In a video posted to X, Hegseth said he is signing a memo that will direct base commanders to allow requests for troops to carry privately owned firearms “with the presumption that it is necessary for personal protection.”

He said any denial of a service member’s request must be explained in detail and in writing.

My interpretation is that they will be allowed to open carry personal weapons basically anywhere on base. Any denial of any members request will likely be appealable and a higher authority at the DoD will ensure that the “right people” get the right to open carry.

I can only hope that every base commander sees this threat for what is and is making appropriate preparations.

These midterms are going to be wild.

GOOD

I forgot what day it was.

“Do you have a military discount?”

Debian. I like my computer to work.

Finally, a good use for AI

The elephant in the room is him ordering the postal service not to deliver ballots from people not on the federal approved voter list. The postal service isn’t state ran. Trump doesn’t have direct control over who the post master is, but the board that selects the post master is mostly empty seats so I guess he could flood it with sycophants with support from congress and appoint a new post master if this one puts up any resistance.

It also seeks to bar the U.S. Postal Service from sending absentee ballots to those not on each state’s approved list.

Legal experts noted other potential flaws with the order. David Becker, a former Justice Department lawyer who leads the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said the Postal Service is run by a board of governors [not state governors] and the president has no power to tell it what mail it can and cannot deliver.

A spokesperson for USPS said Tuesday the agency will review the order. Trump has sought to bring the independent agency under more presidential control, proposing to fold it under the Commerce Department — whose secretary, Howard Lutnick, was on hand for Tuesday’s signing.

Got to give this administration some credit on this one. I don’t think the Nazi party has a good parallel. The Nazis were much more overt in deciding who could or could not vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree

Buying chips that haven’t been made from a factory that hasn’t been built

How difficult would it be to smuggle and assemble a variant of the Shahed drone into North America? Dissembled and separated, it would look like lawn mower parts, sheet metal, and ewaste.

Russia is not “resisting imperialism”. It is currently stuck in its own imperialistic quagmire with Ukraine.

Can someone give me the cost of universal free lunch in terms of Tomahawk missiles?

GNOME 50 released

KDE Plasma 6.6 released

Its good to have good options.