what's his next adventure? digging up the tomb of the unknown soldier? How the hell much longer do we have to put up with this shit?

for recreation. Floating through the waters where many died in the service to this country for sport and recreation. There are no words.

I hope the folks that voted for Trump get woke soon.

of deceased crewmembers of the USS Arizona who wanted their ashes spread among the wreckage with their crewmates.

I think the urn containing the ashes is simply placed whole on some portion of the submerged superstructure.

A new day, a new low. Sickening.

The beleaguered director didn’t need another embarrassing controversy. He apparently has one anyway.

As emails show Kash Patel’s Hawaii trip included “VIP snorkel” at the Pearl Harbor memorial, two things stand out:
- There are some folks at the FBI who are clearly eager to humiliate this guy
- The revelations are entirely unsurprising given everything we know about him
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-05-14T20:22:35.400Z

But what goes up must come down. And always does. When he finally comes back down, it’s liable to be a pretty rough landing.

The article uses the language "...with few exceptions (snorkling) is not permitted"
What are those "exceptions"?

Update: according to the new republic:

"Only a few dignitaries have been allowed to swim at the site since at least the Obama administration, but none of them were FBI chiefs, even though they have visited Pearl Harbor. Patel, yet again, appears to be using his job and access to a private FBI jet to get away with vacationing on the taxpayer’s dime."

Really, NO dignitaries or anyone else other than archeologists and academics with a DAMN GOOD REASON should be allowed.

"Only a few dignitaries have been allowed to swim at the site since at least the Obama administration, but none of them were FBI chiefs, even though they have visited Pearl Harbor." (emphasis mine)

Okay.... so the NR has established that a few "dignitaries" have evidently been allowed to swim in the past. Just who were these "dignitaries" and what party made the call to let them swim there? Is that not a salient detail? It also says "at least since the Obama administration..." So, again, I ask who in the past has been allowed to swim at the site outside of academics and archeologists who ostensibly have a reason? It seems to me if a reporter can affirm that "some" have been "allowed" - then (some) should be identifiable. Again, my feeling is that outside of academics and archeologists doing research, nobody should have been allowed. Period.

Reportage today is pathetic.

Outside of legitimate research, snorkeling/swimming at the site should never be allowed. It's tacky, grotesque and smacks of special treatment. Are Americans even capable of appropriate solemnity anymore? Every day this country proves it can out do the previous one in pure trashiness. SMDH.

That asswipe used a TOMB for his playground. A tomb where more than 900 men have lain in peace for almost 85 years. What a sick fuck.

Every time pig or one of his fellow pigs does something vicious, stupid and antisocial, and gets away with it, it's a spectacular triumph in their eyes. People without power may revel in getting away with petty theft or vandalism, but the big boys aim higher. That's how you know they're the big boys!

... plunges new depths of assholiness.
It's like we're all entangled in a fishing net dragging us to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. How do we get free of these evil monsters?

This should fall under Fraud Waste and Abuse