Jack Sullivan

[Bill Matz @BiladelphiaPHLY]

What type of future are we leaving to our children?

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Jeff Nadu @JeffNadu]

This is the last Saturday without college football until the end of January

[Luke Foisset @LukeFoisset]

Second highlight film out now.
Different level.
Luke Foisset | 2027
@KDJmedia1 @hoopsmbd @NovaFbRecruit @NavyFB @ArmyWP_Football @TopPreps @AF_Football @ArmyFB_Recruit @KeyStarNetwork @CoachJohnLoose @VMI_Football @BrianDohn247 #AGTG #FootballRecruit #Recruiting #ClassOf2027

[Chen @thisischenx]

As a young person, I don’t think capitalism “isn’t working”. I think it’s working exactly how it was redesigned over the last 30 years. And that’s the problem.

We entered adulthood in an economy where the ladders got pulled up and the floor got more expensive.
Wages didn’t rise, but degrees became mandatory.
Experience became a prerequisite for entry-level jobs.
Housing became an investment class instead of a basic step toward stability.
Healthcare turned into a subscription.
And every industry consolidated to the point where a handful of companies decide who gets a chance and who doesn’t.

It’s not that young people don’t want to work hard - it’s that the on-ramp is now a toll road.

Our generation is competing in a market where the cost of failure is higher, the margin for error is smaller, and the upside is gated behind credentials, networks, and capital we weren’t born with.

Capitalism can work for young people again.
But only if we stop pretending the playing field hasn’t tilted.
We don’t want handouts. We want access.
We want mobility.
We want an economy where effort actually translates into opportunity.

Right now, it’s not a lack of ambition.
It’s a lack of openings.

[Michael McCarthy @MMcCarthyREV]

Refs are ruining the NFL. A flag on every big play. No flow, no enjoyment. Ridiculous ticky-tack offensive pass interference flag on Giants takes a TD off the board.

[Richard Sherman @RSherman_25]

So a tush push can last long enough for the Oline to push the QB but not long enough for the QB to reach the ball and fumble. The more I watch the play the more confused I am about it. No whistle had been blown.

[Ethan aka The People’s Insider @EthanGSN]

Jaxson Dart pushing Cam Skattebo’s wheelchair to mid-field for the ceremony honoring the Super Bowl team is gonna bring tears to my eyes

[Matthew Segal @segalmr]

To say "let's eliminate due process for the bad guys" is to fundamentally misunderstand what due process is.

[Patrick Jaicomo @pjaicomo]

The gov't's arguments against returning Abrego Garcia should make your blood run cold.

The gov't claims if it can ship a person to a foreign jurisdiction, they're gone.

There's no limiting principle.

It can make these arguments for intentional renditions of U.S. citizens.

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[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

"French Shipping Giant CMA CGM Pledges $20 Billion Investment in U.S: The world’s No. 3 container line’s pledge comes as Trump pushes to revive the U.S. shipbuilding and maritime industry"

1⃣ Plan to expand 10 US-flag APL ships to 30
2⃣ Order new 1.6-6k TEU ships from Korea
3⃣ Expand US port & logistics facilities

https://t.co/MI7jkPfj9l

[Jack Sullivan @JbSully54]

@CottageVirginia @bandrui0 @CalltoActivism True. The fact that this happened in one of the least vaccinated counties in Texas probably has nothing to do with this. Its the vaccines fault 😂

[Jack Sullivan @JbSully54]

@mockd16 @x_facts_matter @acnewsitics No because of the dangerous rhetoric he’s spreading. A democracy is built on checks and balances, suggesting that judges shouldn’t be able to block executive orders is unamerican.

[Jack Sullivan @JbSully54]

@greentoepalacio Buddy said their are two genders in his inaugural speech this world is not real

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Kaleb Debozo should’ve spent his summer preparing for Vanderbilt instead of liking pictures of Oregon Emily

[Eugene Rapay @erapay5]

Shoutout to the Week 4 @lohudsports Team of the Week, @ValhallaNYFB! @VMHS_Athletics_ @hoopsmbd

The Vikings got a 27-26 marquee win at Dobbs Ferry. They forced 2 turnovers that led to TD drives and they stuffed a 2pt attempt with 48 seconds left to preserve the victory.

[Jack Sullivan @JbSully54]

@kaihlen_jamison @ParadisePalmT @KuhnTristen Receiver tucked into it last second and it looked more like shoulder. Defense can never win…

[Jack Sullivan @JbSully54]

@Dwayne_wright9 You got it twisted dr phil the white steve harvey

[Valhalla Athletics @VMHS_Athletics_]

Vikings our very own Neil Paulercio was added to the list of top returning wrestlers in the area!! 👀🤼 #itsagreatdaytobeaviking