J D

Seller of puts. Works until it doesn’t. Famous for launching the iPhone.

[The Space Coast Rocket @CoastRocket]

WE COUNT THE ENEMIES WE KILL. WE RARELY COUNT THE ONES WE CREATE.

Nidal Hasan was a patient on my floor in the surgical trauma ICU at Brooke Army Medical Center.

I wasn't there when he arrived. I had just left for my deployment to Mosul, Iraq. But the nurses and doctors who cared for him were my peers and my friends, and I know exactly what that required of them, because every one of us had done some version of it before. Before anyone tells me what strength looks like, understand what that work demands.

I have cared for a drunk driver who wiped out an entire family and landed in our ICU himself. I have cared for gang members who shot up a block while children were stepping off a school bus, then ended up on our unit with bullets of their own. I have kept alive people who murdered their own families and failed at taking their own lives. And in Iraq, I saved the lives of the very enemy fighters who had just tried to kill us and miraculously survived our response.

Every one of those patients got our best. Not because we felt anything for them, but because of who we were. You set aside anger, grief, prejudice and every personal feeling you have, because a life in front of you is a life in front of you. That's the oath. That's the duty.

So when Hasan came through those doors, my colleagues did what we had always done. They preserved the life of a man who murdered thirteen people and would have killed them too, given the chance. He killed those men and women in one of the very same buildings many Soldier's like myself have been in when I was stationed at Fort Hood.
He is alive today because they did their jobs. That was not sentiment. It was a hard, tangible expression of the values this country claims to stand for. Our principles had to mean something even when the person benefiting from them had violated everything we believed in.

Now the Pentagon plans to livestream his execution by firing squad on Dec. 3, and our leaders apparently believe turning his death into a public spectacle will demonstrate American strength. I think it demonstrates how little they understand the enemy they claim to be fighting. We kept Nidal Hasan alive, now our leaders want to make him a martyr.

Hasan walked into Fort Hood expecting to die. He believed his death would be rewarded. At his trial, he called no witnesses and offered no defense, and his own court-appointed lawyers worried he was seeking execution. He failed at martyrdom once. Now we're about to hand it to him, in high definition, for every extremist with an internet connection to replay, manipulate and celebrate.
We supply the footage. They supply the meaning.
Long after the politicians finish congratulating themselves, that video will still exist. Their moment of bravado becomes somebody else's recruiting material for decades. And this failure to think past the immediate display of power reaches far beyond one execution. We count the enemies we kill. We rarely count the enemies we create.

Look at the school in Minab, Iran, where multiple investigations attributed the strike that killed more than 100 children and their teachers to us. You cannot bury people's children beneath the rubble of their classrooms and expect a speech about American intentions to decide how they remember you. No denial brings those children home. No claim of good intentions makes their parents forget whose weapons killed them.
If those were our children, we would remember for the rest of our lives. We would demand accountability. Many of us would want vengeance. We would tell their stories to the next generation. We know this because we did exactly that after September 11.

Why do we imagine other people love their children less, grieve less deeply, or remember less clearly?

We have developed a horrifying talent for creating more terrorists than we will ever stop. We inflict suffering, evade responsibility, and then act as though the anger that follows came out of nowhere.

Think back to the first time you saw one of those al Qaeda videos of an American being beheaded. Remember the sickness in your stomach. Remember the rage. Remember thinking that only savages would film a killing and send it out for the world to watch. Now ask yourself what the rest of the world will see when the camera is ours.
Terrorist organizations stage executions for the cameras. Authoritarian regimes make death a public spectacle to feed fear and rage. Watching our own leaders reach for those same tools should force us to confront how much of ourselves we are surrendering in the name of defeating them.

The line separating us from the people we condemn has to live in our conduct. A flag cannot hold it for us. Neither can a uniform, a title, or a declaration that we are the good guys.
On that ICU floor, on a bloody street in Mosul, and in trauma bays across this country, people like my colleagues hold that line every day under circumstances most will never face. They keep monsters alive because their duty and their humanity are bigger than their hatred of what those monsters have done.

Execute him if that's the sentence. But do it the way a confident nation does; quietly, lawfully, and without giving him the stage he always wanted. Let him be forgotten.

I expect our leaders to show at least as much discipline as the nurses who had to care for him.
They keep telling us they are defending what makes America different. Every day, they make that difference harder to see.

Robert W. Burns III is the editor and publisher of The Space Coast Rocket, an Army veteran and a retired trauma nurse. The views expressed in this column are his own.

[Bronx Bomber Ball @BronxBomberBall]

I'm probably going to log off soon and enjoy the rest of my night out on the West Coast, but before I do, I need all of you on this platform to look at what happened tonight as a referendum for this organization.

They forced Trent Grisham, in an elimination game, with no history of playoff success, and a .199/.303/.680 slash line in the leadoff position in 2026, into the leadoff spot of game 3 of the American League Division Series.

The result? He struck out four times, twice looking, and the 4th of which, with the tying run on second base in the bottom of the ninth inning down one run, to lose the game, and end the team's season.

Their defiance that they are smarter than you, and subsequently, the rest of the league, is exactly why we are in this position yet again. Losers of another humiliating LDS against a division rival. Another 90+ win season that means absolutely nothing. Another year closer to Aaron Judge's retirement without a World Series title.

I will not take this organization seriously in 2027 unless significant changes are made, both in the way they use data, in the way they build their rosters, and then the urgency they place on games, both in the regular season and certainly in the postseason. This cannot continue. And I will not allow myself to be mentally taxed over 162 game season yet again, to see the exact same ending in the 2027 postseason, or whenever baseball resumes.

[Katie Sharp @SharpStats17]

Yankees in 2026 ALDS:
.130 BA
.192 OBP
.239 SLG
.431 OPS

Those stats are their lowest BA, OBP, SLG and OPS in any multi-game postseason series in franchise history

[Not Gaetti @notgaetti]

Trent Grisham, who is leading off for the New York Yankees in tonight’s do-or-die Game 3, has been the worst leadoff hitter in baseball this year. He’s batting .104 with a .420 OPS out of the leadoff spot during the first inning in 2026.

That’s far, far worse than I realized.

[J D @SatanIsMyRock]

@1991Wolfpack The tagline is “We Remember”
You may have forgotten, the tagline “Never Forget” is for 9/11.

[J D @SatanIsMyRock]

@LombardIsKing_ I’ve seen enough. Extend that man’s contract another decade.

[J D @SatanIsMyRock]

@Ask_WellsFargo Hi Alfredo, I doubt you can help. @Plaid is probably the issue here. @copilotmoney may be at fault. Carry on.

[J D @SatanIsMyRock]

So is @Plaid just not working anymore? Cannot connect to @WellsFargo, cannot connect to @Voya, @copilotmoney not replying to support inquiries, what are we doing here?

[Jp @curryrevengeszn]

@TalkinYanks THANK YOU BOONE WE ALL WANTED THE SAME LINEUP THAT GOT 1 HIT ON SATURDAY 😁😁

[Katie Sharp @SharpStats17]

Yankees have a .145 OBP over their last 2 games.

That's tied with 1974 Orioles for the lowest OBP by any AL team in a 2-game span within a postseason.

[NYY Takes @nyytakes]

2022: Lose both in Houston return to Yankee Stadium down 0-2

2024: Lose both in LA return to Yankee Stadium down 0-2

2025: lose both in Toronto return to Yankee Stadium down 0-2

2026: lose both in Tampa return to Yankee Stadium down 0-2

[Stanzo @ncostanzo24]

The Yankees are now 0-11 in their last 11 road playoff games against non AL Central opponents. Last win was 2019 ALCS Game 1 in Houston. They just legit never rise to the occasion man

[J D @SatanIsMyRock]

@swd2 @bacicari Oh see Zombie trans I am fucking here for.

[Max Mannis @MaxMannis]

Absolutely electric view of Ben Rice's grand slam from the bleachers

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

On Tuesday the @Yankees' Ben Rice:

hit multiple homers
hit a grand slam
had all of his team's XBH
outhit the entire opposing team

No one else in MLB history has done all of that in any game, regular season or postseason.

[J D @SatanIsMyRock]

RT @Buster_ESPN: Cam Schlittler ERA in six career starts v Boston: 0.47. 38 innings, 48 strikeouts.

[J D @SatanIsMyRock]

Does no one, no one at all see the not-at-all sudden reappearance of “migrant caravans” magically before elections? How fucking dumb are we?

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

Our time has come.

[J D @SatanIsMyRock]

@lamps_apple @kevinxu Excellent.

[Ramit Sethi @ramit]

@txcattlefeeders @ReichlinMelnick You are experiencing the rare gift of Republicans facing consequences without being coddled, subsidized, and protected by Democrats. Enjoy this rare opportunity — it does not come often for you, and consequences are a great teacher

[John Delaney 🇺🇸 @JohnDelaney]

Let's be very clear on this one point.

The President mocking a former President in front of the communist leader of China is the most un-American thing an American president has ever done.