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juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 21h

You can’t grow a 20-year officer in less than 20 years. The languages, the networks, the judgment that comes from having been wrong downrange and living with it are gone, and no hiring surge brings them back. I spoke with @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social at @theteamhouse.bsky.social about all of it.

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Inside the CIA, the White House & the Intelligence Purges | Julia Curlee

YouTube video by The Team House

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I often think about how the rise of the neo-fascist right corresponds to the declining numbers of WW2 vets around to slug them right in the face.

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I don’t care about the culture war. I care about the actual war that we’re actually in, that we’re losing." @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social has had it with SecDef

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The Weak Department

Send Me! (Somewhere I can get a Lobotomy)

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 18/09/2026

This article wins the data visualisation of the month contest. www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/9/...

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People don't understand there doesn't exist a binary Strait open/closed which roughly means US wins/Iran loses or Iran wins and US loses. Just as they don't understand US may have opened the strait with massive effort and it remains difficult for world economies still.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So in a world where no strategic can close the deal with an invasion, you inevitably get endemic raiding strategies that are less costly but also because they are less costly, there are fewer reasons to end them. So it’s not just Iran. It’s just the new character of war. There aren’t any closers.

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Alec Baldwin: Always Be Closing Speech

ALT: Alec Baldwin: Always Be Closing Speech

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.

The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.

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midura-m.bsky.social @midura-m.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

About to start putting the two halves together...🤞😀 #histscalemodels #scalemodels #corsair #tamiya #1/32

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Netherlands: “water management is my passion”

One of those shitty European showers that flood

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

this is a genuinely crazy story

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Aaaah, found the sauce, credit is where credit is due.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Load-bearing post

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ah, remember when we used to do (redacted) to people who did this stuff

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

People need to stop treating Hunter like a hero because he occasionally says something they agree with. He’s another grifter.

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reading the last five chapters of The End of History and the Last Man be like:

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2026

i really cannot maintain enough that my current theory of donald trump is that he is utterly gripped by the terror of death, and is desperately attempting to leave some mark on the world that history cannot erase--this is the point of the wars, the annexation threats, the dc vandalism

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Right-wingers used to care about the Hatch Act. Ask me how I know

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026

the most dudes rock thing i have seen i a minute. also yes this is what my algo serves me

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The problem with this isn’t so much the name itself, as what it says about the obsequious willingness of so many people to cater to the petulant impulses of one man. What would it actually take for them to say “no”? Do I even want to find out?

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gone gone the form of man, rise the poster Gigan! @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is a subtweet, but the proper response to the Russian sabotage campaign in Europe is to just keep supporting Ukraine and in fact support them harder.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

this was early enough that it was very insightful and is now sort of transparently true if you think the gizmo isn't useful you're ignoring most major software project and all computer security professionals, you basically have to spit on expertise as a concept

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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Man denies knowing anything going on in the news but is apparently deeply aware of some imagined theology vis-a-vis the cultural theocratic approach to secular negotiations. Oh do tell me more Christian nationalist.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Calling Twitter "Fed-X" is amazing. No Notes.

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian government roles. They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Tom Anderson, better known as Cynical Publius. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles

Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's fascinating to watch so many centrist and conservative American commentators still struggle to come to terms with how their President is clearly insane

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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 29/08/2026

He points to the Prigozhin mutiny as a sign of how hollow and surprisingly weak the system might be on the inside. “I would say, if something changes in Russia, then it will happen in a very rapid manner and we will all be surprised. It will be an overnight thing, if it ever happens.”

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump put things like tariff exemptions and pardons up for sale to the highest bidder. People who bribed him should absolutely be investigated and punished.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As @rajakorman.bsky.social noted yesterday, a major reason this keeps happening is because we, as Americans, have demonstrated a revealed preference that US sovereignty is not constrained at all by the international treaties we have signed & ratified, whereas we expect other countries' always is.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

To the American professors more concerned with the academic freedom of a professor in Belgium to engage in "race science" than the federal government punishing one because they engaged in actual science at one of the US's oldest and most important higher education institutions, we see you.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When Amadeus first transferred from London to Broadway in 1980 the Broadway production starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and I would like to go back in time and watch that.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And make no mistake, these ideas *are* insane. A Huntington-style belief that Muslim immigration is somehow more of a threat to the US and its allies than the PLA and the FSB is not a serious ideology, it is a joke. These are luxury beliefs that could only come from bored racists in the unipolar era

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in history, & then it's Monday.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just want to say that these lunatics accused me of being a *secret CIA agent* while DataRepublican is literally working for the govt while pretending to be an ordinary influencers, & receiving leaked docs. The Trump admin is running ops, as they say, but for real. Every accusation is a confession.

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The Pentagon confirms -
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Jennica Pounds, aka Data Republican, a Department of War employee, alleges that Undersecretary of State Sarah Rogers is attempting to "entrap" Pounds by providing her with information to "leak" under the guise of offering her a
"scoop."

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midura-m.bsky.social @midura-m.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#histscalemodels #scalemodels Pre-matte varnish, not thrilled with the chipping but live and learn

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

www.niskanencenter.org/two-hundred-...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The median American voter, voted for it be 2019 again and for Trump to make them rich, under the very mistaken belief that Worse Things Aren't Possible, and quite literally everyone is paying for it

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The correct data center take is that I don’t give a fuck what you build in the Texas panhandle but all development near me must increase my property values, so get cracking on another 5-over-1 with an axe throwing microbrewery and a Croatian-inspired small plate restaurant with curated natural wine

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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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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This current age has me reassessing a lot of things. We're reading Suetonius for Masters of Our Domain and his stories about incest, cruelty, greed, and stupidity don't seem quite so much like literary exaggeration or scurrilous gossip anymore.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety aboard the West Virginia. He then hopped on a AA gun and despite no training at all shot down at least one plane despite being under constant attack. He was later killed action aboard the USS Liscome Bay during Operation Galvanic

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Why it hasn't gone well in iran is a combination of an absurd political objective combined with a lack of linking ways and means to that objective on a problem set everyone knew didn't have a viable military solution

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