Matt Romley

@awstar11 But if you drive 30 miles in any direction you're in Trump country.

Walking tour of Portland. Just got a 10 minute lecture on the racism of the police, ICE, and the imposition of martial law in 2020. Yawn.

@nextgreat_novel @eurofounder Those pistols are semi-automatic.

@eurofounder Your daughter would need a semi automatic to defend herself in school just like the other teachers do

Skills my daughter would obtain if she had grown up in the US instead of Europe

@thinkingwest Or for that matter Ancient Greece. The novel "Gates of Fire" is a movie script waiting to happen. But the themes of loyalty, courage, and adherence to tradition disqualify it in today's Hollywood. We did get "300".

Seriously, why haven't there been any big box office movies about Rome recently besides Gladiator? It seems like it would be easy money.

@tuuu28283 Respectfully, "why" is not the right question to ask when it comes to languages. People speak the way they speak. There is no "reason" why English-speakers call a dog "a dog" instead of "a cat". They just do.

アメリカの兄弟達 I like to take my dog to the park って文を勉強してるんだけど toってなんでこんなに文に入ってるんですか？？ toをぬいたら文の意味めちゃくちゃ変わりますか？？

@Playteaux1 Yeah, as a civilization we have some 'splaining to do.

@compliantvc @MollySOShea Was the cow that contributed the leather GDPR-compliant?

@MollySOShea I'm also passing down my leatherbound collection of GDPR regulations to my kids

ICYMI: Europe mass produces nepo-babies “In Europe, I believe it’s illegal to ‘disinherit your children.’ ” While the wealthy on the West Coast don't give much $$ to their kids Europeans focus much more on preserving wealth & creating dynasties

@avavidan Shouldn't some of them need wheelchairs after their horrific experience? Crutches? Bandages? Enrollment in a weight-loss program?

Baruch Hashem for gifting us retarded enemies 🙏🏻

@TeamOssoff It's interesting that all the random strangers Ossoff encounters support his political position. What are the odds?

Ossoff: I am hearing from Republicans who come up to me on the street, or they approach me at the airport, or maybe they have my number and they give me a call, and they're telling me that they are voting for a Democrat for the first time this year because they've just had enough. The abuses of power, the blatant self-enrichment and corruption, while the American people face all-time high prices for rent and groceries and a meal out at a restaurant and the power bill — the people have had enough. And I believe that a mighty wave is building to rebuke these abuses of power and to restore checks and balances.

@travelingflying The opening credits were worth the price of admission.

Did someone here see Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope in theaters when it came out in 1977?

@ATRightMovies As much as I worship Gregory Peck in "To Kill A Mockingbird", if you want to learn how to try a case watch "My Cousin Vinney". With certain allowances of course.

Which courtroom drama has the most compelling legal arguments?

@ENJU1123PIPI @SinoopyS Watch the great series "Lonesome Dove" or read the book by Larry McMurtry. Cowboys actually herding cattle.

@SinoopyS なるほど、そうなんだね🤔 ガンマンのイメージは違うんだね💦💦

アメリカ🇺🇸の人たちに質問です カウボーイって 日本人からするとすごく華やかな かっこいいイメージがあるんだけど 実際はどんな仕事なの？ 映画やアニメで見るイメージと リアルは全然違うって聞いて 気になってる🤔 今もカウボーイって 職業として存在してる？ アメリカの人から見た リアルなカウボーイ像 教えてください！

@tuuu28283 To really understand Memorial Day, you need to visit Arlington National Cemetery. 400,000 Americans buried on 639 acres of land.

アメリカの兄弟達 今週三連休だと思うんだけど 月曜日ってアメリカ人にとってはかなり大切な日ですか？？ あまりイメージができてなくてごめんなさい🙇‍♀️

@PeterH314 @HiddenHistoryYT Good point. I had never tied the two events together.

@HiddenHistoryYT And the Hood would be sunk on the 24 May. The Royal Navy was under immense pressure.

In a single afternoon on May 22, 1941, the Royal Navy lost two cruisers and a destroyer off the coast of Crete to German dive bombers. The fleet commander was urged to withdraw what was left. His reply has been quoted ever since, but the situation that produced it is less well known. By the morning of the 22nd, the German airborne invasion of Crete was four days old and on the brink of failure. Of the seven thousand paratroopers Kurt Student had dropped on the first day, roughly half were already dead. The Germans had taken huge losses trying to capture Maleme airfield in the west of the island. Without an airfield, no reinforcements could land. Without reinforcements, the invasion would collapse. What the Germans needed was a seaborne convoy of mountain troops, heavy weapons, and ammunition. Two such convoys were assembled in Greek ports and put to sea under Italian destroyer escort, hoping to slip across the Aegean to Crete. The Royal Navy intercepted the first convoy on the night of May 21. In a confused action in the dark, British cruisers and destroyers tore through a fleet of small Greek caïques crammed with German soldiers. Roughly three hundred Germans drowned. The convoy was destroyed. But by morning the Royal Navy was south of Crete in clear daylight, within range of the Luftwaffe's Fliegerkorps VIII, the most experienced and lethal dive-bomber force in the world. And the British ships were running low on anti-aircraft ammunition because they had spent most of it sinking the convoy. The Stukas came in waves. The cruiser Gloucester took two direct hits and capsized, taking 722 men with her. The cruiser Fiji was hit by a single bomb that ruptured her hull. She sank slowly, with most of her crew getting off, but 241 men were lost. The destroyer Greyhound was bombed and went down in fifteen minutes. The battleships Warspite and Valiant were both damaged, Warspite badly enough that she had to go to the United States for repairs. By nightfall on May 22, Admiral Andrew Cunningham, commanding the Mediterranean Fleet from Alexandria, was looking at a casualty list that included two cruisers, a destroyer, two damaged battleships, and roughly fifteen hundred dead British sailors. The army on Crete was asking for naval evacuation. The army on Crete also had thirty two thousand troops on it. Cunningham's staff, looking at what the Luftwaffe had done in a single afternoon, urged him not to commit the rest of the fleet. He could not protect transports from Stukas in daylight. Anything he sent into the waters north of Crete would be sunk. The navy had taken enough. Cunningham listened, and then he gave the order that is still quoted at Dartmouth Naval College. "It takes the Navy three years to build a ship," he said. "It would take three hundred years to build a tradition. The evacuation will continue." The fleet went back. Between May 28 and June 1, the Royal Navy evacuated 16,500 men from the south coast of Crete under continuous air attack. They lost three more cruisers and six more destroyers doing it. Thousands of British soldiers were left behind and became prisoners. But the navy did not abandon the army. The German victory at Crete was so expensive that Hitler never authorized another major airborne operation for the rest of the war. The paratroopers had taken the island, but the airborne arm as a strategic weapon was effectively destroyed in the process. Cunningham's decision was not a calculation about morale. It was a statement about what kind of institution the Royal Navy was, made in the moment when the institution was being tested. He was sixty years old. He had spent forty four years at sea. He understood, in a way that staff officers in London did not, that an institution that abandoned its soldiers in 1941 would still be remembered for it in 2041. Three hundred years to build a tradition. Eighty five years ago today, the bill came due, and Cunningham paid it.

@cdrsalamander Where are the nose rings and the purple hair?

Southern culture is the highest form of American culture.

@johnkonrad @nytimes @PeteButtigieg No, actually, I don't think I could hate the NYT any more than I do.

You really do need to start hating @nytimes more. @PeteButtigieg takes months of maternity leave: nothing but praise. Tulsi steps down to care for a husband with rare bone cancer: she had a “difficult tenure” and was “seldom in the room”

@DataRepublican You're a hero of the Republic. I read what you write.

Friday evening rant. I tried something different this pay period. Instead of threads, I wrote full articles. Research-heavy, source-dense, hundreds of hyperlinks manually verified. The kind of work I actually want to be doing. It tanked, engagement wise. Threads compress well. Articles don't. I argue by accumulation… receipts stacked on receipts, and that style eats hours. Twelve-plus-hour days, seven days a week, between X and private client work. The engagement numbers stopped reflecting that, but that's how it goes. I've never blamed the algorithm. It's a free platform, free market. And plenty of you pay $3/month to subscribe, which I genuinely appreciate. This isn't a complaint. It's me being honest that I'm still figuring out the format. The research is the easy part. Packaging it so people actually read it, and keeping up with algorithm changes… that's the struggle I'm still learning. Back to work.

@Recliningdad @ingelramdecoucy @PatrickJWolf Now that you mention it, the high school I went to had a Marine JROTC program headed by a colonel who had seen serious combat action.

@Matt_Romley @ingelramdecoucy @PatrickJWolf I wish we would get back to this. Bring in older males as staff 40 to 70. It helps so so so many young men of all backgrounds. The studies show it. I would love to see them get retired senior NCOs to add into schools to develop what is missing from younger men.

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Friday.

@Recliningdad @ingelramdecoucy @PatrickJWolf I went to an all-boys high school and it was the making of me.

Male camaraderie is what created civilization and will save it. Ask any parent their has their kid in an all boys school and that doesn’t come from or have exposure to any type of all male environment. They are amazed at how young men excel and develop. They should have made more of these movies, they need to bring them back as a proper series.

@ingelramdecoucy @PatrickJWolf It's about duty, honor, loyalty, and real masculinity. There may never be another one like it.

@PatrickJWolf I’m not sure that any movie has ever understood male friendship and power structures as well as Master and Commander understands them. Just a masterpiece

@EchoesofWarYT Lee: "Texans always move them."

What Southern state do you think performed the best in the Civil War? And which performed the worst?