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Maziar Moridani

@mrmaz233.bsky.social
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Special Education Teacher | Former U.S. Marine | Love my SD Padres | “We all matter, or none of us do.” – Patrick Skinner

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Steve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This 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/
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 27/05/2026
This entire administration is an exercise in discovering why you need government and then scrambling to assemble an arm while cutting off another leg.
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Kori 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 Hastings
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Max Hastings: The United States could soon be our enemy
In less than a decade the American leadership that the West took for granted has collapsed. Now we are forced to consider the previously unthinkable
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Hey, 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-...
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Restoring the World
On Preparing a Post-Midterm National Security Platform Part I
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/03/2026
NEW: "The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it." fortune.com/2026/03/23/u...
FORTUNE: COMMENTARY
• NATIONAL DEBT
The Treasury just declared the
U.S. insolvent. The media missed it
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Psst, there's a new Gnarls Barkley album.
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Atlanta – I Amnesia
YouTube video by Gnarls Barkley Official
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Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The 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/
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Two 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-...
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Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
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Adam Welz @adamwelz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is very funny and very good www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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I 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
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/01/2026
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Charlie 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.com
Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
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Ben 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.”
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We Are the Bad Guys
The swaggering threat to global stability is us.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Armchair soldier takes on a real hero.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you fall for?”
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The 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."
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How I Failed Escapism 101
‘The Diplomat’ and ‘The Black Wolf’ are too close to reality for comfort.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Denmark 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.
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Asanka Herath @xcuseme.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Overmatched: We are screwed
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Opinion | Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself (Gift Article)
Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Bill seeks to limit U.S. military reductions in Europe
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Bill seeks to limit US military reductions in Europe
Attempts 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.
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The 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.
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Saving the Liberal Order. Together.
Be real. Plus: The slow death of NATO continues.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Cinema will find a way. 💕
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Rachel Roubein @rachelroubein.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
More 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...
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The 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:
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I’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.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
IF YOU THINK YOU LOVE FREEDOM BUT YOU DON'T CARE IF IT APPLIES TO EVERYONE, WHAT YOU ACTUALLY LOVE IS PRIVILEGE
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Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I 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.com
What ‘House of Dynamite’ gets right and wrong about nuclear command and control
The Netflix film is good on process and tech, but has one major flaw.
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Jeffrey 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 fascism
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Opinion | The White House's sweeping overhaul of ICE is creating a Frankenstein force
The recent wave of ICE senior official reassignments has a clear motive.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
What he said: 💯 🎯
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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
happy 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”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Medicare 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.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/10/2025
South 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.
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Idaho 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” ...
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
my god, what a paragraph (from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Remember: 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.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Amazon 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.
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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
It's a little on the nose that a profession so notoriously anti mask during COVID has thoroughly embraced masks to obscure identity in 2025.
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Task & 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/OwjlEwR
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Billboards 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.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
This 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…
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Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party | Robert Reich
Democratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani, and the New York Times wrongly cautions against h
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 28/10/2025
Canadian radio & TV calls of the not-Ball Four:
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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It is So ‘Disconcerting’ that We Have No Congress
Republicans refuse to do their jobs
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Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.
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Bill 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...
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Help!
We're drowning in corruption
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Mick 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...
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Russia’s ‘human safari’ in southern Ukraine is a warning to the world
Russia'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.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
October 23, 2025
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October 23, 2025
Julia 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...
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Angry @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 🥵🤤”
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