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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 2h

The Illinois GOP senate candidate is running ads and I’m like “you have money for ads?”

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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 3h

the white sox won a playoff game

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 4h

It’s cool the president of the United States had a stroke and they covered it up!

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 7h

I think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 9h

speaking of closing tax loopholes, if the IRS was able to collect all taxes owed since 2000 it could mean today's national debt would be $8 trillion lighter some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below

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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 10h

bragging in the new york times that you have the pedagogical skills of a grad student TA

I don’t rely on prepared scripts when I teach, and few of the teachers I most admire do. Instead, I engage my seminar students through messy, searching conversation, responding to their presence in the classroom to gauge whether we’re understanding one another. I want to make new connections in the immediacy of our back-and-forth. I want to recall a thread from two class meetings ago spontaneously and weave it into my improvised lecture while snapping into new ways of thinking about it in the moment.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 10h

I know I was calling my shot here but I’m starting to believe this could be a real possibility

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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 11h

Excited to be working with Norton on two new histories of Japan! I have my work cut out for me for approximately the next decade!!

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Patrick Meyers @pmeyers7.bsky.social · 11h

What are the odds Schmitt's team placed this article with Axios, with the intent to use today's "bombshell" line of questioning as a springboard for said buzz (and then promptly stepping on the world's largest rake on live TV). Helluva way to introduce yourself to the country!

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That’s what this hubbub is about at 2:00?

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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

colby: selling weapons to taiwan vs selling weapons to china

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you make any sort of money off betting or are a sharp, they also just ban you lol

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know?

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 24/09/2026

Almost-henge. I was walking home through the Loop on Tuesday, scouting some different perspectives for the Chicagohenge sunset later that night when I came across this scene of the Sears Tower and L tracks intersecting...

A photo looking up at the Sears Tower with L tracks in the foreground. A portion of a passing L train is visible. Between the CTA train and the skyscraper is a bright starburst from the sun beaming directly into the camera

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In which I explain one of the many WWII myths that I still see coming up even in 2026. That the intact Zero captured in the Aleutian Islands in July 1942 had a great deal of influence on the design and testing of the Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat. Turns out that wasn't really the case. My latest⬇️

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Research Update #5 The Myth of the F6F-3 Hellcat and Captured Zero — Secretary of Defense Rock

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Research Update #5 The Myth of the F6F-3 Hellcat and Captured Zero — Secretary of Defense Rock

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 24/09/2026

If you appreciate my work I would greatly support! Not mandatory and all of it goes towards my fund to move out of Texas and also prepare for grad school.

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Emissary of Night is writing about US foreign affairs

I analyze and write about US Palestinian relations, among other things

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This election cycle really is going to be a choose your own adventure eh

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Sir, another NYT focus group rage bait article has hit the timeline”

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m not opposed to greater scrutiny of officers as they become generals/admirals, American high command certainly has its problems. But evaluating their tactical acumen is folly from the start. That’s neither been the problem nor the role of modern generalship. foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/12/t...

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The End of the Fighting General

America’s top brass should abandon dreams of battlefield glory—and focus on paperwork instead.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t think tactical proficiency is a problem in the American military

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