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mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one-half of mankind brave, and one-half cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting: but being all cowards, we go on very well. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/o...

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Opinion | Please Spare Me Your Talk of Bravery (Gift Article)

In the Ukraine war, bravery has turned into a cliché masking profound social and economic injustices.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/10/2026

I'll just say that a guy joking about being a tough guy and holding hands with another guy so they can make a PSA about flu shots is so obviously one thousand times more studly than our idiotic defense secretary who thinks it's about pushups and making fun of beards.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11/09/2026

"The bar for proving proving yourself innocent was so much higher than the bar for intelligence used to lethally target and kill someone."

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The people building the plagiarism-driven bullshit machine that keeps convincing people to kill themselves think that there's a 10% chance their product will kill all humans but the people who think the product is garbage and doesn't belong in education are the backwards whackjobs?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My man looks like a G.I. Joe whose code name is Friendly Fire

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1/Today marks 1 yr of the President's extrajudicial killing campaign at sea, carried out by the military—220+ people dead @justsecurity.org has tracked the legal, policy, & moral fallout from day 1 In calmer times, it would be the story of our era A few must-reads below, plus the full Collection:

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Collection: U.S. Lethal Strikes on Suspected Drug Traffickers, Operation Southern Spear, Operation Absolute Resolve

Collection of expert analysis on the legality of the U.S. strike on Venezuelan vessels in the Caribbean, the consequences of the strike, and related issues.

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Ryan Evans @ryanevans.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The people who are putting our servicemembers and country at risk are those who ground our readiness down to the bone with an unwise and unsuccessful war. Not the people reporting on it.

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Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So long as the military ignores politics for tactics ... we can never lose. "“You are the vanguard of a lethal, proud and undefeated force,” Mr. Hegseth told the Marines. He awarded them their long-delayed medals. No one mentioned the country’s defeat."

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)

Photo of the 1937 original of Picasso’s Guernica

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Things I learned this evening. TJ “Stonewall” Jackson’s sister Laura split with her brother over the Civil War, AND when she found out he’d died in 1863 said she “would rather know that he was dead than to have him a leader in the rebel army” DAYUM

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S.M. Mack (Smack) | Editor for hire @whatsmacksaid.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This whole thread is just gold

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The re-segregation of the military, purging/excluding women & minorities from the general officer corps, is yet another thing - such as openly monetizing the presidency or threatening our NATO allies with conquest - that should end this presidency immediately.

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Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

2nd Order Effect: an exponential increase in the number of dorks claiming to have been 'MOS: I can't tell you what I did in the Army'

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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

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Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Ignoring press releases and letting journalists sort through them to decide which were actually newsworthy has always been the right thing to do. But now I guess we just read AI summaries of press releases and consider it news?

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So September will be 25 years since 9/11 25 years from Pearl Harbor was 1966 which had…Massive civil unrest over racial discrimination/violence and police brutality, and an escalating war with no clear end in sight.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Jolly Green Giant as my personal bodyguard Mr. Peanut's vast wealth to maintain control of the Burger King and his state power, plus Little Caesar's legions

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Michael Bloomberg on EdTech, 1997

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

One quick hack for avoiding accountability for a war: Hide behind the soldiers you sent to war.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If we ever need a new Trojan Horse myth, might I suggest The Baby From The Photo Shoot?

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Once again, the American people got madder that we withdrew from a war they swore they wanted to see end than they have that we are committing ourselves to an illegal war we've already lost. A war that is nothing but warcrimes and grift stacked in a trenchcoat.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

it just occurred to me that there is a layer of military leadership that thinks beard regs are more important than flight regs, and that's pretty mind blowing

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We tend to gloss over the unconditional surrender of Congress to do its constitutional duties because we never had a fancy surrender ceremony. Just endless soundbites of cowardice

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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The long term damage to good order and discipline these actions will have is really hard to quantify. But we’ll feel the tail effects for years to come

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Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In case anyone doubted he needed to exit the race.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

this is really well said www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn... @liberalcurrents.com

There is also the elementary truth that Platner is but one man among millions; we are no more condemned to him than we are to Susan Collins. Neither has a right to rule; that is what democracy means. To say that we should have standards for those who govern us, and hold them to higher ones than we may hold a private citizen, is not elitism. It is a bulwark against everything we’re now fighting against—who can deny that Trump’s dictatorial streak is downstream of his violent entitlement, personal bigotry, and utter lack of moral restraint? His solipsism is a cataclysmic personal flaw, and has proven fatal when applied to the mighty instruments of American power. His personal flaws have a body count that may already number in the millions.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“…I believe that not one above whom it then waved but blessed his God that he was loyal to it, and whose heart did not swell with pride towards it, as the emblem of the Republic before that treason’s flaunting rag in front.” I will never not feel a catch in my throat when I read those words.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

…there amidst smoke and sweat, they gave back, without grudge, or loss of time in the sending, in kind whatever the enemy sent, globe, and cone, and bolt, hollow or solid, an iron greeting to the rebellion, the compliments of the wrathful Republic.”

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

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Dr. Jonathan Schroden @jjschroden.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Turned in the final proofs for my book! To celebrate, here’s an endorsement from the great @kschake.bsky.social 👇

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Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Wildly underestimating the military’s ability to spin itself in circles and declare it is moving the world.

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Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

So you’re saying we’ve lost … and the only question is just how many corners we might turn in the reflecting pool on our way to defeat.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

😂 The Jetsons lied to us

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Hegseth is exactly why the US military needed DEI programs www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u... Because the long history of white dudes taking care of their own. Where is the GOP yelling about the 3rd best person getting the job because of the color of their skin?

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Reminder: the number of people directly involved in the chain of command from pete down to the trigger puller/aircraft commander for all these strikes is less than 100 and so is eminently prosecutable

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Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

There’s an American corollary here

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1/ In the aftermath of yesterday's Ukrainian attack on Moscow, many Russian warbloggers are calling for Russia to "start fighting for real" and are blaming the Kremlin for not prosecuting the war with sufficient ferocity. One warblogger explains why this is a fantasy. ⬇️

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Squidocto 🦉🎶 @squidocto.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Let’s adopt “we’re knee deep in canary carcasses“ as our national motto

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🍁🍂 🎃 Diva for the Season 💚💙🏈🫶👠👑 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My issue isn't with SecDefs form and performative workouts. Its that those show he doesn't understand his role in the #OrgCulture. There's no excuse for that.

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Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

For anyone in the Fayetteville area, swing by the great new bookstore, Bound & Vine, for a chat Thursday night on the future of the All Volunteer Force: checkout.square.site/merchant/ML7...

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Bend But Do Not Break — A Conversation on the Future of the All-Volunteer Force - Bound & Vine

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