Shannonbytheocean

Navy brat, number nerd, scifi enthusiast blessed to be living by a beach somewhere most of my life

[Shannonbytheocean @ShannonsBeach]

Surf in Satellite Beach

[Above The Rabbit Hole @AboveRabbitHole]

Above The Rabbit Hole EP: 127 - Mickey & Matt https://t.co/0fLsV8ZKot

[Kevin Corke @kevincorke]

Amazing 🌓🌓🌒

[J.B. White the RattlerGator @RattlerGator]

Ha !!! It never, ever gets old.

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

-Elder Steven Shumway

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Nashville I ordered hot chicken.

The woman at the counter was named Brenda. She did not ask if I wanted it spicy.

She asked how much of my afternoon I was willing to lose.

"Mild, medium, hot, XXX, or the one we do not put on the menu?"

A guest does not choose the lightest blade.

"XXX," I said.

Brenda looked at me the way a smith looks at a man who has asked for a sword sharper than his hands.

"You ever had this before?"

"No."

"You sure?"

"I am sure."

She wrote it down. No mercy.

It arrived. Red. Gleaming. Beautiful the way a warning is beautiful.

I took one bite.

For three seconds there was chicken.

Then there was only light.

A child at the next table whispered, "Mama, that man is glowing."

Brenda glanced once. "You good?"

I could not feel my tongue. I nodded anyway. A samurai does not negotiate with poultry.

She set down a glass of milk I had not ordered.

"On the house. Everybody gets one lie. Yours was XXX."

I finished it. The chicken won.

I returned the next day.

Brenda smiled, not unkind.

"Medium?"

"...Medium."

She nodded like a teacher watching a student finally read the room.

In Japan we test a blade by cutting, then leave the student alone with the lesson.

In Nashville they test a man by fire—

then set the milk down like a hand on his shoulder.

That is not cruelty.

That is belonging.

America does not ask if you can take the heat.

America brings the heat.

Then America brings the milk.

[Shannonbytheocean @ShannonsBeach]

This was a really fun human show @AboveRabbitHole great job Mickey!

[Above The Rabbit Hole @AboveRabbitHole]

Above The Rabbit Hole Special EP: Mickey Alone 2 https://t.co/4VeqLoz2QT

[AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ @AwakenedOutlaw]

You heard me, Grandma Pearl wants to do a kegstand.

[Shannonbytheocean @ShannonsBeach]

I love our FLOTUS and OAN is top notch professionalism!

[One America News @OANN]

Watch the full video here: https://t.co/OotBcfNCzB

[One America News @OANN]

Watch the full video here: https://t.co/OotBcfNCzB

[Dami’ Adenuga @DAMIADENUGA]

Bull was like “who tf is this dude?”😂

[Shannonbytheocean @ShannonsBeach]

Happy weekend!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The little man absolutely nails it, and his dad can’t help but jump in too.

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

The result is an unusual judicial standoff: one federal court has ordered DHS to eliminate the SAVE features, while another has ordered the agency to restore them. Unless one order is stayed or modified, the conflict is likely headed to the appellate courts for resolution.

[AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ @AwakenedOutlaw]

This is awesome news! Judge Sparkle can get bent, proper like.

[J.B. White the RattlerGator @RattlerGator]

If you're a bit curious about what Elon is currently doing with Tesla and have 20 minutes to spare, this is a damn good video from Will @TeslaJigsaw that covers enough ground and acts as a sufficient summary based on a video produced by @herbertong

https://t.co/P0JqpnFRJP

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Tulsi Gabbard just described the actual operating system of Washington and it’s somehow even dumber and more insulting than the conspiracy versions.

She needed one printed document for a 10 a.m. Oval Office meeting with the President. A mid-level staffer ... detailed from another agency ... decided he didn’t like what was on it, printed it anyway, then locked it in his desk and refused to hand it over. Her chief of staff went down. Her general counsel went down. Both got told to pound sand until the guy’s real boss at his home agency finally gave permission.

That’s the “deep state.” Not some secret society in a basement. Just some nobody with a desk drawer and a God complex who genuinely believed his personal veto outranked the Director of National Intelligence and the elected President of the United States.

This is what Gabbard means when she says they “thrive in the gaps between elections.” The voters pick a direction every four years. The permanent class decides which parts of that direction are even allowed to reach the Resolute Desk. They control the files. They control the information flow. And they’ve been doing it across administrations for decades because the only thing they actually answer to is each other.

The rest of us are just supposed to pretend the elections are real while these people quietly decide what the winner is permitted to know and act on.

Watch her whole speech if you want the full savage version. But the core truth is brutally simple: America votes. Then the people nobody voted for decide what happens next.
(article below)

[Ezra A. Cohen @EzraACohen]

Well done.

[Tron @1776Tron]

🔴LIVE | NIGHTLY DIG Tron - Part 144 - 6/30/26 | 9:00 EST🔴 https://t.co/v6Oh9keti9

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Amazing how fast the Pentagon’s self-anointed Hall of Sacred Stars turns into a bunch of hysterical old bitches the second Pete Hegseth starts touching their furniture.

For years these pricks ran the place like their own private country club with security clearances and taxpayer-funded bar tabs.

Lose wars? Get promoted.

Botch the Kabul disaster so badly that Americans got left behind and working dogs got abandoned? Circle the wagons and protect your own.

Turn the force into a DEI clown show that prioritized race, gender, and feelings over combat power? Call it “progress” and hand each other medals.

Let retired generals and admirals linger over the active ranks like vultures waiting for their next board seat or cable news hit? That was just “mentorship.”

They built a perfect machine: command a division, lose some wars, retire, then cash in on defense contractor boards, think tank sinecures, and “distinguished” speaking fees while still whispering in the ears of the officers they left behind. And if anyone asked too many questions, the whole rotten club would close ranks and call it an attack on “the institution.”

Now Hegseth walks in and starts yanking out the people who helped turn the United States military into a taxpayer-funded sociology experiment with guns, and suddenly these same arrogant bastards rediscover “norms,” “process,” and “institutional integrity.” Spare me the theater.

This was never about keeping politics out of the military. It was always about protecting the people who already politicized it, institutionalized it, and then decorated themselves for doing it. Hegseth didn’t bring politics into the Pentagon. He found their political machine already installed, running at full power, and guarded by men with stars on their chests and future paychecks in their eyes.

And now that machine is getting smashed.

The howling you’re hearing isn’t concern for the troops. It’s the sound of a corrupt old boys club watching their racket get dismantled in real time.
(article below)

[J.B. White the RattlerGator @RattlerGator]

This is an outstanding marticle.

The Reaction to GEN Donahue's Firing Indicates Hegseth's Action Was Correct and Timely https://t.co/6fLNkXHRnG