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Alan Cunningham

@cadetcunningham.bsky.social
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International Relations Afficionado | Aspiring Novelist | Book & Movie Lover | Follow me on Substack: substack.com/@alanthecommentariat

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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As long as you guys have Bari Weiss as Editor in Chief, I really don’t think Tony Romo’s gonna hurt the brand
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Let’s not forget, Dirty Harry here has no magazine in his weapon
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don’t think it was much reported either but the Air Force’s Journal of the Americas also was deactivated due to a lot of the reshuffling
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Common sense” and “Brandon Herrera” should never ever go together. Ever
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Okay this has been bothering me for awhile; she says she’ll be the first PhD woman to serve in Congress (I know she says scientist here, but she’s said woman with a science PhD/PhD before) Does she just forget that Judy Chu for CA-28 has been in office since 2009 with a PhD in Psychology??
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Would make for a great article on military leadership under Trump btw
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Say hello to the new Army Secretary Sean Parnell everybody The guy who wrote what is probably the most boring memoir of the War in Afghanistan and all of GWOT
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I won’t say this is good nor will I say “oh look the deportations are doing some good” (they’re not) But I will say Milo can get fucked. I’ll reserve my sympathy for those who are truly victims of this administration, not those who are surprised the leopards are eating their faces
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Can we just lock the people who created Cinema Sins in a dodgy submersible? No sin committed in the telling a story on screen could ever measure up to the sin they've committed in convincing the public they have been engaging in film criticism.
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Zero. Fucking. Words.
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I wonder, when candidates say they only support reform and not abolishment of ICE, what would they say to this Because yes this is Trump, but it’s also the senior leadership, it’s the SACs and Section Chiefs, it’s the culture of the agency, and yes it’s the agent who joined in April of 2025
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Imagine being this pathetic
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I honestly think we moved on from the implications and implausibility this event would have been even a decade before way too quickly
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Remember, don’t sit out on elections
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
So, when Tillis and Cornyn leave office in January 2027 and Blanche decides to create the Anti-Weaponization Fund, what then? God I hate this timeline
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Oh no, if only there was some way this could have been predicted … Polygraphs are a bane upon the federal hiring, criminal investigation, and national security process and should have been outlawed when NAS produced their study in the early days of the Bush administration
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Star Trek Captain Kirk Gasp
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s telling he went on Fox to say this One would think CNN, MSNBC maybe, but no. Know why? That’s not his audience
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I always find it funny when Republicans say they’re the “Party of Lincoln” or “Party of TR” given it’s a tacit admission that the last time the GOP was great was when they had progressive leaders and policies
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
And that isn’t necessarily a bad thing I should add … BUT it’s super infuriating when you’re a 4.0 MAIR student with great references, a track record of work and volunteer experience to lose an LE internship to a rising college sophomore majoring in music whose mom is an Section Chief at HQ
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This. I am one of those people. It’s absolute hell to never receive even a response back Fast forward to me working in D.C. and finding out that so many postings get filled by contractors who have govt/military XP and had done the same job just in the private sector, so the announcement is for show
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why is it that I have never heard a legislator on the campaign trail talk about civil service reform or updating USAJobs for the current work force? That’s something not only active and ex-federal employees but prospective federal employees (including students, veterans etc) would want to hear
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I want to say, this is why I don’t watch CNN or much cable news anymore RFK went on this because he knew he would find a great place and a poor journalist to be able to show off his “mettle” at dealing with the media, “fighting for the American people’s health”, and showing up liberals
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Not just the next pandemic, but the next everything; the next natural disaster, the next attack, the next war, the next regulatory crisis, the next recession, it’s infuriating
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Remember, investigations, calls for BWCs or no masks are all pointless unless you are also addressing the root causes of this criminality - the culture of militarization and law enforcement in border security agencies and the disastrous 2003 implementation of DHS
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Great reminder to never ever watch Threads again
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
What’s the phrase? “Money can’t buy class or taste”? This video sums that up; no matter the amount of money, it can never buy a person taste or knowing what works and what doesn’t in a room
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Having just watched Rocky, I am truly amazed at how this movie won Best Picture and Best Director You’ve got it going up against All the President’s Men and Network; how did neither of those win but this did? Makes not sense whatever
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I never was a major fan of Alan Greenspan’s and I make that fact known here, but it’s pretty incredible how Zoomers and definitely Alphas don’t know the name of the man who made it impossible for them to obtain wealth open.substack.com/pub/alanthec...
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Speaking Ill of the Dead
With Alan Greenspan’s death, the financial world and society at large has shown a desire to revere the industry’s giants – and forget problematic legacies.
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I never want to hear from Republican voters again about wanting to end forever wars It was bullshit in 2024 and it’s even more bullshit today
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
To all Democrats running in this midterm cycle: You still think we can reform this? This type of behavior you think we can handle by bills, decrees, and dictums calling for reform and accountability? Get real
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This I bought & read a first time book by a retired Marine SGTMAJ on war crimes investigations and DM’d him on LinkedIn to tell him how fascinating it was. He offered to sign my book and it remains one of my great reads of last year
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Does anybody else get insanely angry whenever a politician or candidate says “I’m not a politician” Like we all know you are. Otherwise you wouldn’t be running. Honestly, I’d want an operative who knows how to get everybody to work together, just actually stands to their values That’s it
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is the standard now. This is the standard for border and immigration enforcement And honestly, it’s been the unofficial standard for years now, only now individuals care about border security policy. And still, people think ICE abolishment/USBP-CBP reform is too much That’s ridiculous
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Earlier this week, James Talarico unveiled his border security and immigration policy, calling for more agents/immigration judges and more funds for surveillance technologies I like Talarico, but this left me super disappointed
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As if this wasn’t bad enough, let’s ignore that it’s potentially the 101st leading this charge Whose bright idea in the Pentagon was it to give that job to them?
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Tom Hiddleston's Worried Face
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We need to categorically reject the calumny that Graham was blackmailed so he cozied up to Trump. The evidence is clear that Graham freely and volitionally chose evil. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Lindsey Graham Chose Evil
Conspiracy theorists liked to say that Graham’s Trump sycophancy was a result of blackmail. But the truth is worse: He stuck with Trump to keep the US war machine going.
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
All of that - her hesitancy, the overwhelming documentation, everything - of course still isn’t enough to keep some progressives from saying she’s a plant It’s shameful and absolutely disgusting. As a progressive, this is a problem we need to address
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Abusers sabotage their own agenda and betray those who share it while placing the burden on victims to come forward and be punished, blamed, shamed, disbelieved, or not come forward and suffer in silence and let an abuser hold power. Abusers demonstrate radical selfishness.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Come read my latest on the SCOTUS decision on birthright citizenship. We all know it’s a close decision, but the real key here for us everyday Americans is more, continued and aggressive activism open.substack.com/pub/alanthec...
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Be Concerned
Birthright citizenship is safe … for now. What comes next is effort by the people. Because there may not be a second chance.
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
D.C. is looking like 1812 right now
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Why is every narcissist the same? If Trump weren’t president, it’d just be tiring instead of anxiety inducing
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Does anybody else get massive ick from Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk? Like he’s great in Last Castle, Zodiac, Collateral, Poor Things, Mickey 13 and so much more, but his Hulk is seriously awful Bana & Norton were not only more comic accurate but just so much more likable
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Alan Cunningham @cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Kleptocracy and Gerontocracy (the Boomer version) go hand in hand btw
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 02/07/2026
Also the fact that the AG is giving a speech to members of the military should have him hauled before Congress immediately
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