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Michael Fletcher @mefletcher54.bsky.social · 2h

Dystopian comedy is an underappreciated genre.

Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 5h

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

www.insidehighered.com

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 2h

Hmmm. No, but I’ll admit to substantial curiosity.

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The Society for Intelligence History @socintelhist.bsky.social · 1d

This just might be the coolest job opportunity ever:

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69269/i...

International Spy Museum - Historian | H-Net

networks.h-net.org

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Brian Weeden @brianweeden.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, here's me on the From the Crow's Nest podcast talking about space integration into modern military operations and armed conflicts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Space Operations: The Final Frontier

Podcast Episode · From the Crows' Nest · 09/10/2025 · 46m

podcasts.apple.com

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone got access to a digital copy if this?

books.google.com/books/about/...

Soviet Active Measures

books.google.com

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madison! @madepn.bsky.social · 1d

here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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Rodger Payne @rodgerp.bsky.social · 1d

Inspired by @dhnexon.bsky.social I posted some thoughts about Resistance Strategy When the Government is Itching for Violence.

rpayne.blogspot.com/2025/10/resi...

Resistance Strategy When the Government is Itching for Violence

Last week, President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth spoke to a group of U.S. generals and admirals they had assembled from deployments ...

rpayne.blogspot.com

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

Easy to laugh at the noisy announcement of undercover operation...but it's not so funny if the point isn't to infiltrate fictional "leftist terror cells" but to frighten and intimidate normal regular Democrats.

Fortunately, it's likely that it's just a campaign press release. But still.

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 1d

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 1d

Publication pending – co-author & I heave a sigh of relief.
#NavalHistory
"Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper 'Hospital Ships of the Royal Navy in World War One: From Pre-war Planning to the Aftermath of Jutland'."
In the International Journal of Military History – some time soon.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 1d

OTD in 2006 journalist & activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead. Whoever is responsible for having her killed is still at large. And turns 73 today.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

There's a million-dollar mobile game to be made out of the job of line management at airports, by the way. Shortening and lengthening queues so that people are never hanging out in an unmanaged hallway space and never walking through useless empty queues.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 2d

www.spytalk.co/p/new-spyfac...

New: SpyFaces in the Crowd: Michael Ellis

The CIA deputy director's partisan background breaks tradition at the agency

www.spytalk.co

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Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social · 2d

I am giving a 2-day course on intelligence-policy dynamics in Canada on 23-24 October, with the University of Ottawa's Professional Development Institute.
@uOttawaPDI
Details here:
pdinstitute.uottawa.ca/PDI/Courses/...

Course - Course Overview

This course offers a primer on the dynamics of the intelligence-policy nexus in Canada, It focuses on the expectations of senior policy makers in terms of their intelligence needs and requirements.

pdinstitute.uottawa.ca

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 2d

One for the intelligence accountability crowd. ‘C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 1d

This suggests that the CIA’s Office of General Counsel has been throwing up roadblocks to things that Ratcliffe wants to do.

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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 2d

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On Stryiska Street, on the territory of the former prison of the NKVD and the KGB, were found the remains of 24 people executed by the Soviet authorities, #OTD October 6, 2022 in Drohobych, Ukraine.

Excavations were carried out since the 1990s. Initially, 486 remains were found and reburied.

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Markus Sam Merin @markussammerin.bsky.social · 2d

Being "the Italy guy" in my social circles means a lot of people reach out to me with questions about Operation Gladio/the years of lead I'm not equipped for.
"Did the French blow up the Ustica flight?"
"Did the CIA/KGB/Mossad kill Aldo Moro?"
Dude. I spent today reading about fishing cooperatives.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d

How the KGB used John le Carré to airbrush its image

The Soviet intelligence agency drew on the writer’s books to portray themselves as professional and rational

www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...

How the KGB used John le Carré to airbrush its image

The Soviet intelligence agency drew on the writer’s books to portray themselves as professional and rational

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump speech to Navy.

He tells them, “We have to take care of this little gnat that’s on our shoulder called the Democrats.”

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 1d

@clarajeffery.bsky.social lays out what blue state soft secession could look like, and why it's time to give it a try
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 1d

Received this video from a former staffer of mine. It’s a leaking pipeline in the Permian Basin. They called the Carlsbad field office and no one picked up, so it can’t be reported or followed up on.

The cost of the shutdown will be felt for decades.

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