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Tom Ludden retweeted
Being a lawyer is basically having a to-do list and then spending the whole day doing things that were not on the to-do list.
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In 1943, an American Marine pilot climbed into his Corsair and went hunting Japanese Zeros over the Pacific.
He shot down six enemy aircraft and became a fighter ace.
Ten years later, he was back in the sky, fighting an entirely different enemy.
This time, he was hunting Soviet built MiG jets.
And somehow, he became an ace all over again.
This is the extraordinary story of John F. Bolt..🧵1/6
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He died in 2016 at the age of 100, the last surviving Midway dive bomber pilot.
Seventy four years earlier he had done something no other American pilot at Midway managed. He scored direct hits on three enemy ships over three days, and all three sank.
He never wanted the credit. The title of his memoir was a plea. Never Call Me a Hero.
This is the story of Dusty Kleiss.. 🧵 1/7
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Only seven American pilots became aces in both the Second World War and Korea.
He did it in a Thunderbolt over Europe, and then again in a jet over Korea, with nine months in a German prison camp in between.
This is the story of Gabby Gabreski..🧵1/4
Anglo-American ingenuity
Days after D-Day, British troops in Normandy discovered the supply chain had room for ammunition, fuel and rations. It had no room whatsoever for beer.
So the RAF took matters into its own hands and started flying beer to France under the wings of Spitfires.
This is the story of the flying pubs..🧵1/4
Tom Ludden retweeted
Precisely. There may or may not have been witches in 1690s Salem; but there unquestionably WERE communist spies in the US when Arthur Miller was writing. The Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss and Morton Sobell had all been convicted shortly before The Crucible opened. Several others later confessed (Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Klaus Fuchs etc).
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He had 88 combat missions behind him and was one of the leading American aces in Europe when ground fire brought him down over occupied France.
He spent the rest of the war in a German prison camp.
Thirty years later he was commanding the Eighth Air Force, the same organisation he had been shot down flying for.
This is the story of Gerald Johnson..🧵1/4
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By late October 1942, the United States had one operational fleet carrier left in the entire Pacific Ocean. One.
Japan had already announced her sunk three times.
She was still fighting.
This is the story of USS Enterprise..🧵1/5
Tom Ludden retweeted
King Nebuchadnezzar and the Emperor Titus join the Democratic Socialists of America in wishing a meaningful Tisha b'Av to all observing the holy day.
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🇺🇸 Gettysburg 163 Live: July 3rd, 4:00 PM
Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer, in his new uniform, draws his saber and shouts “Come on, you Wolverines!”
He leads his Michigan Cavalry Brigade in a ferocious charge against J.E.B. Stuart at East Cavalry Field.
Stuart’s Confederate cavalry had swung wide to circle behind the Union army and strike its vulnerable rear during the climax of Pickett’s Charge.
Custer and his Wolverines stood in the way.
They blocked the thrust, counter-charged with sabers flashing, and drove Stuart’s troopers from the field in fierce mounted combat.
The Union rear is safe, thanks to the Michigan Wolverines.
Tom Ludden retweeted
Someone took the stairs to the 4th floor today instead of the elevator.
I checked the security footage.
It was a junior copywriter, walking up the steps at a leisurely, non-urgent pace.
I waited by his desk for him to arrive.
When he finally sat down, I asked why he bypassed the high-speed vertical transport provided by the company.
He panted slightly and said he’s trying to get his step count up.
I told him that converting company time into personal cardio is a form of wage theft.
The elevator takes exactly 12 seconds.
The stairs took him nearly 2 minutes.
He argued that he came in early so it didn’t cut into his hours.
I reminded him that early time is still company time, it’s just unbilled.
I documented “unauthorized biometric optimization” in his permanent record.
Then I deactivated his stairwell key fob.
Tom Ludden retweeted
Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire
If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands
Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax
Tom Ludden retweeted
Further on this point: thenewdigest.substack.com/p/…
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If something “really doesn’t make sense,” to the point of inflicting severe harms on the republic, it is and always has been *part of* our legal tradition of interpretation that the Court should if at all possible interpret the law differently: thenewdigest.substack.com/p/…
