Purely PSK 💚💙🏈🫶👠👑
@queenofthinair.bsky.social
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.
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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Daily Mail: Trump's 'new media' darlings who relished their Pentagon takeover now feel gagged by Pete Hegseth
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Trump's 'new media' darlings now feel GAGGED
After Pete Hegseth's Pentagon sidelined veteran reporters, the 'New Media' vanguard's initial selfie-filled celebration quickly soured. Here is what they reveal.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 31, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Daily Mail: Trump's 'new media' darlings who relished their Pentagon takeover now feel gagged by Pete Hegseth
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
I slept in. Hasn't happened in years.
January 31, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I slept in. Hasn't happened in years.
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Do you realize how much of an absolute scumbag one has to be to email Jeffrey Epstein on Christmas Day to check in about visiting his island to to ‘party’ with sex-trafficked girls because apparently the owner of X doesn’t.
January 31, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Do you realize how much of an absolute scumbag one has to be to email Jeffrey Epstein on Christmas Day to check in about visiting his island to to ‘party’ with sex-trafficked girls because apparently the owner of X doesn’t.
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"Uncertainty is unavoidable. Treating uncertainty as a reason to accept civilian harm is a choice"
kinda sums it all up right there, don't it
kinda sums it all up right there, don't it
January 29, 2026 at 9:24 PM
"Uncertainty is unavoidable. Treating uncertainty as a reason to accept civilian harm is a choice"
kinda sums it all up right there, don't it
kinda sums it all up right there, don't it
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“These practices reflect more than permissive risk tolerance. They amount to a breakdown in the application of distinction and proportionality as those principles are normally understood and enforced in modern Western militaries.”
January 29, 2026 at 2:06 PM
“These practices reflect more than permissive risk tolerance. They amount to a breakdown in the application of distinction and proportionality as those principles are normally understood and enforced in modern Western militaries.”
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IDF officers Milburn interviewed described what he viewed, in comparison to the (still highly destructive) US Mosul strike campaign, as “permissive target definitions, heavy reliance on inference rather than confirmation, and little effort to update civilian presence once a target had been approved”
January 29, 2026 at 2:01 PM
IDF officers Milburn interviewed described what he viewed, in comparison to the (still highly destructive) US Mosul strike campaign, as “permissive target definitions, heavy reliance on inference rather than confirmation, and little effort to update civilian presence once a target had been approved”
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The very high civilian death toll was “not the unavoidable result of fighting Hamas in dense urban terrain…Israeli targeting practices consistently defined military value broadly, treated intelligence gaps permissively, and shifted risk away from Israeli forces and onto civilians.”
January 29, 2026 at 1:56 PM
The very high civilian death toll was “not the unavoidable result of fighting Hamas in dense urban terrain…Israeli targeting practices consistently defined military value broadly, treated intelligence gaps permissively, and shifted risk away from Israeli forces and onto civilians.”
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For years, Epstein was treated by the media and elites not as a subject to be investigated and exposed, but as a source to cultivate, a gateway to access information and social capital.
That’s the scandal within the scandal.
Not just what Epstein did, but who enabled him.
That’s the scandal within the scandal.
Not just what Epstein did, but who enabled him.
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For years, Epstein was treated by the media and elites not as a subject to be investigated and exposed, but as a source to cultivate, a gateway to access information and social capital.
That’s the scandal within the scandal.
Not just what Epstein did, but who enabled him.
That’s the scandal within the scandal.
Not just what Epstein did, but who enabled him.
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I think a lot of people gave up on the China hawk stuff when they realized a successful strategy for countering China meant working with allies.
tiktok deal and subsequent rebirth, coupled with generalized revelations that most china hawks don’t care at all about trump undermining their supposedly all important great power competition…..is tremendously blackpilling for me.
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 PM
I think a lot of people gave up on the China hawk stuff when they realized a successful strategy for countering China meant working with allies.
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Rereading the Army's 2021 Arctic Strategy since apparently nobody in the administration knows it exists.
January 30, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Rereading the Army's 2021 Arctic Strategy since apparently nobody in the administration knows it exists.
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Thoughtful comments from former CIA Middle East hand @mpolymer1.bsky.social supporting @andy-milburn.bsky.social’s analysis of IDF conduct in Gaza (which predictably is coming under attack on Twitter from those you’d expect to attack it).
January 31, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Thoughtful comments from former CIA Middle East hand @mpolymer1.bsky.social supporting @andy-milburn.bsky.social’s analysis of IDF conduct in Gaza (which predictably is coming under attack on Twitter from those you’d expect to attack it).
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Old article, but I just can’t get over these students being so lazy that they first cheated in class, and then cheated on the apology too. And this occurred in a class that was regarded as so easy that it’s “really hard not to get an A.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Old article, but I just can’t get over these students being so lazy that they first cheated in class, and then cheated on the apology too. And this occurred in a class that was regarded as so easy that it’s “really hard not to get an A.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
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We are seeing what Ernst Fraenkel called “the dual state.” For most, life is routine and the rule of law exists. But if you interact with ICE, you face the full force of the prerogative state, which is marked by “unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees.”
January 31, 2026 at 1:06 PM
We are seeing what Ernst Fraenkel called “the dual state.” For most, life is routine and the rule of law exists. But if you interact with ICE, you face the full force of the prerogative state, which is marked by “unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees.”
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My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI
My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI
My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI
www.independent.co.uk
January 31, 2026 at 1:08 PM
My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI
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This is the epistemic cliff that American normie shitlibs are all peering over this morning. It appears to be literally true that our entire political discourse for the last 15 years is just rich sex monsters who are also 4chan edgelords. It is all posting. It’s posting all the way down.
I have a generalised version of this - while there are specific exceptions, it just feels like a _huge_ proportion of the American conservative movement revealed themselves to not really care about anything? Like, nothing concrete at least. It's all just vague ressentiments around Gender and Race.
tiktok deal and subsequent rebirth, coupled with generalized revelations that most china hawks don’t care at all about trump undermining their supposedly all important great power competition…..is tremendously blackpilling for me.
January 31, 2026 at 12:33 PM
This is the epistemic cliff that American normie shitlibs are all peering over this morning. It appears to be literally true that our entire political discourse for the last 15 years is just rich sex monsters who are also 4chan edgelords. It is all posting. It’s posting all the way down.
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My quote of the day
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
January 31, 2026 at 12:15 PM
My quote of the day
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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"
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
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"
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"
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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.
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
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.
They were a Praetorian Guard for the worst criminals.
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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.”
“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
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.”
“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.”
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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.
Genuinely bizarre.
January 31, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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...
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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
“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...
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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
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.
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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
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...