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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What are the best, most informative *magazine articles* (or magazine-length newspaper articles) that you ever read about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Listing a few of my favorites to get it going: Raffi Khatchadourian, "The Kill Company," New Yorker, 2009

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The Kill Company

Can one commander set the conditions for a massacre? Raffi Khatchadorian on Colonel Michael Steele’s murderous leadership in Operation Iron Triangle.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The year is 2035. Flock cameras are everywhere. You step out of your home and hear a voice coming from somewhere overhead, possibly close to the streetlight next to you. It's me. "Collar gap."

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Oh, he's so close to getting it.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 19/06/2026

This is huge. For months, I have been working to stop the construction of a massive 10,000-person ICE facility in Social Circle, Georgia. We just learned DHS is cancelling it. The power of the people is always more powerful than the people in power.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15/04/2026

One of the most significant but largely immeasurable consequences of the last decade of fascism in America is that it is a form of civil, moral, and spiritual rot that debases all of us. We are all made that much cruder, insecure, and therefore crueler despite our best aspirations and efforts.

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Finch 🇵🇸 🇪🇭 @finchowar.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It’s kinda dispiriting how a ton of people I knew and care about became way meaner and more spiteful with Trump’s election

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

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ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Trump and Hegseth’s Cavalcade of Bullshit has been going on for a while. A few quotes: Trump: “This Easter has been the best, militarily.”

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

There is bascially a 100% chance if that if Trump orders the destruction of Iran's entire electrical infrastructure along with a finding from DOJ / DOD GS that it's legal, the U.S. military will carry it out and basically 0% chance any future D admin would prosecute them for it

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This is probably true, but there’s also a structural issue having to do with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars being taken out of CENTCOM’s direct control and placed in the hands of new 4-star theater headquarters 20+ yrs ago, leaving CENTCOM with little to do *but* plan for confrontation with Iran.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Gonna chime in here because it's an interesting convo but also because I have to call bullshit. I'm not readjusting my instincts in WOTC. Instead, the BPD depicted and extant in the years of The Wire had in fact imploded. Perhaps the best analogy to the fictional world of The Wire is this....

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It’s good on an objective level that they’re changing their minds but it’s infuriating that there are people who like, voted Trump because they thought he would make McDonald’s French fries taste good again who are now going “wait a second…” you are fucking cattle

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

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Artificial Taco 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @crunchyfishtaco.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Iran made and released this video. Kind of thinking they’re not just going to roll over.

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salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

if Merrick Garland had executed Ayatollah Khamenei on January 7, 2021, swing voters in Iran would have taken the threat seriously & stopped this.

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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A lot of people epically failed to accept the basic reality that the 2024 election was an election with huge moral stakes and a clear right and wrong answer (for a wide range of reasons). They now are twisting themselves into knots to protect themselves from accepting that moral failing.

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Dawn @502eire.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I just saw an early 20 something’s TikTok that asked if you could drink 100 beers in a month for a million dollars and you know what I’m glad that the youth are built different now. good for them

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/03/2026

Meiselas: Trump is a parody in the most extreme sense of the boogeymen MAGA created to go after Dems. He’s quite literally all of it. He covers up the pedo ring. He starts wars everywhere. He uses government to tread on people. He's the most extreme example of what they claimed they wanted to stop.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

the former host of celebrity apprentice and the former host of fox & friends weekend are launching bombs and destabilizing the world for generations all because voters decided their biggest issue was a trans kid playing jv tennis with their friends 4 states over

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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I understand that service branches, particularly the USN, will fire mid level commanders with regularity. But as a citizen I have lost trust and confidence in the DoD’s ability to conduct normal business in a race blind way over the last 60 weeks.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A sworn eyewitness of the Pretti murder files a detailed sworn account about what happened in federal court. Devastating testimony against the DHS agents. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 24/01/2026

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

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Anna Maria Barry-Jester @annamaria.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

As the Trump administration gutted USAID this year, officials, including Marco Rubio, said over and over that lifesaving operations would continue around the world and that nobody had died because of the cuts.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I think about this tweet a lot

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This point needs to be made and frequently.

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Alex Jaffe ➡️ NYCC @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Each Prime Number of Likes = 1 Star Wars Take

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

hahahahaha I knew it. "I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

We are entering a phase when it will be very important to not hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

[at the BORTAC shura] "Our HOA is all pro-BORTAC. The HOA down the road is hardcore Antifa."

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I feel like anyone who is less concerned than Ty Cobb should just drape themselves in swastikas right now

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism.
The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White
America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt.

The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The
Department of Homeland Security boasted of
"the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement."

Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced.
Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Here’s a brief story, with receipts about Trump administration corruption and crypto industry collusion that WILL be investigated once the majority of the House is filled with people who take ethics and the Constitution seriously:

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We could have been providing military aid to Ukraine. We could have been building our partnerships in the Pacific. We could have strengthened Europe’s defense industrial base. We could have helped build state capacity in South America. What a fucking disaster this has all been.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I am not aware of any gun violence that happened when I was a kid. by RFK Jr.

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

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Twitter escapee @shall001.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Haha hey anybody remember Jill Stein?

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