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Azor-in-Exile

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Haven't tactically withdrawn from X (FKA Twitter) to use Russian parlance, but I am rebalancing...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
strongly recommend DRUNK ON GENOCIDE
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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Late-night drive and a 999 call: farmer’s chance encounter that led to terrorism arrests at RAF base www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's interesting how many pro-Palestine activists seem to think that over a century of formal international humanitarian law (to say nothing of practical historical examples) applies only to Israel and the IDF, and not to Hamas and the Qassam Brigades. #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Hamas #IDF
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Many pro-Palestinian activists in the West dislike Ukraine. They will deny 10/7 but claim Ukrainian Neo-Nazis are terrorizing Russians. However, if Israel had treated Palestine after 10/7 the way Ukraine treated Russia after 2/24, they'd have little to complain about.
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We have to separate antipathy for Trumpism from our outlook for America. Right-wing populism is on the march in France and Germany, the two key EU constituents. If Democrats sweep Congress and achieve a supermajority this year, the US may well start to repair and reform while the EU spirals...
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Putin isn't trying to beat NATO militarily. He's trying to fracture it politically. (Members Only) Listen here: warontherocks.com/episode/warc...
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I thought adultery was a crime under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 134
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I guess INDOPACOM will get resourced when China lunges across the Strait @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Intersectionality is a lens, not a self-serving choose your own adventure story.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/09/2026
Election in occupied areas by Russia - voting under military supervision.
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U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · 19/09/2026
Stephen P. Phillips’s A Poisoned Chalice offers a deeply researched, accessible history of Operation Earnest Will and the 1987–88 Tanker War. www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/…
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Stephen P. Phillips’s A Poisoned Chalice offers a deeply researched, accessible history of Operation Earnest Will and the 1987–88 Tanker War.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 18/09/2026
*opens 270 to win* *flips Kansas from lean Rep to lean Dem*
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
From @kevinmkruse.bsky.social / Zelizer, a reminder from 1974 about how things can go during a gas shortage
As gas supplies dwindled, frustration and desperation set in. Most service stations abided by voluntary "Gasless Sundays" to conserve, but owners worried about the cuts. "Our stations' December allotments have been cut from 10 to 20 percent," lamented the head of the Long Island Gasoline Retailers Association Drivers were forced to wait in long lines to purchase ever-dwindling amounts of gasoline, leading to short tempers and violent outbursts. In Mary-land, for instance, a group of angry drivers grabbed a man from his car after he tried to cut in line, dragged him away and beat him mercilessly, leaving him bruised and bleeding by the road. In Connecticut, one gasoline dealer reported that a woman had offered to sleep with him in exchange for two dollars' worth of fuel. With all of these stories, the news constantly reminded audiences that the once omnipotent United States was being held hostage by a small group of countries that did not possess anything near America's military power.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge blocks Kennedy Center board from putting Trump's name on the building or grounds in any way.
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worthy of condemnation
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Formerly Saysceej @ceejopolis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In a binary choice “don’t vote for x” means your preference is y.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Democrats are not advocating for a Jim Crow-like set of policies against trans people! It is not real! This is a delusion you have absorbed from the internet.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The best part of Roger Marshall's story is that this dumb hack spent the past two years going on TV to defend the most indefensible parts of the Trump agenda -- apparently believing he was invulnerable as a Kansas Republican -- and now you can see him actually starting to sweat.
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DSA Angletonian Caucus 🇬🇱 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a blank vote in the paxton-talarico race is de facto a vote to keep john thune as senate majority leader. if you do not understand why *that alone* is inherently anti-trans i assume you lack object permanence.
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 10/09/2026
One month later, caches have run dry in the U.S., the hot war in the Gulf is spreading, and prices at the pump are rapidly rising with diesel at all time highs. There continues to be no sign that any of this will end, and I suspect it continues worsening rapidly in the near term. 1/
Today at the pump (AAA, Sep 8): diesel $5.90/gal, +26.9¢ on the week and +$2.20 on the year; gasoline $4.15. That is above the highest diesel price this weekly line has recorded ($5.810, Jun 20, 2022). AAA is a different daily survey from the weekly EIA series drawn here, so the two do not match to the cent; the print that settles the record lands Sep 7. EIA weekly US regular all-formulations retail via FRED (GASREGW) and US No 2 diesel retail via FRED (GASDESW), as of 2026-08-31; the dashed line is the pre-war gasoline price plus the Brent move at the 42-gallon arithmetic ($1/bbl = 2.38¢/gal). Gasoline and crude move together week to week — correlation largest at lag zero (r = 0.74) — but only about half a crude move reaches the pump inside the week (1.30¢ per $1/bbl). Diesel spiked harder than gasoline — $5.65 on 2026-08-24, 193¢ over its pre-war base, against gasoline's $4.50 on 2026-05-11 and 159¢ — reflecting the tighter distillate market. The fuller version of this view is the pump card further down this tab.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Would love it if my cats would stop coordinating their nighttime disruption operations One handles the moment I’m nearly asleep and then baps me The other strikes around 4am with operatics They’re better at multi domain operations than the us military
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bro it's not gonna be a "Inauguration Day 2029" if you don't get the Strait back in business, it's gonna be a "National Salvation Unity Government"
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Drone olympic games
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People like it when they're favored politicians lie and don't like it when the ones they oppose lie
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The people who continue to make false-equivalencies between Democrats and Republicans are privileged.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 05/09/2026
it makes more sense if you think of it as an extrusion of ambient nimbyism rather than a principled anti-whatever strike
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is more than I accomplish most Sundays tbh
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I love how both the devil and his dragon mount look like they just surprised a friend at their birthday party and are yelling “TAH-DAH!”
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When I saw this article on Wikipedia, I thought that Nancy Grace had had a space telescope named after her, and that its aesthetic was somehow Roman.
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Black Cloud Six @blackcloudsix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you’re planning to become a global hegemon where all other countries bow and scrape before you, maybe looking like you’re run by complete idiots isn’t the way to go. Ridicule and distain are deadly to wannabe authoritarians, and that’s all the US deserves at this point.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/09/2026
The killing of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and its aftermath reut.rs/4h38J29
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The killing of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and its aftermath
Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech was cleared on Wednesday of masterminding the car bomb murder of prominent anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia nine years ago.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Remember when Russia literally shot an Azerbaijani airliner out of the sky but yes more about this hypothetical
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I find it astonishing that these people are so emotionally and intellectually stunted that they can only figure out something is evil and wrong if they personally experience it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Deported Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ashamed’ of support for Trump
British far-right pundit breaks silence on ICE arrest and deportation and says he was ‘really, really terrified’
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Are ya winning son?
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 28/08/2026
Police in Russia's Penza region deny reports that officers detain men and deliver them to military enlistment offices, but they also complain that locals increasingly intervene to stop, erm, police detentions. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
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Penza police call reports of forced recruitment raids ‘false’ but concede some men may have posed as officers — Meduza
Residents of the Penza region are “increasingly standing up for lawbreakers” and preventing police officers from detaining them, the Interior Ministry’s regional department said. These incidents come…
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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026
"Known as the 'Butcher of Bosnia,' Mladić was convicted in 2017 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for masterminding a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosnia’s non-Serb population in the early 1990s." @cnn.com edition.cnn.com/2026/08/27/e...
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Ratko Mladić, Bosnian-Serb general dubbed the ‘Butcher of Bosnia,’ dies aged 84 | CNN
Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb general who orchestrated the Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo during the Balkan wars, has died
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Dennis Lytton @dennislytton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In 2029 Congress needs to pass an Act: - strictly regulating the process, content, and form of Executive Orders, - establishing fast track legislative vetoes over them, and - jurisdiction stripping the courts from involvement in the matter
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Great article from Small Wars Journal last month: "Destruction is Not Strategy". It details the failures of coercion against Iran. #Iran #IranWar @amosfox.bsky.social smallwarsjournal.com/2026/07/27/d...
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Destruction is Not Strategy: Schelling and the Coercive Failures of the Iran War
Explore how the United States failed to bargain in Iran, leading to an increase of violence and a breakdown in negotiations.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 22/08/2026
Nobody liked my PFAS cocktail (passion fruit Aperol spritz)
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Man, that amazing "pivot" that Trump made towards Ukraine in July was about as real as his easy victory over Iran. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-r...
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Trump rejected Zelenskyy’s secret request over Starlink - FT
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
US military now drifting towards the kind of inability to process internal criticism and debate that turned the Russian military into the institution it is today
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A very normal White House staffer. The republic is in good hands:
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hengtong Optic-Electric a Chinese giant banned by US authorities, has set up shop in Spain Hengtong, one of the world's 3largest fibre optic manufacturers follows the arrival of China National Chemical, which also opened an office in Madrid . theobjective.com/eco...
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I'm not sure that all the king's horses and all the king's men can put the American (3rd) Republic back together again...
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
RIP
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Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You too can be an ultra-high net worth party planner at 25 if you meet your 13 years-older connected boyfriend at a Miami nightclub! Dare to dream!
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's always about him. Anyone who failed to endorse Harris in 2024 and won't back a mainstream Democrat in 2028 shouldn't receive any kind of Democratic support. The GOP attacks him to push Democrats further left and beat them in elections
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