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What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social · 14h

Inside the Hormuz Attacks: Separating Fact from Fiction ⚓Disinformation Breakdown ⚓Incident Reports ⚓Tracking Datasets ⚓Hormuz Transit Reality ⚓Middle East Oil Exports ⚓Fleet Impact & Attrition Video: youtu.be/9sMwewOiAMM

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 15h

I guess if you only make this a cultural/religious/political confrontation between the AI forces for good and the Antichrist you can shift attention away from your product convincing kids to commit suicide or conducting felony hacking for which you should be deposed. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.com

Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures

The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 19h

Literally why I didn't bother watching. My favorite NE episode is when they are all having each other's dreams...a classic.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 20h

Okay, so aside from the obvious lies and hyperbole, effectively he's saying the day to day work of a President sustaining our alliances, caring for American citizens, etc. is by default, Peace Prize worthy, vice just being a part of the job & par for the course. Where do we find these people?

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Beth Macy @bethmacy.bsky.social · 21h

Yesterday on the campaign trail, I drove 178 miles and stopped three times to talk to voters. Your Congressman Ben Cline was in Napa Valley drinking wine, eating food and hobnobbing and data-center plotting with lobbyists and campaign contributors. He’s with them. I’m with YOU.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 20h

It's getting to the point that ICE agents need the same off-duty and liberty restrictions that Marines and sailors on Okinawa experience.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 20h

Don't. She was drafted twice to get on a national ticket despite her poor campaign and polls. May get a nostalgia bump from the aftermath of Trump 2.0 which was still dominated by voting against vice voting for. There is more talent on the bench with wider appeal and middle American relatability.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 21h

BTW, you also get a guest lecture from @iantb.bsky.social and @rooksandkings.bsky.social in this semester. Kevin will help us look at U.S. wargaming from the lens of what PRC gamers are doing & Ian is reprising his @guws.bsky.social webinar on design with some extras thrown in.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 21h

Regrettably it starts with diminishing the shadow role of parties defying Constitutional relationships amongst the branches. It is partisanship that sits at the heart of this dysfunction.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 21h

Wargamers of the world! The Spring 2027 semester of the @virginiatech.bsky.social Graduate Certificate in Wargaming is upon us. I'll be teaching the intro course again, Analytic methods course will come back this Summer, & @strategerist.bsky.social and Ed McGrady will join the team for 5324 and 5334

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 22h

I can't do any of them anymore. Mainly because the "we want to hear your ideas, come talk to us" shtick is so tiresome. They really have no plan for meeting anyone except a big w/ a private booth while they plot what do during post-cooling off period. It's all performance with life-size displays.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 22h

That is always a great place to explore. Took the family on a float trip from the Shenandoah fork when I retired in 2016. Such a great time.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 22h

It's still kind of funny to me that the BrahMos choice was an initial "stick it" to U.S. defense industry & end use oversight. Given how Europe is trying to address the alliance tensions by growing their industry and we "IOUd" Taiwan, it is looking smarter every day.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 22h

I think I would've swapped 7 for 1-2. But given that the primary author for that helped to unscrew 8, I think he gets double credit.

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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I did the 9 Books thing, too. I hope you enjoy these light reads: myninebooks.com/g/398fd84c1815

myninebooks.com

Nine books Zach Ota will never forget

Explore nine books Zach Ota will never forget. Which books would you choose?

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It is always interesting how fundamentals put in pithy and practically axiomatic language take on outsized importance when their relevance is re-proved by a (relatively) new circumstance. The simple disciplined passive measures. But man, learning how not to stay in a defensive crouch is tough too.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“FPV and autonomous drones as a technology may be new, but the kind of threat that they pose (as kinetic salvos and emissions hunters from the air) is not new.” open.substack.com/pub/breaking...

open.substack.com

Drones Hate Us

The Secret Guide to Fighting Metal Birds

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There are some Ukrainian (and Russian) families who wish they could say the same. But, autocrats are anything if survivors. Game knows game.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My daughter wrote a poem she asked us to write down when she was 3 that your's reminded me of: The tree was still. It was always still. It's gonna be my next tattoo.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah, as we've chatted before he weirdly came across my feed and after about 4 or 5 interviews I saw the pattern like you do. To the degree he opened the door for me to find better and more reasoned analysts in the space I discarded him months ago in part because you pointed out his shortfalls.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Well that's not helpful to his case but given that many others are worried about AI's operating losses and demand for financing, he's now just a data point in a larger pool of analysts who've rung the bell.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Or when he rightly called out Putin as legacy KGB to a man he was running against who mocked his assessment yet McCain's party has now cozied up to and decided to help them fund a war against an established partner. But let's not let this ouroboros complete its meal.

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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Grok, is it better for a child to have an imaginary friend to address their formative challenges or would you rather they talk to you so that you can convince them to kill themselves while pretending to be anthropomorphized and real?

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Theory of the case is "he'll be the man to lead the tech oligarchs back to the liberal fold and they'll give money as penance after seeing the error of their ways and volunteer for a wealth tax & product safety." I guess he's banking on coercing them if they ever want a bailout & not go to jail.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

> Liberty if you don't stipulate that the U.S. is the greatest country in the world and Jesus himself inspired the latest NSS. Come off it."

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was chatting with someone about the shift in universities for senior service college fellowships because "woke & they don't want us there". My answer: "So you're telling me a post-O-5 leader can't effectively represent another point of view? "Not if they want to pass." "OK, the same is true at<

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And to think it started in 2016 with him encouraging rally goers to beat someone in the crowd that they didn't like.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Which is like saying we shouldn't have artillery units or squadrons becaues big guns and airplanes are novel. Obstuse historical observations abound. The problem is that unproven and untested innovation dreaming is different that proven and validated. I'm mainly screaming in the void now.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, 2015 called. It wants its cut and past back:

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm waiting for OpenAI model called Swimsuit Edition.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i'm a tastemaker

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Feeling very TF Smith today in an extremely Indo-Pacific kind of way today are they?

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Clearly a man who has never seen a public death at the hands of the state or extra-state entity and doesn't know why we ended them as public spectacle.

static.klipy.com

First Time? Meme from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

ALT: First Time? Meme from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Years of knowledge on the nature of human interaction to help create whole and healthy humans, but okay, let them start early listening to recorded disembodied voices to show you know how to parent with effeciency. Recorded reading is a stand-in for travel and deployment, not what for home.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just waiting for Michael Tracey to somehow make this worse than the disgusting tragedy or personal and political violence it is.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

San Diego is the most brutal of the optimal weather conditions in the world.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Eric Smith did that to me when I worked for him at CD&I.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Done one, not old enough for the other yet. I just did the classics though.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's just interesting watching Brazil hurtle to their own Trump 2. I don't know much about the Brazilian tax code, but doing a Big Beautiful Bill playbook is a littel on the nose.

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

His story will be: 1. I was leading from behind. 2. I was about to lap them a second time. 3. I'm in the best position to make sure everyone meets height and weight standards. No fatties amirite?

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