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@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
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Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought. othermeans.substack.com

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 2h
Theyre doing this for like 3 days of of US diesel exports every month
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19h
- Attacking the ICC - Palling around with Russia - Broadcasting executions
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Are We The Baddies? Meme
ALT: Are We The Baddies? Meme
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2h
Administration full of fucking degenerates man.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2h
We’re already helping to fund the Russian war effort and we’ve basically ended all other aid to Ukraine. Why the fuck should the Ukrainians care about our threats anymore.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23h
Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 16h
“WE WILL BURN THEIR REFINERIES.”
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 19h
This is clearly not acceptable
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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 21h
I am fairly certain the September-October period has had the most brutal outcome in the seven years long war between Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the Sahel. No way it doesn't influence some JNIM's calculations and it's clear Islamic State inadvertantly helped Mali regime. 🧵
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20h
Trump announces importing diesel from Russia. 1 It will kill Ukrainians 2 What happened to the sanctions? 3 IT WILL KILL UKRAINIANS
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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 23h
If you were looking for a way to polarize Americans' views abt the military, undermine its influence internationally & drive out service members appalled by its civilian leadership's barbarity, this is certainly a good way to do that. www.defensenews.com/video/2026/1...
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US to livestream Army execution of Fort Hood shooter
The U.S. will livestream the Army’s upcoming firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in a 2009 shooting spree.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 20h
so the same day we're putting sanctions on the icc, we're lifting sanctions on russian oil?
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h
hegseth made this shit up on his own
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My assessment of the State of the Force: "this Congress is overdue to protect the American military from a civilian leadership that is its greatest threat." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Reducing the Number of Generals Isn’t the Problem
Hegseth is damaging the military and the public’s trust in it.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My latest: WarTalk co-host Justin and I took some time to teach you the fundamentals of fighting drones. “Strong and consistent rehearsals are what separate “equipped” soldiers from “trained” soldiers.” open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
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Drones Hate Us
The Secret Guide to Fighting Metal Birds
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Battle Order @battleorder.org · 09/10/2026
My interpretation of a New California Republic Rifle Squad from Fallout: New Vegas
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Apple TV is single handedly keeping auteurism alive. Never saw that one coming ngl
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The famous Socratic dictum of the Unexamined Life is entirely worth living. Preferable even.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You know. I really wish people had clapped for Jeb
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's a low bar
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You know what? We can, and we should. People have shit taste, and we need to say it more. Society went downhill when we stopped being elitist.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We're a society that is becoming nothing but a collection of 5-year-olds.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We've taken the death of the author too far. It's time to start stigmitizing again
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How dull and lifeless of a person are you that you think like this.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tragically frustrated reformer who was right about everything, I think.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They spent a Ukraine aid package worth of money on changing all the signs and letterheads and in 2029 we're gonna have to spend another pile of money on changing them back while the press (derogatory, slur) yells at us for wasting money
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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
From "How the Army Fights" (Link in second post). Sounds familiar. Someone should write about this.... 🤔
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've been listening to some of this and the entire thing makes me want to shoot myself
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Gotta keep the content flowing
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Nathan 🎃 @never-say-die.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As a person who’s been semi-professionally thinking about drones since 2012ish at this point, it’s frustrating that people are baffled that drones are largely another layer of combined arms warfare. They‘re a challenge but not a full on insurmountable obstacle.
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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think Hegseth is fundamentally a broken human being.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Beyond matters of taste and decency and whether or not you even believe in the death penalty due to moral reasons, livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan is a dumb idea because you're giving him his moment of public martyrdom.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bold of you to assume this DoD will even recognize mental health as a thing in a year’s time
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026
fwiw if you want to make a strategic case for congressional democrats trying to impeach trump if they take majorities, i think the first step is impeaching hegseth, the bar is lower and the likelihood of success is probably much higher
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This feels like pure Hegseth degeneracy
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I rather dislike these people ngl
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I guess this is just sort of the logical endpoint of this administration’s commitment to fulfilling their supporters’s desire to vicariously consume violence done to other people.
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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A drone cannot hold ground. Soldiers hold ground. But foot soldiers alone cannot break through defenses hundreds of meters thick and layered. Drones can't either. But with tanks, engineering equipment, and other support assets (drones, air defense, counter-drone assets), they can breakthrough.
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Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Right, back from my week in Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 I'll have a few articles out soon on the air war, dynamics in Kyiv, and what long-term residents feel that western commentators often misunderstand about the war. In the meantime, here is a drone and rocket launcher displayed in a bar in Kyiv 💪:
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It is pretty remarkable that it took only 21 months for him to nearly hit 70% disproval
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Empty Bag of Ducks📎 @emptybagofducks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promised to keep And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep
Photo of a man (me) walking through a grove of redwood trees.  Redwood National and State Park, CA
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
so we're doing public executions now huh www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/p...
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Pete Hegseth vows to make first firing squad execution in decades ‘public’ | CNN Politics
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this week that the execution of the man who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 would be “public.”
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/10/2026
Trump's pushing the term "super intelligence" is stupid for many reasons (not least because "superintelligence" was already a term with a specific meaning in semi-technical and policy/philosophical discussions about AI). But now his bullying about it is reaching an Orwellian pitch.
A Trump Truth Social post dated 8 October 2026, reading: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP" (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117406176604364910). That post is quote-tweeted by @josephpolitano.bsky.social on the same day with the message: "Again he’s really losing it with the AI stuff now." And that, in turn, is quote-tweeted by @sky.skymarchini.net also on the same day, in two messages that read (combined) as follows: "Yeah, so, I work for an organization with federal government contracts and, the White House is not actually joking about this. It’s (probably) not at an 'I will I get fired if I put "artificial intelligence" in an email' level but the WH is making clear that the expectation is to use Trump’s politically correct terminology in public communication."
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Curious question: has anyone compiled a decently large sample somewhere of the white supremacist and Nazi imagery used in social media by official Trump administration accounts (esp. official department accounts, rather than individuals)?
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat” on a now disabled social media account. " And guess where that account was
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sorry. Let me be clearer. “I support the mass murder of civilians” is the view held by psychopaths you fucking loser
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Will Yale @wayale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Excited to join @milwritersguild.bsky.social as a member! Looking forward to engaging with this unique community of writers and readers as I expand my published output.
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