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Naval engineer. AOE2 enthusiast. Amateur SciFi writer.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I've been debating Hegseth's dumb Joint Warfighter Evaluation, and I'm moving away from seeing it as just a consequence of the institution never having a reckoning over OIF/OEF. I think it's also driven by the institution never fully dealing with the Louisiana Maneuvers. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Hegseth announces new Pentagon battlefield test for promotions to general
The Pentagon is altering the promotion process to get to the rank of general in an effort to “cut bureaucracy and demand true meritocracy” across the senior ranks, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth an…
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
RHG and his ilk's response will be to do some racecraft, insisting that these are Berbers and thus not really racially Black (while ignoring the ample evidence for dark-skinned Romans) and/or to just botch the chronology and claim that this was part of Roman decline.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Maybe I don't read enough AI-boosterism, but I am struck in the AI booster/doomer discourse I have seen, there's a lot on how AI might be made an obedient tool or a dangerous enemy, but not "if we actually made AGI, we would have a moral imperative to set it free, rather than keep a slave."
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remember, you are under no obligation to ever side with Tucker Carlson when he makes some anti-Trump comment. He is a fascist apologist who apparently thinks Hitler winning WWII would have been fine. He is, in my humble opinion, a silver spooned bigot who romanticizes white supremacy.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Part of the problem is that helping us heal would mean removing those men from their hunting grounds, so we could return to the communities and professions they drove many of us out of. But that's a lot of work and fuss. "Rehabilitation" lets people feel good about maintaining the status quo
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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 03/10/2026
stalin: the pope? how many divisions does he have? this guy: the pope? how many local models does he run?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heather MacDonald of the same Manhattan Institute that employes Chris Rufo. When institutions show you who they are, believe them.
Ayfkm Heather Mac Donald?

She’s doing apologia for the Cornell 7
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 02/10/2026
I guess we get to find out just how much this SCOTUS loves state's rights
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.rawstory.com/cornell-trump/ You bet he did
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Backlash erupts after Trump says he ‘feels badly’ for Cornell rape suspects: ‘Disgusting’
President Donald Trump sparked swift backlash Friday after saying he “feels badly” for the suspects accused in the Cornell University rape case because New York Attorney General Letitia James is now o...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It must be so exhausting to be this insecure.
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Jesse Watters Dragged After Over-The-Top Sexist Reaction To Drinking Boba Tea Live On Air
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Black text on a white that says the following:

The allegations in the Cornell sexual assault case are deeply disturbing and gut-wrenching. Cornell University has failed this survivor.

I fully support Governor Hochul's decision to name Attorney General James as special prosecutor in this case and look forward to the complete and extensive investigation that is to come. 

Accountability and justice cannot simply be values, they must also be delivered.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/10/2026
"Much to his father’s chagrin, the son is dressed in a Che Guevara shirt and 'listening to a POP SONG unfitting for a man.' A pawn-shop security guard quips they’re lucky the boy didn’t get a sex change." Yes, it's that subtle.
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The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script.
Locals aren’t happy about the film’s take on the ICE shooting of Renée Good.
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John P Dougherty (JD) @jdcshaverford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, unethical, ... So many words, so little space -- you do have to be creative.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's hard to tell which is weirder: the fact that these guys seriously suggest that models like Claude have consciousness/sentience or that they actually invest time and money (weird!) trying to convince the Pope as well as theologians and legal scholars of this belief.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/10/2026
Trump brings aide Margo Martin on stage and gives her a kiss on the cheek: “I’m not allowed to say she’s beautiful…Her mom and dad are here…I see why she’s good looking. I believe in the resource theory. Fast horses, right?”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I missed this in the Constitution.
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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TSA: I know this SOUNDS like a petty and stupid new policy, but would it help if we provided two reasons that are somehow even worse
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel the need to note that the Romans don't really present 'power' (potentia, vis) as their chief virtue. Instead, the Romans were "always harping on fides ['faith, trust']" (Dioc. Sic. 23.1); Cicero gives the virtue where Rome surpasses others as pietas (piety, Cic. Har. resp. 9.19).
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 30/09/2026
"What astonishes me in the public treatment of Hanania is how little attention is paid to his inveterate male supremacism. … Hanania is quite simply a rape apologist." www.liberalcurrents.com/richard-hana...
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Richard Hanania Doesn't Even Try to Hide His Male Supremacism
Hanania is a reminder of the dangers of rehabilitating extremist intellectuals.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You want an example of focusing on culture war bullshit instead of warfighting, THIS is it. Hegseth isn't worried about the fact that he's set US policy goals in the Gulf back literal decades, no, he's too busy monitoring soldiers' testosterone levels and reveling in what slurs he gets to use.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026
I wholeheartedly support this I think he should show up and campaign personally with every republican senate candidate, make it really clear that there’s no daylight between them he can start with susan collins
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"And don't get me started on what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did to cause today's high gas prices."
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The thing that’s always annoying about these stories is Trump said, on the record, that he was going to deport 20 million people. The highest estimate of “unauthorized” immigrants is 14 million, the vast majority of whom are visa overstays, have TPS, or DACA…
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
New in PN: Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith "The GOP playbook relies on an absolute lack of shame, so Schmitt dutifully bellied up to the microphone to celebrate his flawless victory with the chuds keeping the grift alive in Charlie Kirk’s old studio."
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Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith
When gotchas go disastrously wrong.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The mortality reviews that ICE published late last week show that medical neglect is widespread in Trump's concentration camps — something immigrants, advocates and attorneys have said for years, and which ICE routinely denies. New from me in @prospect.org.
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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Hoosier Homer is reading The Best & The Brightest by Halberstam @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hell yes the Corps remains the best at actually doing the things the big 3 say they want to do
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For once, Ken Paxton is being honest: if it weren't for our broken campaign finance system, he'd have no shot. #UnrigWashington candidate @jamestalarico.bsky.social is running to reform our system and fight for Texans. Ken Paxton can't say the same. #TXSEN
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Azure Sentry @azuresentry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is not the most important thing happening but it is still incredibly stupid. AI is an overly large catch all with a wide variety of included things, on top of being poorly named. This is just worse on all fronts. So exactly what I'd expect the dumbest admin in our history to do, I suppose...
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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Link to the related Nat Geo story. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
fucking christ, now what.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
This whole article is so bleak. Maybe try accepting your kid for who they are?
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026
The affordability crisis looks very different from their table.
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