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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸

@midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social
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Materials science & nukes. Deterrence & what comes after. Patriot, liberal firebrand, Catholic, last of the China hawks, Nitzean superman. Victory is possible. Views my own / posts off the clock www.liberalcurrents.com/nuclear-arms-and-the-new-free-world/

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's completely unprintable what ought to happen with every single person involved in this.
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just checking the till here, and it seems you're short a few groups
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
what the fuuuuuuuuck
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Department of Energy Employee Arrested in Washington State on Charges of Attempted Material Support to Houthis
Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, a resident of Richland, Washington, was arrested this morning and charged with attempting to provide material support or resources to the Houthis, a designated foreign terr...
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026
if this woman goes to jail she should be a day 1 pardon for the next dem administration
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus Christ dude
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it now appears that there is a live possibility these guys were the unluckiest diesel thieves of all time first as Simon Pegg movie, then as Jason Bourne movie
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Engineering is not essential to a republican government" is as daft as saying history is not. All the successful republics of history had concern for the built environment and for the material & technological bases of commerce, war, the infrastructure needed for republican social stability...
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"someone was planning a multiple truck bomb attack on a NATO Bomber Task Force hub at a British airbase, but the British security services caught the vans at the last possible minute" is too Call of Duty for me to start my day with thanks
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good news is rare and therefore worth its weight in gold these days
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It would be great if the stone throwing here was accompanied by an ounce of consideration of the consequences. Accept the much shittier status quo post bellum, then what? Do you have a plan for navigating that world or is the point of the post just to yell at people?
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Deception is a right. Truth is a privilege. Innocence is a luxury.
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Holy shit. What a pointless, arrogant cut. Is there any evidence that any principals/political appointees in Trump's DOD actually want the US to win wars?
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
they could never make me hate you for building space based interceptors and pursuing escalation dominance against the Russians and the Goa'uld (a kind of space Russian), S4E17 dream sequence Daniel Jackson
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Preaching to the converted here but Russ Vought is a psychotic anti-modernity theocrat. Left to his own devices, his ideal amount of federal science funding is $0.00.
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Andrew O'Neill ❌👑 @andrew-oneill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump’s goons shoot someone, now it’s the usual playbook: 1) DHS says obvious lie about what happened 2) lie is proven to be a lie, DHS doubles down anyway 3) reassign the agent, no consequences 4) DOJ investigation of the victim and protestors demanding justice
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It...uh...is not meant to be a competition
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
TXGOP is also, IMO, one of the easiest targets for a muscular Reconstruction 2 crackdown. Most of its top leaders are criminals and crooks and I suspect if you rustle the branches, more swindlers, cheats and domestic abusers fall out. Turn DOJ loose on them come 2029.
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It lives! A huge thank you to the friends and colleagues who helped refine this, and who have been arguing with me about the core premise for years now. Thank you also to the LC editorial staff for giving this a venue and for a smooth and very positive editing process. What a treat to write for.
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ignore the fluffy headline, this is actually a pretty good window into what Brandon Williams (NA-1) seems to be thinking. Very open kimono.
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jacobin is a magazine of true political innovators, dedicated to finding new and elaborate ways to suck shit
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trust the plan, patriots are in control. Watch this space.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
nuclear deterrence works
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There's a new viral video on the infamous 2011 LANL plutonium criticality near miss ("the sharpie picture") and while I don't have much substantive to add (besides to say yes, really, glovebox interiors are going to be dirty, the dirt wasn't the issue) it's a good excuse to reheat an old thread.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 11/09/2026
this is a lie. I'm not gonna provoke this person and their followers, but it absolutely did happen, including at the same time as pushback against Islamophobia, some of said pushback coming from very high up. Both things happened but the shared bond was real and existed & it's wrong to deny
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great thread and report. DOE/NNSA are wholly enmeshed in the scientific infrastructure of the country and it is a very mutually beneficial relationship for all the different stakeholders and for the American public. Any decision to reduce these relationships would be penny wise but pound foolish.
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Davis X. Machina @ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If he goes full Festung Amerika, people like Grim will say "Look .the retreat from imperialism!", as if the full bellum omnium contra omnes is a kind of progress. And it will get a hearing on the left. Because it always does.
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There are individual Republicans who are not child molesters or terrorists, but the GOP is at this point a terrorist organization catering to child molesters and wife beaters.
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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Die anderen Parteien hätten einfach öfters die DDR-Hymne und das Horst-Wessel-Lied auf Veranstaltungen spielen müssen.
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
are any of the Sunday shows gonna ask Wright about the Saudi nuke deal he signed
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A fun Cat Fact is that cats really like watching missile test videos on the TV. A less fun Cat Fact is that your spouse will probably not enjoy watching the cat watch missile tests, but it's so worth it for their mental enrichment
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Trident II UGM-133A D5LE Missile Launches from USS Wyoming (DASO 31)
YouTube video by Missile Archive
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Dagger John @thesloopjohnm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I can’t stop laughing
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
incredible that in the long shadow of the 2016 primary we still get looked at like crazy people for saying "I do not want to support the political efforts of people who are hostile to many of my deepest beliefs and given the chance will damage the things I value in society l"
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm getting enough pieces of this stupid thing to put my kids through college, you kidding me?
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What is y'all's holy grail "unfilmable" story? For me, Charles Stross' novella "A Colder War". Depressive CIA agent tries to keep Ollie North from starting Lovecraft infused World War 3? See it in theaters fall 2027 starring Ryan Gosling as CIA man Jourgenson and Casey Affleck as Oliver North.
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
FY2027 NDAA text, originally highlighted by @dexeve.bsky.social on the other site. What else is there to say in this forum except, as the youth say, "sickos_yes.jpg"
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
thank you dirssp very cool
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
genuinely how it feels to see the news freaking out about a potential Russian incursion in a NATO state, after three decades of ignored alarms from policymakers, GWOT distractions, ancient arsenals and general heads-in-sandness from politicians Don't you get it? Am I the only one that gets it?
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Look, all I'm saying is, sometimes the only way to stop a bad guy with a guillotine is a good guy with a guillotine.
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Huddle up, new hires, we're going to talk about the vital role of U.S. nuclear weapons in assuring allies...uh, yeah I'm teaching this brown bag class off of the 2022 NDS not the new one...I think we all know why"
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you want to go to a trade school, great? Think college isn’t for you? Ok. But that’s not what this is, this is the government trying to do culture war social engineering while also staring down their noses at poor kids and preemptively deciding things like: I don’t want you as my doctor, next
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
2 by 2 typology of whether you blame/credit carter/reagan for 1980s nuclear policy
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is intra-Church interesting even though at first blush it feels very nondenom megachurch theology. Barron has been beating this particular drum for 15 or 20 years, way before he became a political influencer. This view of Mary is mostly a Revelation view and that is... unusual in Catholicism.
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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In a dm I was asked to describe the Jobless Caucus that populates this platform and I think this interaction is the purest distillation of it. “I have the benefit of hindsight that Frederick Douglas did not, and it is me that is smart and brave for saying America is irredeemable.”
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America is an evil empire founded entirely on white supremacy and exploitation Imao, there is no "Americanism" without genocide, racism, and oppression.
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good thread Langston Hughes, who I am going to say understood this much better than I do or most people on this site do, called it 90 years ago. The idea of America the egalitarian anti-ethnostate, never fully and faithfully executed, is so important that it can never be surrendered.
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Jane Street Invasion Act of 2026
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Any insinuation that a government official can dictate to the Catholic Church how to apply her tenets and dogma violates well-established constitutional religious freedom rights. It is beyond cavil that the bishops, not the state, decide how to interpret and apply Catholic principles and theology."
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I wish Ken Paxton would protect puppies the way he protects pedophiles.
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