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Sharon 🪳🌹

@sharonk.bsky.social
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political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat) interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 6h
Oh Donald,
There’s not going to be any Russian diesel you stupid slut
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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 9h
This kinda framing is how you get a whole bunch of people believing Taiwan is a restive rebel territory trying to separate rather than already de facto independent under threat of invasion
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 9h
Unfortunate that the guy who wants to rebuild the Southern Democrats considers her a lost cause
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 9h
Yeah- if people think that African forces have had trouble due to unwillingness or inability they are damn fools. The fact that somehow Prince and his dudes thought this was still Mike Hoare days and went facefirst into RPF/RPF adjacent units is gobsmacking.
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 10h
I understand but unfortunately the NRCC chair getting whacked by Richard Ojeda is so funny I have to root for it.
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 10h
Richard Ojeda is relevant again
vietnam ptsd chihuahua
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lamorak.bsky.social @lamorak.bsky.social · 12h
One of the great, underrated dramas we find ourselves in is the cold Civil War between Christian sects over what living in the 20th and 21st centuries should look like, which is how you get Christian Nationalist backed ICE agents assaulting mainline and Catholic ministers
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10h
and another thing. sir, he called your tailor
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John Wick on Phone
ALT: John Wick on Phone
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 14h
I am BEGGING more journalists to look into Marshall’s staffers
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 18h
I think we need to care to the extent that we need to diversify away from his companies’ products. Otherwise, no, he should be considered as relevant as his crackpot grandpa who emigrated from Saskatchewan to apartheid South Africa.
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mitchell atencio (he·him·his) @mitchellatencio.com · 13h
reminds me of the very beautiful evangelical phrase "modest is hottest"
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 12h
"Shoot them in the legs" Setting aside the severe and likely permanent disability from any centerfire bullet impacting a bone or big muscle, have you heard of the femoral artery
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 12h
wild how badly euros misunderstand their cops' use of force policy "They don't shoot to kill, they shoot to incapacitate and eliminate the threat" yes and what is the mechanism of incapacitation (primarily exsanguination)
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 12h
"Warning shots" aka "I fired a lethal projectile in a random direction with no ability to fully know who or what that projectile would hit" (I do not think the finnish police actually do this)
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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Extremely easy to picture a rebellion that paints Dooku as a martyr cut down by the very Sith Lords he tried to get the Jedi to take seriously Like half the rebellion is ex-CIS worlds anyway
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 12h
Oh well time to doom about something else
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Peter Mansbridge @petermansbridge.bsky.social · 13h
Canada can be, and eventually will be, an energy superpower. One source’s abundance is the envy of the world and becomes more and more important all the time: Electricity. It’s reliable. Affordable. And clean.   More on this & other top stories in The Buzz nationalnewswatch.com/newsletter
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 12h
Wonder what the odds are that the UCP members try to get rid of Danielle Smith when the referendum fails and she says she doesn't want to do the vote over again.
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 14h
the parents of both of these children should be able to press charges for assault and I'm not even joking.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13h
the delta between what most public polls are showing and how republican private internals/actions are telling us is kinda wild
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 14h
Open the schools. 32k likes
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 11h
Shang aesthetics are so criminally underrated tho. China before it became “China”
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h
“Axey” was not popular with the Shang kings, who complained of his intrusive “It looks like you’re ritually sacrificing a prisoner!” comments
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 15h
to be fair this is exactly how a lot of male friends talk about each other lmao
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 15h
All timer headline
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14h
If he were just genuinely unsuited for “any Cabinet job” you’d understand it a bit more than “this guy absolutely could be a secretary of state, but this one? Why?”
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14h
Of all the mystifying decisions Andy Burnham has made “the skillset and biography of Chris Bryant” and “the Northern Ireland brief” is the wildest.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11h
kill me
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h
This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.
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TriCap @triforcecap.bsky.social · 11h
I think we’re live streaming the execution of a human in December… but apparently extra-judicial executions of canines are unpublishable.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11h
To the woman's credit: she defied the court and shared the footage anyway, which shows a state trooper blowing away two trained police dogs as they trotted to him, in response to an active break-in where the dogs were detaining the burglar Cops are great
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 10h
not a one of these seats will be #218. literally every one of them will make some Republican operatives cry
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 10h
this target list says the DCCC is convinced the majority is theirs and they're looking to utterly break the GOP's spirit
Ally Mutnick @allymutnick
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NEWS: DCCC begs donors in memo for $17M
before 10/22 to avoid "leaving winnable seats on table" amid wave of GOP $
Top races on line: #FL27 #NVO2 #SC01 #NY21
#MNO1 #ARO2
Others needing funding, per DCCC ED Julie Merz:
#C003 #FLO7 #IN05 #0H10 #NC09 #VA05
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Stalin: Um, whatcha got there? 

Zhukov: Vodka (it's actually clear coke)
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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I mean, quite aside from the barbarism of live-streaming this, I actually can't think of anything more stupid from a counterterrorism perspective. Showing this online - where it will likely be replayed for many years - has no deterrent value and would be useful only as anti-US recruitment tool.
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 10h
I messed up a while back and told this as a Cool Ethiopia Fact to a guy who was actually a refugee in the UK due to this war. He did not know this fact and was quite distressed!
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h
Most of my direct recent reading has primarily been about Cuba, Angola, and South Africa
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@cthomasjamh.bsky.social would be the go to guy on this
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 11h
Did you know the Ethiopian NISS successfully planted an agent in the US intelligence services edition.cnn.com/2023/09/21/p...
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Federal contractor charged with sending classified US information to Ethiopia | CNN Politics
A federal contractor who worked for State and Justice departments has been charged with sending classified US information to Ethiopia, according to newly unsealed court documents.
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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 11h
A certain kind of person has a really hard time internalizing that, contrary to the scenes they half-remember from their last Blood Diamond-Black Hawk Down-13 Hours marathon goonsesh, human beings in conflict will tend to gain experience and innovate even if they are from MENA or sub-Saharan Africa.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h
African military history is really fucking cool and more people should get into it
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h
It's kind of funny how much Zubrin fucking hates both Trump and Musk now
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h
IMO part of is this ongoing myth that African armies haven't evolved into peer level forces
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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 11h
I guarantee you these Brereton Report rejects went "Ah, they're African, there's no way they're gonna track our UAS" not realizing that there has actually been quite a lot of proliferation of drones and associated tactics across Africa owing to, you know, the war they're being paid to fight in.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 13h
God this app is a pain in the ass. Nothing like arguing with people that are 95%+ in alignment with you politically.
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 12h
- bernard stiegler on capitalism
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 13h
Nkunda’s CNDP was 2007 or so and they’re the ones who eventually became M23 after Nkunda himself was taken off the board, but that’s also a tough transition to definitively nail down.
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David Raikow @david.raikow.online · 12h
When I was first stationed in Sudan we had a Rwandan battalion defending UN facilities in Khartoum. They did not come to play. Troop quality and readiness varies a LOT from one blue helmet unit to another. The Rwandans and the Gurkhas are pretty much always the ones you want when things go bad.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h
stupid
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