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@ATRightMovies ALF

@craigcartonlive @Mets Imagine saving a life and then be punished by having to watch the Mets. Life is not fair.

Crazy story at yesterdays @Mets game - Guy in section 121 had a heart attack and his wife started frantically yelling for help or a doctor or nurse to come over - One random guy in the section who said he was neither started doing chest compressions and saved the mans life. Eventually paramedics showed up to take over and assist the fallen man. The hero went back to his seat, sat down and watched the rest of the game with zero fanfare or attention. He just wanted to watch the Mets win. When the game ended he walked out like nothing had happened. Don't know his name but he saved a mans life and is a hero.

@KyleKulinski I feel like you're intentionally missed the point of his post.

Very telling that your reaction wasn't "healthcare should be a human right like all other developed countries" it was "fuck this immigrant". Right-wingers are complete fucking idiots. (also, virtual guarantee the story is fake)

@trader_tony_ How did I know there would be a Palestine flag in the bio....

ICE at airports is just laying the groundwork for ICE at polling places btw

@BuzzPatterson The plane built to carry a tank.

The C-17 landing at LAX. As seen from the In N Out off of 24R.

@ICuRaRook Documentary filmed at The Lodge in Austin

🎥 TILT clip of the day 🎥 “There are two things I can think of worth fighting for. Money and money.”

@3YearLetterman Just one?

Anyone else planning on getting into a fight at a high school basketball game tonight?

@wsyx6 Spoiler alert. It is Ravi Bellamkonda.

A university spokesperson said a Board of Trustees meeting has been scheduled for 9 a.m. to make the announcement.

@CynicalPublius You stopped at CSC Scania. I spent 6 months there one night.

RE: Luxury in War I remember driving in a HMMWV from Kuwait to al Taqaddum in Iraq in 2003 in what we called “OIF 1.5”; it was the return of large numbers of troops after the invasion had been successful but IEDs had just become a killing threat. The TTP at the time was to drive around with your HMMWV doors off, swiveled outwards so you could kill anybody trying to set off an IED attack. Yes, I know that sounds extraordinarily silly but that’s what we did. It was August in the desert. Blindingly hot. I gave my driver my Beretta and he gave me his M-4, so I could face outwards, presumably to shoot up anybody standing by the side of the road looking nervous with a cell phone in his hand (again, I know how stupid that sounds but we did not have up-armored HMMWVs or MRAPs and the entire US military was desperately trying to figure out how to counter IEDs). The trip was about 400 miles and we did it in two days. That first night we stopped at some sort of rest site the Army had set up and I got assaulted by sand fleas. My forearms swelled up and started to look like Popeye’s. I forget where it was exactly, but midday through the second day we stopped at some sort of minimally staffed rest area. In that rest area was a 40 foot refrigerator van full of cold water bottles and frozen water bottles. I was filthy, hot, covered in sand, bit up by sand fleas and felt like I was running a fever. I got one of those cold water bottles and poured it all over my head. Then I took two frozen water bottles and put them inside my body armor. Aside from sex, this was the most glorious physical sensation of my entire life, before or since. My morale skyrocketed. Now if three bottles of water could do that for me, imagine what a steak and a lobster tail does for US troops everywhere. Those tiny creature comforts amidst a war are INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. The fact that we make the effort to do this is a small reason why we have the world’s greatest military Anyone who would begrudge our troops an overcooked steak and a mushy lobster tail now and again is an America-hating piece of garbage who absolutely does NOT “support our troops” and who can just pi$$ right off. Capisce?

@YouShouldKnown I love how in clip 1 they show you how to defeat a lock and then in clip 2 show you how to secure a bike with that same lock type. 😂

Practical tips for everyday life.

What's the best one scene cameo?

@EricLevitz Please stop thinking out loud.

Many have rationalized this war with reference to the Iranian people’s right to democratic freedom. I wonder if any of them genuinely believe that this is what a majority of Iranians would have chosen for themselves, had they been allowed to decide

@exjon @khamenei_ir "Jerk that pistol and go to work!"

@khamenei_ir “You gonna skin that smokewagon or just stand there and bleed? I said, throw down, boy!”

The Zionist regime has made a big mistake, and its consequences will make the regime desperate, by God's grace.

@nolanwpeterson @conor64 At an air base you may have felt this way but on a small camp in Baghdad in '04, they would shoot mortars at us all the time. If you were outside, you were at risk.

When I was a USAF special ops pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan, I would return to base after missions and have a chance to let down my guard. I'd hit the gym, grab a Subway sandwich or a Burger King burger, and maybe stop by my squadron's plywood hut to watch a movie and hang out with friends. As a war reporter in Ukraine I experienced a very different kind of war. A war with no safe places. A war in which you are in contact with the enemy 24/7, and you can die at any time. In the early years (dating back to 2014), artillery and MLRS were the main threats. And while terrifying, the danger from these weapons was largely mathematical. There are certain actions you can take that, statistically speaking, will probably keep you alive during a barrage. Drones changed the calculus. With drones, it feels like you're being hunted. Survival isn't about the odds any more, it's about being better than the human operator of that drone trying to kill you. The psychological toll of such constant proximity to death — living in lethal danger for weeks and months on end — is unfamiliar to many American veterans of my generation. It certainly was for me when I first experienced trench warfare in Ukraine more than a decade ago. Yet, this will be closer to the norm for Americans in future wars. What we've seen so far from Iran is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. Against an adversary such as China, we will no longer enjoy the safe spaces we got used to in our post-9/11 wars. Traditional air dominance — created by manned warplanes — will no longer be enough to protect us from drone and missile threats. Our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines will be in contact with the enemy 24/7, even if they are physically divorced from the front line of fighting. In short: we need to think about survivability in ways we never did during the GWOT era.

What is the greatest animated movie?

@NancyStacy11 @CynicalPublius We had thin mint eating contests in Baghdad. We had so many GS cookies we didn't know what to do with them all. Such a good care package item.

@CynicalPublius it’s girl scout cookie season. consider sending some and support both.

HEY MILITARY FAMILIES! Have you got loved ones deployed? I'm praying for you and your loved service member. God bless you and yours. But if your family has never done a lengthy deployment before, please allow me to offer one huge, morale building hint: HOT SAUCE. The very best care packages include a lot of different hot sauces. As many different ones as you can. Trust me on this. ❤️🩶💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@BookNoteApp Anything by Ben McIntyre is great. If you love adventure on the high seas,also check out In the Heart of the Sea by Philbrick or kingdom of Ice by Sides

7 books to fall in love with reading history: 1) The Wager by David Grann ( shipwreck survivors )

@AlTheBoss03 Rob Dibble

Every fan remembers that ONE pitcher… The first time you thought: “This guy is unhittable.” Who was it?

@TheCinesthetic Nina Arianda in Goliath. She steals the show.

Who is a well written strong female character in a movie or TV show?