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Gray Flannel Man

@grayflannelman.bsky.social
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Husband, father, businessman. Fan of the Stoics though not always so stoic myself.

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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Lisa Fremont
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s a terrific resource. I have watched courses on history, philosophy, and music.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Silly?!….it’s a lie that is corrosive to our system of checks and balances.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
In the early 2010s I was at a dinner party with a group of affluent Rs. They were singing GWB’s praises including the war in Iraq. When I asked how they would feel if the draft was reinstated it was revealing. They quickly came up with ways they would keep their son out of the draft. #chickenhawk
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Imagine seeing news travel in a flash w/the telegraph Imagine seeing electricity for the 1st time Imagine seeing the internet for the 1st time Imagine seeing US democracy failing wholesale MASSIVE changes Some seen w/in our lifetimes. If you're reading this, you're seeing the last one #RESIST
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Thanks for the great article. You saved the most chilling analysis for the end:
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I’d like to report that everything related to the Confederacy - from slavery to violent rebellion - was negative and any type of monument honoring their efforts to destroy the Union is disgraceful.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
My wife once gave me a set of CD’s of back issues of the New Yorker. Only wound up reading one article and it was how Congress passed the Glass Steagall Act. Basically, Congress held hearings where they excoriated Wall St and other business executives. It was performative and effective.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Again, Trump is the arsonist looking for applause for putting out a fire he started.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
These guys would make George Orwell blush.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Also, according to the VP the appropriate response to a country with no nuclear weapons who is stonewalling negotiations is to bomb them?!
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The spirit of George Santayana right now:
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
3/ 3) Trump claims that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon but he canceled the JCPOA treaty that was preventing that from happening. His maximalist pressure campaign failed. Isn’t this a case of the arsonist wanting applause for putting out the fire he started?!
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
2/ The DNI testified under oath just weeks ago that Iran didn’t have this capability(roll tape). 2) Under what legal authority did Trump launch this strike? This is clearly an act of war and Congress didn’t declare war. The US was not under imminent threat (see 1 above).
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
1/ Here’s the line of questioning I hope the MSM takes when WH officials or R’s come on their shows and insist that POTUS had to launch this strike: 1) Iran wasn’t within weeks of having a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu has been saying this for decades (roll tape).
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Ok…good news, but can we avoid the 600k dying this time?
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Great thread:
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Summer outdoor wedding: the plan vs reality:
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is the reductio ad absurdum version of Conan O’Brien’s college prank: www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
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Urban Legend: Roadwork Prank
Pranking college students pit street repair crew against police.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Great thread right here that contextualizes the far right.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We have come a depressingly long way from Daniel Patrick Moynihan repeating the insights of a kid on the Yankee’s prospects in Game 6 of the World Series so he could appear down to earth.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
WATCH — @underwood.house.gov : “Elderly will lose Medicaid. Nursing homes will close. What are people supposed to do? They don’t care… there’s no way to sugarcoat it - it will be devastating for our communities.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The nuns who taught me would form a human wall around the immigrants and broker no shit.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Elon Musk and DOGE broke numerous aspects of Social Security delivery Rather than fix the damage, the Trump administration has simply stopped reporting the data www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Social Security stops reporting call wait times and other metrics
The changes are the latest sign of the agency’s struggle with website crashes, overloaded servers and long lines at field offices amid Trump cutbacks.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can. ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Sadly, this isn’t unprecedented and we shouldn’t be surprised: www.npr.org/2021/11/24/1...
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3 white men are found guilty of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery
Travis McMichael; his father, Greg; and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan all faced nine criminal counts in Georgia state court, including felony murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This seems…important @cnn.com @wsj.com @nytimes.com @financialtimes.com @washingtonpost.com
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
So are you more like Owen Chase or George Pollard?
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ok I’m watching (ok on TiVo delay)
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Who will be our Anson Burlingame?!
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
On the plus side, Republicans have done away with the dog whistle. #ItsAFeatureNotABug
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This administration would make George Orwell blush.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The current Executive branch responds to the Legislative and Judicial branches:
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Interviewer: So Kevin, what your vision for this role?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Look, I agree that D’s have a problem and need younger members involved in leadership. However, saying “AOC played ball” is simply not accurate. She didn’t support Pelosi for Speaker in 2018. No one should be surprised that Pelosi kept AOC out of leadership. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/06/...
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Ocasio-Cortez withholds support of Pelosi as House Speaker until Democrats win in November | CNN Politics
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thank you! I have been asking the same question: “Under what authority would President Trump launch a strike against Iran?” Not that I think Trump cares about such details, but all of us should really care.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Try this: apparently Tucker Carlson is quite capable of rational thought, incisive questions, and holding R politicians to account. This means that it was a deliberate choice to spend years mindlessly repeating far right talking points even when they contradicted the objective facts.
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Go Sea Dogs!
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Now how would he know that?
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Gray Flannel Man @grayflannelman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Pantry recipes are key. Enjoy!
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