Nicholas Irving, known across the Ranger battalions as “The Reaper,” was one of the deadliest snipers the U.S. Army ever produced.
Through the glass of his SR-25 rifle, lovingly nicknamed “Dirty Diana”, he ended insurgent after insurgent with cold, surgical precision. In a single deployment he racked up dozens of confirmed kills, a number that climbed faster than most snipers manage in an entire career. To the men on the ground with him, he was a guardian angel perched on a rooftop & to the enemy, he was a ghost they never saw coming.
But every trigger pull left a mark that bullets never could. The faces stayed with him. The sounds replayed on loop. When he finally came home, the war didn’t end. It just changed battlefields. Nightmares, rage, alcohol & suicidal thoughts. He fought them all and battled to hold his own life together.
Then, in 2016, his son was born.
That tiny heartbeat gave him something the battlefield never did. A reason that outweighed the pain. He got sober. He started talking, really talking about what he’d seen & what it had done to him. He wrote books, spoke to veterans, mentored younger troops carrying the same invisible wounds. He turned the same relentless focus that once tracked targets across Iraqi rooftops into rebuilding himself, one day at a time.
#War #PTSD #Military #Snipers #USArmy
🚨 CAUGHT ON TAPE: Two ICE agents slip on ice in Minnesota —causing one of their weapons to discharge because it wasn’t set on safety.
These people are dangerously negligent.
Must watch: NYT just released a damning forensic analysis of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
It flatly refutes Trump administration claims — confirming the motorist was driving away, not toward the officer, and the officer was not hit by the vehicle.
https://t.co/n8opkxbtmU
🚨This video is terrifying, and it’s exactly why “just comply” does not protect you from ICE/Border Patrol agents, even as U.S. citizens, and why you always film them.
In North Carolina, ICE/Border Patrol agents illegally stopped two U.S. citizens. They questioned them without legal cause, took their licenses, and admitted on camera that the men were allowed to record.
And they were still attacked.
In the video, one man asks if he can film for his safety. The agent says yes, saying that he’ll “have to put his mask on.” The agents take their licenses, ask where they’re from, where they live, what they’re doing in the area, all without legal authority. The men cooperate anyway.
Then the situation turns dangerous.
Another agent suddenly tells the driver, “Turn off your video. You are being detained, so you are not free to record.”
That is false. Recording law enforcement in public is legal, including during detention.
The driver calmly refuses, keeps one hand on the steering wheel as instructed, and holds his phone in the other.
That’s when the agent lunges for the phone.
The agent throws himself into the car, trying to grab the device. When the driver moves it away, the agent assaults him.
The agent then illegally opens the car door, something the driver correctly points out they are not allowed to do.
The agents keep demanding the filming stop, as multiple agents keep reaching for the phone.
Then they escalate again.
They threaten arrest, grab the driver, and start hitting him and trying to drag him out of the car, even though he keeps saying, “We haven’t done anything wrong.” When they fail to pull him out, they back away, visibly angry.
They turn on the passenger next.
An agent grabs him, threatens handcuffs, and assaults him trying to force him out of the vehicle. When that doesn’t work, they start yelling conflicting commands, claiming the men are “interfering with an investigation.”
An investigation into what?
Their own illegal stop.
At one point, an agent shouts that the men can’t interfere, while another tries… again… to grab the phone, almost certainly to stop or erase the recording.
Only after all of this do the agents finally release them.
Because they are U.S. citizens.
Because the stop was illegal.
And because the camera was still rolling.
This is why you film ICE.
This is why compliance doesn’t save you.
This is why they hate cameras.
If this hadn’t been recorded, this would be another lie in a report, another “resisting” accusation, another abuse buried and denied.
Film them. Always.
🇺🇸 TEARFUL NAVY VET: “I never thought this country would see this day. 20 years in the navy fighting for our freedom — for somebody like Trump come in and take it away.”
It’s official — the San Antonio Toros are BACK.
One of Texas’ proudest football legacies returns to the field as the newest member of the Continental Football League.
A proud past. A powerful future.
➡️ https://t.co/CcWxWt3bEj
#VamosToros#CoFLFootball
Big news out of @DraftDiamonds, launching the Free Agent Portal.
Looks like a platform that will certainly help out free agents find their next landing spot: wherever that may be.