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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 2h

he was probably shot in the head as a veteran and has to have someone dress and feed him, he's probably off his meds and wandered away from the home

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 5h

Canada would sell it to the USA for half that price but Trump is Putin's dancing monkey so there you go

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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 14h

This is the most articulate and impactful piece I've read regarding the Pentagon's planned livestreamed execution of Nidel Hasan. Please read it.

The Space Coast Rocket @CoastRocket

WE COUNT THE ENEMIES WE KILL. WE RARELY COUNT THE ONES WE CREATE.

Nidal Hasan was a patient on my floor in the surgical trauma ICU at Brooke Army Medical Center.

I wasn't there when he arrived. I had just left for my deployment to Mosul, Iraq. But the nurses and doctors who cared for him were my peers and my friends, and I know exactly what that required of them, because every one of us had done some version of it before. Before anyone tells me what strength looks like, understand what that work demands.

I have cared for a drunk driver who wiped out an entire family and landed in our ICU himself. I have cared for gang members who shot up a block while children were stepping off a school bus, then ended up on our unit with bullets of their own. I have kept alive people who murdered their own families and failed at taking their own lives. And in Iraq, I saved the lives of the very enemy fighters who had just tried to kill us and miraculously survived our response.

Every one of those patients got our best. Not because we felt anything for them, but because of who we were. You set aside anger, grief, prejudice and every personal feeling you have, because a life in front of you is a life in front of you. That's the oath. That's the duty.

So when Hasan came through those doors, my colleagues did what we had always done. They preserved the life of a man who murdered thirteen people and would have killed them too, given the chance. He killed those men and women in one of the very same buildings many Soldier's like myself have been in when I was stationed at Fort Hood.

He is alive today because they did their jobs. That was not sentiment. It was a hard, tangible expression of the values this country claims to stand for. Our principles had to mean something even when the person benefiting from them had violated everything we believed in.

Now the Pentagon plans to livestream his execution by firing squad on Dec. 3, and our leaders apparently believe turning his death into a public spectacle will demonstrate American strength. I think it demonstrates how little they understand the enemy they claim to be fighting. We kept Nidal Hasan alive, now our leaders want to make him a martyr.

Hasan walked into Fort Hood expecting to die. He believed his death would be rewarded. At his trial, he called no witnesses and offered no defense, and his own court-appointed lawyers worried he was seeking execution. He failed at martyrdom once. Now we're about to hand it to him, in high definition, for every extremist with an internet connection to replay, manipulate and celebrate.

We supply the footage. They supply the meaning.

Long after the politicians finish congratulating themselves, that video will still exist. Their moment of bravado becomes somebody else's recruiting material for decades. And this failure to think past the immediate display of power reaches far beyond one execution. We count the enemies we kill. We rarely count the enemies we create.

Look at the school in Minab, Iran, where multiple investigations attributed the strike that killed more than 100 children and their teachers to us. You cannot bury people's children beneath the rubble of their classrooms and expect a speech about American intentions to decide how they remember you. No denial brings those children home. No claim of good intentions makes their parents forget whose weapons killed them.

If those were our children, we would remember for the rest of our lives.

We would demand accountability. Many of us would want vengeance.

We would tell their stories to the next generation. We know this because we did exactly that after September 11.

Why do we imagine other people love their children less, grieve less deeply, or remember less clearly?

We have developed a horrifying talent for creating more terrorists than we will ever stop. We inflict suffering, evade responsibility, and then act as though the anger that follows came out of nowhere.

Think back to the first time you saw one of those al Qaeda videos of an American being beheaded. Remember the sickness in your stomach.

Remember the rage. Remember thinking that only savages would film a killing and send it out for the world to watch. Now ask yourself what the rest of the world will see when the camera is ours.

Terrorist organizations stage executions for the cameras. Authoritarian regimes make death a public spectacle to feed fear and rage. Watching our own leaders reach for those same tools should force us to confront how much of ourselves we are surrendering in the name of defeating them.

The line separating us from the people we condemn has to live in our conduct. A flag cannot hold it for us. Neither can a uniform, a title, or a declaration that we are the good guys.

On that ICU floor, on a bloody street in Mosul, and in trauma bays across this country, people like my colleagues hold that line every day under circumstances most will never face. They keep monsters alive because their duty and their humanity are bigger than their hatred of what those monsters have done.

Execute him if that's the sentence. But do it the way a confident nation does; quietly, lawfully, and without giving him the stage he always wanted. Let him be forgotten.

I expect our leaders to show at least as much discipline as the nurses who had to care for him.

They keep telling us they are defending what makes America different. Every day, they make that difference harder to see.

Robert W. Burns III is the editor and publisher of The Space Coast Rocket, an Army veteran and a retired trauma nurse. The views expressed in this column are his own.

CBS News @CBSNews

The U.S. military plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, when he faces a firing squad on Dec. 3, a Pentagon official said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Thursday the Pentagon planned to make the execution public.

Hasan's case could mark the military's first execution of an American service member since 1961.

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 13h

One that's on fire with a gangster firing a gun in random directions

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 13h

Donkeys are so sweet and funny

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 15h

The blame

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 13h

he sends one of yours spaghetti, you send one of his the cannoli that's the Chicago way

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 15h

Agree 💯% With Joe Walsh.......

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

an absolute brute by the transmission and engine were not up to the task of moving, what was it 68 tons of steel?

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

your excellent rendition reminds me of Tracy Ullman's rendition, very talented lady who helped launch the Simpson's cartoon on her comedy skit show back in the 1980s www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9un...

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Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@apnews.com Trump says tariffs have brought more U.S. auto factories. His numbers are off. Note bene: Trump is not a source, he lies constantly for various reason, none of them good.

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

all this will do is have members side-stepping US based banking and money transfers and credit card companies, likely ending US based software use and so forth and ultimately put a bullseye on the back of all Trump officials traveling outside the USA www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

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U.S. hits International Criminal Court with sweeping sanctions as part of drive to dismantle tribunal

The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal that the U.S. believes has become politicized and atte...

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What stage of Empire would you say the US Empire is in based upon this short reel about the stages of Empire? www.facebook.com/reel/1424329...

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

how many days until the orange misanthrope's minions are booted from office?

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I didn't know there was a Nobel prize for being the worst human being on the planet, now I know

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

before there were smart phones or game boys there were these and etch a sketches for long trips in the car

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Mexican researcher Eva Ramón Gallegos achieved a milestone that puts Latin American science at the center of the world medical debate: she managed to completely eliminate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in controlled clinical studies.

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

perhaps it is time for the USA to end too, make a few smaller countries, two rich ones, 1 moderately wealthy one, and the rest quite poor.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

not a great weapon against infantry but a killer of big cats and jadpanzer 4s

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't know what this is about, I need more details as to who is being investigated/prosecuted and why. Moreover what are the implications if the prosecution is successful?

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

apparently those two clowned around a lot hamming it up for the photo stills between takes

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

what is this a picture of and where and when?

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the modern equivalent of the Dean Martin Roasts are crass by comparison.

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

he looks to be 6, he's an enormous 3 year old who's pretty sure on his feet

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Saw them with Bryan Adams, Extreme, and Sass Jordan (God rest her soul) It was an amazing concert.

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Send in the Intrepid Shapiro and the Fearless o"Toole!

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I guess he wants to go to prison too?

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

120 pages give or take 10 to complete it, harder than it sounds

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know I bought 18 1/2 pound burgers they other day it was $63 up from $40!

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Russians and Americans interfering in Canada, they fear a free and fair democracy where law and regulation are applied and cronyism capitalism, something both countries are rife with, is not the norm

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Canadian version of the Boys anti-tank rifle was the Mk I* variant, built during World War II by the John Inglis and Company in Toronto, Ontario. Key Differences of the Canadian Mk I* • Muzzle Brake • Bipod Commonwealth forces, though it shared the same .55-inch armor-piercing capabilities

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

yeah, when Ayn Rand is the voice of reason, you know you're doomed

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

and she loves Rock n' Roll got a dime for the Jukebox?

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