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Author of the novel, EX SUPRA. Buy it here: www.amazon.com/Ex-Supra-Tony-Stark/… Sequel: Duality, coming soon. Substack: Breaking Beijing. Podcast: WarTalk (ChinaTalk)

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm a normal person. literacy is important. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
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Into the Breach
Explaining the Challenges of the Modern Combined Arms Operation
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“We’re discontinuing the McRib”
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*Paparo having a drink on the beach with a copy of his Time magazine article open, his entire fleet tasked to CENTCOM* *J2 appears* “Sir the Speaker just said Taiwan needs to be independent.” *Pappy jumps to his feet* “I’m back, baby!…err I mean, oh fuck.”
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh this will go over well
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bernie making pisspoor personnel choices?? Bernie listening to cranks????
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The funny thing is Bridge could actually save some face in the community if he resigned over this. If he had any political instincts.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gonna make this a big ole floor poster for every senate confirmation hearing in 2029.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
in response to all the deranged biphobia of the last week, it's time to watch the most bisexual film ever made
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this used to bother me but its best to consider it like a free early warning service, as in if you see anyone even tentatively agree with these sorts of opinions you take off like usain bolt
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
UGV air assault and ambush setting conditions for large scale ground maneuver. It’s weird, I keep being told the autonomy and robotics aren’t there for these things to be happening.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“The authors of this paper would like to declare they have 3 brain cells and lack object permanence.”
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Paul Szoldra @paulszoldra.com · 26/09/2026
The systems haven't gone rogue. The CEOs of the companies overseeing these systems did not set proper safeguards. They are responsible for what happens in their companies. Humans are held to account, not some random computer that's 'gone rogue.'
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They’re only sunny side up when they’re inverted
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I know on the show today I said House +20 and Senate +4 at least but if they keep it up they’ll manage a supermajority swing.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sorry did someone say toxic job interview discourse
Dom
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 26/09/2026
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduces a bill to bar the federal government from equipping sensitive government systems with Chinese optical transceivers (Alexandra Alper/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Top ten industrial use is maybe technically true but meaningless substantively. Water is agriculture and everything else.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You’re gonna see a house supermajority like never before
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Called it months ago on WarTalk when Ely came on. It’s a bullshit detente. This is all nonsense.
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the summit didn't do shit lol
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Also applies to the CCP
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Men only want one thing
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NPR @npr.org · 25/09/2026
The Pacific Ocean has had an unusual number of storms this year, while the Atlantic hasn't recorded a single full-blown hurricane. Scientists point to an exceptionally strong El Niño. n.pr/4hgxKqY
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The Pacific is churning with hurricanes. The Atlantic is quiet. Blame El Niño
The Pacific Ocean has had an unusual number of storms this year, while the Atlantic hasn't recorded a single full-blown hurricane. Scientists point to an exceptionally strong El Niño.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This week on WarTalk: We talk Xi-Trump summit, Paparo on the cover of Time, the midterms, manned-unmanned teaming, an AI Force and more: open.substack.com/pub/chinatal...
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WarTalk: Potemkin Pacific, Midterm Budget Woes
Every service for themselves + autonomy
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Elman Steven @esteven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Western Massachusetts Lesbian Bar Scandal" Arlo Guthrie's finest song.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol this is wholly wrong: “The hybrid fleet concept is strategically justifiable, but it rests on a deeply technology-centric assumption that conflates pure digital processing with physical robotics.”
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remember when he and Putin got caught on a mic and Putin was rambling about how biotechnology was going to let people live forever and Xi was trying to make small talk.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here to serve man
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Diverted” Great reminder of the shitton of shenanigans that are ongoing with a real peer threat that we just ignore.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Vibes are gonna shift hard
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is worth everyone’s time to read: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Trouble With the Nuclear-AI Analogy
In humanity’s quest to constrain the dangers from fast-advancing artificial intelligence, many have looked to the most revolutionary technology that preceded it: nuclear weapons.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Couldn’t waterboard this out of me
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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is awful. CASI does excellent work and put on the best PLA course in DC.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
True decisive battle has never been tried
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Let me be the first to assure you politics sickos that war sucks shit. It is very much Not Good. Which is all the more reason that you should study it, understand it, prepare for it, and get good at it. Because it will come for you, as sure as the sun rises in the east, and then it will be too late
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The cyberpunk part of this is that since his son plays in the league he implicitly wants you to gamble on his son
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Ginn, Qui-Gon, and Juice @quigonginnandjuice.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
top screen "Ex Supra" a novel by Tony Stark

bottom screen Marty McFly "Hey' I've seen this one!"
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not a lot of “new info” China policy discussion these days but we’ve got some here
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am simply asking politicians to stop perpetuating the evil bisexual stereotype.
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Gerald C Brown @geraldcbrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Was great jumping on China Talk and getting to chat the PLA, Taiwan, bureaucracy, and a whole range of things. Give it a listen if you've got some time.
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This week on WarTalk: @geraldcbrown.bsky.social joins the show to talk the PLA’s 2027 goals, purges, nuclear deterrence, and military doctrine vs reality! open.spotify.com/episode/79qA...
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WarTalk: PLA, 2027, Nukes, and the Pivot to Asia Pirouette
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This article is really burying the lede which is not that the AI did anything surprising but that rotten culture and bad operational habits get accelerated at machine speed. “Did you interrogate the analysis before you launched the mission” “Why would we do that” www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
huh
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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Damn right. www.defensenews.com/news/your-mi...
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US Marine Stand-In Forces in the Pacific worry China, report details
The Marine Corps' plan to reorganize for small-unit expeditionary warfare has sparked concern among some Chinese naval officers, a recent report details.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If there's a common thread to a lot of the people Russia likes to connect with as part of this chud internationale thing, it's that they really like people who hate LGBTQ+ issues
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
yeah I have been thinking about this a lot I suspect a big focus from the beginning has been to avoid any losses or setbacks at all--which explains the heavy reliance on standoff weapons meant for a Big War. so in this lens, waking up secdef kind of makes sense
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
*Castiel swiping through Hinge* “Dean, these women can’t all be the silliest goose.”
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Gerald C Brown @geraldcbrown.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Excited to spend the next year at @cfr.org shining a little more light on some of the challenges we face in the Pacific. www.cfr.org/articles/cfr...
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CFR Welcomes 2026–27 Class of Visiting Fellows | Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) welcomes the 2026–27 visiting fellows to the David Rockefeller Studies Program. Selected fellows have the opportunity to broaden their perspective on foreign aff...
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