https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crashes-japan-cause-mccain/

I thought “Bill Moran” sounded familiar.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/the-drift/2019/04/29/heres-what-i-know-about-bill-moran-the-drift-vol-xxvi/

Surprise retirement instead of accepting role of Chief of Naval Operations. All the major outlets say it was over an inappropriate professional relationship but that seems like a whitewash to me.

https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1147874322750398464?s=17

Yup.

David Frum (@davidfrum) Tweeted:

YOU, the highly engaged Twitter user, are appalled and dismayed. The married non-minority women in North Carolina and Florida who will or won’t put the Ds over the top in 2020 – they think most things are pretty good. Take that seriously. https://t.co/shund5xjv8

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/06/ilhan-omar-is-unlike-anyone-who-has-served-congress-this-is-her-complicated-american-story/

Ha. 🙂

«Her thoughts shifted to the strains of her new profession. The closest analogy, she decided, was parenting.

“You’re not supposed to be tired or sad,” she said. She thought for a moment and found one more similarity. “You don’t get any training. You have to be an expert on the first day,” she said. “They just give you the baby and that’s it.”»

https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2019%2F07%2Fevangelical-christians-face-deepening-crisis%2F593353%2F

«Mark Labberton… has spoken about a distinct way for Christians to conceive of their calling, from seeing themselves as living in a Promised Land and “demanding it back” to living a “faithful, exilic life.”»

(Hypothes.is link will show my highlighting (and others’, if any).)

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28281910/fourth-of-july-mercy-otis-warren-tyranny-donald-trump/

«“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.”

“We are not descended from fearful men,” as Edward R. Murrow said at the conclusion of his broadcast takedown of Joe McCarthy. “Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular.”

We are not descended from fearful women, either. Ms. Warren was fed up, and an empire came down.»

https://granta.com/how-to-write-about-africa/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/us/trump-census-citizenship-question.html

My ACLU contributions well-spent.

https://twitter.com/MG_SmithT/status/1146002315826122752?s=17

“Scroll past the trolls.” 🙂

MG Tammy Smith (@MG_SmithT) Tweeted:

My advice to a question in a satellite CGSC class yesterday about engaging in social media- do it. Another tool to scan your sector (and be exposed to hilarious wit). Scroll past the trolls. #miltwitter

Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) Tweeted:
@JohnL4 Saluti please find the unroll here: Thread by @TheHipsterRebbe: “”Home” By Warsan Shire no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see t […]” https://t.co/U3NOxgZW3E
Talk to you soon. 🤖 https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1145863724789575681?s=17