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Americans need to be having a serious conversation about exile communities in our country. Whether it’s the Iraqi exiles who led us into Iraq, the Iranian exiles & Israelis who have now dragged us into Iran, or the Cubans cajoling us into Cuba We are being made whores for wealthy foreign exiles

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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

21 years later on the same field The White Sox last #Postseason series victory was the 2005 World Series ... in Houston!

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Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today In 1990: The Chicago #WhiteSox defeat the Seattle #Mariners in the last game ever played at Comiskey Park! #MLB #Baseball #History

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Canonize my man already. The 2026 Sox are his miracle

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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chicago: 2 teams, 2 clinches, 2 minutes apart

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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mune 🤝 Mune Munetaka Murakami pays homage to the great Munenori Kawasaki 🇯🇵

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I actually walked past John Podesta today on my way to Wegmans. I did not bother him, & fortunately for him I wasn’t wearing my Sox hat (he’s recognized me in it before) I remain unreservedly Team Rahm 2028 www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...

cnbc.com

Watch CNBC's full interview with former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Emanuel, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, former White House chief of staff, former Chicago mayor and former U.S. congressman, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the state of the Democratic Party, 202...

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hadn’t been tracking this. Definitely looking forward to watching it. Also would encourage more guys to produce these kinds of documentaries about seminal moments of the war in Afghanistan Most Americans will be learning about that war after it ended, and that in itself is a topic worth exploring

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Guess we know why those two resignations popped yesterday

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“Meanwhile, ISKP has survived by diversifying its recruitment base, expanding it from Central Asia to Turkiye, keeping its narrative alive through encrypted social media platforms, and leveraging inter-group alliances with like-minded groups in the region, especially Jundullah and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi”

thediplomat.com

Balochistan Is Now Pakistan’s Most Dangerous Province

July was Balochistan’s most violent month this year. It also overtook Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to emerge as Pakistan’s most volatile province.

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

History will regard the unprovoked attack & subsequent war on Iran as one of the most egregious examples of foreign state capture & of great power hubris in recent eras: “The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran”

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EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say

The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about th...

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The damage that this war has done to US hegemony in the Middle East & to the ability of the US to project power in the future against adversaries such as China & Russia is immense. We forced ourselves out of the Gulf The US attack on Iran may yet be akin to Britain’s 1956 Suez fiasco Treasonous

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Politico: Why’d you want to give the speech and why’d you want it there? Rahm: The United States has fought in Iraq, & now has a war in Iran. We have lost 50,000 fellow citizens, either dead or permanently maimed for life. Spent well over a trillion & a half to $2T. I’m not interested in a 3rd war”

politico.com

Rahm Emanuel on Why Democrats Keep Losing

The former Chicago mayor makes his case for his party’s future.

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So long, Salvatore. Say hi to Tony and Paulie up there

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

100%. PhDs are desperate to slap a political theory on this administration because the current style of politics causes their life's work to go up in smoke.

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I reject entirely the assertion that this Administration or Trump himself is operating under a strategy underpinned by Madman Theory Few FP-tasked advisers in this admin are IR-studied, & I don’t think there’s a shred of evidence for a Nixonian-like approach. His “strategy” is merely reactive chaos

foreignpolicy.com

The Madman Strikes Back

Nixon’s theory on the power of unpredictability didn’t account for an actual madman adversary.

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Al-Qahtani was largely unknown to most everyone outside of Afghanistan or those hunting for him, but his successful targeting is arguably among the most important kills of the entire war. His potential impact as leader of a future Al-Qaeda or related movement will (thankfully) never be known

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Missed this last fall: in al-Qaida’s 9/11 24th anniversary video, it released what I think is the only publicly available photo of Farouq al-Qahtani, who the CIA and JSOC viewed as the top AQ figure in Afg and its no. 2 most dangerous figure (after Ibrahim al-Asiri) between 2011 and 2016.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I too am waiting for the big expose of Israeli meddling in US elections.

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

As a kid, I found a $5 Bill James Baseball Encyclopedia in a KMart bargain bin I tried to memorize the statistics of every player on every team every year from 1901-1984. Gehrig fascinated me I can make the argument that Henry Louis Gehrig is among the 3 greatest players in the history of the game

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Spy Fi @spy-fi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Finally!

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Simply one of the purest and most unfiltered depictions of warfare ever put to film Stanley Kubrick is among the few rightfully called Gods of American film

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

BLUF: He’s backing out of talks The absolute damage this guy is doing to US power is incredible The destruction he’s wreaking will last literally decades. It’ll span the Koreas & East China Sea to the Gulf, & to the Americas Congress is staring in sclerosis & impotence Astonishing & demoralizing

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Wicked Smaaaht @wickedsmaaaht.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world, he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Just did our first interview with a WW2 veteran on @theteamhouse.bsky.social who served with the Navy at Iwo Jima before practicing law for 50 years. Born in 1925.

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

“The Emerging Push to Extend Some US Benefits to IDF Soldiers” I can’t express how… Never mind. My thoughts can’t be conveyed. And that in and of itself should tell the tale This is a real story. This is an actual thing. And this is where we all are in 2026. www.military.com/feature/2026...

military.com

The Emerging Push to Extend Some US Benefits to IDF Soldiers

Some U.S. lawmakers seek protections for Americans serving in the IDF, raising questions about fairness since U.S. benefits traditionally depend on service to the United States.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

MATT DAMON just trying to get home

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Under appreciated and sadly under-seen GWOT era film Very good, different, well-acted, and highly recommended Traitor (2008)

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“History Is Running Backwards: Why reactionaries are taking over the world” I could have written this for you 10 years ago, Atlantic The post-Enlightenment egalitarian liberal order is no more. It’s just a question of when time of death will be called. Left & Right both are done with liberalism

theatlantic.com

History Is Running Backwards

Why reactionaries are taking over the world

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The new reality is that Iran now has control of the Strait & will continue to control it This unprovoked attack for Israel has cost the US enormously: shredded diplomatic credibility & control lost over an essential strategic area, as well as also likely forced the US military out of its Gulf bases

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The fundamental piece that ensures the excess, aggression, militarism, and endless expansionism of Israel is that the United States underwrites every war crime, every land theft, every instance of mass murder that the Israeli regime commits Without the US, Israeli society — and Israel — disappears

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Bahrain’s Shia majority periodically demonstrates against the minority Sunni regime (2011 & 2013), but is put down either extreme brutality Censorship not unlike what Israel is enforcing itself is now emplaced in Bahrain in the wake of Iran retaliatory strikes www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-ira...

middleeasteye.net

The war on Iran has ignited rare civil unrest in Bahrain

Bahraini authorities are cracking down violently on protesters angry at US role in the state, and detaining people for posting videos of Iranian attacks

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The outlook for this war for US interests is getting very dark, & it’s accelerating by the day. This is the nightmare scenario, an absolute catastrophe for US power US hegemony in the Gulf is quickly coming to an end. Israel has entered a death spiral. The Trump admin is doubling down on disaster

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Day 1: “there will be no boots on the ground” Day 5: “we might put some boots on the ground” April: “some SOF boots are on the ground to assist moderate rebels” July: “ok, some conventional Army boots are gonna be on the ground” 2027: “we’re surging more boots to protect the boots on the ground”

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Put a bookmark on “When crazy people have nuclear weapons bad things happen.” That one is gonna be useful much sooner than later, unfortunately

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Killing Khameini may have satisfied neocon blood thirst temporarily, but the real effect of this stupid decision is multi fold: Khameini was much more moderate than a likely successor; he opposed nuclear weaponization. He was also the known leader; analysts relied on his predictable decision-making

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I am reminded of an old joke about fooling the country you’re invading by marching in backwards and telling them that you’re leaving

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Midwest Shadow @midwestshadow.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"The battle is..the main focal point of the 2020 film The Outpost, which was in-turn based on the book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor" Twenty-seven soldiers were awarded the Purple Heart for wounds sustained in combat

en.m.wikipedia.org

Battle of Kamdesh - Wikipedia

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E Jones @eofchi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

In remote land, American valor was on full display October 3, 2009 COP Keating Kamdesh, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan PFC Kevin Thomson SGT Joshua Kirk SGT Michael Scusa SPC Chris Griffin SSG Vernon Martin SGT Justin Gallegos SGT Joshua Hardt SPC Stephan Mace 3-61 Cav, 4th Infantry Div, US Army

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