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Corporal_Spectre

@j-saumo.bsky.social
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Dog dad, husband, aspiring writer, retired Army NCO… Misfit. I went to Iraq to oust a dictator and all i got was this lousy dictatorship.

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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 11h
"as the kids say these days" -me on the first day the kids stopped saying it
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Homer Simpson's Toast to Alcohol
ALT: Homer Simpson's Toast to Alcohol
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
yeah! why are they doing the russians favors?? (came here to say what you did 😅)
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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 11/10/2026
Susan Collins School of Disapproval graduate Marco Rubio disapproves.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"we stand with..." is the "thoughts and prayers" of US international relations. 🙄
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Put differently, Trump's options in the Iran War used to be humiliation or escalation; now, they are humiliation, escalation, or escalation-by-others-adding-to-his-humiliation
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Kimberly DeFalco @kimdefalco.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hey #Florida, vote as if the protection of our national forests depends on eradicating greedy development. Because it does.
tampabay.com
Florida’s 3 national forests at risk of logging, new roads under Trump rollback, groups warn
As a public comment deadline nears, environmentalists warn rescinding the “Roadless Rule” could further harm Florida’s wildlife. But feds say the change is needed.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
just glad to see people can still take some good times home from this location. 😂
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
and they wanted to take away my mortal kombat and gta3. also, what's the live stream going to be rated?
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
and a run-in with Josh Johnson too?? i think i'm most jealous of that. 😅
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i about died right there in the theater 💀
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i don't know if he thinks we're gullible enough to believe this or if he doesn't actually realize he's in a war right now.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
static.klipy.com
South Park Shut Up
ALT: South Park Shut Up
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
YO! they did a release run because he kept falling out. normally the formation would circle around and make the fallout set the pace up front until everyone else's knees pop out of their legs—but they probably trying to get away from his weezing old ass. 🫡
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pete Hegseth trails behind the crowd while running with troops in San Diego
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
was in my hometown today for the first time in years. what was a blockbuster when i left is now a trulieve dispensary. 🤣
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
MAG and Cheese
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
just wow
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this kid is definitely going to start a cult.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yo! pete legseth is so scared of iran he's even retreating out of England. not a good look for projecting our power abroad. 🫡
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
those looked like they've aleady been donated once. those are thrift kidneys.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
😂😵
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🥹
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 04/10/2026
Lotta people having this reaction right now
Pete Hegseth, dressed as a fascist, in front of bunch of fascist symbols. John Cena in the show where he unwittingly goes to a mirror Nazi universe looking at a picture of Hitler and going “Fuck. How’d I miss that?”
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
not only do they say not to trust our eyes, but they're actually confirming in a very detailed way what we're seeing. then they say, "but, yeah, don't believe THAT".
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Frankenstein to invisible man: “wait a second, you’re not the Invisible Man. You’re just three invisible kids in a trench coat.”
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i know you wouldn't tell us if someone did hooked you up but i hope they do.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lmao! i looked at the pics before reading the post. swear to god i thought it was an assortment of soldier photos with a random Hunter S Thompson thrown in. 😅
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i wasn't a believer when i served. are they going to take back my retirement and disability now?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
cruelty is our feature not our bug 😞
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
those low red squiggles actually look like trump's magic marker signature. 😂
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Refrigeration failures have again struck U.S. military commissaries, this time at four stores in Germany and England. The issues are unrelated to the outages that affected up to a dozen stores in the U.S. in late August. From Stars and Stripes' Jennifer H. Svan:
stripes.com
Refrigeration failures affect 4 military commissaries in Europe
Some coolers at four stores in Germany and England are out of service due to ongoing repairs and maintenance, according to the Defense Commissary Agency.
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."
Christina Ricci in front of a patterned wall with the text: Maybe we should start talking about how many men out of 3 will sexually assault someone... instead of how many women out of 3 will be assaulted. Lets shift the ownership..
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this is why i never speak ill of someone's ex. you never know if they might get back together.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THAT'S why he looks so familiar. Lol. been trying to figure out where i saw him before this administration.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't care if the polls say the Democrats are leading by 35%, you get your ass out there and vote
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i still don't even understand how the'gotcha' would've meant anything? he met with her the day after she announced having an affair.🫤 like don't even explain this to me. it might push out a different trivial fact that could actually come in handy someday.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
💯. sure would be nice if the DNC recognized they have the most viable candidate yet down here.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this on the heels of kicking out 3 news agencies from the WH press pool. timing is not a coincidence. 🙄
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration is not setting a timeline for ending the war with Iran, US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said on Sunday, arguing that continued economic pressure favors Washington.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ohio’s only national forest is being opened back up to fracking. The federal government just leased oil and gas rights beneath nearly 2,800 acres of Wayne National Forest for about $11 million, the first competitive lease sale there since 2017.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yo! Legseth is the only guy who mad he didn't get to be a meat gazer during UAs.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
y'know, greenland probably saw the rusted ships and dwindling arms supply and was like, "sure, go ahead and 'protect' us." (behind closed doors: they don't have the resources to shift anything up here. wankers.) 🙄
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
republicans: well, SOMEONE had to take in the nazis when the democrats didn't allow them in their party.
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Corporal_Spectre @j-saumo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i'll be honest. this gets my heartrate up more than flying out to sea with nuke dangling off his superjet.
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