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Nick Wilson

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Stony Brook University Sociology (Historical, Political, Cultural, of Science, etc.) Modernity's Corruption: https://tinyurl.com/y596p54t After Positivism: https://tinyurl.com/3nrfakrj nickwilsonsoc.org

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 15h

Solidarity. I somehow missed out this year too.

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 1d

MY POINT IS they seem to have had lots of practice.

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 1d

www.thetacticalwire.com/features/cf9...

Skill Set: Slicing the Pie | Tactical Wire

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, did you know that some "operators" call dividing a room into areas of responsibility upon entry "slicing the pie"?

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, your masochism is really going to be indexed by the kerning.

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Cool. Wasn't expecting to live in a country like this.

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 4d

Okay, okay, I'm getting conspiracy-pilled here. Given all the madness today, he's *still* not making any statement?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 4d

have a new piece out of defense tech with nyrb!

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The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman

Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 4d

Little man wants to feel big.

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 4d

Matthew 5:44-45

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 12d

Wishful thinking, maybe, but feels like some kind of crest today. Consider:

(1) Kimmel/Sinclair folding.
(2) ICE actually *apologizing* for their agent in NYC.
(3) Hegseth pre-neutering his power-play with generals.
(4) Wheels off the Comey indictment already.

Plenty still bad out there, but...

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 12d

Still very bad, but between this and Kimmel/Sinclair, definitely feels like they're starting to have to pre-walk-back their attempted authoritarian grandstanding....to say nothing of how incompetent the Comey indictment is looking.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12d

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos.”

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 12d

Took me a while to work out the physics and geometry at play here.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13d

Ok I’ve now completed my close read of today’s terror memo from Trump, step by step in previous posts. I think it is a momentous document, potentially as much of an acceleration of the slow civil war as Kirk’s assassination. 1/

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 14d

Figurative trash (like on a digital desktop) or literal trash (like in a kitchen bin?) Worried because implies two different states of disorder...

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 14d

Is Ben Carson in all of our hearts, all the time, thinking about agricultural tariff policy?

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 14d

Yes, but....he just stands there. What is he doing there while *she* talks about farmers? Is...he just always there, and sometimes *just* out of frame?

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 14d

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Ben Carson joins USDA as health and housing advisor

Ben Carson, a member of the first Trump administration, joined the Department of Agriculture on Wednesday as an advisor.

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 14d

....is Ben Carson ok?

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 14d

This is obviously a bad-faith thing for him to say, but I think it's also Vance showing trademark cowardice. He's peering around the corner of a failing Trump admin, and trying to position himself as a crypto-moderate. Still disgusting.

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 14d

“Look, just because we don’t support illegal aliens, we don’t want them to be executed by violent assassins engaged in political violence,” Vance said.

Vance Acknowledges Immigrants — Not ICE Agents — Were Killed In Dallas Attack

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Prof. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 15d

You’re laughing, but this is what your average faculty meeting is like.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump is now whining to the UN about the UN working with another developer and not him on their building

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 15d

Ahhh, so *that's* where everyone is today!

Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 17d

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Left Behind (2014 film) - Wikipedia

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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 17d

"Soon a pilot-less jet approaches directly into their flight path, resulting in a midair collision, that damages Rayford's fuel line. He decides his only option is to return to New York and hope his fuel holds out. " Ergo, everyone gets raptured at the same time, all at once. 3/3