FoxFier

Catholic, American, mother of a horde of homeschooled kids, Geek, vet married to a vet, and a conservative. If I think of something else relevant, I'll update.

[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

"Sorry we incited violence against a baby and an innocent lady, but the gal we hate for saying women actually exist is to blame. And it'd totally be OK to urge violence against the children and grandchildren of women who don't obey us."
Ew, abuser logic much?

[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

@toffee_32 I know one of the three folks that got hit, that I know off-TwiX, were quietly reinstated.

[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

@MarieleRedclaw @NightcafeStudio Well, a lot of them *did* lose to literal children. That's a pretty good measure of "a joke."

[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

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[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

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[Holly Chism, author @HollyChism]

Light Up the Night was reviewed as comparable to RAH's juveniles! I am so far beyond flattered that I can't even articulate how much that means to me!

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[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Jheyco Borda, a military veteran in Maryland, successfully fought off 4 teens who had a gun during an attempted carjacking.

He wrestled a gun out of one of the attacker’s hands before throwing the teen to the ground. Borda's brother stepped in to take down another teen.

All 4 carjackers were arrested by the police. FAFO

[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

@CyborgPeds Following the law instead of "maaaaan that's not fair" is... something -ist, I'm sure.

Meh, heck with 'em.

[Agrippa @agrippa_dr]

Gavin thought this wouldn’t age poorly because he couldn’t fathom completing a public works project.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name.

June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet.

At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific.

9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be.

Empty ocean. Nothing for miles.

The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them.

Doctrine is clear. Turn back.

McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks.

9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy.

McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it.

10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open.

And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open.

10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough.

By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening.

The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise.

Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle.

One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.

[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

JUST watched the @Fat_Electrician video on this, including Bruno Guido's involvement. https://t.co/buqvnakldF

[Wade 🐊 McClusky @WMcluskey]

By the morning of June 5, all four Japanese carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu) were gone, effectively ending the Battle of Midway.

Final Tally:
United States losses:

Ships: 1 fleet carrier (USS Yorktown), 1 destroyer (USS Hammann)
Aircraft: ~145–150 destroyed
Lives: ~307–340 killed

Japanese losses:

Ships: 4 fleet carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu), 1 heavy cruiser (Mikuma)
Aircraft: ~248 destroyed (mostly carrier-based, including many elite pilots)
Lives: ~3,057 killed

These three days marked the military turning point in the war ... but more than two years of the most brutal fighting the world had ever seen remained on the horizon. We owe our respect to the brave men of the US armed forces especially Torpedo Squadron 8 (and Ensign Tex Gay), Bombing & Scouting Squadrons 6, Bombing Squadron 3, and the crews of USS Enterprise, Yorktown, and Hornet.

[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

@AntiCthulhu Bingo.

It just reads as try-hard.

[Jay Maynard @JayMaynard]

Book three, Lone Star Crystal, of my series is out! Get it on Amazon.

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[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

@ArmoredNorman I'm leading edge Millennial-- graduated in '01-- and while malls weren't fully dead, I never saw one where folks didn't inform me it was horribly empty.

Even for photos of the Christmas Rush, because there just weren't any "kids" around, compared to the teens of the early '80s.

[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

@NathanCBrindle @ShamashAran Unfortunately, I trust activists and lawyers even less.

And those sort would absolutely use it to destroy leakers, then do stuff like define anyone on TwiX as a journalist.

[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

@PulpHerb (usually when folks are ranting because the media got a case and used that failure to follow through as "proof" there was nothing...when there was lots, the DA is just behaving as if compromised.)

[FoxFier @FoxFier3]

@PulpHerb It's also interesting to note this started in 2024... which means that someone was sitting on it, just like the Somali fraud.

THAT would be interesting. I know I've heard a lot about DAs refusing to charge and smothering investigations.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Owl enjoying a sunbath..🦉😅

[Brittany Hughes @RealBrittHughes]

Just learned that the couple who aborted their baby for having Downs was a) documenting the story for weeks for clicks and b) has a disabled dog they've spent tons of $$ keeping alive. Anyone who pretends this is some morally gray issue rather that straight-up evil is either stupid or lying.