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John Ford

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Chicagoan: The cup is in Chicago, the greatest city in the world
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Last scene of Blackadder Goes Fourth with the caption: "My God! We lived through it! The closing of the Strait of Hormuz, February 28th to May 29th!"
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Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
They'll never kill the dream!!!! cc @jfjord.bsky.social
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
the state is not something separate from society. it is a consequence thereof
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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A must-read for anyone that fought in Afghanistan, or any war, or knows someone who did, or wants to know what it is like to come home. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...
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Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought (Gift Article)
First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Obligatory.
You may fly over and forever, you may bomb it, atomize it and wipe it clean of life - but if you desite to defend it, protect it, and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the roman legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.
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Colin Zwirko @colinzwirko.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Strangely, South Korea's JCS did not announce detection of a North Korean ballistic missile test Thursday, while NK claims they launched Hwasong-11D CRBMs. Seems launch was from Ragwon County in S. Hamgyong (39.896586°, 127.874964°). Missiles pointed east and south www.nknews.org/2026/06/nort...
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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Icarus shoulda used carbon fiber that’s way better than whatever wax bulkshit they were pulling on Crete. Yet another cautionary tale solved by materials science, losers
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Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 06/06/2026
That's the point of the Holocaust idea: it needs to be high profile and go for the throat. I want this to be Threads level of feel bad television. I want to make people sad and angry. What happened is becoming abstract, numbers and scary stories, not things real people did to people. Never forget.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I wrote something for @fpri.bsky.social on CENTCOM's request for Dark Eagle. While not super useful in that theater, the flexibility its range offers means such a deployment could pose issues for Moscow. Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/behindth...
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Dark Eagle in the Desert | Considerations for Deploying LRHW to CENTCOM
At the end of April, Gerry Doyle at Bloomberg reported that CENTCOM had requested the deployment of Dark Eagle to the Middle East.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Damn this kinda fucks tho
"Gakseongdan" in Hangul, white on black, Gaseok font. Beneath, in smaller, more spaced, Latin characters, "WIDE AWAKES"
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Comic panel of Donald Duck and a wide-eyed young Mickey Mouse. Donald's speech bubble: "Democrats should do a huge middle class tax cut to address affordability." Mickey's speech bubble: "Fool that you are, for you treat taxation as a burden rather than the means by which our burdens are eased. Behold a civilization rich in private wealth yet starved of public provision, where every man owns what his grandfathers could not imagine and yet trembles at the thought of how he will weather an illness or loss of livelihood. Will you fight for an affirmative vision of broad contribution and universal benefit? Or will you perish like a dog?"
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.
Ocasio-Cortez isn’t convinced. She’s not sure that these are the kinds of proposals Democrats should start building an agenda around.

“When you actually look at the totality of what’s being put forward, we are seeing a total gutting of a resource base,” Ocasio-Cortez told NOTUS. “If people want to choose between whether they want guaranteed health care or a 5% tax rebate, people are going to want guaranteed health care.”

“It’s not to say that I object to any and all like tax cuts or tax rebates, right? We can help people who are struggling, but I don’t think that the biggest impact in how you help someone and how we help people make ends meet is through that avenue,” she said.

For Ocasio-Cortez, who has long been an advocate of taxing the wealthy and transforming social services, wiping out significant tax revenue goes too far.

Ocasio-Cortez said “across the board” tax cut proposals on the table amount to an “attack” on young people.

“It is a complete defunding of the world that young people will have to live in, and they are asking young people to foot the bill,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 23/04/2026
I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society. You do not want to live in that kind of society.
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george / king bore haha @kingborehaha.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 17/04/2026
Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous
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airplane ian - abolish ICE @airplaneian.com · 18/03/2026
This is a neat project to produce tiny ADS-B receivers that can be used for just about anything, but are especially designed for fpv drone integration my ADS-B station at home is the size of a shoebox and relies on a Raspberry Pi which is pretty inefficient, love the idea of dedicated hardware
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PicoADSB - Easy Flight Tracking, No Compromises
Ultra-lightweight and miniature ADS-B receiver with 500km+ range; track flights effortlessly with plug-and-play simplicity.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/03/2026
The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The message needs to resound clearly and constantly: "THESE PEOPLE STOLE YOUR FUTURE. WE ARE PUNISHING THEM FOR EVERY PENNY." And along with it, the rich will need to be soaked completely. If the middle class has to pay for a mismanaged public fisc, the rich must be devastated for it.
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Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
My GOAT is back!
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
just circling back...
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
He fucked up and overestimated the American people. He thought voters voted for Trump because they liked and/or agreed with him but they voted for the magic money man to make them rich because girls have cooties.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
man, reading about the Flying Tigers (US pilots flying for China during WW2) makes me feel like sobbing 😭
It was told by a Flying Tiger pilot who was shot down over enemy territory in China. Fortunately, he was picked up by villagers and hidden in a couple's house.

"The first thing they did was to take his boots away. He thought: 'They're going to take everything I have of value and then turn me over to the Japanese,'" Jobe told the audience.

When the Japanese came into this house, they mercilessly beat the couple, and then another Japanese soldier came and mumbled something, and suddenly all of them left the home and the town.

Touching story

The pilot later discovered that the couple had given his boots to a young man who left a trail out of the town; the Japanese believed the trail was left by the Flying Tiger, so they followed it.

The pilot waited at the home till a missionary arrived to help escort him back to his base. Before leaving, he asked the missionary to ask the couple why they risked their lives to save his. "Their answer was simplicity itself: 'When the Japanese come, we see fear in the eyes of the Chinese; when the Flying Tigers come, we see fear in the eyes of the Japanese,'" said Jobe.
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John Ford @jfjord.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
perhaps its better that some unknown known unknowns remain unknown
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Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
In light of everything going on, I took a look at some Iranian air defense sites and found something surprising. Namely, what appears to be S-300 launchers! This contradicts past claims they had all been destroyed. Read more on the Arms Control Wonk Blog: www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1221...
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Whither the Iranian S-300?
In light of the increasing tensions between the U.S. and Iran, the expanding American regional military presence, and the talk of potential U.S. strikes as [...]
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its borb @itsborb.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Bsky discard draft confirmation box. Draft tweet in background reads "tariff deez nuts"
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
There is only one working class, the professional managerial class, and there is only one working class party, the Democratic party, and there is only one working class paper, the Financial Times
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“What if your neighbor is Muslim” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Somali” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor speaks Spanish” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Hmong” They’re my neighbors
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
If you haven’t tried Twilight Struggle or Labyrinth I deeply recommend them.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It should be noted street without joy is a banger, soup book on the other hand, not so much
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We just published our full analysis of the ICE killing of Alex Pretti on Bellingcat www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
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Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting - bellingcat
Bellingcat has analysed video of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The footage appears to contradict statements made by the Department of Homeland Security.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The world is bigger than the stories on your phone
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Thousands and thousands and thousands of Minneapolitans putting aside their jobs, lives, their personal safety and comfort, and all their petty differences and turning up in staggering numbers, with no guarantee this nightmare will end in a week or a month or a year. They’re all heroes
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2026
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Brutalizing civilians in the streets for daring to be inconvenient to Dear Leader is exactly what social ostracization is for. And for those we can prove charges against beyond a reasonable doubt, there should be jail cells ready and waiting.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
They put 6 kids in the ER by tossing a flashbang into their dad's car while they were in it. Periodic reminder that ICE agents' lives must be *ruined* after we get back into power. Fired for cause, names and faces publicized, banned from federal service for life, and any state services we fund.
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Roman Centurion Modern Infantry 🤝 Hole
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12/12/2025
Ironically, I wouldn't move now because if I flee who will fight?
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 11/12/2025
I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
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John Ford @jfjord.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.
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