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John Culver

@johnculver689.bsky.social
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Fmr National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst. Views solely my own. Likes/reposts are not an endorsement.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My man looks like a golem made entirely of chewing gum scrapped off the underside of hobnailed boots.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If the Dems actually control even one house of congress it's going to seem weird. Like the congress didn't exist and then suddenly did.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Neither has the NYT.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Charles Darwin Approves: Thumbs Up Meme
ALT: Charles Darwin Approves: Thumbs Up Meme
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The key sign of cognitive impairment is that he thinks TIME is still a thing, other than grocery checkout nostalgia of famous people who died decades ago.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They want to "prove" China has broken with CTBT yield thresholds to justify resumed US nuclear warhead development.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I assume the is a poster of child predators and abusers of women until proved wrong.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When does Ed Sheeran denounce his tour?
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They're not warning. They're bragging, and heading off regulatory oversight. If they don't get their way, they'll just unleash the bots.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Classy
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Parriot can't engage MRBMs, IRBMs, let alone ICBMs because it can't detect launch/boost phase at those ranges. Also can't hit an RV at Mach stupid, with maneuvering. Anyone who thinks China is just going to take getting bombed is huffing. They're going to strike CONUS with conventional warheads.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Texas isn't a red state. It's a non-voting state plus mucho suppression to keep it that way. Talarico would need 20+ lead in polls to overcome that.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Plus Pakistan has a big pile of nukes, unlike Iran.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Never forget
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Never thought I'd see the NYT cover Trump's dementia. But even then, they flinch. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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60 Posts in 10 Hours: How Trump’s Social Media Reflects His Version of Reality (Gift Article)
With an assist from A.I., President Trump offers a window into how he wants to be seen — and, critics say, a barometer of his mental state.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nothing was going to stop the Bushies after 9/11 from overthrowing Saddam. The US had Saddam's son-in-law who ran the WMD program telling them it was all BS after 1992. We had UN inspectors in Iraq for years until 1997. Ashes, ashes.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Make clear to any democratic aspirants for high office that if they don't pledge to ensure the erasure of Trump’s vandalism, you won't vote for them.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Again. They published a COVID-19 piece three years ago entirely based on GOP talking points. It was destroyed by Chinese translators in 48 hours.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So a cell has opened in the Hague detention center...
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We can end the confusion over "football" by calling the American collision sport "CTE Ball." "Dementia Ball" is also an acceptable alternative.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Anyone who is friends or family of college and pro football players knows this. It's way more than 25%, and even those who were never diagnosed with concussion have it. New helmets won't prevent CTE which is caused by repeated brain impacts with the skull.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's to condition us to accept the next insurrection or outright election theft, and keep the guard federalized so it can't be used against the Insurrection. And it's probably working given MSM ignoring it.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As you can tell from this short thread, Korte is a pro, and some national MSM outlet ought to pick her up and get her back in print, pronto. You'd get a lot of great stories, and you'd drive Hegseth bananas.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV."
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Not one admiral who will resign and tell him he's either the stupidest mfer ever elected and/or a stooge of our adversaries.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
After voting for Jimmy Carter and then John Anderson in the first two elections for which I was old enough, I realized the primary purpose of voting is to prevent the greater evil. Occasionally I vote *for* someone as well, but those are exceptions.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Stroopwafel! The Dutch cuisine so beloved it's passed out on every United economy flight.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 13/08/2026
This will reduce potential sortie capacity something like 40% and put unexpected cycling strain on reactors which were not designed for it. Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage, if you care about such things as readiness or reliability or lethality or whatever
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Real Battleship Potemkin vibe.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The WHCA should throw another prom for Trump so he can tell them again he'd like them to all die screaming.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
One day a former FO from USFK or the Joint Staff is going to write a book about 2017 and North Korea and the clusterfuck of war preparations while Trump pushed to pull our troops from South Korea. Hope it includes the China bits.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Finally got around to seeing The Odyssey. Two chief thoughts, and many follow-ups. Firstly I wish Tom Stoppard or Carrie Fisher was alive because Nolan is a wonderful director who cannot write dialogue to save his life and badly needs a first-rate script doctor.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Crappy dialog forces good actors to try and compensate, usually by over acting. It's the George Lucas problem too.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Access Hollywood tape seems relevant here: "I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything."
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
True source of tension: they wore the same dress to the ball.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
There's a lot of explosive diarrhea going around.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Add it to the list.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The tattoo was his Access Hollywood tape.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
But there's video of Trump’s motorcade driving over the thing when the paint wasn't dry.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I think the headline could be even weaker but only by using "moist."
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What's the German word for schadenfreude?
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Alex Luck @alxluck.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We appear to have a new type of Chinese nuclear powered submarine on out hands. The most remarkable aspect about it is its construction at Jiangnan in Shanghai, in a dedicated new facility. A few additional remarks in a quick thread. www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
navalnews.com
New Mystery Submarine Signals China’s Rapid Undersea Expansion
China is launching submarines at a pace unmatched by any other nation. Its latest design, a distinctive and innovative vessel that dispenses with the traditional sail, marks another step in the evolut...
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I assume every Green party is a scam funded by oligarchs.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Using DuckDuckGo and a VPN, it got nothing much right other than OS.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Tis but a scratch.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
His face looks pre-punched, which must be useful for him.
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
He thinks China is a US ally?
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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This serves as a useful reminder to cancel your Post subscription.
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