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Author of the novel, EX SUPRA. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Ex-Supra-Tony-Stark/dp/B0B6L9TD6J/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=f9e567ed-9cbb-4a51-9ebe-37646193cff5 Sequel: Project Duality, coming soon. Substack: www.BreakingBeijing.com Natsec. Tech. China.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · Jan 3

The fall of Taiwan ✅

AI-enabled disinformation attacks ✅

An unending war in orbit ✅

82nd Airborne jump into Malaysia ✅

Marines fighting for their lives on Guadalcanal (again) ✅

Helljumpers on Mars ✅

The Rosatom Blonde ✅

Welcome to World War III, as read by me.
www.audible.com/pd/B0DH5VLVJ...

Ex Supra

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. This is the story of the war after the next war. In 2035, an AI-driven disinformation campaign turned us on ourselves. We became the enemy's first strike we...

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 16h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 9h

Defense seems like they’re on strike.

Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 9h

Birds offensive line seems to have just disintegrated

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 9h

An exchange in tonight's VA Gov debate:

AS: My opponent has previously said that she does not think gay couples should be allowed to marry.

WES: That’s not discrimination!

AS: She said that she is, quote-unquote, morally opposed to same-sex marriage.

WES: That’s not discrimination! (1/2)

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 9h

Scream reboot set to Call Me Maybe.

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 6d

question for the timeline

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Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social · 10h

A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips? Great investigstion by @anaswanson.bsky.social @paulmozur.bsky.social @hvistendahl.bsky.social @trippmickle.bsky.social
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A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips?

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe we just date people we’re attracted to and are good for us and not make it weird.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 10h

Ladies while we’re on this topic: I appreciate the interest but opening on hinge with “my friends told me I should date a bi guy” is not the line you think it is. (This has happened multiple times)

Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 10h

Like no, marrying a bi man “to fight the patriarchy” is not the same as marrying a gay man because he’s terrified of being a social outcast or worse. Ahhh.

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jordan, but spooky 👻🦇🎃 @jbythekilowatt.bsky.social · 10h

😭😭 a straight woman marrying a bi man is not a lavender marriage omg

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 10h

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He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.

Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 10h

Like no, marrying a bi man “to fight the patriarchy” is not the same as marrying a gay man because he’s terrified of being a social outcast or worse. Ahhh.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 10h

Comparing 1950s/pre-equality lavender marriages to asexual relationships or mixed sexuality relationships is insane. Making it about the fighting patriarchy is even crazier.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 11h

That WaPo article on lavender marriages might actually be what makes me walk into the woods.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 11h

The Katie Porter thing is a good reminder that, separate from the briefcase carrier epidemic, many of the 2010s-early 2020s icons of the party were/are extremely toxic to their staff and it’s been well known in dc circles.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 11h

Big briefcase carrier energy. @uticaeric.bsky.social

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 11h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 20h

Jives with what I and quite a few others have been arguing, that drones can replace and supplement fires, not replace them altogether (nor does it really make sense too)…

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

CNN: “Nashville’s air traffic approach control will go dark for five hours tonight due to short staffing—the second FAA facility in as many days to shut down over shortages.”

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 3d

Fire up your early evenings and mid afternoons:

open.spotify.com/episode/2QyC...

Second Breakfast: Putin's Drones, SecWar Patton, Wargaming, Finding Subs

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 3d

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 3d

New Second Breakfast dropped: Bryan Clark joins us to talk wargaming, submarine ops, Russia, influencer sabotage and more.

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Second Breakfast: Putin's Drones, SecWar Patton, Wargaming, Finding Subs

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 3d

We keep coming back to his but society thirsts for Surf Dracula. 22-episode seasons. Monsters-of-the-week. High camp teen dramas. Cowboys who know martial arts. Shows where the plot is just 'handsome guy has a cool car.'

We must rebuild the CW.

Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 3d

Look, I appreciate this. TV needs more of this. Let’s have fun again. Seriously things are so bad in the industry and everywhere. Let’s all turn on stuff at night together and go “that was insane” and then surprise there are 20 more episodes and the characters don’t remember being in orbit.

9-1-1 poster with Angela Bassett in FUCKING SPACE!

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3d

Cyberpsychosis is when too much cyber, but unlike the literalist “wow cool robot” depictions of cyborgs in media like the Cyberpunk™️ universe, what is really meant is being too enmeshed in networks of cybernetic feedback loops that cause a person to loose touch with the feedback of actual reality

Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that cyber/AI psychosis is becoming a regular talking point is the real turn towards the cyberpunk/Ex Supra timelines.

Politico @politico.com · 3d

Killer robots, AI-induced psychosis and accidental nuclear war: Inside the Pentagon’s race to deploy artificial intelligence — and avoid disaster.

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 3d

The disinformation is only getting worse.
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When Reality Bends Back

AI-Generated Disinformation for Profit and War

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that cyber/AI psychosis is becoming a regular talking point is the real turn towards the cyberpunk/Ex Supra timelines.

Politico @politico.com · 3d

Killer robots, AI-induced psychosis and accidental nuclear war: Inside the Pentagon’s race to deploy artificial intelligence — and avoid disaster.

‘Swarms of Killer Robots’: Why AI is Terrifying the American Military

A Q&A with a former Pentagon insider on the AI debates that could shape the future of national security.

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