Just a reminder that the people that know Pete Hegseth the best, including his own mother, have described him as an abuser of women, a drunkard, an insider threat, and potential domestic violent extremist.

He served as an untabbed infantry officer, making him only marginally qualified at best for the positions he held. His resume reads like someone that was shoved into unimportant jobs because no one trusted him with anything more critical. Arguably his greatest combat success was almost murdering a couple kids in a marching band with a misthrown axe on national television.

Sadly, MAGA is sending their best.

#uspol

The NY Times has a blockbuster story here: Epstein got valuable inside information from the first Trump administration and fed it to a wealthy foreign customer of his sex-trafficking racket.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/world/asia/epstein-india-ambani.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YVA.83Co.UxeBjXa6EFjs&smid=url-share

#homelab gurus! I am considering replacing our old #Synology DS1525 with a #TrueNAS, mostly because I want to run #Immich, #Paperlessngx, and #jellyfin on it without having to deal with Syno's out-of-date #Docker implementation.

If you're running TrueNAS, two questions:

1) how hard was it to get automated backups of #Windows and #Linux systems set up? I do appreciate Syno's built-in backup tools.

2) how bad an idea would it be to run these compute loads on the NAS vs a separate compute node? We are *not* heavy users - just the two of us and we're pretty casual about home use, so it feels like loads would be pretty minimal...

Any thoughts and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

As Metro hits the half-century mark, we should take a moment to appreciate the freeway-revolt activists of the 1960s and 1970s who said the nation's capital needed subway trains instead of highway lanes.

http://robpegoraro.com/2026/03/27/happy-50th-birthday-metro/