Mike in PDX

Capitalist, UCF Knights, Miami Dolphins, Portland Trailblazers,

[Mike in PDX @KnightMike2003]

@EndWokeness Ace of Base security

[𝙏𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙨 @tailgate_beers]

Bills Mafia: “We want red helmet alternates.”

Bills: “Best we can do is nickel shitty.”

[Elon Altman @ElonAltman]

LeBron’s the first person to move from Bel Air to West Philadelphia.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima.

Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes.

Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse.

No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed.

So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history.

When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive.

The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy.

At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong.

They convicted him anyway.

For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy.

Case closed. For fifty years.

Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project.

He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay.

A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001.

The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader.

Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

[Mike in PDX @KnightMike2003]

@CSOonX This is by far the biggest war crime of the Bush era.

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

Everyone who supported the U.S. Men’s Soccer Team after not watching a single second of soccer for the past 4 years

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Me to Bosnia-Herzegovina right now despite multiple consecutive decades of not caring about soccer:

[Mike in PDX @KnightMike2003]

@ProFootballTalk Obvious false allegation. No QB drafted by the Jets is gonna beat anybody…

[ostonox @ostonox]

@WelBeast watch the jets lose

[Mike in PDX @KnightMike2003]

This guy is almost as big of a liar as my ex-wife

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars allegedly invented an entire fake top-secret spy program to steal the money.

As if this story couldn't get and wilder:

-David Rush allegedly built a sham "special access program," the blackest box in U.S. intelligence, so secret even top-clearance officials couldn't look inside without authorization

-The fake program posed as "continuity of government" work, the doomsday planning that keeps Washington running after a nuclear war

-He allegedly read in two colleagues as unwitting accomplices and used a made-up government contract to funnel millions, persuading a defense contractor to buy huge amounts of gold

-The FBI raid on his home seized 303 gold bars worth roughly $40 million, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches

-Investigators say he lied about his college degrees, faked being a Navy pilot, and still sailed through the CIA's notoriously brutal vetting

-A judge ordered him held as a flight risk, and several CIA officials are now on leave as the probe widens

The scheme worked because of the system, not in spite of it.

The secrecy walls built to hide operations from China and Russia hid the fraud from the CIA itself.

A man with a fake résumé ran a fake doomsday program inside the most paranoid institution in America, and for years nobody noticed...

Source: Washington Post

[Mike in PDX @KnightMike2003]

I feel seen

[Mike in PDX @KnightMike2003]

@PortlandPolice Anyone actually read the article? An officer stopped an armed intruder in a home threating a mother and their children, and then he attacked the officer with a rock. Good job officer.

[Mike in PDX @KnightMike2003]

Ok so this is our next president…. https://t.co/5bu1ybGcC1

[Nostra, House of Gold @Nostre_damus]

Rubio realizing he’s going to have to be the new leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel

[The ₿itcoin Therapist @TheBTCTherapist]

If you don’t laugh at this you’re not human

[Stink Eye @thestinkeye]

I spend more than my fair share of time under the water and had some really cool wildlife interactions, but I’ve never seen anything this crazy!

[ESPN @espn]

UCF TAKES DOWN NO. 11 TEXAS TECH‼️

It's the Knights second top 25 win of the season 👏