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Ric Stubbs

@stubbazubba.bsky.social
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National security lawyer (all views strictly my own), TTRPG enthusiast, Tolkien lover, occasional songwriter, and a partridge in a pear tree. He/him. Cover photo: Sunrise over Lac Saguay, QC, CAN, New Year's Day 2026.

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Michael Flynn @flynnpolsci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For a man who spends so much time harping on lethality and military efficacy he spends remarkably little time explaining how anything he’s doing comes remotely close to advancing those goals and receives astoundingly little pressure to do so in public spaces.
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Will Yale @wayale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is extremely unfortunate and regrettable that the Department of the Air Force has decided to shutter the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI). CASI, along with its sister institutions the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC), and…
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Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The thing about having kids is that you have to feed them EVERY SINGLE DAY. Like, in a row. All year! You'd think getting a 360 out of 365 would be a 99% success rate and an A+, but noooope. Anyway. I have no idea what to make for dinner.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"As it has evolved, the warrior ethos glamorizes the prowess of the individual warrior in a way that starkly contradicts the professional, ethical, and organizational nature of military service and modern warfare. " www.usni.org/magazines/pr...
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Where Exactly Has the Warrior Ethos Gotten Us?
The Marine Corps should revive its traditional ethos, emphasizing professional competence, readiness, honor, courage, and commitment for the demands of modern warfare.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Every 2 years, Republicans roll out culture wars & lies to US workers to secure their votes to acquire power to enrich themselves and their wealthy cronies during the other 724 days until the next election when they run the playbook again with Fox as their Ministry of Propaganda.
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Nancy Roth @nrothont.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Gift article 🎁 wapo.st/4x0p3pf
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Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I never would have predicted that cutting 20% of the staff at the federal agency that makes sure our food is safe would result in a bunch of our food being declared unsafe.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/08/2026
I have really enjoyed the experience of reading story after story about how good and selfless and beloved a recently deceased famous person was
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Before last year, there were no US measles deaths in a decade, and now we have had 5 deaths in two years. Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but will lose that status this year. This is an abject failure of public health leadership.
Chart: Annual US measles cases
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democracy4u.bsky.social @democracy4u.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It only took 19 months for RFK Jr to turn the once safe US food supply into a game of gastrointestinal Russian Roulette.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Reverend Aiden @sweetfnlucifer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Good morning. Just a friendly reminder that Ghislaine Maxwell is currently protected, enjoying pampering and puppy time while America's service members are forced to drink diseased water, eat rotten meat, and huff air infested by mold. She does yoga while they choose drowning.
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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Don't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/08/2026
Can I get an amen?
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Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A deeply insightful perspective. While fascist narratives and Tolkien's legendarium both exalt an imagined past, their respective relationships to that exalted, imagined past are diametrically opposed and suggest radically different moral values.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
One of the worst things about the Senate’s attempted Fauci show trial is how the supposed evidence against him is early in COVID he considered multiple hypotheses, then increasingly ruled some unlikely as evidence came in. The objection is he did science. Fundamentally that is what’s under attack.
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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I feel attacked #booksky
You’re doing a lot of scrolling for someone who has a book to read
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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The Smithsonian had been planning the DC celebrations for a decade, but all those plans were canceled at the last minute in favor of the disaster the Administration cobbled together at the last minute.
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good grief, this hits home.
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Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"None of the arguments made against transgender people, including those in the military, were made in good faith. They were always designed to ultimately remove transgender people from public life." This is made so painfully obvious every day. If you're OK with that end, you're not a moderate.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/07/2026
“of course there’s a valid dialogue over whether this is ‘DEI casting,’ I don’t subscribe to it myself but it’s a real debate” no, it’s gutter racism with no place in polite society and you would see that if you weren’t spending all your time hanging out in the gutter
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The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Get 'em, Judge Reyes.
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/07/2026
merino going full SCOTT STERLING on that messi shot
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Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Critical 🧵!
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Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
French goalkeeper must be hungover, right?
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 16/07/2026
TFW the White House threatens Americans to shut our mouths or they will spill blood
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/07/2026
"gamergate but about the odyssey's movie reviews" we are absolutely not doing this
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 15/07/2026
Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug 1855
How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal except negroes." When the Know-nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty,--to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
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Kevin Tompkins @ktompkinsii.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Me: "It's time to start eating healthy." Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!" Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill was such a great actor and person that things like Possession or his almost-casting as James Bond are footnotes. That's how good he was. This one hurts.
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 13/07/2026
Live a life where people talk about you after you die like they do Sam Neil.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Miami weather is hard on frost giants
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The Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don't settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world." — President Obama
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/07/2026
BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
if the state party committee doesn't think they have a lowercase-d democratic mandate from party members to manage the party's affairs, then what are they there for
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Ric Stubbs @stubbazubba.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It sadly doesn't matter if the US wins tonight. A victory tonight won't be earned the same way everyone else's have been. Trump and FIFA ruined it. In the same way Cape Verde already won the WC, the US has already lost it. All we can hope is that the US won't take other countries down with it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"the last two decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence have tended systematically to corrupt American democracy across a variety of related issues: campaign finance (including last week’s decision), presidential immunity, and, of course, the prosecution of bread-and-butter political corruption."
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cape Verdeans are now honorary Philadelphians because that was basically ROCKY. They weren't "supposed" to be there, much less going the distance with the champions and the GOAT, who had to give it everything they've got just to eek out a win in overtime. Bravo.
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We are ruled by airport books
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