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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

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Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion

The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

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Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War

Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.

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Max Aemilius @upontherocks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Isn't there a post midterm tripwire for medicade, medicare etc... do the media not want to discuss? seems relevant.

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Max Aemilius @upontherocks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Gov't directed oil price controls, gov't directed retail gas controls, gov't directed beef price controls. But those Dem socialists who want to help the middle class are Communists! OK buddy, but can you please lower the price of coffee so I can swill a bit more, and hustle grind to keep up?

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Max Aemilius @upontherocks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Love finding these gems, in context, on bluesky "Some kinds of loneliness are good actually."

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Max Aemilius @upontherocks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is something that I really think needs to be accepterd more broadly. This is key, IMO.

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Max Aemilius @upontherocks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Teeing up the NFL owners for a shakedown.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller made clear there must be no retreat: “One of the hallmarks of left-wing violence and terrorism is its completely pre-textual and disingenuous appeal to civil liberties in an effort to shield its own violence… When the leftist — who does not believe in freedom, who does not believe in civil rights, who does not believe in any ordinary notion of justice — protests that we are violating his rights, understand the he is lying to try to persuade people who are not closely following the political scene that some injustice has perpetrated against him. We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Norway need to just bang it in to the big men for 15 mins

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/07/2026

My friend just texted me "no goal is offsides on stolen land" 😭😭😭

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

that’s just the botox

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Megyn Kelly has law degree and was an attorney at Jones Day

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

“What is your basis for saying she puts roast beef in her pockets and in her pants?” I don’t even know where to begin. You just have to read these two pages.

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A She was upset. She was jealous.
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And it's the reason why she ended up getting divorced from her husband, Perry, who I know. 'Cause when -- at the time, during my campaign, they were married, and they came to my event. And it's well-known. And she's even admitted to it that they got divorced because of her marital infidelity. So --
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Hugh JoLady @keepinitrealkat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

"Over the next ten years, the trade deals will actually cost the US an estimated $7.26 trillion. That’s kind of the opposite of “new money coming in.” And that, my dear reader, is why you don’t let people who don’t understand how math works run the economy."

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Max Aemilius @upontherocks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We are defunding their health care, right?

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Jim Ray @jimray.net · 21/07/2025

When I point out this sounds like the dumbest AI apocalypse — execs writing 3 bullet points for the AI to turn into a company wide email that workers then use AI to summarize into 3 bullet points — folks get quiet.

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#TeslaTakedown LA @teslatakedownla.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Dashcam from “full self-driving” Tesla shows crash resulting in death, life-altering injuries for those NOT driving the Tesla. How our politicians can continue allowing this scam software on public roads is beyond me. Get it off our streets! www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... #BoycottTesla

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Seth Klamann @sethklamann.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The Trump appointee-turned-consultant who last week asked Republican clerks for election access had previously offered to get counties removed from Trump’s “sanctuary jurisdiction list” — if the counties agreed to pay him a “one-time low payment.” www.denverpost.com/2025/07/18/c...

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For a ‘low payment,’ consultant offered to get Colorado counties off Trump’s list of sanctuary jurisdictions

“When I received this email, I was floored. … I saw it as the single most corrupt shakedown attempt that I’ve ever experienced, personally, in Colorado politics,” a Jeffco c…

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Organization for Accessible Journalism @accessiblejournalism.org · 14/07/2025

EAPM is a nonprofit out to make journalism more accessible. Apparently it's "progressive" to be into things like accessibility for and inclusion of disabled people. Who knew? (We closed down our twitter account a few months ago. No big deal because we never found our place there anyway.)

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Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

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Max Aemilius @upontherocks.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Noem is incompetent, lying, and over budget by $1B. She is funding ICE with FEMA $, while abandoning citizens in distress. She is not cost cutting, she's over spending. She prefers terror over disaster response. Texans can get fucked so long as she can fight a race war.

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Max Aemilius @upontherocks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Phil is frekin legend! Crazy thread

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11/07/2025

Lavrov went from Rubio to North Korea.

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Kristaps Andrejsons @theeasternborder.lv · 05/07/2025

And this is why I'm trying to reach out to US PolSci academia. We've learned to deal with such stuff. Putin's been like this for years, and he also believes that laws don't apply to him. He lives by 'Ponyatiya' instead. Here's my Foreign Policy article on this. foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/16/r...

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Russia’s Convict-Soldiers Have Their Own Brutal Rules

The recruitment of prisoners via the Wagner Group has boosted manpower but cost morale.

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Wilhelmus Janus @wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Side-note: A search on that keyword 'Ponyatiya' led me to another brilliant article, by Michael Idov, New York Mag, on the general Russian culture of cynical distrust of government, predicting the same for USA, notably 6 years prior to your article (2023), DJT-1 era: nymag.com/intelligence... #1/4

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Lessons From Putin’s Russia for Living in Trump’s America

Once you lose faith in one institution, you start to lose faith in them all.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Reflection of the state of centralized media that the only reliable source we have for neighborhood-specific, timely reporting of ICE raids in LA is an outlet that used to be mostly a food account.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Our commitment to one another and compassion may be the biggest weapon we've got against the fear L.A. is being targeted with. We've gotten dozens of questions about how you can help, including where to volunteer. We heard you, and we answered. lataco.com/los-angeles-...

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/07/2025

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

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