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Judt-Stancilst Rortarian. Taxation grants citizenship.
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Sam Lair
7 days ago
I wrote something for
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on CENTCOM's request for Dark Eagle. While not super useful in that theater, the flexibility its range offers means such a deployment could pose issues for Moscow. Read more here:
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Dark Eagle in the Desert | Considerations for Deploying LRHW to CENTCOM
At the end of April, Gerry Doyle at Bloomberg reported that CENTCOM had requested the deployment of Dark Eagle to the Middle East.
https://open.substack.com/pub/behindthefront/p/dark-eagle-in-the-desert-considerations?r=6o05c9&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Bill
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I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing
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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱
about 1 month ago
Damn this kinda fucks tho
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James Medlock
about 1 month ago
It's such a breath of fresh air to see
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stand against gutting our tax base.
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olive consumer
about 1 month ago
I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society. You do not want to live in that kind of society.
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george / king bore haha
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Ben Werdmuller
about 2 months ago
Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS
about 2 months ago
There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous
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airplane ian - abolish ICE
3 months ago
This is a neat project to produce tiny ADS-B receivers that can be used for just about anything, but are especially designed for fpv drone integration my ADS-B station at home is the size of a shoebox and relies on a Raspberry Pi which is pretty inefficient, love the idea of dedicated hardware
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PicoADSB - Easy Flight Tracking, No Compromises
Ultra-lightweight and miniature ADS-B receiver with 500km+ range; track flights effortlessly with plug-and-play simplicity.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lambda58/picoadsb-easy-flight-tracking-no-compromises
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Cooper Lund
3 months ago
The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
3 months ago
The message needs to resound clearly and constantly: "THESE PEOPLE STOLE YOUR FUTURE. WE ARE PUNISHING THEM FOR EVERY PENNY." And along with it, the rich will need to be soaked completely. If the middle class has to pay for a mismanaged public fisc, the rich must be devastated for it.
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Sam Lair
3 months ago
My GOAT is back!
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast
3 months ago
He fucked up and overestimated the American people. He thought voters voted for Trump because they liked and/or agreed with him but they voted for the magic money man to make them rich because girls have cooties.
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perhaps its better that some unknown known unknowns remain unknown
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Sam Lair
3 months ago
In light of everything going on, I took a look at some Iranian air defense sites and found something surprising. Namely, what appears to be S-300 launchers! This contradicts past claims they had all been destroyed. Read more on the Arms Control Wonk Blog:
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Whither the Iranian S-300?
In light of the increasing tensions between the U.S. and Iran, the expanding American regional military presence, and the talk of potential U.S. strikes as [...]
https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1221458/whither-the-iranian-s-300/
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its borb
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢
4 months ago
There is only one working class, the professional managerial class, and there is only one working class party, the Democratic party, and there is only one working class paper, the Financial Times
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Will Stancil
4 months ago
“What if your neighbor is Muslim” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Somali” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor speaks Spanish” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Hmong” They’re my neighbors
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Charlie Thomas
4 months ago
If you haven’t tried Twilight Struggle or Labyrinth I deeply recommend them.
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Secretary of Defense Rock
4 months ago
It should be noted street without joy is a banger, soup book on the other hand, not so much
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Eliot Higgins
4 months ago
We just published our full analysis of the ICE killing of Alex Pretti on Bellingcat
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
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Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting - bellingcat
Bellingcat has analysed video of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The footage appears to contradict statements made by the Department of Homeland Security.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01/25/alex-pretti-analysing-footage-of-minneapolis-cbp-shooting/
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Will Stancil
4 months ago
The world is bigger than the stories on your phone
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Will Stancil
4 months ago
Thousands and thousands and thousands of Minneapolitans putting aside their jobs, lives, their personal safety and comfort, and all their petty differences and turning up in staggering numbers, with no guarantee this nightmare will end in a week or a month or a year. They’re all heroes
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jamelle
5 months ago
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
5 months ago
Brutalizing civilians in the streets for daring to be inconvenient to Dear Leader is exactly what social ostracization is for. And for those we can prove charges against beyond a reasonable doubt, there should be jail cells ready and waiting.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
5 months ago
They put 6 kids in the ER by tossing a flashbang into their dad's car while they were in it. Periodic reminder that ICE agents' lives must be *ruined* after we get back into power. Fired for cause, names and faces publicized, banned from federal service for life, and any state services we fund.
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Michael Stahlke
6 months ago
Roman Centurion Modern Infantry 🤝 Hole
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
6 months ago
Ironically, I wouldn't move now because if I flee who will fight?
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🔫Scott Martin🛼
6 months ago
I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY
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in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.
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Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak
6 months ago
Do you or did you work at the VA?
@propublica.org
wants to hear from you...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Iz...
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Left the Department of Veterans Affairs? We Want to Hear From You.
YouTube video by ProPublica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Iz-oRb6bg
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grimm ☀️🌊🏖️
7 months ago
"The golden age of jerks" (sound on)
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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱
7 months ago
THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
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Kevin the Pikachu
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Brian Kerg
8 months ago
Request for
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help. One of my interpreters is in bureaucratic limbo with his SIV to enter the US. I'm running the traps on that. Where he needs help: Organizations that fund the execution of leaving the country - medical exams, visas to get his family to Pakistan, etc. Any ideas?
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Sam (ABeardedPanda)
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Wesley Morgan
8 months ago
Baking cakes that depict military campaigns and battles
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
8 months ago
@gregdoucette.bsky.social
we just might be getting that puritanical anti-corruption backlash I've been hoping for.
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Alex Horton
8 months ago
Do you know what this meeting is about? Get in touch on Signal:
signal.me#eu/ES70l_cAl...
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utopia deferred
8 months ago
As someone who thinks Harris would have been a pretty great president overall, it has never been more obvious how ”courage“ and “willingness to take a risk” are values, beliefs largely absent from the democratic leadership
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Certain Americans did not experience the 20th century and have doomed themselves to repeating it
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