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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Hey @capitolhunters.bsky.social - You've got the expertise; any chance all the people in this thread could be ID'd?

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Imagine going through life wearing a "Please Spit In My Food!" sign whenever you enter a restaurant.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

More than this: As a matter of law, *no state has a right to exist*. A state exists if it meets a set of legal criteria. If it doesn't meet the criteria, it doesn't exist. There's a lot of disagreement over what the criteria are, but at no point does any "right to exist" enter into it.

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Platner’s former campaign team know something’s wrong - they all quit. They know he would lose in the general election. Janet Mills needs to make him lose in the primary instead. And she can, just by demanding his records. He won’t show them - he can’t. Confront him with that. 7/

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I not only voted for @warren.senate.gov @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social, I donated more than I could afford at the time to her campaign. This is the latest in a series of painfully bad calls from her over the past year. He had a *Nazi tattoo* for 18 years and lied about it. Warren should be ashamed.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Speaking as another Jew living in Diaspora, I think that we should be very clear that Netanyahu has repeatedly embraced virulent antisemites when it suits him, and has not hesitated to seek out their support.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This plus generations of well-funded hasbara are a powerful one-two punch. A lot of those brainworms have been around for longer than a decade, but have been relatively quiet until recently.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

can this be a solution?

strait of hormuz map featuring the big ass eagles from lord of the rings

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Don't forget Afghanistan. While deployed US troops got most of the attention, supporting different Afghan militias was the bulk of the US strategy in Afghanistan.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 02/03/2026

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Quote from Washington Times editorial board

"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

My "I don't get bored" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Logistics aside... They're trying to convince Greenlanders to become US citizens by offering them something US citizens don't get, and which they would presumably lose instantly if they became US citizens.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It's crazy how eager the people who prefer the Nazi/CSAM bar are to tell on themselves. "Yes, I prefer to hang out where the Nazis go to generate CSAM, but I only go there to talk about economics!"

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The fact that Klobuchar will almost certainly not face a serious primary is a decent indicator of how broken our system is. There's zero chance the Dem candidate will lose in MN, so without a primary Klobuchar doesn't really have any reason to care what the voters want.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I recently found myself in a very weird discussion about why I refuse to call Miller a kapo. There are a number of reasons, but I increasingly think it's just more accurate to say he's German Vanguard. Kapos were collaborators. The Vanguard were genuine Jewish Nazis, and true believers.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

If they really wanted to declare martial law, they'd just do it. The primary goal here is to scare people into backing down and conceding that feds can do whatever they like. If they can't get that, they'd settle for the sort of violence that they can use to turn public opinion in their favor.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Predictions are always a crapshoot at best, but it's hard to see a scenario in which Trump/Miller/Vance win at this point. The real question now, I think, is how much damage they do on their way down. It could be a lot.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Homan's on TV saying this because he's afraid, because their morale is taking a serious hit. He's saying it because the public response is working, and that scares him and everyone he works for.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Singing is always more powerful than chants. We need more songs!

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This is dead on, but I have a possible "yes, and also..." It's gross enough that I'm hesitant to share it, but I think it's also accurate. They leaked it because because they thought she looked less physically attractive in the video than in the photos that had been circulating.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

As far as I can tell, the best currently available evidence suggests that recent developments in VZ went something like this 🧵👇: Then-Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodriguez, a lifelong Chavist who actually implemented much of Maduro's policy, decides it's time to give herself a promotion.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

At the moment, Trump has no control over anything that happens in Venezuela. The people who appear to be in actual control (Delcy Rodriguez and her supporters) have said nothing at all about this. Perhaps there's some deal in the works, but it's equally likely that Trump just made it up.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I would wait to hear what Delcy Rodriguez has to say about this before assuming it's anything other than a dementia delusion.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This is the proper response to anyone with a Nazi tattoo. Yes, I'm looking at you, Maine. In addition to his own Nazi tattoo, @grahamformaine.bsky.social has publicly defended people getting this specific Nazi tattoo.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The funny part of this is that Greenland was supposed to be Vance's project. Then Greenland and Denmark completely humiliated him the instant he tried to actually do anything, and he dropped the whole thing like a hot rock. Clearly no one inside the WH wants to pick it back up.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22/12/2025

Even the Chinese Communist Party requires "more candidates than seats" for their unfree and unfair internal elections, following Deng Xiaoping's reforms. Any Democrat with the temerity to demand the right to run unopposed decade after decade is making a mockery of small-d democracy

home.olemiss.edu

Elections in China

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Every single candidate should face a serious primary in every election. Period. Yes, even the ones you like. If a candidate complains about having to face a primary, don't vote for them.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I cried a little, for reals. bsky.app/profile/koja...

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Don't hang out in Nazi bars. Don't enter Nazi bars at all. The only way to "fix" a Nazi bar is to let its customers know what you think of people who hang out in Nazi bars.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

This seems like a proposition begging for experimental testing.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Muting him. Flameouts are funny in principle, but often just kind of sad to actually read. bsky.app/profile/anno...

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Engaging with ICE and CBP at all when you're alone is high-risk, whether or not you're a citizen. Whenever possible, keep some distance and draw a crowd. ICE and CBP look for isolated and vulnerable targets. The more civilians you have with you, the less likely they are to attack.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This isn't going to be said enough: there's lots of blame to go around for this, but a goodly chunk of it belongs to @barackobama.bsky.social. By refusing to prosecute it, he transformed government-run torture programs from a crime into a policy choice, and guaranteed it would happen again.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This all correct, but we also need to keep coming back and highlighting that the distinctions they are trying to make are almost all legally irrelevant. Hegseth committed murder by ordering the first strike, and the rest of the chain of command did when they followed the order.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Worth noting that this kind of amendment to the Rome Statute would require a 2/3 supermajority of the member states, which seems... highly unlikely. It would probably also prompt a wave of withdrawals from the treaty.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I don't wish death on anyone, but it does seem like Ms. Villalba is caught up in something that's very detrimental to society.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

No matter what his social media team says about Trump, Newsom isn't your ally or your friend. He has no allies or friends. He will say or do whatever he thinks suits his personal interests, and will throw anyone under the nearest bus at a moment's notice. He's potentially useful. That's all.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Gotta love those who read exactly 1 sentence from "I Have a Dream" and stop there. "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate..." -MLK

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

An award from one of the world's most ostentatiously corrupt organizations to Donald Trump seems pretty apt, actually. Bonus points for the trophy looking like a cursed relic intended to bring about the zombie apocalypse.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The US is never going to get out of this without people getting much better at reflexively responding to people like McLaughlin and Leavitt and Johnson and Cotton with: "That's a lie. You're lying." "This person is a liar." "That is obviously not true."

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The structure of the Congressional Democratic Party doesn't reward good messaging, or collective strategy, or even party loyalty. You get leadership positions within your caucus by raising more money than others in your caucus. Focusing on anything else risks getting you sidelined.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

As an old Jew, I think everyone would be much better off if everyone stopped pretending both Clintons aren't genuinely horrible people with nothing useful or insightful to say.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Make Republicans Say The Quiet Part Quietly Again

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Legally speaking, this really shouldn't make much of a difference. If somehow this ever reached a criminal court, the initial order to attack would constitute murder. The second attack might be useful for establishing intent, but a competent prosecutor should have Hegseth over a barrel without it.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Jeffries' primary concern is always fundraising. An impeachment vote would be a lot of work for him and the rest of the caucus, and he doesn't think it'll impress his major donors. It's probably that simple.

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

אַ שאַנדע פֿאַר די גוים

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Annoyed Diplomat @annoyeddiplomat.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Neither of these is remotely plausible.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

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