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Mindy S

@ontheseid.bsky.social
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This is my year. Maybe. Possibly.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Mindy S @ontheseid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Huzzah
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Mindy S @ontheseid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All the canceled too soon ones: Freaks and Geeks Wonderfalls Firefly Unless I missed Freaks and Geeks. Did I?
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Mindy S @ontheseid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I know the anthem is playing but him saluting while Air China looms large in the background is quite a look
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You're in charge of a war that you're losing, the Houthi are on the march to Riyadh, you've run the Navy ragged, you've lost almost all your bases in the Middle East, you're out of missiles (mostly) that you need in case China steals a march on Taiwan...and you're at a fucking football game.
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CNN @cnn.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: An AI-assisted intel report, circulated across the US military during the Iran war, nearly triggered an operation but was false, sources say. cnn.it/4y9MBJO
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/09/2026
"This is all just useless daydreaming, right? But why is it that Republicans get to do crazy, impractical stuff all the time? Don’t tell me what can’t be done."
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Impeach Them. All of Them.
Hegseth is only the beginning.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members on condition of anonymity because of rigid media restrictions within the military. "This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public. We're standing there w/our eyes closed getting punched in the face."
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Iran won…. In offices across the US military & intel community, there have been recent quiet discussions about cutting the number of people & facilities typically stationed in Middle East if Trump admin succeeds in ending the Iran conflict. www.cnn.com/2026/09/08/p...
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Military and intelligence officials discuss smaller presence in the Middle East as US looks for another post-9/11 strategy | CNN Politics
In offices across the military and in the intelligence community, there have been recent quiet discussions about cutting the number of people and facilities typically stationed in the Middle East if t...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest: “As I travel the country and talk to new folks and old friends, I am getting this deeply unsettling feeling that we have broken the force in a way not seen since the post-Vietnam era.” open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
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How to Break an Army
I have some concerns
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 27/08/2026
Adam Kalkstein compared administration’s order to ‘trying to teach the law’ without mentioning ‘the constitution’
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West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm sure the consequences will be swift and severe - RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate
Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2026
🚨 Must-read from @jvl.bsky.social about bizarre backstory of Natalie Harp & how her too-good-to-be-true tale about Trump saving her life was crafted to get attention in the MAGA media ecosystem The fact her biography is fabricated helps explain why she's resisted trying for a security clearance
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Trump and Natalie: A F*cked-Up Love Story
The weirdest relationship ever just got weirder.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hegseth’s Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless ... an incompetent white DEI suck up who has done more to ruin the military than any foreign enemy. Rs who confirmed him shoul be booted out. Next congress should impeach. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...
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Hegseth’s Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless
The leadership vacuum comes as the Army is trying to adapt to a new kind of war dominated by deadly drones.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I think this is an accurate assessment - at least somewhere around this number. The problem isn’t rebuilding the bases, it’s force protection. Iran knows what works, now they’re reconstituting their capabilities during the lull in fighting. Emboldening them was a grave mistake
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Scaling back the exercise is, of course, an insane decision, which does nothing but hurt an ally, and tempt an adversary to think—correctly—that American leadership is feckless." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Will Make South Korea Pay For His Iran Humiliation
His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
OK. @jamellebouie.net has a great takedown of our pundit class. Exhibit 1 is David Brooks. Guess what? Yale just hired him to teach undergrads. 1/ youtu.be/46tpqFxfomI?...
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Trump has now put at risk the lives of the 28,500 US troops stationed in South Korea and the entire balance of power across East Asia.”
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Watch The Shadows
Trump moves the US into the Axis of Evil column
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/08/2026
"It is difficult to imagine a more thorough misunderstanding of the purpose of a military exercise—or an alliance." @markhertling.bsky.social on Trump and South Korea:
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Canceling Military Exercises Hurts Us, Not Our Enemies
Will U.S. forces in South Korea still be ready to ‘fight tonight’?
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Mindy S @ontheseid.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
He’s manages to trash two long held allies in the last 24hrs. He’s hollowed out State and military leaders refuse to stand up to him. It’s going to be a long lonely road to bring back international diplomatic relations and trust 0 days without being an international embarrassment
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I was thinking the other day how those not in DC (I'm not) aren't hit as clearly with how Trump has turned the White House grounds into something between construction site and waste dump. Genuinely upsetting. Far from the worst thing he's done but among the most tangible and graphic.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump administration concedes it canceled research grants in blue states
The administration said 284 research grants were canceled because they were in states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Blanche’s appeasement is hollow. Trump still gets immunity from tax audits worth $100 million. And last week’s payout to abortion clinic blocker shows the path to payouts to rewrite history will be individual settlements instead of one designated fund. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal (Gift Article)
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this
From page full of headlines about things going to hell in Iran.
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Mindy S @ontheseid.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The next governor of Alabama
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
One might even see his destruction of the United States Agency for International Development — responsible, so far, for an estimated 700,000 deaths worldwide — as consistent with his concern with falling white birthrates relative to those in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, where U.S.A.I.D. was active. After all, one way to secure a future for Western children, in this zero-sum view of the world, would be to starve African ones.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The errors here are all strategic and there are two of them: First, someone (Caine, it's Caine) needed to tell Trump, "if you order us to do this, we will try it, max effort, but it is impossible and we will fail to achieve it." He needed to say that *bluntly* and given the reporting, he did not.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Good piece. TL;DR: For almost five months, Trump and Hegseth have repeatedly and systematically lied. x.com/radiofreetom...
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Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) on X
When the president makes statements about the war, they are full of wishful thinking, hyperbole, and outright lies. The public needs to demand the truth from Trump and Hegseth. https://t.co/cjIGq8fk...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/07/2026
“Where is the money? There is no transparency and the US government does not inform us.” From @financialtimes.com, on Venezuela giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The US has collected about $13bn of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it?
Washington has given diverging accounts of where the earthquake-shattered country’s funds are going
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20/07/2026
17 US service members have been killed in Trump's Iran war and more than 400 wounded, but the Pentagon has stopped disclosing when troops are injured and didn't even reveal three strikes against US forces last week. More than 1,700 Iranian civilians have been killed. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War (Gift Article)
Central Command is not required to release information about injured troops, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
As has been the case for six years any news outlet taking trump live thursday night after he said he’ll lie about the 2020 election and the legitimacy of georgia’s senators is explicitly endorsing that lie as a legitimate opinion
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Mindy S @ontheseid.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No one goes to his rallies anymore. No one cares what he has to say anymore. So, they’ll hijack the networks and let him pretend he’s still on reality tv.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"The U.S. can destroy more, but Iran can disrupt more. Iran can lose every tactical encounter and still produce strategic effects. It can raise shipping costs, disrupt energy markets, strain American alliances, expose regional bases, and draw the U.S. in deeper..." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Trump Keeps Bombing, Nothing Keeps Changing.
What’s the definition of insanity again?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🧵This story is insane in so many ways that others are more qualified to analyze. Can only add that viz US foreign policy, Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, acting as viceroy of Venezuela is derelict, unconscionable, & impeachable. The SecState's time is scarce, valuable, and not outsourcable. 1/
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The MAGA Election Heist Is Coming open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
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The Election Heist Is Coming
Democrats have about ninety days to fight back.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/07/2026
People outside the military don’t understand how there is a serious lack of respect for Hegseth in the ranks.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
gotta let every Call of Duty-addled Diet Nazi with an inferiority complex carry an AK-47 into the local Piggly-Wiggly because the framers thought a well-regulated militia should have muskets but
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about the court’s appalling decision allowing the administration to terminate TPS without following the legally required steps - & in the face of considerable evidence of unconstitutional racial bias www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/o...
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Unshackling the Presidency
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
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