#War

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NPR:Major plumbing headache haunts $13 billion U.S. carrier off the coast of Venezuela

"....New documents show the crew on board the United States' newest aircraft carrier are growing increasingly frustrated by design flaws that lead to regular failures in the ship's toilet system...."

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5680167/major-plumbing-headache-haunts-13-billion-u-s-carrier-off-the-coast-of-venezuela

Everyone who's ever served in the got the "don't do " briefing in basic training. If Mark is guilty, so is every drill sergeant. The number of who are willing to pretend they don't know this is fucking pathetic.

Gov says he’s worried how might respond to the growing controversy over his ties to .

“My great fear, of course, is that with the release of that information, which I think will be devastating for Trump, he’s going to do everything in his power to distract. What does that mean? I mean, he might take us to with just to get a distraction in the news & take it out of the headlines.”

[we’re all worried about that JB]
https://apnews.com/article/pritzker-trump-reaction-epstein-files-distraction-280eb69c80aee902b3ed6d712c79f332

For Whom The Bell Tolls. By Ernest Hemingway.

It’s the Spanish Civil War, and you, an American professor of Spanish, are fighting alongside the anti-fascists, where it’s your job to work with a small guerrilla faction in the mountains to blow up a bridge; over three days you learn a lot about what motivates people’s convictions to a cause and to each other.

4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.
CW: hate speech

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Book cover featuring a painting of a man looking out across mountains

Une "série d'été" très intéressante du Monde sur le manga "Gen aux pieds nus" (Gen d'Hiroshima), écrite par Pauline Croquet, Philippe Mesmer et Frédéric Potet.

En 6 épisodes -> https://www.lemonde.fr/gen-d-hiroshima-manga-culte/

quoted The Mission by Tim Weiner

Tim Weiner: The Mission (AudiobookFormat, Mariner Books)

Amerine had fresh intelligence that Taliban fighters were preparing to attack from a hideout over the next ridgeline. His air support officer made a careless and catastrophic error when he sent the coordinates to a B-52H Stratofortress bomber ready to attack. He had called in an air strike on his own position.

A two-thousand-pound smart bomb came screaming across the sky and struck Team Echo. "The doors and windows flew out," Karzai recounted six months later to a reporter. "I got injured on my face and my head, and I saw this very good fellow, a very nice man, Greg, jump out of his place and just throw himself on me. It was very remarkable, very remarkable. And the tribal chiefs followed; they all covered me from all around." Dirt and rocks and flesh and bones rained down. Explosions shook the earth, and the stunned and shellshocked Afghans thought that the town was under attack by bin Laden's Arab fighters. But it wasn't al Qaeda; it was Team Echo's arsenal of rocket-propelled grenades cooking off. Dazed and bleeding, Karzai saw scores of dead and wounded outside the compound. He slowly realized that "it was not a rocket attack on our room or an RPG attack on our room. It was something else." It was the worst friendly-fire attack by American forces in the decade since the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. Three American special-forces officers were killed and twenty soldiers and spies were wounded. At least fifty Afghans died.

— The Mission by 

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