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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 17h

The Texas GOP really do have the national leader they deserve.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23h

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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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 23h

Realized the other day that Okkupert (Occupied) was on Prime and I'd never watched the third season. The series opener, I would argue, hits even harder today than in 2015.

"Near future
The US is self-sufficient in energy
Civil wars have halted oil production on the Arabian Peninsula
Europe is on the verge of an energy crisis"

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Worth noting that this data is essentially radioactive for all but a few prospective buyers. Unless you’re the MSS or the SVR and willing to buy this real quiet then work it into your prior PII datasets and/or new ops’ targeting, even expressing an interest is painting a target your back.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Their definition of “open” is that the U.S. can escort limited groups of vessels out at great expense. That is very different from what “open” meant before they started this war.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No no no no no you stop that right now

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Michael Shurkin @michaelshurkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The war has started in Ethiopia. This could easily become the worst human catastrophe of the century. I wrote this in February. The situation has become more complex, and more dangerous. shurkin.substack.com/p/the-loomin...

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The Looming Disaster in the Horn of Africa: A Primer

A major war is imminent in East Africa.

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a trip down memory lane. . .

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Average post Soviet response to this was “god damned Arabs keeping us poor and loving the Commies” which is an underrated reason for the popularity of the right.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Semi driver stops filling up his tank when it hits $1,000 "Almost thirty years of driving trucks and that's a first"

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I expect the Colby fanboys to be quiet as church mice over this development. What a travesty.

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Hirschman @contextproblem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Basically the split comes down to either you believe everyone is working for their own rational interests or you think people are way messier and weirder than that

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

21st September is the feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, who is depicted here sitting within the first word of his Gospel. BL Harley MS 2799; the 'Arnstein Bible'; c.1172; Germany, W. (Arnstein); f.155r @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a former megachurch youth pastor I can tell you that Hegseth is running the military like a megachurch youth pastor, which as a former megachurch youth pastor I can tell you is a bad idea.

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is something I've really been struck by, looking back on my (very conservative) community growing up. They would deride any college education that didn't lead to a lucrative career--while complaining about the decline of historical understanding in the culture. Well. . .

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 20/09/2026

"Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational triumphal arch!"

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Nathan @never-say-die.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Showing this image to someone on September 10th, 2001 and telling them it was caused by reality TV.

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation while it is practising iniquity and extravagance,

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm cynical enough to think this is less idiocy, more "voters won't figure out the downsides until after the mid-terms." But it could be idiocy.

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"moderator of r/doordash by the reddit username u/i_love_femboys6969 attempts to commit an act of terror on behalf of ISIS" is the most 21st century headline I've ever read.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW POST! Were cavalry always impotent? Has their importance on the battlefield been overstated? Popular fiction often seems think so! But I assure you this was not the case! matthewstienberg.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/t...

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The Impotent Horsemen

There is something of a pernicious perception in popular culture that the age of the cavalryman died somewhere in the Middle Ages and stayed dead. Sometimes this is crossed over with the advent of …

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Denise Wu @denisewu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I genuinely hope that the meeting between Trump and Xi concludes in a manner similar to this picture later this month. Neither side emerges with any tangible gains and the sole agreement between them is to engage in a public spectacle of talking to trees.

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today's a good day to remember that life is short, you don't get to pick your final hours, and spreading hate and lies about your fellow man is no way to have spent them. Even if it pays really, really well.

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Ben Horst (bluecheck.jpg) @moriamarmalade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

trump would rename niagara falls but 'america falls' sounds bad

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Oddest" sounds a little unkind, but definitely the most random was the time friends of mine in a jazz quartet were hired for a Gatsby birthday party and they paid me to come and dance. (I'd been in the Lindy Hop community for five years and was usually paying to dance, not the other way round)

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This tallies. When I was a teen, it was the oldest, most impoverished people in the church who would be sharing around their Judicial Watch mailers and talking about how they wished they could give more. Utterly predatory.

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A sequel to my Hellish Quart post the other day. . .spent a bit of my Labor Day morning climbing the leaderboards with the broadsword-and-targe-wielding Connor. Found that while the targe is super effective for blocking attacks, opponents like Sava who have a second weapon are a real challenge.

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Nobody—but nobody—in this country can tell a president of the United States that his mind is sick.” ~ Fletcher Knebel, "Night of Camp David" (1965)

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

AfD winning elections in Germany, you say?

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"The Scriptures do not use any other kind of speech than may be found in use among men, because they speak to men." ~ Augustine of Hippo, "On the Trinity"

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Civilization II. Easily the game I had the most time in, pre-Steam. Runner-up, Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I updated my book recommendation page, if you ever wanted a full list of all of the fireside recommendation books: acoup.blog/book-recomme... There are 85 of them, so you are bound to find something interesting to read (note that buying using the embedded amazon links supports the blog).

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Book Recommendation List

2026 August 14, 2026: Kori Schake, The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States (2025) July 31, 2026: Richmond Lattimore, The Iliad of Homer (1951) and The …

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I appreciate the way Hellish Quart portrays the brutal rapidity of duels vs. the more protracted affairs we all know from Hollywood, but I really, really wish it had a replay feature. Understanding why I won would be valuable, particularly when playing a new character. #gamesky

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

tbh a real argument against datacenters is that they are objectively dual-use infrastructure and most people would not like their neighborhoods to be moved up on the shortlist of targets

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm curious about Burgum's "over 125 years" reference here. Does anyone know what he's referring to?

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Im still yelling at ppl to read the best LA Noir novel in 25 years A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE by Jordan Harper. Its a tour de force of existential malaise and philosophical morality set against the Day-Glo false artifice of Hollywood, where there are no rules only prices ( thats a line from the book😎)

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