Trygve Hammer for ND

Navy Enlisted to USNA Grad, Helicopter and fixed-wing pilot. USMC (ret), OIF veteran (infantry), Science Teacher, Writer.

[Trygve Hammer for ND @TrygveHammer]

A Navy promotion board picked the best officers for the job. The eminently mediocre Pete Hegseth, overruled them. Result: zero women promoted to admiral this year — first time in over a decade. Meritocracy is the first casualty in Hegseth's pitiful war on "wokeness."

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@ggreenwald The Strait of Hormuz has been freely open for international shipping throughout recorded modern history — effectively for as long as global oil trade has depended on it. Probably over $1 trillion to end up with the same open door.

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@FoxNews Only someone who has never been a teacher could say anything more ignorant about them. My kids went to schools all over the country and overseas. The only thing remotely political I ever heard was an asinine claim the Kennedy would be a Republican if he were alive today.

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Vizzini: "Have you heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?"
Westley: "Yes."
Vizzini: "Morons."

Marc Andreessen, basically, in 2026.

Also: the AI model Anthropic was too nervous to release.

https://t.co/vAlSjPh8QY

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@RepChipRoy I'm old enough to remember when House Republicans did exactly the same thing, and stayed out of DC for an exceptionally long time.

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@RepDonBacon The Save America Act is not a voter ID law.

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@RightScopee Sadly, that displayed the full depth of Hegseth's knowledge.

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@JesseKellyDC The problem here is that the Trump administration is also surprised by this very unsurprising response.

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@Johnny_Joey Well-meaning friends have told me things like, "Shoot first, ask questions later," and "Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six." Good advice, for cowards.

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@RandPaul Every state I have lived in, and I have lived in many, required an ID to vote. The Save America Act is not about that, and you know it.

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U.S. oil production metrics (active rigs, new wells drilled) decreased in the first Trump administration and have declined again in the second Trump administration. You are waging a war on truth, Stephen.

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

If the Democrat war on American fossil fuel had been allowed to prevail America would be totally subservient to foreign nations.

If the Democrat war on American fossil fuel was not being waged America would be totally independent of foreign nations.

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@azsweetheart013 Don't drop your guard when throwing a punch at Amy.

"Fragile men
They all try to scold you
Now there's no one to console you
When you don't get your way"
Hayes Carll, "Fragile Men" _What It Is_, 2019

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@TimSheehyMT You are probably right. They did plan; it's just that the National Command Authority did such a horrible job of it that it APPEARS that they've been caught with their pants around their ankles. Sort of like tariffs and Ag markets.

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@StevenCheung47 Would be much more authentic if you stuck with the original "Lügenpresse."

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@SenTomCotton They certainly didn't plan effectively. I trust our military at the tactical and operational levels, but not the National Command Authority at the strategic level. President decides capriciously and SecDef is focused on company 1stSgt or Bn SgtMaj issues. All else is beyond him.

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War Leaves Scars. Excerpt from my speech thanking the North Dakota Democratic-NPL for their endorsement for U.S. House.

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This Armageddon BS from military leaders actually makes me more angry from my perspective as a Christian as a retired Marine Corps officer. Tying this rhetoric to Christianity and to the military damages both and is counter to any sane principle of theology or leadership.

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@mattvanswol Matt needs gaslighting rehab.

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@WhiteHouse I'll take "Zero Self-Awareness for $1000, Alex." Please tell me this is a parody account.

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@nilslofgren @azsweetheart013 Oh, great. Now my wife will be like, "Why can't you be sweet like Nils Lofgren, and when will you learn to play guitar?"