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Grande Chefe

@strategicchancla.bsky.social
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M.A. in Nat Sec, Floridian, Latino American 🇧🇷, just here for the bad IR takes, will probably contribute a few of my own Transitioned from the old bird account, @tacticalchancla

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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“For four decades, the United States has run one of the most profitable trades in the world economy… import young people that the global labor market has underpriced—graduate students whose ability outruns their résumés—give them a place to prove themselves, and keep much of the upside”
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This is actually false. The Taliban movement was organized by the ISI in 1994 to simplify trucking bribes/taxes and to keep India out of their rear area.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s worse than that — Keeperman is saying that assimilation is impossible because Of their skin color.
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Michael Flynn @flynnpolsci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s not great that the secretary of defense seems to overwhelmingly base his policy priorities on his insecurities, animosoties, personal prejudices, and cartoonish understanding of the world and the military’s relations to society and foreign policy.
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Who are you Sec Def for, Argentina?
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Then this Cornell thing is gonna slap 30 more years onto his ugly ass
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You will notice that at no point in this thread is there any engagement with actual Israeli policy, or the response of various Palestinian national movements, or how international law should be applied, etc, because it's mostly about his discursive enemies, rather than anything real or concrete.
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Florida, we have a chance
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's discourse had me going back to this old piece
motherjones.com
How Joe Biden became America's top Israel hawk
The president once said “Israel could get into a fistfight with this country and we’d still defend" it. That is now clearer than ever.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026
Once you start playing a Control game you can see the FBC everywhere
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This would be sick af if Biden wasn't basically giving Israel rather good Christmas gifts besides the unicorn pony of "bomb Iran". Biden was the best Dem Israel could ask for, they got away with a lot
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.
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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Next time I fuck up and manage to get something done last minute I’m telling people “it was not intelligence-led”
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026
Great conversation. Dylan is doing the work. We talk about the toll of that towards the end of the episode.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the thing with luxury condos is that they're mostly a myth. 1. within the same county, condos sell for 35% less than single family homes 2. within the same neighborhood, they sell for 43% less 3. within the same neighborhood and adjusting for some quality characteristics, they sell for 21% less
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tired: Being 6 and having an imaginary friend Wired: Being 36 and believing your chatbot has feelings and deserves rights
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bashir: Victory is statistically impossible, there is no path to winning this war! Section 31's Bioweapon Division:
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Really? Are You Sure?
ALT: Really? Are You Sure?
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These voter aren't much better than Trump. Anyone arriving across in trouble or from poor, brown countries are bad ones until it's someone they know personally.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
wild scenes out of Springfield, Missouri. Two people were arrested for trying to voice concerns about Flock cameras. Video of it is in the story
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Woman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock Cameras
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council...
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 23/09/2026
Transing your kids? In this economy?! I can barely afford to trans MYSELF!
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s essentially a high tech version of what they arrested Rodrigo Duterte for
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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If Schumer or Jeffries or Hochul or any other NY Dem attended an event with Donald Trump like this and said this quote the DSA would light DNC headquarters on fire.
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
watching initial d on one monitor and cuomo crashouts on the other
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
so much of teen takeover discourse fundamentally comes down to the fact that people want to ignore the fact that basically now more than every american socialization is at all time lows so when youth do socialize, it's usually in forms people dislike www.axios.com/2026/07/05/a...
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Americans of all ages are spending less time socializing
It's a fundamental shift in the way we live our lives that has implications for everything from what we believe to how long we live.
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just perfectly distilled today's stupid discourse. Excellent
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Between the killing of DTIC and now CASI, DOD really trying to kill any and all scholarship on war, I’m sure that’ll work out smartly!
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I keep seeing Die Linke described as “far-left”. They’re not! They‘re just left! It’s just that the general political tide is so far out to the right that to most pundits they look like Che Guevara.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is quite /literally/ what racists say about brown migrants in Europe.
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Incredibly funny that only the Paul brothers, not the ostensible political professionals, have a good suit fit AND know to pair black shoes with dark suits
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🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦🇻🇪 Chappell's Femininomenology of Spirit @ofvick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trans rights are a front of the struggle of our time the same way Ukraine is, and if you don't think that consider that Russia and its allies *do* and are committing resources to that end
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Biden ended the War in Afghanistan and effectively ended the drone war. Meanwhile, Iran didn't see a modern American bomber in their skies until last year and Trump 1 saw fit to kill an Iranian military leader in peace time.
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 20/09/2026
I honestly can’t think of a better metaphor than the Department of War inviting a guy who padded his boxing records with scrubs right until he got hospitalized by someone who could actually fight
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Last Thursday, we welcomed Logan and Jake Paul to the Pentagon to meet with our warriors.
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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Richard Grenell “pursued a plan…to replace works in the center’s art collection, including gifts from foreign nations honoring Kennedy, with art selected by Trump patrons. ‘You can definitely start sending stuff back to the countries who donated it now,’ Mr. Grenell said in an email…”
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Resident Evil (sponsored by 9mm Parabellum) was a great time, a well directed film adaptation of a game. I take issue with the ending, but it doesn't take away from the journey
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nah, fuck that. I say this from the position of a IR nerd, global conflict (WWIII? Chill, man) isn't somehow draining political capital on Trans issues or vice versa. We can multitask, especially when the source of both is reactionary, regressive politics
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
El-Sayed: You know, with a name like mine, I never expected to run for office. It is 11 letters long. Donald Trump is a genius and he does not know how to say it Crowd: *laughs*
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I hope folks in an around U Chicago's political science department repeatedly remind this man what a stupid asshole he is.
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Grande Chefe @strategicchancla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If these guys aren't running regularly, they aren't beating the average high school track competitor. Wild sexism to think they can take on a professional athlete
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/09/2026
Mamdani is a superb administrator, it turns out, at least by the standards of NYC mayors www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
nyc.gov
More Affordable, Safer, Better Run: Mayor Mamdani’s First Management Report Shows ‘Pothole Politics’ is Working Across City Government
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
its become bluesky lib common wisdom that the strike on the school definitely cant be a war crime. But like the UN report, and 100 US legal scholars, including former JAGs and mil people. Agree that it couldve been
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