Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores. 471294372
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s Waaagh🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 30/09/2026Yeah, look who they elected as president twice 2638
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s Waaaghflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine. 8335166
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s Waaaghbrasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 26/05/2026A lot of weirdness in AI use is simply people going, "that man in the lake is so smart! I believe everything he says!" 0348
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ominous.nytimes.comGerman Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain Jews (Gift Article)Councilors in an eastern German town voted to stop installing memorial plaques outside homes of Holocaust victims, saying they would instead build a memorial at a cemetery. 0189
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghScare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026FATALITY 262930471
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17% 132762497
Charlie Wilson’s Waaagh @leyeetsansjoie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026GOP China hawks are the biggest frauds on earth lmao 030
Charlie Wilson’s Waaagh @leyeetsansjoie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dang I thought it was Bret Stephens but another dipshit champion exists out there 110
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... 341127544657
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death" 14813219
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026can already imagine the political media of 2028 discussing how partisan it is to demolish both the arch and ballroom 1955286
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.nytimes.comA Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. DeporteesWitnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program. 3225311033
Charlie Wilson’s Waaagh @leyeetsansjoie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026He thinks he’s writing Blood Meridian 2. Corncob McCarthy ass post 170
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s Waaaghjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026i thought this was very funny 621844199
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18/09/2026'Why Does Academic History Matter?' bit.ly/4yB8MYQ With contributions from historians Martha Vandrei, Susan-Mary Grant, Joy Porter and @davidandress.bsky.social Free to read for 7 days @historytoday.com #Skystoriansbit.lyWhy Does Academic History Matter?The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care? 17361
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghJacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"The investigation found no political manifesto, no religious grievance, no cause a 20th-century counterterrorism analyst would recognise." The most global violent extremist movement since the Islamic State at its height — now in South Africa. 🇿🇦dailymaverick.co.zaViolence without a ‘why’ — a shocking online terror network reaches South AfricaModern terrorism has evolved into nihilistic violent extremism (NVE) that works through decentralised networks and exploits children through online sextortion and gamified cruelty. … 11910
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghDr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The "how much do you like dogs" chart we all needed. 221091365
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghBolts @boltsmag.org · 13/09/2026Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has called the state’s current system of felony disenfranchisement “a shameful relic of our Jim Crow past” and expressed support for a ballot measure this November that would end it.boltsmag.orgVirginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - BoltsThis is the only state that was banning people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November. 3789206
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s Waaaghbrasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers." 1592654396
Charlie Wilson’s Waaagh @leyeetsansjoie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026static.klipy.comThe Big Lebowski Coen BrothersALT: The Big Lebowski Coen Brothers 020
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else. 7838621024
Charlie Wilson’s Waaagh @leyeetsansjoie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Cool. Now do Pete Hegseth’s actual propagandists working in the Pentagon. 040
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/09/2026to restore our republic we must return to our ancient traditions 340468
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026was explaining to a Scottish friend the other day how an indirect result of the British idea of 'martial races' in India is 'the Canadian military is full of Sikhs' 21837123
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 03/09/2026This fascist-style monstrosity will stand as a grotesque affront to the memories of our military heroes who died for our freedom, and who now rest behind it, every day until it is demolished. 010928
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s Waaaghjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026and what makes them less qualified? well, don’t you see that they are black people and women (and sometimes black women!)? 452599437
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghSwedens Softest Kitty @chizita.bsky.social · 01/09/2026 6467445160
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026a great thing about Oliver Stone’s Salvador is that in the end the actual villain of the movie is the Hispanic border patrol officer 2132
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s Waaaghjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country 14073811182
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Striking-yet-difficult-to-parse Cold War report graphic of the day — "Time History of Biological Response to Ionizing Radiation" (US Naval Radiological Laboratory, 1965) 107011
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s Waaagh"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This week on the blog: why the United States Navy is a load-bearing component of the global economy, why there is no available replacement for it and thus why it is pretty bad that the American voter has decided in a fit of abject folly to vote to abandon that role. acoup.blog/2026/08/28/c...acoup.blogCollections: Global Trade and United States NavyThis week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple contention: that the United States Navy is a load-bearing component of the gl… 19580136
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Vindicated. ✊🏾🔥 Photos by Ethan Wong 432646273
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026as Norway plunges into chaos following death of king, one military strongman is seizing power 201089183
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghKaty // Genderpunk 2026 @katysaint.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his balls? "No!" Says Lil Jon, "It belongs to the windows! To the walls!" 2835881162
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026sounds like affirmative action for MAGA basically 26913193
Charlie Wilson’s Waaagh @leyeetsansjoie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Funny enough but I only use MapQuest now because they have chosen not to chudify 120
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghKori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"the US network of alliances - one of its greatest strengths - is buckling under the pressure of a generally erratic and misguided foreign policy, based on a strong sense of grievance and a belief that any country can be bullied into bending to America’s will.” @ldfreedman.bsky.socialsamf.substack.comGood Wars, Bad Wars, and Stupid WarsCould the war in Iran do even more damage to the US than Iraq? 25612
Charlie Wilson’s Waaagh @leyeetsansjoie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This army is well in the process of making a whole generation of illiterate dipshit officers and the consequences are yet to be determined. 1140
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It’s objectively low on his list of enormities, but Trump’s desecration of the Kennedy Center, a venue I’ve long loved, makes me disproportionately enraged. He’s now apparently decided that if it won’t serve as a monument to his ego, he’ll destroy it out of spite. 1419844
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghNever stop poasting @persistentpoasting.bsky.social · 24/08/2026 17434
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Say what you will about the marginal American voter, but everyone who voted for Trump because they wanted higher prices in retaliation for Canada having bilingual soup labels is getting exactly what they voted for 638288
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s WaaaghAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 22/08/2026Are you folks ready to start your Saturday with something that’ll make your skin crawl? 45611
Reposted by Charlie Wilson’s Waaagh"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I wrote a(nother) thing! This time it is about how no amount of military technical excellence can salvage a situation where political leadership has, in their abject strategic incompetence, demanded the military accomplish an impossible mission. Gift link: foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/21/i...foreignpolicy.comThe U.S. Is Learning the Wrong Lessons in IranTactical excellence can never salvage strategic incompetence. 19623133