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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 15h

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 14h

This story isn’t really about the program, and what it is about is deeply grim

Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 15h

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting

www.nytimes.com

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 16h

"And so for two years the worst people in the world have played out the script that was written on October 7, and everything is worse for the Palestinians. Everything is worse for the Iranians, and everything is worse for Americans, too..."

@drfarls.bsky.social nails it.

And Now Everything is Worse - Lawyers, Guns & Money

It’s two years since October 7, and everything is worse. All told, Hamas killed some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took about 250 more captive. It was the bloodiest day in Israel’s history...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 15h

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 18h

a football player with the number 15 on his jersey is about to throw the ball

ALT: a football player with the number 15 on his jersey is about to throw the ball

media.tenor.com

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 19h

Joe Flacco is two years older than Mark Sanchez. Sanchez started a fight with a 69 year old man and lost. Flacco will start behind the NFL's worst offensive line.

They are not the same.

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 20h

I'm supporting @joelforkentucky.bsky.social !

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 23h

Hey Military Historians, esp Grad students! The SMH is announcing its 2026 Summer Seminar in Military history, hosted by the Adams Center at VMI. This is a fabulous opportunity to learn the field outside your specialty, to network, and enjoy the Blue Ridge Mountains. www.smh-hq.org/summersemina...

Summer Seminar | The Society for Military History

www.smh-hq.org

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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 1d

And Now Everything is Worse

And Now Everything is Worse - Lawyers, Guns & Money

It’s two years since October 7, and everything is worse. All told, Hamas killed some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took about 250 more captive. It was the bloodiest day in Israel’s history and the deadliest for Jews anywhere since the Holocaust. But a shocked Israel mobilized to unleash a devastating military response […]

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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bse @doktrock.bsky.social · 1d

A significant proportion of #NorthDakota durum wheat is exported to Italy, to be reimported as pasta... www.ugpti.org/resources/gr...

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

this statement by the American Council of Learned Societies, one of the key orgs in higher ed, is exactly right.

reject the 'compact'. no ifs, no studies.

read and share and, for your opeds, steal.

I cannot post the entire alt text but it begins: On October 1, the White House proposed to nine leading American universities that they agree to a list of demands in exchange for receiving preferential access to research funding. The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” undermines the long-standing independence of American academia. It works against the best interests of colleges and universities and of every one of us who has benefited from the knowledge they produce. We call for its immediate rejection by all institutions of higher education.

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 1d

I heard about how a Democrat staffer was in favor of invading Venezuela, which obviously means the Democrats want to invade Venezuela.

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Scott Crichlow @scrichlow.bsky.social · 1d

“The point here is that the Republican majority accepted legal arguments that they would have treated as utterly outrageous on their face, if the parties had simply been reversed.”

We should talk a lot more about Bush v. Gore when discussing how the US got to where we are today.

Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 1d

Bush v. Gore 25 years later and Trump’s trashing of the DOJ www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/bush...

Bush v. Gore 25 years later and Trump's trashing of the DOJ - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Emily Bazelon (gift link) surveyed 50 elite DC lawyers, including former federal judges, high DOJ officials, and the like, a year ago about their concerns regarding another Trump administration and th...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Ian Toll’s Six Frigates one of the things that struck me was just the colossal assholery of the British.

WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 1d

Every.
Single.
Time.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 1d

Every.
Single.
Time.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 1d

If you're finding all this talk of "competitive authoritarianism" (consolidated or unconsolidated) confusing, @joyner.bsky.social has a brief explainer 👇

outsidethebeltway.com

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 1d

Bush v. Gore 25 years later and Trump’s trashing of the DOJ www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/bush...

Bush v. Gore 25 years later and Trump's trashing of the DOJ - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Emily Bazelon (gift link) surveyed 50 elite DC lawyers, including former federal judges, high DOJ officials, and the like, a year ago about their concerns regarding another Trump administration and th...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 1d

LGM comment thread just keeps 'em coming...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19% this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic.

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

nyti.ms

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 1d

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 1d

Rough week for Mark Sanchez www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · Sep 4

The most profitable cancelling ever culminates in CBS being turned into Fox News for people who prefer not to admit that they’re MAGA Republicans
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/the-...

The Goddess of Grift - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Today’s episode of The Cancellation of Bari Weiss: lol at Bari's "broadly shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition." She's not fucking Stone Cold Steve Austin, she is the kid from your high school ...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 2d

YES

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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