Reports indicate that a growing number of U.S. service members are reluctant to follow orders they see as serving foreign interests rather than the country itself.

Troops have been quoted saying: “We do not want to die for Israel — we don’t want to be political pawns.”

According to the executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, applications from military personnel seeking to refuse service on moral grounds have surged by 1,000%, with the recent Minab school strike cited as a breaking point for many.

The situation highlights ongoing tensions between duty, personal conscience, and foreign policy objectives in the U.S. military.

The official answer to my "riddle" card in my drinking game is wrong.

Funding ICE agents to operate at airports — including paying for their deployment and housing — instead of simply paying and staffing TSA workers highlights how uncoordinated and unfocused federal policy can be.

Critics say this is just one more example of a system that prioritizes bureaucracy over common‑sense solutions, and raises questions about whether taxpayer dollars are being spent where they actually matter.

Teenage-looking ICE agents walking around LaGuardia Airport today

Found him napping in the garden… my heart melted