Judge declines to block President Trump's order on mail-in voting.
If you are wondering about this, heads are exploding at the ACLU.
Trump's order directs federal agencies to Compile state-by-state lists of U.S. citizens eligible to vote, using federal databases;
Instruct the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to create rules for handling mail-in and absentee ballots, including potentially delivering ballots only to those on approved lists and establishing uniform standards.
John Thune refuses to fire Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough because he wants her to sabotage America First bills. This Harry Reid-appointed hack has repeatedly killed immigration enforcement and voter integrity measures using the Byrd Rule. She’s a partisan roadblock for the Left and @LeaderJohnThune knows it. He welcomes it.
Real fighters don’t want “balance” with a party that’s spent decades torching America.
Where the hell are Senate Republicans? Why won’t they unite, demand Thune fire her, or boot Thune?
The mask is off.
America First voters didn’t elect Republican Senators to play nice with DC gatekeepers.
Fire the parliamentarian, @SenateGOP or get the hell out of the way.
84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name.
June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet.
At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific.
9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be.
Empty ocean. Nothing for miles.
The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them.
Doctrine is clear. Turn back.
McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks.
9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy.
McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it.
10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open.
And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open.
10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough.
By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening.
The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise.
Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle.
One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Police just released the bodycam footage in the killing of 18-year-old white male Henry Nowak and it CONFIRMS the police LAUGHED HIM OFF when he said he got stabbed
Straight-up says: "I've been stabbed."
COP: "Whereabouts? Don't think you have, mate!"
NOWAK: "*Groaning* I CAN'T BREATHE."
COP: "Put your hand in the cuff."
Nowak says he can't breathe again.
Then again while they just stand there.
"We have to check [if he was stabbed], don't we?"
THESE COPS ARE COMPLICIT IN THE MURDER!!
THERE SHOULD BE WORLDWIDE OUTRAGE.
Just this last week, the entire left-of-center world told you that you had to vote for a Texas Democrat because the Republican was an adulterer
Now they will tell you that you have to vote for the adulterer with a Nazi tattoo because the most moderate Republican in the Senate isn't moderate enough
Not caring about him wheeling six chicks at once when he was married is your choice
Not caring that he pretends to be a populist when he went to one of the richest prep schools in America is your choice
Not caring he went to war saying he always wanted to kill people is your choice
Not caring he went to work for Blackwater after serving and now calls the army very dumb and stupid is your choice
Not caring that he made fun of Purple Heart recipients is your choice
Not caring that he jerks off in porta potties is your choice
Not caring about all the shit he’s deleted on Reddit and he never thought would see the light of day and shows what a giant jackass is he is your choice
Not caring that he is a Nazi is your choice but if you support him and promote him don’t ever lecture anybody about the moral high ground again because you are a piece of shit
Software engineers are not real engineers.
Hear the argument:
Traditional engineering:
1. Licensed. You sign off on a bridge, your license is on the line.
2. Regulated. Failure = investigation, accountability, legal consequences.
3. Physics-bound. You can't ship a bridge that collapses and patch it Tuesday.
Software engineering:
1. Unregulated. Anyone can call themselves a software engineer.
2. Patchable. Broken code ships, gets fixed later. Users absorb the failure.
3. No professional liability. A bug that grounds 500 flights? No engineer loses their license.
The Boeing 737 MAX killed 346 people because of a software error.
No software engineer was prosecuted.
The most powerful engineering discipline in the world has the weakest accountability system.
Where should the line be?