Brian
@xwingfella.bsky.social
History+science geek, gaming, metal, reading, and occasional writing. He/him. Black Lives Matter.
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IF WE DIG DEEP IN OUR HISTORY AND OUR DOCTRINE
AND REMEMBER THAT WE ARE NOT DESCENDED FROM FEARFUL MEN
AND REMEMBER THAT WE ARE NOT DESCENDED FROM FEARFUL MEN
January 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
IF WE DIG DEEP IN OUR HISTORY AND OUR DOCTRINE
AND REMEMBER THAT WE ARE NOT DESCENDED FROM FEARFUL MEN
AND REMEMBER THAT WE ARE NOT DESCENDED FROM FEARFUL MEN
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cropped sc because tensions are running high so no need to start unnecessary beef, but this is something literally no country on earth has, and it’s fucking annoying when people act superior to you because you’re grappling with this shit as it actually exists rather than airly imaging utopias.
January 8, 2026 at 1:23 AM
cropped sc because tensions are running high so no need to start unnecessary beef, but this is something literally no country on earth has, and it’s fucking annoying when people act superior to you because you’re grappling with this shit as it actually exists rather than airly imaging utopias.
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Every one of these is temporary, and can be rectified when Trump is gone. And with any luck, after these cruel years, a new awake America can introduce itself, more aware of its shortcomings and with a humility to make good on its most worthy aspirations.
Holy shit. There are 35 Non-UN organizations and 31 UN organizations listed in this document.
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
January 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Every one of these is temporary, and can be rectified when Trump is gone. And with any luck, after these cruel years, a new awake America can introduce itself, more aware of its shortcomings and with a humility to make good on its most worthy aspirations.
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Embrace tradition
January 8, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Embrace tradition
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An important victory in taking power away from a horrible billionaire and giving it to a different billionaire who is also horrible in 80% of the same ways but differently horrible in the other 20%
January 5, 2026 at 4:15 AM
An important victory in taking power away from a horrible billionaire and giving it to a different billionaire who is also horrible in 80% of the same ways but differently horrible in the other 20%
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This guy was murdered by the government for absolutely no reason, and this fact will be lucky to get a fraction of a percent of the coverage given to dead squirrels and uneaten house pets.
Authorities have reported the death of a Nicaraguan immigrant in ICE custody in a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of an immigrant in ICE custody this month.
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Nicaraguan Man in ICE Custody Dies in Mississippi Hospital
A Nicaraguan man has died in ICE custody at a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of a person in custody this month.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
This guy was murdered by the government for absolutely no reason, and this fact will be lucky to get a fraction of a percent of the coverage given to dead squirrels and uneaten house pets.
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I gotta say I find a lot of the edgy anti-lib posting these days to be more banal and hackneyed than anything else. This isn't 2012, guys.
December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I gotta say I find a lot of the edgy anti-lib posting these days to be more banal and hackneyed than anything else. This isn't 2012, guys.
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Obama’s drone policy was whack as fuck. Obama and Biden both had terrible immigration policies. I’ve openly and publicly criticized them for these things.
I’d still be much much much much happier with either of them in the Oval Office than with Trump there.
THAT isn’t complex or deep.
I’d still be much much much much happier with either of them in the Oval Office than with Trump there.
THAT isn’t complex or deep.
December 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Obama’s drone policy was whack as fuck. Obama and Biden both had terrible immigration policies. I’ve openly and publicly criticized them for these things.
I’d still be much much much much happier with either of them in the Oval Office than with Trump there.
THAT isn’t complex or deep.
I’d still be much much much much happier with either of them in the Oval Office than with Trump there.
THAT isn’t complex or deep.
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Wide-Awake behavior (laudatory)
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Wide-Awake behavior (laudatory)
Truth and reconciliation begins at home!
Thinking of putting together a team for an art project
A pocket Constitution, but with a twist. The pocket Constitution will showcase: (1) a series of exegetical essays that elaborate on just what Trump has done - in Trump I or Trump II - to erode a particular section of the Constitution; and
A pocket Constitution, but with a twist. The pocket Constitution will showcase: (1) a series of exegetical essays that elaborate on just what Trump has done - in Trump I or Trump II - to erode a particular section of the Constitution; and
December 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Truth and reconciliation begins at home!
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Around a million Syrians have returned since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024.
And every day at Damascus airport, families separated by years of war and dictatorship, are finally being reunited.
And every day at Damascus airport, families separated by years of war and dictatorship, are finally being reunited.
December 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Around a million Syrians have returned since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024.
And every day at Damascus airport, families separated by years of war and dictatorship, are finally being reunited.
And every day at Damascus airport, families separated by years of war and dictatorship, are finally being reunited.
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Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell?
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell?
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
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I would argue pretty strenuously that overreliance on nonprofits for social services is, in fact, a centrist position at best. NGO world cloaks itself in progressivism by adhering to cultural signifiers of social justice. Endless land acknowledgements as they take public jobs from union workers.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I would argue pretty strenuously that overreliance on nonprofits for social services is, in fact, a centrist position at best. NGO world cloaks itself in progressivism by adhering to cultural signifiers of social justice. Endless land acknowledgements as they take public jobs from union workers.
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I do appreciate @sodrock.bsky.social hammering this whole bullshit apolitical military stuff. If following the law becomes partisan then either you join the party of the law you are supposed to apolically follow or be forced by the other party to break it
What being an apolitical military professional does to a mofo
December 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I do appreciate @sodrock.bsky.social hammering this whole bullshit apolitical military stuff. If following the law becomes partisan then either you join the party of the law you are supposed to apolically follow or be forced by the other party to break it
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The boys and I at the battle of Tehran after Joe Rogan convinced a bunch of broccoli haired zoomer incels to vote for trump:
June 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The boys and I at the battle of Tehran after Joe Rogan convinced a bunch of broccoli haired zoomer incels to vote for trump:
🎶Love...is a burning thing
And it makes a...fiery ring
Bound...by wild desire
I fell into a ring of fire🎶
And it makes a...fiery ring
Bound...by wild desire
I fell into a ring of fire🎶
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🎶Love...is a burning thing
And it makes a...fiery ring
Bound...by wild desire
I fell into a ring of fire🎶
And it makes a...fiery ring
Bound...by wild desire
I fell into a ring of fire🎶
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
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trying to predict what 2026 will look like
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
trying to predict what 2026 will look like
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When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.