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Purely PSK 💚💙🏈🫶👠👑
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Montanan now home. Philosopher Queen. Diva. Foodie. Shoes. Not my first rodeo. Act III
Learning, charitable discussion, exploring ideas. No BS. Every day is Ethics Day! Military Ethicist. Books #OnObedience #Achilles
I say what I want.
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I think each individual has their pathway to whatever they define as success.

Perhaps the one thing that makes me feel most successful (and never fails to make me feel that way) is my students, my thesis graduates, those whose work and brains I have molded and those I have helped succeed.
January 31, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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This is not a humble-brag thread, it's more a recognition of how much spite has motivated me.

I wanted to succeed IN SPITE of what everyone else told me.

"You have too many research interests. Tenure committees won't respect that."

"You've worked across too many research areas/fields"
January 31, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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The veteran / military component of QAnon - like Skull Games (or the Proud Boys or Patriot Prayer to an extent) - was also about expressly shielding law enforcement and the protestant church from scrutiny.

They were a Praetorian Guard for the worst criminals.
Qanon existed as a kind of cognitive dissonance movement for child abusers and guys who mainline csam to not think of themselves as monsters
Qanon was never about taking down actual pedophiles and pursuing justice for victims. It was about smearing any and all prominent liberal figures while protecting and empowering actual pedophiles. Qanon was a movement of pedophiles, protecting pedophiles.
January 31, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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happy bday Japanese writer Kenzaburō Ōe, b.1935

“We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.”

“Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that.”
January 31, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.

Genuinely bizarre.
January 31, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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“It would cover essentially anyone they want to arrest without a warrant, making the general premise of ever getting a warrant pointless,” she added. JFC and they call people in the vicinity "collateral aliens" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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For those who are interested: this photo was taken by Ron Haeberle at My Lai on March 16, 1968. The soldier is SP4 Fred W. Dustin, 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, whose job it was to burn the houses in the village - the so-called zippo-squad - after the first two platoons had already swept through.
January 31, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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I am baffled why Thiel gets invited to prestigious places. But I'm equally bewildered why he gets away with lamenting 50 years of stagnation when he, himself, has been involved with funding 'innovation' for nearly 30 years now. Is he perhaps to blame for stagnation? www.politico.eu/article/trum...
Trump ally and tech billionaire Peter Thiel brings Antichrist warning to Paris
“I heard more about the Antichrist during those 45 minutes than during the rest of my life,” one attendee tells POLITICO.
www.politico.eu
January 31, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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The talking point was always, “we want to deport people who ‘cut in line’ ahead of people who came here legally.”

This, too, was a lie. It has always been about xenophobia and racism.
We profiled refugees who:

Arrived in the country legally.

Applied for green cards.

Were arrested by ICE and detained.

One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released.

This is an unprecedented operation.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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🇺🇸 The US government has entered a partial shutdown as a midnight funding deadline passed without Congress approving a 2026 budget, though disruption was expected to be limited with the House set to move early next week to ratify a Senate-backed deal.
➡️ u.afp.com/S2S4
January 31, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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January 30, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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No one in the NFL has broken off more huge scoring plays than Seattle Seahawks’ Rashid Shaheed, the rare trade deadline acquisition who can return kicks, take handoffs, and catch bombs through the air. on.wsj.com/4bnFUuZ
The Midseason Steal Who Turned Into a Super Bowl Triple Threat
No one in the NFL has broken off more huge scoring plays than the Seattle Seahawks’ Rashid Shaheed.
on.wsj.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Happened to be walking through #SeattleCenter and caught a planned #droneshow #Seahawks #SuperBowl #skylights #TWELVE
January 31, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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This made me cry, no lie. Complicated reasons, one being its fuck you to the baked-in structures and strictures of the world that consider harm to be inevitable.
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
January 31, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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1. Why That's Not a UFO in the Sense You're Suggesting
2. Introduction to Cricket for Americans
3. Why Military Leaders Should Read More Fiction
4. Reaganite Politics Through the Lens of Rambo III
5. Comparative Religion 101: Rugby League vs American Football & Ease of Conversion
What 5 classes would you teach based on your life experiences/interests?
January 31, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Devastating. And bang on the money.
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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1. The Evolution of XC Skiing technique with the advent of freestyle/skating in the 1980’s
2. XC ski waxing tips
3. General airmanship decision making for both peacetime and combat
4. The commonalities between existentialism/absurdism/Zen Buddhism/Christian mysticism
5. Sourdough pancakes
What 5 classes would you teach based on your life experiences/interests?
January 31, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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Who the heck is asking this?
January 31, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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The crazy thing about the imposter syndrome is that I taught at a military academy for three years and I wouldn't put any of the courses I taught on this list.
January 31, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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How to survive imposter syndrome
Navigating bureaucracy
Basic call for fire
MLRS maintenance
Basic cannon gunnery before 2012
What 5 classes would you teach based on your life experiences/interests?
January 31, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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Would be curious from those who know DOJ history better to know how often historically the AG has personally signed an indictment.
Looks like every DOJ lawyer who signed the Don Lemon indictment is a political appointee.
January 30, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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1. Defense Health Cooperation Principles and Practices
2. Developing TTX/FTX scenarios that matter
3. Beer League Hockey Team Management
4. Fundamentals of Crab Picking
5. Practical Diplomacy
What 5 classes would you teach based on your life experiences/interests?
January 31, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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1) History of football and war/politcs
2) History of hockey and war/politcs
3) Strategy and Strategic Planning
4) Literature and Philosophy of Erich Marie Remarque
5) Filmography and Philosophy of Mel Brooks
What 5 classes would you teach based on your life experiences/interests?
January 31, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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1. The Social Price of Dystopian Literature
2. How to Read Extremist Ideologies
3. The Paranoid Style in American Entertainment
4. 90s Militia Networks and the Oklahoma City Bombing
5. A Critical Review of Godzilla Movies
What 5 classes would you teach based on your life experiences/interests?
January 31, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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1. USN destroyermen in WW2 & the Tonkin Gulf
2. Wine
3. The restaurant: a look back from thermopolia in Rome to 1700s taverns, 1800s saloons & parlours, & 1980s/90s nouvelle cuisine
4. Restaurant financials: win the P&L fight
5. The U.S. Army between the Cold War & GWOT
What 5 classes would you teach based on your life experiences/interests?
January 31, 2026 at 2:01 AM