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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
a story i've told before, but feels like a good time to tell again. "I too know the horrors of war" The year was 2019, and the campaign was End the Forever War. I was part of a veteran group meeting with members asking them to sign a pledge to responsibly end GWOT.
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It's really hard to explain what the weirdest people in the world who also happen to be in the military in direct proximity to you are like, but we've all met a whole bunch of them.
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 24): 5’ Plank (Said screw 4’50” and went on a 20” jump)
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 23): 4’ 40” Plank 10” Rest 10” Plank
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 22): 4’ 30” Plank 10” Rest 20” Plank
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is absolutely fucking wrong and disrespectful.
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 21): 4’ 20” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This proves that you must abolish ICE and start a new border security administration from scratch with a completely new and healthy culture. You can’t reform an agency where agents feel free to do this while completely bare faced.
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 20): 4’ 10” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying
Three coffins wrapped in Danish flags are carried by 4-6 soldiers each; a cargo aircraft is in the background
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 19): 4’ Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 10” Plank
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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Somewhere in this crisis, and I don't know when it's coming, is a cascade of ABO losses.
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Zach Ota @zachota.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
My main problem with this line of thinking is the trend of Americans putting everything on the backs of service members. Don’t want to fight a war in Iraq / Afghanistan you once overwhelmingly supported? Service members. Don’t want a war Congress is too weak to rein in? Service members.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
the median voter wants no taxes & no debt but still healthcare & pensions, they want clean energy, clean water, cheap beef, & cheap gas, & they want a bruising take-no-prisoners military that embraces lesbians & furries & single moms without threatening anyone's masculinity
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
So your North Star is just a means and not an end like “helping working Americans, revitalizing democratic institutions, etc” tells you everything you need to know about the state of D politics
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Who among us doesn't pursue fascism at home & colonialism abroad bc we weren't awarded a peace prize for arbitrarily murdering Venezuelan fishermen?
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Great thread about learning from your failures: moral edition.
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
5 minutes a day for 18 days (starting at a one minute hold) gets you to the PFT standard. No rush, easy works around other workouts. Continuing on to get 5 minutes straight
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 18): 3’ 50” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 20” Plank
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Whatever’s in these Epstein Files (and we have some idea) must be really bad.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
If the U.S. military is given direct orders to seize Greenland—pull down another nation’s flag, and then claim the ground in the name of the United States—every senior commander has a moral obligation to refuse to accept or support such a command. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Trump’s Greenland Ambitions Are No Joke
The Danes seem to believe him, and so should Americans.
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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I think it would be a good idea for D politicians to be declaring this publicly, pre-emptively. They should state it as an abstract, legal proposition: an order by the President to seize Greenland would be unlawful, here's why. Trump does not have the legal right to attack a NATO ally. Say it.
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 17): 3’ 40” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 16): 3’ 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank (Forgot to annotate days 14 and 15)
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I think some posters on here missed that "getting punched in the face, repeatedly, by goon security services and not directly punching back" has been a core tenet of just about every successful nonviolent resistance movement in history
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 15/01/2026
See, everyone who's ever lived in Japan or even just visited here for a week knows that Mamdani's cause is moral and righteous
New York Post article. Headline: Zohran Mamdani, first lady Rama Duwaji officially move into Gracie Mansion - and want to add bidets to NYC mayoral residence
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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Johnson: They are going after dangerous criminals. Hmmm. So Mr. Speaker, explain in words of one syllable how multiple 17 yr olds just working and living their lives as AMERICAN CITIZENS being arrested and assaulted by ICE represents dangerous criminals. Go ahead. Explain it. We'll wait you tool.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/01/2026
Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 13): 3’ Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Late post but I did it on time! Promise! 5’ PFT Core (Day 12): 2’ 50” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Whole lotta dudes think they're Bluto Blutarsky when they're really Doug Niedermayer
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 11): 2’ 40” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 10” Plank
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 10): 2’ 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 20” Plank
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
All power of armed government organizations should be derived via the consent of elected officials. They should never be able to generate their own political power unilaterally. We run the military this way and armed law enforcement agencies should be no different.
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 9): 2’ 20” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 8): 2’ 10” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 40” Plank
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 7): 2’ Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 10” Plank
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 6): 1’ 50” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 20” Plank
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Late addendum with Venezuela: The US has fingers in every region and not enough peanut butter - both capability and policy staffing - to spread. We’re lurching across the globe. Worse, if we wanted to nation build (we shouldn’t but not the point), we just kneecapped our own capacity through DOGE.
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
5’ PFT Core (Day 5): 1’ 40” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank 10” Rest 30” Plank
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Unofficially “run” wrapped in the uniform with a wink wink nod nod to their service since the U.S. military shouldn’t be partisan. Whole thing is fucked until you look at the Israeli system and we don’t have it so bad
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It’s an interesting logic since he is in receipt of daily pay so under the UCMJ while a drilling reservist who is a senator/congressmen is only subject to it while drilling in receipt of pay/points could not be held accountable unless they did that speech at drill, yet so many…
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Leo @phlexpat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
In the “We’ll see” file, a lot of current and former military exist on the right and this new precedent could be weaponized in a D admin to go after currently serving but also currently sitting members of the political class
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/01/2026
Himes: "I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the admin. I've had zero outreach and no D I'm aware of has. So apparently we're now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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