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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know this is alarming people, but it looks to me like someone just restated the terms of NATO membership to him

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@currenthistory1.bsky.social features a collection of powerful essays on the state of civil military relation in the U.S. and (h @risabrooks12.bsky.social) other countries. Each essay highlights a different facet, but an overarching theme is that it will take all of us to fix this problem. 1/8

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Really great work from @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social in the new issue of @currenthistory1.bsky.social on military deployments in US cities and democratic control of the military!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

20% of Kansas GOP primary voters picked the guy who spent $0 on his campaign over the sitting US senator with a Trump endorsement.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 02/06/2026

With this guy at DNI and Kash at the FBI, I'm assuming the only reason we haven't had a significant terrorist attack is because they're all just letting us destroy ourselves.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Liberals like to talk about all the protesters who have been shot by ICE agents. But what about all the buildings that would’ve been blown up and all the governors that would’ve been kidnapped if the people who became ICE agents were unemployed and had more free time on their hands?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Majority of Canadians say it’s better to depend on China than on the US under Trump. In other key allies - Germany, UK, France - a plurality say the same. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The Anthropic versus Pentagon conflict is at least three questions which the media skipped asking 1. Should a computer be able to kill people? 2. What’s an acceptable error rate for that computer given LLMs 5% hallucination rate? 3. Can the government force you to sell them your tech to kill?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

War is not a morality play. The relevant question isn’t: Are the targets bad people who have done bad things? The relevant question is: Will going to war make things better, achieving something that’s worth the death and suffering it causes?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/02/2026

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Yes, that’s allegedly what it says in parts of the Epstein files his AG is illegally withholding

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Deciding it’s too dangerous to reveal just how unpopular the current president is seems like the worst poll result ever.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It’s wild how often I wonder how Jerry Moran justifies his inaction and support for POTUS to himself and his family. But maybe his grandkids are the people who watch video of ICE murdering Renee Good (or the man this morning) and laugh that they “got what was coming to them.”

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes. Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

and this is why even impeachment and removal won’t be nearly enough to regain the position the U.S. held in the world just 1 year ago.

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Impeachment and removal at this late stage might avoid calamity, but we definitely aren’t going to get away without significant consequences.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/01/2026

If I walk up to you with hammer and say “I could break your knees if you don’t give me $20 but I won’t,” would you feel relieved that I’d ruled out breaking your knees?

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The most frustrating thing about being a Moran constituent is that I think he does recognize how dangerously incompetent and corrupt potus is. But at age 71, with 3 decades in Congress, he’s too chickenshit to do anything but issue the occasionally bland statement.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

crazy that Jerome Powell has more respect for his office and institutional independence than basically every university board in the country

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Wonder how long it will take Trump to invite Renee Good’s murderer to the White House?

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Renee Good’s blood is on the hands of every member of Congress who refuses to vote to impeach and convict Trump. As is the blood of the women who bleed out for lack of reproductive care, the children dying of preventable diseases, the fishermen killed in the Caribbean by U.S. forces, and many more.

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Fascinating to hear NPR covering Trump’s dismissal of Machado as if it stems from anything other than jealousy of her Nobel prize

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The president of the United States just called a U.S. attack he authorized “an attack on sovereignty”. It was at the very end of his speech if you missed it.

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Wonder what it would be like to be represented by Senators who care enough about the future of this country that this clearly illegal act of war would lead them to support impeachment? With Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall as my Senators, I’m not especially hopeful that I’ll find out soon.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 30/11/2025

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 25/11/2025

Send them all to the Hague

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force. You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill

Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Tr...

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

@creshman.bsky.social’s presidential address on market power, critical minerals, and today’s conflicts was the perfect end to an excellent Peace Science weekend!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/11/2025

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

That a federal judge had to block the Trump administration from pushing millions of Americans into hunger says everything about this President and the party he leads. Grateful to our Attorney General for being on the frontlines of this fight.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him. And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it. But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

for some reason, I’m feeling very jealous of the French today.

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Rebecca Best @rebeccabestir.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Also a great example of why not to use passive voice (unless you’re trying to carry water for the administration

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 16/10/2025

If you make jokes about gas chambers, rape and slavery, it's just 30 year old kids being kids. If you don't mourn Charlie Kirk enough, you're a terrorist who must be fired from your job immediately.

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ALT DHS (NOT an official DHS account) @altdhs.altgov.info · 13/10/2025

Hey ICE! Show your faces and display identification!

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 03/10/2025

🧵 Libertarian economist Tyler Cowen is making headlines for an extremely creepy post at Bari Weiss's blog fantasizing about robot virgins and the AI character Tilly Norwood. Unfortunately, the story behind is much worse...

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