Nearly four years after the Buffalo supermarket massacre, a $1.75 million settlement brings legal accountability, but for a veteran from the shooter’s hometown, the deeper question of how that hate took root still lingers.
Payton Gendron at his sentencing in Buffalo, New York, February 15, 2023. Image Credit: Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images
Valentine’s day is a day associated with love and sweet things. However, it was a long-winding journey before a gruesome death turned into a day of sweets and roses.
"Prang's Valentine cards." Advertisement for Prang's greeting cards showing a woman holding a group of tethered cherubs, which float like a bunch of balloons above her. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
A veteran writes about the soldiers he couldn’t save as a way to carry the weight of their loss and keep himself standing.
This was taken 10 years ago when I had to come in for paperwork after my motorcycle accident but was still on leave. I’m the one with the beard. Image Credit: Ryan Brazil
My 1988 Remington 870 Express started as my dad’s budget shotgun, and now it rides upgraded in the backcountry with me, a steel-framed reminder that when something snaps in the dark at 0200, reliability beats everything.
The author's somewhat upgraded 1988 Remington 870 Express.
From Starlink terminals keeping Iranian protesters online, to a Ukrainian Olympian disqualified over a war memorial helmet, to the Navy’s push for ship-launched long-range strike drones, and a Houston gun-jugging robbery that ended in a shootout.
Tehran in January. Image Credit: AFP/Getty Images
Public trust survives only when the law is enforced with discipline and restraint, because without professional standards and civic responsibility on both sides of the badge, accountability collapses into noise and the next failure becomes inevitable.
A line of law enforcement faces a tense crowd, capturing the fragile balance between lawful authority, professional restraint, and the public trust that binds them. Image Credit: AP
Two carriers surge toward Iran as NATO locks down the Arctic and a Greek colonel’s alleged leak to China reminds everyone that in 2026 the battlefield runs from carrier decks to polar ice to the inside of your own alliance.
When the promises run out and the bill comes due, every great power suddenly remembers its first priority is getting its own people out the door.
Ammo was life in Prairie Fire, because when the NVA hit hard and the sky went quiet for hours, the only thing standing between ST Idaho and getting overrun was what we could carry, shoot, and keep running in the dark.
Violence didn’t excuse the man he became, but if you trace the line from the boots on the porch to the needle in his arm, you can see how a boy dies long before the state ever calls it justice.
Trump signals possible Iran deal as Tehran fortifies nuclear sites, CIA targets Chinese military personnel, and Ukraine disrupts Russian Starlink.
Washington is shifting NATO toward grown-up burden sharing, chasing sanctioned tankers across oceans, and quietly buying more intelligence horsepower for SOCOM, all signs that the next phase of competition will be fought with allies who carry more weight, ships that have nowhere left to hide, and analysts working the night shift.
In my SEAL training I learned to develop positive habits that affect real change by identifying the negative self-talk I wanted to fix.
Washington is hemorrhaging power across the military, diplomatic, economic, informational, and reputational fronts, and from Beijing and Moscow the spectacle looks less like strategic competition than an opportunity handed to them by a White House they can exploit without firing a shot.
At Daytona this weekend, Rob O’Neill is trading the usual trackside beer for something that better fits the life he’s living now, showing up with hi Seltzer, a full schedule, and the same forward momentum that has kept him moving since the Teams.
Authenticity isn’t radical oversharing, it’s disciplined alignment, receive everything, say less than necessary, fix the problem first, then speak with results instead of running commentary.
Zelenskyy rules out elections under martial law as fighting intensifies, Bondi testifies on Epstein files, and the FAA defends an El Paso airspace closure.
From Langley speeding tech to operators, to the Pentagon leaning on contractors to build faster, to AI moving inside the wire, Washington is quietly rewiring how it thinks, builds, and fights for the next war.
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