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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2h

Putting Mecca and Medina under Hashemite stewardship would be really amusing

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 15h

Lots of lessons to be learned from the afghanistan withdrawal but this was an important one.

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SURVIVE WITHOUT OUR
HELP THEIR ENTIRE AIR
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ONCE WE PULL CONTRACTORS
OUR PARTNERS CANT
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ONCE WE PULL CONTRACTORS
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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 2h

Someday someone is gonna write a comparative study on Vassal relations throughout history and they’re gonna need a whole chapter on “that thing where the vassal state somehow is allowed to export Israeli Nationalism to the United States where it is used to legitimate Protestant rule”

JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 6h

I think it's wild that Netanyahu completely controls our domestic discourse with willing participants not just on the right, but also apparently on the left

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 6h

Genuinely don’t think our political discourse is capable of talking about how Donald Trump—*Donald Trump*—just halted an ongoing genocide.

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 2h

Going back in time to 2000 to tell myself that the neoconservatives actually believe in what they're saying about a desire for a rules-based international order founded upon classical liberal ideas and watching my brains splatter all over the walls

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2h

A notice from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.

Will run in newspapers across the nation.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 5h

Not really a sign guy, but I’ll be there, with my small children

Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 5h

It’s easy to get boomer retirees to mobilize - its up to all of us on Bluesky to make sure that the 38 year olds get out there as well

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

i do think it's important to note that liberal boomer pilates grandmas have *already* been showing up in pretty huge numbers to protests for a long time (and do a lot of other non-glamorous organizing)-they're way down there on the list of demographics who need extra encouragement to get out there

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Marble Liberal @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 20h

Half of Europe, 1620

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · May 8

help help i'm being negatively polarized into communion with the apostolic see

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Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬 @badtoss.bsky.social · 21h

that Walter Reed visit must have been baaaaad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 1d

I'm loving this Pope.

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Carthaged @carthaged.bsky.social · 1d

I would be so excited to read the Kristol/Kagan one. Ever since I found out Gertrude Himmelfarb was the number one neo Victorian I’ve wanted to know what that meant for young William

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 1d

Moore: "Don't delude yourself it's good to build the Torment Nexus"

Thiel: "got it. Make sure it's a Christian Torment Nexus"

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

I finally read that Peter Thiel essay about Alan Moore's WATCHMEN, and it's incredible that his actual argument is: "Moore argues that Ozymandias will fail because history defeats all world conquerers, and no victory is permanent. But maybe I, Peter Thiel, am built different?"

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1d

"peter thiel releases a bad Watchmen essay" feels like a cruel joke on every nerdy person who does serious analysis and knows who he is

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

I think, in the long term, historians will view the executive branch seizing unilateral control of the power of the purse as the the inevitable result of decades of legislative dysfunction.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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