Reposted by Maziar MoridaniSteve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This effort by Heritage, Project 2025, and Hegseth to destroy critical thinking in the military has been coming for some time www.cbsnews.com/news/dod-pen... Line by line review of every course taught? Guess what they will eliminate? Anything that helps officers think. 2/ 15113 51
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniTyler King @tyleraking.com · 27/05/2026This entire administration is an exercise in discovering why you need government and then scrambling to assemble an arm while cutting off another leg. 382467703 2.5K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniKori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 29/04/2026“Americans, for so long the perceived more-or-less good guys, have become the fount of economic crisis, military menaces and planned disorder such as Russia or Iran would be quite incapable of generating.” Max Hastingsobserver.co.ukMax Hastings: The United States could soon be our enemyIn less than a decade the American leadership that the West took for granted has collapsed. Now we are forced to consider the previously unthinkable 29127 91
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Hey, look, everyone. I wrote the first part of a series I was planning on national security policy that Democrats can pursue following the midterm elections. Exciting! othermeans.substack.com/p/restoring-...othermeans.substack.comRestoring the WorldOn Preparing a Post-Midterm National Security Platform Part I 836071 360
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/03/2026NEW: "The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it." fortune.com/2026/03/23/u... 72186204720 8.6K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Psst, there's a new Gnarls Barkley album.youtube.comAtlanta – I AmnesiaYouTube video by Gnarls Barkley Official 613013 130
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniJoe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026The core point is that it is NOT new technologies or new nations wanting nukes or China's arsenal that defines nuclear dangers today. It'ss that almost all nuclear weapons in the world are controlled by authoritarian leaders. Our theories, postures and strategies were not designed for this world. 2/ 16016 60
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniJay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...startribune.comDetained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizureThe women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability. 33389294810 8.9K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniAdam Welz @adamwelz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026This is very funny and very good www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comI Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms 021 2
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/01/2026 1725210555114 21.1K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniCharlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 10/01/2026"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...nytimes.comOpinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All 20343126 343
Reposted by Maziar Moridaniderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders 584269037867 26.9K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”hamiltonnolan.comWe Are the Bad GuysThe swaggering threat to global stability is us. 29292872416 9.3K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Armchair soldier takes on a real hero. 2133254 332
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/01/2026“If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you fall for?” 13477117 477
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/01/2026"Pile on the international intrigue, sexual intrigue, and political intrigue. The tragedies, deaths, murders, deceptions, nuclear incidents, shocking U-turns, and betrayals. I won’t say all of it seemed like reruns of life here in these United States."lnk.thebulwark.comHow I Failed Escapism 101‘The Diplomat’ and ‘The Black Wolf’ are too close to reality for comfort. 611815 118
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough. 29165861986 6.6K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniAsanka Herath @xcuseme.bsky.social · 09/12/2025www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Overmatched: We are screwednytimes.comOpinion | Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself (Gift Article)Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk. 021 2
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniStars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Bill seeks to limit U.S. military reductions in Europestripes.comBill seeks to limit US military reductions in EuropeAttempts to make big cuts to U.S. troop levels in Europe would require extensive consultations with Congress and NATO allies under an updated spending proposal. 2307 30
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/12/2025"How can we help save democracy? How can we serve and add value for our community?" Those are always and only the things we're thinking about.lnk.thebulwark.comSaving the Liberal Order. Together.Be real. Plus: The slow death of NATO continues. 514931 149
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Cinema will find a way. 💕 781267337 1.3K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniRachel Roubein @rachelroubein.bsky.social · 06/12/2025More from our story on FDA: —Officials have held meetings at the WH this week to discuss turmoil at agency —Prasad’s vaccine email wasn’t cleared with HHS or RFK Jr. with @ddiamond.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ddia... 02218 22
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/11/2025"I don't think we've ever seen a president of the United States whose goal is to make us hate each other....you knew that they were just taking different positions on what they thought was best for us." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @gtconway.bsky.social in George Conway Explains It All: 321142260 1.1K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party. 13145301061 4.5K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniAdmiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social · 03/11/2025I am getting a lot of questions about the movie “A House of Dynamite." This seems to be a pretty good summary of what the movie gets right and wrong. @defenseone.bsky.social www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/1...defenseone.comWhat ‘House of Dynamite’ gets right and wrong about nuclear command and controlThe Netflix film is good on process and tech, but has one major flaw. 3178 17
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniJeffrey AKA The Hairless Hippie @mojochefjeff.bsky.social · 01/11/2025 www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... "... It isn't ICE. It isn't CBP. It's a Frankenstein force, stitched together from multiple agencies but loyal to none. Its purpose is to create a community response designed for social media clicks, rather than to keep communities safe..." This is fascismmsnbc.comOpinion | The White House's sweeping overhaul of ICE is creating a Frankenstein forceThe recent wave of ICE senior official reassignments has a clear motive. 15133141307 3.3K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/11/2025What he said: 💯 🎯 10284914313472 49.1K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniAndrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 31/10/2025On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005. 1359204896666 20.5K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025happy birthday English poet John Keats, b.1795, died too young at 25. "Love is my religion - I could die for it" “Touch has a memory.” “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” “My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk” 1233365 333
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. 466203107271 20.3K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniProPublica @propublica.org · 26/10/2025South Carolina schools recently sent home unvaccinated kids to stem a growing measles outbreak. It turned out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly spread it to their classmates for days. That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.propublica.orgIdaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ... 9221481055 2.1K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniKeri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 31/10/2025my god, what a paragraph (from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social) 5933741267 3.4K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are. 347200537298 20.1K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged. 9522756010560 27.6K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniKate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 30/10/2025It's a little on the nose that a profession so notoriously anti mask during COVID has thoroughly embraced masks to obscure identity in 2025. 212721 127
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniTask & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 30/10/2025“Don’t let them make you break the law,” reads a billboard along the road to U.S. Southern Command, one of several set up by veterans. trib.al/OwjlEwRtrib.alBillboards outside US Southern Command urge troops not to 'break the law’ in Caribbean strikes“Don’t let them make you break the law,” reads a billboard along the road to U.S. Southern Command, one of several set up by veterans. 03217 32
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/10/2025This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…theguardian.comZohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party | Robert ReichDemocratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani, and the New York Times wrongly cautions against h 1063477776 3.5K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 28/10/2025Canadian radio & TV calls of the not-Ball Four: 2225150 251
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025open.substack.com/pub/contrari...open.substack.comIt is So ‘Disconcerting’ that We Have No CongressRepublicans refuse to do their jobs 214038 140
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniGeoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 26/10/2025I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day 4112558868 2.6K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior. 53292823309 9.3K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/10/2025“One atrocity after another just this past week…If you’re fine with all that, you should ask yourself what’s broken inside of you…The true danger of corruption is that evil ceases to be regarded as such by otherwise good people. It just becomes the new normal.” open.substack.com/pub/mattlaba...open.substack.comHelp!We're drowning in corruption 37925290 925
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniMick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 24/10/2025“For local residents, Russia’s human safari has made sudden death from above an everyday fact of life. During the first nine months of 2025, more than a hundred people were killed and over one thousand were wounded in drone attacks.” www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...atlanticcouncil.orgRussia’s ‘human safari’ in southern Ukraine is a warning to the worldRussia's escalating campaign of drone attacks on the civilian population of Ukraine's Kherson region highlights the destructive power of modern drone technologies, writes Oleksandr Tolokonnikov. 7234120 234
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025October 23, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comOctober 23, 2025Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez of NBC News reported today that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rush to get new recruits onto the street has meant they have pushed into their training program mo... 401251443 1.3K
Reposted by Maziar MoridaniAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025“How DARE Cracker Barrel change their logo 😡🤬😡🤬 I’ll never eat there again!” “Destroy the White House harder, daddy 🥵🤤” 16893432166 9.3K