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They aren’t sending their best. (Missouri rarely does…)

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3h

ICYMI: This morning on Radio 4's Today programme, Andy Burnham confirmed joining the EU customs union, single market membership and full rejoining are all on the table, and said "we could go all the way" (after the next election)

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 13h

DoD: oh no, what about mah industrial base?? Also, DoD: oh you can definitely double down on your 6th gen fighters with one company

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 27/09/2026

It's 30 days until the publication date of The Pope's Hitman, and I'm counting down with a seasonally and story-appropriate Advent Calendar! For Day 1, meet Saint Longinus, the Roman centurion who tradition holds pierced the side of Christ on the Cross then later became Christian.

An advent calendar. On the left of the calendar grid is an image of the cover of The Pope's Hitman by J.M. Berger, featuring a gray-toned image of the spiral Bramante Staircase in the Vatican Museums, Vatican City. A blurb reads "John Wick meets Conclave as a priest with a deadly secret will stop at nothing to protect the Pope against an explosive Christmas Eve plot with the fate of the Catholic Church at stake!" On the right is an image of Saint Peter's Basilica at night with two review excerpts:

“Berger (Optimal), a senior research fellow at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, puts his background to good use in this riveting action thriller.”
-- Publisher’s Weekly

“This is ridiculously over-the-top and I loved every second of it ... great characters ... fun premise ... crazy situations.”
-- The Optionist

The statue of Saint Longinus in Saint Peter's Basilica, a Roman soldier brandishing a spear.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/09/2026

However (you rightly) feel about Arnold as a human, as a governor etc. He was raised (literally and culturally) by people who had been Nazis. He saw their impact firsthand. He knew ball.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The real-life story that inspired the film is just as remarkable: How a small group of young women in Boston launched a movement to organize secretaries that transformed how women are treated in the workplace.

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9 to 5: Inside The Movement That Inspired the Iconic Film

When Dolly Parton died recently, radio stations and music streamers filled our ears with her irresistible anthem, “9 to 5.” The song topped the music charts and was nominated for an Osc…

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war: With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, database shows. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war

With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in your next zoom interview have not only a cup of ice coffee but seven or eight different cups of various beverages just off camera and casually drink from each of them throughout the interview the drinks should have fancy straws or colorful parasols or large pieces of fruit on the edge of the cup

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What if someone brought a hot cup of black coffee?

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To go along with awful traffic downtown due to Xi’s visit, we now have significant delays on Blue/Orange lines. Good times!

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

- parts are routinely shipped by commercial carrier, both by DoD directly and contractor owned supply chains like LM on the 35 - this shouldn't have happened but will need to unspin whether it was LM or UPS's fault - a NMC canopy isn't ideal but is far from the crown jewels

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Rory Stewart enjoying the tennis.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Roads are closed in downtown DC today for Trump’s summit with Xi

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/09/2026

Call me crazy, but it seems like the administrator of Medicare and Medicaid should.... know how fucking insurance works?

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron

Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran

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CNN @cnn.com · 22/09/2026

Americans' opposition to the war in Iran has hardened, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with almost two-thirds saying the US is not winning the conflict and more saying President Donald Trump isn't doing enough to end it. cnn.it/3SXa5m3

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grants DP5OD024558, DP2GM146258, R00GM121852, R01DK115728, R01DE027538, T32GM119995, T32GM007365, T32GM007790 and F31DE031154); the National Science Foundation.”

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/09/2026

Will somebody please turn this into an ad?

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Eric basically asked "Why are you so big on criticizing universities publicly but not the administration?" The response was...lacking.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“.. he was completely inaudible because a pool microphone was not there to capture his statements. .. ‘So maybe this is one example of it backfiring just a little bit,’ Newsmax anchor Bianca de la Garza said .. @thehill.com

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the museum sounds great i hope they also build one for women

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i love the absurdity of marlow murder club

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 20/09/2026

This is now confirmed. For the first time ever the CDU does not make it into a regional parliament, not making it over the 5% threshold.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Would Guy Ritchie projects be anything without East London accents?

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pete Hegseth went to the A&M game and they lost to Kentucky for the first time in over 70 years. THERE IS NO BATTLE HE CANT LOSE.

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Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you can’t handle talking to reporters, can you handle dealing with Putin and Xi?

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We really ought to sit with the fact that Verhoeven, three decades later, has to publicly say 'Guys, the one I made about the militarized society in nazi uniforms waging an expansionist total war against aliens they refuse to understand? It's about fascism' www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

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Paul Verhoeven on U.S. Space Force’s ‘Starship Troopers’-Inspired Uniforms: “It’s Based on Leni Riefenstahl”

The director of the 1997 sci-fi film, which has often been misunderstood, says the gung-ho soldiers who are its heroes "are fascists without knowing that they’re fascists. That’s the point.”

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Paul Szoldra @paulszoldra.com · 18/09/2026

what an absolute goat rodeo www.war.gov/News/Feature...

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

where is CFIUS when you need it

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 18/09/2026

Are you fucking kidding me.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What foreign policy and defense podcasts are you lot listening to these days? (Besides @sirenspod.bsky.social of course!)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

* EXCLUSIVE -- CHINA HAS PRIVATELY ASKED IRAN TO USE ITS INFLUENCE TO HELP REIN IN YEMEN'S HOUTHIS AFTER SAUDI APPEAL TO BEIJING, THREE IRANIAN SOURCES SAY @reuters.com

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 17/09/2026

“Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.” —Fran Leibowitz

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A government of hotdog men

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Carney has even suggested Canada take on a new title: ‘Associate Member of the European Union.’ .. The EU, not known for its flexible enforcement of membership rules, is open to the idea ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Finally seeing the Odyssey! No spoilers!

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Come for the Border War. Stay for: "You're rude to her, you reap the whirlwind, and not even Arch Manning's ethereal glow will save your disputatious ass." cc @texasinafrica.bsky.social

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/09/2026

This is going to do so much damage.

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Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You’re gonna wanna save this @sirenspod.bsky.social: a super valuable national debt explainer with a lot of oft missing so what and the amazing @klkuzminski.bsky.social on the state of the general officer corps. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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CDC, National Dept, General Officers

Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · September 12 · 52m

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Dr. Jonathan Schroden @jjschroden.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Having “Taliban capturing US weapons from the ANDSF” flashbacks here 😑

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's bad that the central rule of US diplomacy is now "sometimes the president just says crap, and sometimes he justs post crap, and neither is the official position of the United States, except sometimes seriously but not literally, or sometimes literally, or sometimes it is. You'll find out."

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One of the workers who cleans the 9/11 Memorial pool shares his story. He cleans the pool with another worker five nights a week, from midnight to 8 AM.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Properly speaking, they fought to *make* Kansas a free state. It wasn’t admitted to the union until 1861.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Guys, calm down. This is standard stuff. You just haven’t seen it since Mizzou defected to the SEC in 2012. (The city seal of Lawrence is a Phoenix rising from the flames…symbolizing its rebirth after Quantrill’s raid - from Missouri - burned the city in 1863)

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I guess I’m not the only one who remembers the color of the sky that day

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

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