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No Official Statements // Diversity is Our Strength // Security Cooperating / Foreign Area'ing / AvFID. Spinny aircraft. Paman Bagus. @Strategy_Bridge. "A shifty-eyed Walker named Milligan saved them all..."

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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love this. Especially in the argument of emotion and - as a fledgling coach - stoicism's place in caring practice. Also brings back memories of my class with Dr. Diva on Stoic Wisdom
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An American hero named Toby Ziegler was charged and prosecuted for doing this www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
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US Air Force secretary reveals deployment of on-orbit space control weapons
Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink revealed that the service deployed on-orbit space control weapons but did not offer details on the type of weapon.
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Overwhelming shots fired by @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social in the Early Autumn Postcard War. Let's grab ☕️ and discuss terms?
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Cathrine Schmid @schmidcathrine.us · 12/09/2026
POV you're at the back of the line trying to get into heaven, behind Hitler.
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Everything got better
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know what I'm buying with my $5,000 Voting Stimulus Check How about you?
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Jetpack Rocketman Takes Off and Crashes
ALT: Jetpack Rocketman Takes Off and Crashes
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is every single interaction I've had with AI. Obsequious apology for being wrong and "sincere" promise to do better next time.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 01/09/2026
Kiwi the tufted puffin chick is two months old and thriving! 🐣 Daily checkups from our dedicated aviculturists keep this puffling healthy—a big win for the Species Survival Plan, which works to protect the genetic diversity of nearly 300 species, including tufted puffins like Kiwi.
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Back in therapy
Bicycle and sunset over 2-lane road with handlebars on centerline
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As a wise man once said, "Everything just got [strange] better"
Canned cocktail "Sex On the Beach" amongst several prescription pill bottles
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If we watched television and played video games as obsessively as boomers watch AI-videos online our boomer parents would have burned all the TVs
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/08/2026
I keep banging the “USAID was good and we must confront the obscene wave of death MAGA’s destruction of it unleashed” drum because I *desperately* want Democrats and the Left to prioritize rebuilding global aid. We should rebuild it better, but we can’t just let Musk’s global massacre continue.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You know, Canada a country famous for not having a military & whose military, which does not exist, is not successful when it is employed doing incredibly dangerous things. I'll just leave this right here.
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Balloon Juice - Britain, Canada, France, and D-Day: Gold, Juno, and Sword
(Map 1: Normandy Landings) Earlier today I did a post on the 74th anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy landings. This focused on the US, specifically as it highlighted the 82nd Airborne Division’s re...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
She's entirely right. Middle school is too late. When they're younger, many are small and spry enough to go down chimneys and through HVAC vents and clean them right and well. I've read my Dickens.
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Back in (more) therapy
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is one of Iran's key demands. What does the U.S. get in exchange and who's winning? Pentagon weighing smaller U.S. military presence in Gulf once Iran war ends www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon weighing smaller U.S. military presence in Gulf once Iran war ends
The analysis, according to officials and others familiar with the matter, was not yet a formal review and will include whether to rebuild bases battered by strikes.
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Back in therapy
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 10/08/2026
The Defense Department's rollback on civilian harm mitigation and response represents a dangerous retreat from the growing consensus that effective civilian harm response is integral to responsible and effective military operations, writes Mae Thompson, Kristine Beckerle, and Luke Moffett.
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From Promise to Peril: The U.S. Retreat From Civilian Harm Response
Hegseth’s U-turn on decades of CHMR progress has contributed to more civilian casualties and left victims without access to repair and amends.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
So, Trump wants to make the MMR vaccine into three vaccines? Let’s see, three separate trips to the pediatrician, three copays, more missed work, and more missed appointments, leaving kids not fully protected from measles, mumps and rubella. None of it supported by scientific evidence.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Magical video by Mike Nulty (@nuttynulty on IG) of a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) off the coast of Baja, swimming through reflective plankton or debris that look like stars. Space whale-shark! 🦈✨ Let's talk about /actual/ glowing sharks, the lantern sharks of family Etmopteridae. (📷: Mike Nulty)
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others
Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Justice served, or embarrased or something. The sham case against Olympic Canoeist Davey Hearn has been dismissed by the DOJ, which admits "botched installation" by the crony contractor -- not any phantom vandalism claimed by Dear Leader Trump -- created the damage at the reflecting pool
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Women Forward ❌ 👑 @womenforward.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
U.S. cyclist deaths hit a 40-year high in 2025.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Hey so turns out discovering why we used to have all those food safety regulations in the first place is not all that much fun
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Rest of this week's lunch: Set
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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“Whoever … orders, brings, keeps … troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held … shall be punished unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States.” 18 U.S. Code § 592 - Troops at polls. Military presence at polling places is unlawful.
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Amen, Mr. Rayner. You're a curmudgeon of astounding taste and refinement. "Financial Times - A licence to dislike" digitaleditionapp.ft.com/i9DX/cmv347ab
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
30-50 feral hogs guy:
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Tad Cameron and Conor Husting Bro Hug
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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Still better than this game. Rooney sounds like a curmudgeon. That said, I wish Fox had traded Alexi Lalas for Rooney to give commentary for every game.
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
An AI Madonna performing nowhere near the stadium is the World Cup halftime show we deserve. ✔️
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Treble Nikki @treblenikki.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Once last time with feeling
A homemade banner on a white sheet with black lettering saying “shut up, Alexi” referring to the horrible no good right wing Fox “commentator” Alexi Lalas hanging in a stadium
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Rep. Brendan Boyle @congressmanboyle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Mourning the loss of two American service members in Jordan. I am praying for their families and for the safe return of the service member still missing. Their sacrifice is a solemn reminder that we must never send Americans into harm’s way lightly. abcnews.com/Internationa...
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2 US service members killed, another missing
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Dan Ryan @danryan17.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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"Herbal" Carmen @herbcarmen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Waffle House is our new National Hurricane Center and Taco Bell is our new Centers for Disease Control
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's a Monkey. That's what makes it special. Humans beware. "Scientists have discovered a new species of monkey. Here’s what makes it special." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Scientists have discovered a new species of monkey. Here’s what makes it special.
The ‘Likweli’ marks the second species discovered in the past 15 years around the Lomami River, in a remote and thickly forested part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So the ICC is a "threat to Americans." What does that say about us?
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'm a biker and very interested in safety v cars. THIS IS IMPORTANT. But this refers to safety OF OTHER RIDERS not of cars. Of course ebikes aren't more dangerous TO CARS. But e-bikes ARE more dangerous to me as a pedal-pusher. (Turning off replies in your posts means people will quote you)
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We literally just signed a joint statement 2 days ago saying no one should do this, guys. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
politico.com
US to take over Strait of Hormuz, charge 20 percent fee for cargo shipped through, Trump says
The U.S. will become “guardian” of the strait, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Good morning. Nothing to see here, just the possible end of American scientific research as we know it. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
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The Trump Administration's Existential Threat to Scientific Research
You want a request for comment?! I got your comment right here.
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is all Gerald Ford's fault
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Alexi might actually be right, for once foxsports.onelink.me/SY6x/50l0v8yf
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'USA vs. The World': Lalas Thinks Balogun Decision Puts Target On Americans' Back
FOX Sports' Alexi Lalas responded to FIFA lifting Folarin Balogun's suspension.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/07/2026
Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish theonion.com/nation-turns-250-despi…
Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Announced during a historic heat wave. These guys are buffoons.
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Whatcha reading, @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social ?
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roninresearch.bsky.social @roninresearch.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I hope someone at DoD that isn't sniffing Hegseth's butt is paying attention...
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Onsen Sommelier. Found my retirement gig, @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social
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12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat @mkmilligan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Who should win the World Cup? www.economist.com/culture/2026...
economist.com
Who should win the World Cup?
It’s a better question than “Who will win?” It tells you what the tournament is for
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