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Matt Cole retweeted
Our current military deserves better than Pete "Hair Gel" Hegseth and Donald "Bone Spurs" Trump.
Trump famously missed Vietnam because his feet hurt, and thinks his personal Vietnam was avoiding STDs in the 80's.
And let's review the resume of the man Trump put in charge of the greatest military on earth, Pete Hegseth:
He took us into a war with Iran that Congress never signed off on.
He put attack plans in a Signal group chat that somehow had a magazine editor in it.
He basically took a sobriety oath in order to get confirmed, and we doubt he's been honest.
He ordered mandatory testosterone testing for male troops over 30, which medical experts called puzzling. Because nothing says national security like checking everybody's hormone levels.
These two have never told the truth about the war, hiding the real numbers of wounded and killed; not being up front about the damages to US bases and equipment; and refusing to answer questions to members of Congress.
Hegseth and Trump have no idea what the hell they are doing and even less a clue how to get out of doing it. Negotiations and bombings are called on and off at a moment's notice while the world's oil markets go haywire. It's not the work of two people who are "crazy like a fox", it's just incomparable incompetence.
Hegseth is becoming history's fall guy for a war that's ripping the wool off the eyes of even Trump's most fervent supporters. MAGA wanted no new wars, no corruption, and no rising prices. They got all three in the war with Iran.
Let's call it what it is. Pete Hegseth is a low-IQ sycophant who got handed a war machine because he licked Trump's boots on Trump's favorite news channel every week. Anybody would be a better fit.
God knows our service members deserve better.
Matt Cole retweeted
Happy Veterans' Day to all and to Paul Priest, 100, the last known living survivor of the Battle of Remagen, subject of my next book, The Last Bridge.
Matt Cole retweeted
The new Republican House Minority Leader, Jim Jordan has never sponsored a bill that has been passed into law during his 20 years in Congress.
This makes him one of the least effective members in Congress today.
Matt Cole retweeted
The forecast from the Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45 weather squadron for Friday's Vulcan Leo 1 launch indicates a 90 percent chance of acceptable conditions.
The rocket will launch northeastward from Cape Canaveral, heading up the U.S. East Coast to reach a low Earth orbit and deploy a large batch of Amazon Leo broadband satellites.
Full details: bit.ly/vulcan_leo1
Matt Cole retweeted
The Trump administration signaled it would respond aggressively to a Democratic-led Congress with a letter this week threatening to prosecute lawmakers for oversight efforts.
rollcall.com/2026/11/11/whit…
Matt Cole retweeted
NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) shows multiple fires burning at and directly off the coast of the Russian commercial seaport of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad Oblast, following tonight’s drone attack by Ukraine.
Matt Cole retweeted
60 years ago Today, @TheRealBuzz Aldrin took what is known as the first space selfie.
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11 November 1918. 10:59 AM. American soldier, Henry Gunther, is credited as being the last Allied soldier killed in the First World War. Eye witnesses claimed the 23-year-old foolishly charged at German machine gunners with a fixed bayonet.
Matt Cole retweeted
this is going to be soooo simple.
"Pete Hegseth did you order a double tap on survivors in the water that were signaling for a rescue after the US sunk there boat"... YES he did
that is a legit war crime spelled out in the US manual for court martial and a war crime!!!!!
remember we had NO HARD proof that they were drug runners and the USCG has stated using the same criteria that 25% of the intercepts they have are civilians with no ties to drugs.
Wow...does not seem to be able to live within his means...your average person would kill for that kind of income...
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Matt Cole retweeted
The summit has been largely locked in freezing fog for the past couple of days, and as rime and glaze ice accumulate on our wind instruments, our observers have been going up to the instrument tower at least once every hour to de-ice.
Good morning! Nice to see you too! Would have been nice to have seen the 11 missing Democrats in the House last night!
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Matt Cole retweeted
On #RemembranceDay we rightly think of those who died. But pause & think of those survivors of the Great War too: men who walked to the edge and came back, were left with debilitating injuries, and memories they would struggle to escape from. For them, the Great War never ended.
Matt Cole retweeted
It took the US 35 years to gain measles elimination status
It took just two years of RFK Jr and MAHA to lose it
Truly pathetic stuff
Matt Cole retweeted
Russia’s Geran-5 K5-K drone is basically a small cruise missile. It has a jet engine, a range of about 1,000 km and cruises at over 450 km/h.
Ukraine found 93 foreign electronic components inside one, including 52 from US and 10 from Swiss manufacturers, United24. 1/
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'One minute after the hour. All guns silent.'
At 11am on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front. This document from IWM's collections visualises the silence, showing artillery activity for one minute before and one minute after the Armistice.
Matt Cole retweeted
CNN: 11 Democrats missed Hegseth’s impeachment vote
OJEDA: I say shame on them for not showing up. They had an opportunity to finally get rid of this buffoonery that we have and they failed. So you know what? I think the 120th Congress, we'll take that up.
Matt Cole retweeted
Did you know that the discovery of the elements americium (95) and curium (96) were first announced on kids radio?
On this day in 1945, #NobelPrize laureate Glenn Seaborg announced his discovery of elements 95 and 96 in response to a question on a Quiz Kids radio program.
ALT Seaborg standing in front of a period table. He is wearing a suit and a white shirt.
