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Graham K

@gkelly1193.bsky.social
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Retired Politico. Now this and that. Tweets about foreign policy, college football and soccer. VFL, YNWA

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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 5h
#CollegeKickers
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 12h
Turn on Fox. Eric Crouch is back.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump's move to import diesel from Russia comes just 21 days after signing Lindsey Graham's bill intended to sanction countries importing Russian oil. Trump only signed it after sponsors agreed to hand Trump the power to waive the penalties.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think this analysis is correct. Reports out of Russia for the last six weeks show huge diesel shortages and long lines of cars trying to get it. Russia doesn't have the diesel Trump says he's buying for them. This is all for another purpose, which is psy ops.
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Could be the first time someone told the Congressman to his face what a scumbag he is
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The local news is running a story about GW launching a new nursing program for all the laid off international development people here who can’t find a new job
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pay to play, baby...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/10/2026
The US president has distanced himself from two of his closest campaign strategists after it was revealed they had been advising a pro-Russia government less than a month before the US midterm elections. ft.trib.al/XONpvbO
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rachel Bilson is in the #Scrubs reboot!?
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Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
1/x #France conducted a test #launch of an unarmed #SLBM (its Nuclear capable M51.3) from its submarine Le Vigilant from in front of the Bretagne coast today, targetting an area 665 km east of Bermuda at a range of ~4735 km. @planet4589.bsky.social @m514ever.bsky.social @nukestrat.bsky.social
301657Z SEP 26
HYDROLANT 1944/26
BAY OF BISCAY.
CELTIC SEA.
NORTH ATLANTIC.
FRANCE.
1. MISSILE OPERATIONS 0001Z TO 1100Z DAILY
   04 THRU 21 OCT IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 46-16.38N 023-35.45W, 46-59.73N 019-44.15W,
      45-07.98N 019-44.15W, 44-26.03N 022-49.63W.
   B. 47-44.70N 005-23.50W, 47-48.72N 004-31.00W,
      47-39.00N 004-01.00W, 47-21.72N 004-09.58W,
      47-16.47N 005-17.68W.
   C. 47-24.10N 009-51.67W, 47-31.00N 008-28.28W,
      47-08.48N 008-24.55W, 47-01.62N 009-47.35W.   
   D. 47-31.00N 008-28.28W, 47-44.70N 005-23.50W,
      47-16.47N 005-17.68W, 47-08.48N 008-24.55W.
   E. 42-58.33N 034-54.68W, 43-46.17N 032-20.02W,
      42-49.37N 031-48.72W, 42-02.25N 034-21.48W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 211200Z OCT 26.


301017Z SEP 26
NAVAREA IV 949/26
NORTH ATLANTIC.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0001Z TO 1100Z 
   DAILY 04 THRU 21 OCT IN AREA WITHIN 
   71 MILES OF 32-25.00N 057-21.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 220100Z OCT 26.
Map of the northern Atlantic with the hazard areas from Navigational Warnings NAVAREA IV 949/26 and HYDROLANT 1944/26 plotted, along with a fitted Ballistic trajectory
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why would charging the ring get rid of the Hal clone? #Lanterns
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz
Toyota's unease at being associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda is evident. In its September statement, the company said,
'Toyota does not have a sales or distribution channel in Afghanistan, and we do not export vehicles to that country."
Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week.
"It is not our proudest product placement," he said. "But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability."
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jim Knowles is proving to be worth every penny.
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Bryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sometimes you gotta kick your quarterback in the junk. For luck.
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Iowa City is the best college town, the kids there are a different breed. And I’m saying that as a former SEC fraternity social chair.
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Carney showing up with a coffee
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A historically unproductive Congress. By the numbers.
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a cool read
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 30/09/2026
President Trump began sending $500 checks to nearly one million people and enclosed a letter touting his record on cutting healthcare costs, just a month before voters go to the polls for the midterm elections. on.wsj.com/46SZAU4
on.wsj.com
Trump Sending $500 Checks With Letter Touting Healthcare Record
Payments will go to 1 million people in states that use the federal healthcare exchange.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/09/2026
Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So my tax dollars just paid for a campaign ad in the middle of a NFL game.
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I bet coolest person I know is having the time of her life right now
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Glad to hear Jim Knowles play calls are more important than the secret service
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 26/09/2026
Reaction inside Neyland for the Pat McAfee kick
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why does the Lane Kiffin still feel the need to door dash ads when LSU is giving him like 10 mil a year
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Matt Baker @mattbakercfb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You'll hear "Rocky Top" a lot today between GameDay and Tennessee-Texas. Did you know a trombone player has been counting every "Rocky Top" performance since the 1990s?!?! The official count on a Google Sheet since 2013: 4,533. On the earwormy tradition: www.nytimes.com/athletic/762...
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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...
washingtonpost.com
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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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...
wbir.com
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The AOC profile in the Times today casually mentioned she had COVID last week. Shoutout to the science advancing so rapidly that one of the highest profile members of Congress having it is a non-story.
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rubio’s defending what the White House did by saying at least we didn’t close CNN
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
HOTTY TODDY
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is Joey Galloway there just for the halftime show?
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
People can whine about McAfee on Gameday but the Fox crew… it’s comical how uncharismatic they are
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
".. The Joliet refinery is a key ​fuel supplier to ​the U.S. ⁠Midwest. According to the company's website, it can produce about 11 million gallons per day of ​gasoline and diesel fuel." @reuters.com $XOM www.reuters.com/business/ene...
reuters.com
Floodwater overwhelmed pump at Exxon Mobil's Joliet, Illinois refinery; facility remains offline following outage
Exxon Mobil said floodwater overwhelmed a pump ​at its 275,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Joliet, Illinois, according to ‌a filing on Thursday.
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m sticking with the idea the House canceled votes for tomorrow to avoid having to vote on the Hegseth impeachment resolution
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Underwent a debris event” is a new one
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every single person who posted “Why doesn’t Beashear DO SOMETHING??!?!?” is either too stupid to be taken seriously, or a lying grifter. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
…I’d never heard Matthew Rhys’s real voice till right now. #Emmys
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
For Arch living under all the pressure that comes with being the Texas QB and having the name manning, walking off the field after you beat Ohio St and getting dapped up by McConaughey and Kevin Durant must have a certain “it was all worth it” feeling
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All those Texas fans passionately chanted “Ted you suck” they don’t deserve to be victims of the Ted Cruz curse but this is how the world works
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m old enough that Erin Andrews is hawking life insurance is pretty depressing.
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Texas fans doing the SEC chant…. Naw man
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Graham K @gkelly1193.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Not be confused with the Minnesota Republican staffer who was fired for being a Nazi yesterday
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."

Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.

That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. The time has come for loyal Americans to Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. That is the new buzz-word in Washington. But what it means is not entirely clear.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Bin Laden was equally clear about how he thought terrorism would yield his desired result. In a March 1997 CNN interview with Peter Bergen, he spoke of transferring “the battle into the United States.” In a May 2000 speech, he told supporters that the war would henceforth be waged “against the United States, in the United States.” Americans, he observed to ABC’s John Miller in 1998, cannot tolerate pain, and will react to attacks not by fighting back and blaming al‑Qaeda, but instead by asking “what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves.” In a November 2001 interview, he hinted at a theory of political change in America: Its citizens should “take the same stand that they did previously,” when they protested the Vietnam War and the presidents who waged it.
Nelly Lahoud, a professor at the Army War College and the author of the definitive book on the Abbottabad documents, told me this political pipe dream was bin Laden’s whole plan: “to replicate the anti–Vietnam War movement of the United States, to get the American public to put pressure on the U.S. government to withdraw its forces from the Middle East.” The documents reveal a man and an organization blindsided by the American reaction to the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden and his associates “didn’t think that the United States would respond by waging war,” Lahoud said. He did not contemplate or plan for the long-term occupation of Afghanistan, nor did he expect the methodical killing of his operatives in a campaign that lasted years.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
nature.com
Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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Kofie @kofie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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