller_Lab @RealAirPower1 Sounds like a good idea to me. Also: Fuck cancer.

@RealAirPower1 afmc.af.mil/News/Article-D… How about donating this old junk to Ukraine? Instead of scrapping it.

Seeing images of a lone Warthog circling low over Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran, supporting the CSAR for the downed F-15E crew. No heavy ordnance, no ECM pods, just the GAU-8 and a pilot hugging the deck - guarding the survivors. The images remind me of the "Sandy" missions of Vietnam, flown by A-10's granddaddy, the A-1 Skyraider. The tools have changed, but the role remains the same: fly low and slow, fly into the teeth of the danger, watch the treeline, and hold the line until everyone comes home. It was, and still is, the hardest seat in the sky - protecting the life of a brother on the ground at any cost, even your own. CSAR is a ballzy lot!

@thegeneralboard Given its relatively small size this could be a great addition to Buffalo's Naval and Serviceman's Park. It would have fun zipping around Buffalo's Inner Harbor and nearby Lake Erie!

"What a shame to scrap the ship, should have been saved." We hear that comment quite a lot. Now there is an opportunity to act. The caretakers that have helped preserve USS Aries, the sole remaining example of the Pegasus class hydrofoils, are seeking a home for the ship. She currently resides in Missouri, but is in need of a new home, one that is more accessible. I would like to ask our followers to share her story, get the word out, and help find Aries a new home. If you have contacts with museums or preservation groups, please pass the word on. In addition, please follow the USS Aries website (though the Social Media pages seem to be updated more regularly) to stay up to date with the latest information and to follow her journey.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this week lent her sizable megaphone to the fight against a New York State Department of Transportation plan that would widen the Cross Bronx Expressway. amny.com/news/aoc-hochu…

@zach_vasquez RaChaCha will die a Harry-Potter-free elf!

He was right and the continued reading habits of millennials and younger generations have borne him out.

@NimraShahzadin I'll get you my pretty!!

@BuffaloPadre @Pontifex Amen 😇

Without commenting on the political nature of the situation, I will ask a very pastoral question that I would ask of any Bishop. Why, during the holiest week of the Christian year, are you not with your own people in your own diocese!? @Pontifex

@Todd_Spence Who?

@ClaireHalp20059 @Mike_from_PA So? We all are.

@Mike_from_PA You’re literally a former Republican.

If you're wondering why this guy could be so fucking out of touch and heartless, he was originally elected as a centrist democrat.

@jbhopp @the_transit_guy @Amtrak Give it to Lichtenstein.

@the_transit_guy @Amtrak What are they going to do with the old tunnel?

I had the privilege of touring the newly rehabilitated East River Tunnel 1, which took 13 months, on time and on budget, to go from a 115-year-old tunnel to one that’s state of the art. Our country still has the capacity to build amazing things.

@adamnfurman Wait, you're HERE??

I met a BEAVER IN BUFFALO!!

@aviationarchive Wow! What was the Australian landing mentioned here?

Not our first rodeo, footage from April 30-May 1, 1945 as US 13th Air Force B-24 Liberators from Morotai and Philippine bases hammered Tarakan's Sesanip and Juata oil fields in pre-invasion strikes, dropping hundreds of tons that wrecked storage tanks, refineries and defenses to deny Japanese fuel ahead of the May 1 Australian landing. Surrounding oil infrastructure burned for days, crippling output that Australian engineers repaired into June. 👀

New York Times with an important update here:

@deanna_deveto @wnywxguy Ow.

@wnywxguy Txs, Josh. Def windy in West Henrietta. It just toppled a neighbor's tree onto my fence.

Whenever there is warmth this part of the world at this time of the year, there is wind. Surprised that there are no Wind Advisories. Rochester just clocked a gust to 55 mph. Winds should diminish once the front is through this evening, which is when temperatures tumble. #WNY #WX

Christiane is always good; good subjects, good questions, & good answers.

A new state audit of Western Regional OTB slams the leadership of former CEO Henry Wojtaszek. Wojtaszek liked to brag about increasing revenues. The audit reveals he was spending the agency's cash at a much faster pace. investigativepost.org/2026/04/01/sta…

I've seen the water reach the top o' the dam twice in my life! x.com/USACE_Buffalo/…

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Sen. Tim Kaine: "Your colleague said you got drunk at an event at a bar and chanted, 'Kill all Muslims.'...Isn't that the kind of behavior that, if true, would be disqualifying for somebody to be Sec. of Defense?" Pete Hegseth: "Anonymous false charges." Kaine: "Not anonymous."

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