Rob Reich

Work at Schneider National; Fan of Blue Öyster Cult, New York Rangers, Dallas Cowboys, Marvel Comics; US Army veteran.

[Rob Reich @RobertReichJr]

Great performance from @buckdharmaBOC and @theamazingBOC today at Eau Claire Summer Jam. #blueoystercult

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End of Every Song- Buck Dharma https://t.co/BXdplLryLG via @YouTube

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

#OTD in 1944, a fifty-six-year-old brigadier general waded ashore at Utah Beach, walking with a cane.

He was the oldest man in the D-Day invasion, and the only general to land with the first wave at Utah Beach. He was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. — eldest son of the twenty-sixth president, a soldier who had been wounded and gassed in the trenches of the First World War a quarter-century earlier, and who had asked three times for permission to lead the assault before the Army said yes.

The currents at Utah Beach pushed the first landing craft about a mile off course. The men who came ashore looked up to find an unfamiliar shoreline and no clear plan. Roosevelt walked the beach, took his bearings against the landscape, and made a decision: they would attack from where they were. "We'll start the war from right here," he said.

Thirty-six days later, on July 12, 1944, Roosevelt died in his sleep of a heart attack in Normandy. He never made it home. His Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously — for the morning he steadied a beach full of men under fire, on terrain that was not the terrain he had been promised, and decided the war would go forward anyway.

He was the son of a man who once charged up Kettle Hill at the head of the Rough Riders. He died serving the country his father had served, in a war his father did not live to see.

#OTD #OnThisDay #DDay #TheodoreRooseveltJr #UtahBeach #MedalOfHonor #DareGreatly

[Rob Reich @RobertReichJr]

Great seeing Triumph back on tour this week.

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I just backed P. Craig Russell: Into The Dreaming City on @Kickstarter https://t.co/03mqBw7Dpa

[Tony Posnanski @tonyposnanski]

Stop holding comedians who make jokes to higher standards than politicians who lie, steal, and are in the Epstein files over 1000 times.

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I Am the Storm 1979/2026 Buck Goes WAH! https://t.co/PC3584XxAh via @YouTube #blueoystercult

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Take a close look at this.

NBC News published a major investigation this afternoon. Six reporters. Six named sources inside the US government. The story breaks open something the Trump administration has been hiding for two months.

The damage Iran did to American military bases in the opening phase of the war is far worse than the Pentagon has admitted.

Repairs will cost billions of dollars.

Here is what NBC found.

[Rob Reich @RobertReichJr]

@PeterDiamandis I’m reading your Longevity Guidebook now, you’ve helped to inspire me to get in much better shape and I’m well on my way. Thank you!

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@PlaidOnFlannel @swilko5 https://t.co/fK7f8dko8p

[Rob Reich @RobertReichJr]

New Kevin Smith interview - Clerks, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob, Mal... https://t.co/ULnM0UNx43 via @YouTube

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@MassAesthetic @georgepereznet I agree, that font change is terrible.

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@JVMonte2 @swilko5 Amazing record by @theamazingBOC .
My favorite: https://t.co/f4sJxb63Kl

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@Sebyy71 @swilko5 Definitely @theamazingBOC
https://t.co/hiwllkSgPM

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling is not mincing words. The former Commanding General of US Army Europe says these generals were purged because they stood up against Pete Hegseth’s push to turn the US military into a Christian nationalist crusade.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Randy Manner says dozens of chaplains who don’t share Hegseth’s views are being marginalized and excluded from staff meetings.  The chaplain corps exists to serve all service members regardless of faith. That apparently made Green’s position untenable.

The Pope has now weighed in. Hegseth’s prayer for battlefield violence prompted a response from Rome: God does not listen to those who wage war in his name.
Hertling has seen enough. So have the troops.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Hegseth is a racist, a bigot, a sexist, and a white Christian Nationalist. He is the most dangerous member of Trump’s very malevolent Cabinet. He must be removed. The Republican Doormat Congress is the failure.

[Rob Reich @RobertReichJr]

@AdamZHerman Would be great in player development.

[The Joint Staff 🇺🇸 @thejointstaff]

On behalf of the Joint Force and the Joint Chiefs, we extend our deepest gratitude to Chief of Staff of the Army, General Randy George, for his decades of steadfast service to our nation. Since 1988, General George and his family have consistently answered the nation’s call with honor and dedication. We are profoundly thankful to General George and his wife, Patty, for their many years of sacrifice and devotion to those who serve. As they graduate from this distinguished chapter of service and look toward the future, we wish them both continued happiness and success in all that lies ahead.

[Mark Lazerus @MarkLazerus]

Of all the baffling things the NHL does, sequestering huge games with wide fan appeal to NHL Network (a channel not available on every TV provider) and blacking them out on the league's paid subscription service (ESPN+) has to be near the top of the list.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.

Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.

George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.

The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.

No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.

The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.

The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.

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