Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 19/06/2026It’s a club and you’re not in it 20776134
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Over 30 people were killed by Russian strikes in a little more than a day. No reaction, no coverage, not even condemnation. Nothing. If people were blown to bits anywhere else in Europe, there would be gigantic coverage, outrage, and help. But not in Ukraine. 17342108
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Oh okay. So I guess guys aren't allowed to get performance bonuses at their jobs anymore. 2576663
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Congrats INDOPACOM for getting 1 munition! 2782459
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialZach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Probably first major US loss of the conflict when it comes to ballistic missile defense. One of TPY-2 radars belonging to the THAAD battery deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan seems to have been struck. The full radar set goes over $200M. 16624178
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The only concern I have with a congressional candidate who wants to back Ukraine to the hilt, defend Taiwan, and impose costs on Israel for gross civilian harm is how much money I can donate to them. You fucking losers. 311560259
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm... 20478061783
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 04/02/2026The people with the most power in our society appear to be nothing more than a pack of rabid chimpanzees singularly focused on destroying the works of people immeasurably better than they are. 91076279
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialRocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026for all my cold sober realist natsec & China hawk GOPers (I know you're here somewhere), this is also roughly enough to replace all the SM-3s we shot in defense of Israel or about 5 more F-35s or about 6 months of operations at Pantex etc etc , all of which would make the country safer than this 59823
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/01/2026you may not be interested in foreign policy, but foreign policy is interested in you (this is the fundamental lesson that so many Americans, even those who are anti-Trump, do not grasp). 736285
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialBrian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Just some bangers from the COIN Manual that informed so many of our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. The level of restraint we expect from our soldiers and Marines, even in a COIN environment, is remarkable. Such professionalism should be expected of every American we trust to bear arms. 537477
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 07/01/2026three-quarters of the profoundly unpleasant people interviewed for this story aren’t just people i would never date, they’re people i would never voluntarily speak to 3252446
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/01/2026this is where i am at: THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. do you want to outsource your military policy to steven miller? no? how about the dc blob? also no? THEN LEARN WHAT THE FUCK HOW TO MILITARY www.breakingbeijing.com/p/there-is-n...breakingbeijing.comThere is No One ElseFixing the Foreign Policy Pipeline 191145209
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/01/2026“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster 2635811108
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Can we get a real, normal lib nat sec think tank pls 928325
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialRocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 03/01/2026These online right wing freaks don't just hate their own country in the abstract. If you are reading this here, they hate *you* specifically. I don't know what our future holds for living with these people, but people should remember that toleration in Europe started behind a sword and a shield. 21792150
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 04/01/2026So they knew before congress and decided not to leak it but they're totally down with leaking incredibly sensitive information about partner countries like Ukrainian GBAD magazine depth? 13589134
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society. 39868771633
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing. 12954578812327
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21/11/2025the correct answer to genocide is the joint direct attack munition 213116
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21/11/2025don't threaten me with a good time 216010
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/11/2025I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn. 8577931664
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The winning Democratic message in 2025: 161206252
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 01/11/2025“We should care more about the growth of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Africa” 1131631
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialthinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 29/10/2025My kingdom for a liberal politician with a steel spine who can look into the darkness without being seduced by it We know Dems think war is icky and have completely acquiesced to the idea that the GOP = law and order. What if, instead, you faced reality, grabbed some sack and lived your values?? 315018
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/10/2025who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile. 609227203488
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 18/10/2025If nothing else I find it obscene to turn governmental agencies that are meant to function as institutions in service of the entire American political community into overtly partisan propaganda mouthpieces. It’s just such a visceral degeneration of civic life it drives me insane. 893566684
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialFubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 04/10/2025This administration is utterly entirely beholden to a few dozen guys absolutely enamoured by this specific scene in Sicario, it's actually nuts. 17655118
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2025ur welcome 1539639
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialmarc book @marcbook.bsky.social · 01/10/2025"The aim is not lethality. It is not feeling like a man or like a warrior. The aim is victory, of forcing our adversary to fulfill our will. If that simple fact cannot be remembered, all the tactical acumen in the world will get you nowhere." @deadcarl.bsky.social 18724
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 30/09/2025He summons all of us from across the world on the eve of widening global conflict and in his infinite wisdom the Secretary offers us…the grooming standard? 2232241
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Degenerate really is the best word for it 231745
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I will go to my deathbed, which god willing will be in like seven decades, absolutely hating these people for their sheer hubris and decadence. We had the world, and they are risking it all because they can't see past the bridge of their nose shoved up their ass 161409220
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 18/09/2025this is the thing, from top to bottom. we had maybe the best deal any country has had in history. our decline is a series of people voting to throw that away because they cannot understand that it is a good deal 241258256
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in 892484810086
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that. 14578861972
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Here at the department of WAR we’re focused on LETHALITY and the WARRIOR ETHOS which is why we’re ignoring a conventional attack on a NATO member so we can drone strike boats in the Caribbean. 612583649
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialDimko Zhluktenko @dim0kq.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Day 1284. I am in the heaviest battle of Pokrovsk, Donetsk, East Ukraine. This is my combat gear and my weapon. It does not shoot, but it delivers A LOT of pain to Russian invaders. With this weapon, they have nowhere to hide. I am Ukrainian Soldier. That’s what I go through 🧵 1238692
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialbrasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Everything about this seems doomed to produce psychopaths. 814617
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Conversely, I had dinner with a bunch of professors the other day and I don't think the right is prepared for the radicalization of formerly centrist types against them 892099183
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025giving Bill Kristol access to the sword missile 251097108
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialNick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Ahahahahahahhahahhahahhahahahahahhahhhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahh 26064381412
Reposted by @ppbdb11.bsky.socialJakub Janovsky @rebel44cz.bsky.social · 12/08/2025IMO, people should avoid jumping on both "there are no problems" and "we are dooooooomed" bandwagons - reporting from the war in Ukraine has always oscilated between extremes despite reality almost always being firmly in the middle 417020
