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@mulletjedi.bsky.social

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Retired USAF & former Federal government geopolitical & military war game analyst. Literally born by the DC Beltway. Earned college credits for my Political Science degree while en-utero. FYI, if you can’t tell, I love the movie Hunt for Red October.

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mulletjedi.bsky.social @mulletjedi.bsky.social · 1d

You will be batting a thousand today if those same people take off their shoes and socks once seated.

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mulletjedi.bsky.social @mulletjedi.bsky.social · 1d

Have a good time and maybe stop by a Tim Hortons and a raise a donut and a cup of coffee for freedom. I haven’t had one since I was last in Toronto on a high school band trip in the early 90s and it was a teenagers dream for food staples. Donut and pizza places all over the city.

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Sarah Rumpf @rumpfshaker.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never been so proud to be a tiny bit Norwegian 😁

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“I want my tween daughters to have at least a sense of what was on television in what they regard as antiquity, the 20th century,” John McWhorter writes.

Opinion | These Are the 10 Old Television Series Every Kid Needs to Watch

Here’s the list of ancient shows I inflict on my daughters. What’s yours?

nyti.ms

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mulletjedi.bsky.social @mulletjedi.bsky.social · 3d

Literally at the Doc office now getting the flu shot. Doc will prescribe me the Covid booster if the pharmacy requires it since they don’t have any at the moment.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

This is so dark

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 4d

The Insurrection Act has been a ticking authoritarian time bomb. just waiting for someone like Trump to come along to set it off. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Yes, Of Course, Trump Will Invoke the Insurrection Act

“Absolutely there are people that I don’t like.

open.substack.com

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mulletjedi.bsky.social @mulletjedi.bsky.social · 6d

So he basically turned into Al Bundy

a man is standing in front of a couch in a living room .

ALT: a man is standing in front of a couch in a living room .

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mulletjedi.bsky.social @mulletjedi.bsky.social · 6d

It should be noted to those new people that there is a lot of writing stored in that archive.

a warehouse filled with lots of boxes and a person walking through it

ALT: a warehouse filled with lots of boxes and a person walking through it

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 6d

I also suspect that they have no vocabulary to fill in the spots between "democratic government" and "fascism." Political scientists develop entire typologies of authoritarianism the same way oncologists differentiate and stage cancers. But most folks just assume "fascism" means "not democracy"

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

I think part of the problem here is that people is emotional linguistics: people think if you are saying it’s not fascism you’re saying it’s not bad. We like to think if something is bad than any word that’s bad should apply to it. Like RICO.

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mulletjedi.bsky.social @mulletjedi.bsky.social · 7d

Pretty sure none of us within the USA would be able to freely complain about fascism on Bluesky if we were currently living in a fascist state.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 7d

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

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mulletjedi.bsky.social @mulletjedi.bsky.social · 7d

With their over the top responses to non-violent encounters, they appear to be on a mission to discourage future peaceful protests from occurring. Thus they eventually get what they (Miller/Trump) want by ensuring that the only type of protester that shows up are those seeking a fight.

occurring.by

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9d

FYI

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d

“GoodFellas: He-Man edition”:

#NowGoGetYourShinebox 👟
@michaelsantoli.bsky.social

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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mulletjedi.bsky.social @mulletjedi.bsky.social · 10d

And when he does, Tom orders the Ted Danson (Cheers edition).

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 11d

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

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mulletjedi.bsky.social @mulletjedi.bsky.social · 14d

Hmmm, and I can just imagine how little any of this will be examined by Jake Tapper and the non-Fox news media outlets the way Biden was.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 14d

As I mentioned earlier, his Trump Social feed has been batshit crazy the last week or so. Is anyone going to say anything about this?

This is especially weird since it's an AI video of himself making a looney promise to create an alternative Medbed Medical system. WTF???

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 14d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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mulletjedi.bsky.social @mulletjedi.bsky.social · 14d

Having worked on many moons ago the KC/RC-135 variants of the 707 airframe that the E-3 also uses (before engine upgrades) the TF-33 engine is nearly as loud and whiny as Trump himself.

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mulletjedi.bsky.social @mulletjedi.bsky.social · 16d

No idea on Quantico where they fit everyone in the same room.

Might as well have been a video teleconference

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Allie-gata #Resists @alliegata.bsky.social · 17d

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