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@pt109.bsky.social
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International security | democratic backsliding | occasional exasperation

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump: I'll let the Iranians hit Southern California The press (slur): what did he mean by this? Trump 24 hours later: I said the Iranians should hit San Diego or Los Angeles. With a missile. It will be traumatic.
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 10h
Running outta ways to describe the depravity.
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Content administration making propaganda for hostile actors and don’t even realize it.
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lads. Bad news.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 21h
Seems bad.
"Onion person" saying on Twitter "there is no innocent Israeli"
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
not to be flippant but I think that almost all of these people have severe personality disorders and it’s merely a result of circumstance that they’re here instead of storming the capitol on Jan 6th
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i still think the best way to understand David Ellison is as a way-in-over-his-head guy who likes Entertainment who doesn't have strong ideological commitments but does have a first-ballot Hall of Fame asshole for a dad
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
most cucked man alive
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reminding voters right before they submit their ballot about your idiotic war of choice that is causing all your political problems
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There’s our looming thermostatic backlash problem right there.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it's not great, incidentally, that *both* China and America have lost a bunch of their key financial and regulatory talent in the last two years, albeit that the American damage is more wide-ranging and stupider.
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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
US: Wait, CENTCOM is a maritime theater? Royal Navy:
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Always Has Been Among Us Meme
ALT: Always Has Been Among Us Meme
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m sure that’s why he’s doing so much press.
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
again, I beg you to notice the extent to which the AES campaign does *not* want the story to be about how all the centrist Dems hate him and how his win would sure hurt them, and to consider whether the people who keep telling you that story are acting out of a sincere interest in helping him win
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Latin in my display name has many applications to the second Trump administration, this is the most literal example yet. “Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant” - in other words: they retreat and call it winning.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Curious
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
it's relieving the GW, just like the Makin Island is relieving the Boxer, just like all of these are rotational swapouts and not additive how are you all still falling for this 8 months in, this is jangling keys toddler levels of attempted misdirection from some of the dumbest admin members and yet
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One crazy thing about this new outpouring of racism against South Asians and calls for expulsion or forced assimilation is it was kicked off by some brown skinned students at a Texas game wearing cowboy hats and excitedly celebrating their football team — ie some guys very assimilated to America.
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are only a few weeks away from Trump being a lame duck narratively (media focuses on new Congress), a couple months away from him being a lame duck legislatively (new Congress seated) at most six months from being a lame duck politically (2028 cycle begins.)
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This man’s legacy as the torture enjoyer was etched in stone decades ago but don’t let that fool you! He’s got plenty of depravity left in the tank.
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This man’s legacy as the torture enjoyer was etched in stone decades ago but don’t let that fool you! He’s got plenty of depravity left in the tank.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everything falls into place when you realize Ellison is Kendall Roy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Angry Bondholders Flood Wall Street With Complaints on Paramount Losses
Just hours after Paramount Skydance Corp. issued $52 billion of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, triggering a flurry of...
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a fantastic essay using @milhistlee.bsky.social's book on The Cutting Off Way (of war) in Native North America to think about how warfare is changing today. I think you can actually push the analogy even further though, toward overall strategic aims.
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shutting down FBI corruption investigations and paying off political criminals is the future Republicans want. Of course they want to apply this retroactively. It’s the MAGA American way!
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shutting down FBI corruption investigations and paying off political criminals is the future Republicans want. Of course they want to apply this retroactively. It’s the MAGA American way!
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’d argue the winner-takes-all presidency is the ultimate forcing function. Even if the 2party system were to “break”, it would reassert itself as it did within a decade of ratification. EC forces coalitions into a tent *before* elections, there’s no mechanism for small factions to insert themselves
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’d argue the winner-takes-all presidency is the ultimate forcing function. Even if the 2party system were to “break”, it would reassert itself as it did within a decade of ratification. EC forces coalitions into a tent *before* elections, there’s no mechanism for small factions to insert themselves
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026
"the periphery will be easier to control if it is fragmented into many warring statelets" this is some late roman empire ass thinking
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026
i reiterate:
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026
today in depressing takes, like "the war with iran probably isn't going to end"
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The Return of the Cutting-Off Way
Structural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict."
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Anna Maltese @annamaltese.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My archery buddy and writing partner's newest book, The Cutting-Off Way, was given an awesome shoutout by Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com. She maps TCOW onto our present timeline and the insights she draws resonate. Very cool. Depressing, and cool. 👍
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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Hegs was half as much of a badass as he tries to make it sound, he wouldn't give a fuck what the fake news media says about him one way or the other. Shut up and open strait Pete.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Being mad at the Mamdani announcement is just straightforwardly anti-Semitic. Like there’s not really any excuse left to hide behind there.
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth purged all the trans and woke cybersecurity specialists aaaaaaaand
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Ben 🍁 @benjaminoknobi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Guys we can just say that hijacking a plane is bad. It's ok to just say that.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I really think Jon Ossoff, James Talarico, and a few others are in the process of creating a new kind of language, a new politics, for the era of Late Stage Trumpism. As I argue in the piece, the banal cruelties of sunsetting Trumpism are all around us, and some Dems are pointing to a way out.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In a fight you are meant to hit back.
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
> Ms. Vuittonet has no plans to vote this year. The electorate is healing 🌱
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s almost impressive how incompetent they are. An entire political party sustained by bigotry, idiocy, and thermostatic backlash.
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s almost impressive how incompetent they are. An entire political party sustained by bigotry, idiocy, and thermostatic backlash.
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Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant @pt109.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hahaha. Take this as a blue wave datapoint. Not even kidding.
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