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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 2h

As Madison said, "ambition must be made to counteract ambition." What if the ambition is just to be on the team in charge?

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 12h

Baseball bat was underappreciated by guys like this

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 23h

On the other hand, her sharing her views on this has pretty much never made her look appealing to normies.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Columbus Day became a Federal Holiday because of Italian American lobbying though. The story they tell within that Sopranos episode is true, but the point of the episode is "what does poor Italian immigrants have to do with you" in Tony's speech at the end of the episode.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Or induce Lockheed (or someone but not GDIT please) to buy Palantir

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That doesn't make sense at all. There are lots of positions, you can be second, or third, or fourth. Hell, you can even be fifth!

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I mean this kindly: do we know yet that he is so effective? He's good at getting in your and my feed and we like what he's saying, but I at least don't live in Georgia. I hope the polling is on for him, but we need to see him outperform similar Dems to conclude that this is effective electorally.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I suspect like any number of Roman Senators who forgot their own family history of non-citizenship, Rubio would accept a sharply reduced "individualism" characterized by a non-majority of citizens living in a broader population with few of their rights.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's the SAME thing! It's always the same thing

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Read a book on navigation once where they told about a study that showed GPS users couldn't remember directions. Okay, no surprise. But then they made a "GPS" that gave directions by landmarks and unusual sights and it led to exact recall sometimes even on one trip.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Omg, I didn't know anyone else had ever heard of that movie. Swing on this!

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OMG, do we have to do this? Everything the Army says they don't want is not waste and corruption if they get it. In fact, in this case, it's widely assumed the Army is encouraging AM General to go get these for them.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Specifically, so violators can be held and dealt with at a different standard than Article III courts! If it were a crime they couldn't do all this stuff

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still love my pet theory that they fed it into an LLM and asked for connections to Fanny Willis and it took basketball game, Atlanta Hawks, and Clark County from the show Atlanta and spit out the most hilarious Senate moment in years.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's a mixed bag. Staff and Senators are in the clutches of the same information environment as all of us. With the Pentagon having broken off relations with Democratic offices, the trust deficit means that people will lean towards their inclinations. And their reward structure with their voters.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"tried to lure people in" is a preposterous take when "ran out of ideas" and "corporate suits wanted to cultivate the returned Trump Admin for merger approval whose online cretins were angry at Stacey Abrams being in episode 1" are right there

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You are very generous with believing so many are persuadable and not 1) engagement trolls, 2) actual witting or unwitting supporters of foreign adversaries, or 3) lonelies swept up in believing something. But then someone shows up and actually does want to think about things so who knows

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the worst thing you can do is to base your values on what you think the public wants, the second-worst thing you can do is convince yourself that the public really shares your values and is being betrayed. People are simply not consistent enough or knowledgeable enough en masse to say this.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gently, the "hurr durr" is meant for a specific brand of armchair lawyer he has been wrapped in mortal keyboard combat with for weeks now, who does not care for the children. Thanks for trying to help us remember the humans who keep getting forgotten otherwise.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's hard to admit that I am taking this personally

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes it's as simple as the committees assign staffers a functional portfolio and they start thinking all functional. This was the case with both space and cyber, and we got space force, and they still want cyber force.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Totally, it's not like this is music

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think the biggest damage has been to the immunity the U.S. military picked up from the general public from 2001-2024 of being perceived as impartial and reliably professional. A LOT of normie Dems I knew were afraid of pushing things to politicize the military (e.g., backing Durbin cig ban at px)

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This was Strange New Worlds through two seasons and then it took a hard turn into fan service, call backs, and interpersonal relationships. That's either because that's what audiences watch these days, or what studios think they watch, or what fascist-appeasing suits at Paramount thinks helps

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Funniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Grassley is a huge Caitlin Clark fan and you can see how smart Jack Smith is when he refuses to correct "Hawkeyes" but keeps mentioning the unfriendly chair's favorite player while everyone else puts together the pieces.

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We've wreaked generational damage on the US, killed millions worldwide, & crucially killed countless Palestinian civilians by electing Trump & all because Joe Biden revealed certain folks fantasy-version of middle east relations weren't real.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Atlantis on the Pad - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/a3feXb

The shuttle Atlantis awaits on Pad 39A after RSS retraction on July 7, 2011. It successfully launched the following morning at 11:29 am for the final flight of the shuttle program.

© Jason Major
www.lightsinthedark.com

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don't back down, commit to this from here on out. F'n Baku posters, man

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Perpetually amazed at how so many people can be deeply invested in defending someone they don't know from allegations from people who do know them and yet... Can't understand how someone like Trump can "fool" so many people who don't follow the news. It's all hard-wired people!

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's also always the possibility that the debate was an anomaly, since going into it Republicans wanted him drug tested for brain improvement drugs or some nonsense based on his State of the Union just a few months earlier.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In Congress, it gained popularity in GWOT era as a way to differentiate between long-lead acquisition programs to address geostrategic needs and acquisition systems that could immediately help respond to IEDs or logistical vulnerabilities in the ongoing wars

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It could also say something about our cognitive need to recognize danger patterns honed over millions of years of evolution and now exploited by people in a little computer in our pocket

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pray That I Do Not Alter It Further: The Evolution of Uniform Cuts from Republic to Empire to Invent a Fascist Profile

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unfortunately, there's no causal link in this article independent of a guy trying to cut a plea deal and has lied about tons of things. The article unveils two major scandals: cutting the anti-corruption unit and how much political fundraising is a scam, but chases something not substantiated.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Man, I am only guessing I know who "we" are in this based on the last week of discourse, but this could apply to any group on Blue Sky, from cyclists, to housing advocates, to Star Trek fans, and so on. It really is the medium or what the algorithm selects to show in the medium.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No, he has no plan, he can't think longer than the next diet coke

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

*dem pols do stuff to win that isn't what would win my vote, even though I already vote for them and live in a major east coast metropolitan area that hasn't elected a Republican since Lincoln

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Good thing there's not a major airport landing path right there too

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