57%!

Post-eclipse checklist:

✅ Experience every emotion I can think of in rapid succession

✅ Feel wired and exhausted at the same time

✅ Blow my mind with fantastically wonderful synchronicities

✅ Cry in public because the world is changing so fast

✅ Stay present for all of it

I was an Army officer who had access to classified information as part of my role as a joint force logistics operations planner. We took great pains to not even make it clear who knew what, for even that created opportunities for intel failures.

If I were even suspected of a breach like the one we now know happened, I would’ve been instantly suspended, stripped of my clearance, and likely facing a court-martial. Under the UCMJ, service members are presumed innocent, but in practice, the system m…