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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meanwhile Avril Haynes becomes the new Carnegie Endowment president.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

While it's important to remember that the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran doesn't *actually* end the war, it's also important to laugh at how sorrowful and furious it's making those who pushed for this war for decades.

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14 points, $300 billion, and not one line on Iran's missiles.

The full U.S.-Iran text is public — and Israel was still bombing the missile supply chain on June 8.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Just a disgusting, inhuman way to talk about war. We must never get used to this

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So you’re saying there’s a chance to force Vance to destroy his career by casting the tie breaking vote to continue the Iran War?

Washington Post after the House passed the War Powers Resolution for Iran today: “To reach Trump’s desk, the Senate resolution would require a final vote in the chamber, which could be tough if every senator is voting. Three Republican senators who have opposed similar resolutions in the past missed the procedural vote on the Senate resolution last month, allowing it to advance. If they had voted the way they have in the past, it would have failed 50-50.”

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is so stupid. Why would James Talarico insult Arch Manning? He went to UT! He's a Longhorns fan!

The Senate candidate James Talarico doesn’t need to run away from his meatless-taco order. Instead, he could prove that he’s a regular guy by calling into ESPN Austin to accuse the University of Texas quarterback Arch Manning of being a nepo baby who got millions of dollars just for his name. Or perhaps he could compare Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys’ imperious owner, to Trump: an egotistical old man destroying a once-proud institution.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

(buying a cabinet in Judaea in 29 AD) wow the craftsmanship on this is really incredible Furniture salesman: yeah it’s

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Michael E. Neagle @mikeneagle.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Terrific discussion with @ajmanuzzi.bsky.social and the Security Dilemma pod about #ChasingBandits. Download it for a listen here and/or get the book at @uncpress.bsky.social or Amazon.

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A.J. Manuzzi @ajmanuzzi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Greatly enjoyed our conversation on the podcast with @mikeneagle.bsky.social about his fantastic book, Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror! Check out the book and listen to our episode as we discuss how America's "bandit wars" relate to the War on Terror. open.spotify.com/episode/4YZa...

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Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror with Michael Neagle

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

let's be clear about what's happening: donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, whose countries have been committing genocide in gaza since 2023, unilaterally started a war with iran, and are now threatening genocide there.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 05/04/2026

never forget when the Easter Bunny sent Teddy Roosevelt to the shadow realm

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The Hudson Institute means this as a good thing; or this was written by a brave comrade who infiltrated the think tank to discredit them

“The case for Trump’s war is the case for Bush’s war” writes Tod Lindberg

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Specifically having 2.1 pounds of weed when 2.2 pounds is drug trafficking… high IQ move, bumping him up my draft board

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Richard Staff @richstaff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/03/2026

our second times have never been more farcical, you're hearing it more and more

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

“I Never Thought He Would Ask Me To Build Doombots,” said the contractor who builds robots for Doctor Doom

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

[Looking at an agency whose agents shatter glass onto newborns as they abduct fathers] body cameras will fix this

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It’s easier for them to believe — or just to argue; whether they ‘believe’ is immaterial — that Aunt Barb is a disciple of Abu Mus’ab al-Suri than it is to accept that their death-squad tactics have inspired mass resistance of everyday people. These same delusions also occurred in Iraq & Afghanistan

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A reminder that before France & the US overthrew Aristede in 2004 they called him & his circle drug traffickers too. Their real reason: stopping Aristede from pressing a case for reparations, not only for slavery but for the Indemnity (debt France made Haiti pay for *depriving slaveholders* of $)

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Drug Traffickers Find Haiti a Hospitable Port of Call (Published 2004)

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 20/12/2025

Disappointing to here Joe Tess rattling off anti-G5 talking points from the booth here. This game has sucked and the JMU-Oregon game will be a slaughter, but the point is the rest of the season. You either drastically trim whose season "matters" or you acknowledge the Playoff is a source of meaning

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

If a stranger told you they were raising their newborn on advice from the chat robot you'd rightfully contact child services

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 04/12/2025

I'm at the combination

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor! Dick?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

You just know that things are going fantastic when current events prompt you to look up the Nixon administration's legal justification for bombing Cambodia in 1973.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

the unspoken assumption in this post is that the justices are not political actors and arrived at the immunity decision purely out of jurisprudential reasoning or idealogical lean and had nothing to do with trump being the standard bearer for their party in an election that was months away

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A.J. Manuzzi @ajmanuzzi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I wrote about how Gen Z is fed up with the Cold War liberalism of the Democratic ruling class for the Stimson Center and Inkstick’s “Adults in a Room” series.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

conspiracy to make a cop go slow

It was further part of the conspiracy that the co-conspirators, including
RABBITT, ABUGHAZALEH, MARTIN, SHARP, STRAW and WALSH, physically hindered and impeded Agent A and the Government Vehicle such that Agent A was forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed to avoid injuring any of the conspirators and in doing so slowly progressed towards the BSSA to discharge the duties of his office.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

"the FBI director used taxpayer funds in a government shutdown to fly his country singer GF to sing at a Hulk Hogan-founded wrestling event aired on Fox Nation" is not the flashiest Trump-era headline but pound for pound it can compete with any contender

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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

What an odious thing to say. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

On Fox Business, Cuomo continued to paint an ominous picture of New York City under Zohran Mamdani if he is elected mayor and questioned his allegiance to America and the city. “Dual-citizenship, he was a citizen of Uganda, his parents own a mansion in Uganda, he’s spent a lot of time there,” Cuomo said. He went on to again invoke 9/11 in conjunction with the candidacy of Mamdani, who was a 9-year-old boy living in New York when the attacks took place. “He just doesn’t understand the New York culture, the New York values, what 9/11 meant.”

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

TikTok thread go, remembering guys champion here

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The Peace President is sending the Ford carrier strike group to illegally murder Venezuelan, Colombian, Trinidadian etc fishermen. Let’s see if the Ford commander is going to obey illegal orders

Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell provided the following statement:

In support of the President’s directive to dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) and counter narco-terrorism in defense of the Homeland, the Secretary of War has directed the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and embarked carrier air wing to the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) area of responsibility (AOR).

The enhanced U.S. force presence in the USSOUTHCOM AOR will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere. These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle TCOs.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Here's the general in charge of NORTHCOM admitting its war on cartels has had no effect on fentanyl coming into the US. CONGRESS: 225k Americans are estimated to have been killed bc of fentanyl ... Are we making any progress? GEN. GREGORY GUILLOT: No. I wouldn't say it's better...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

POTUS has made no secret of his desire for a Nobel Peace Prize. Some enterprising journalist should ask the President on camera how he squares that desire with his recent "determination" that the US is somehow in an armed conflict with a bunch of unspecified "designated terrorist organizations."

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 30/09/2025

Trump’s tariffs and pointless military displays are the opposite of foreign-policy restraint, argues columnist @stephenwalt.bsky.social.

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Donald Trump Will Never Be a Restrainer

The final verdict is in.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 03/10/2025

Let me get this straight: American taxpayers pay for bombs and planes that the Netanyahu government uses to strike sites in Qatar, and now Trump enters into a security agreement where he promises to use American soldiers and money to protect Qatar? Is this what he means by America First?

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Trump commits US to defending Qatar’s security | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order for the US to guarantee the security of Qatar — a significant commitment to a non-NATO, Arab ally.

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