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@cadetcunningham.bsky.social

Ex-PhD Candidate | Espionage Historian | International Relations Afficionado | Aspiring Novelist | Book & Movie Lover | Democratic Socialist

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Can’t wait to hear the inevitable crying from Republicans that “we should move on, this’ll hurt the country”

Like when Elizabeth Drew said it was good Ford pardoned Nixon because “the country would’ve been stopped”

25.10.2025 03:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
25.10.2025 03:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.

The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.

It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.

Until then, they're all to blame.

25.10.2025 01:56 — 👍 2601    🔁 824    💬 81    📌 25

Obviously, none of my followers are this way but I have a theory

All pilots are yappers and incredibly full of themselves, *especially* cop pilots; like I don’t think I’ve met more egotistical, narcissistic, and self-righteous people (outside of finance of course)

25.10.2025 02:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me on eBay is a very real problem

So many comic books would be coming to my home

25.10.2025 02:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This. This this this.

People are angry. People are upset and they want a representative who is willing to take on those people; meanwhile, I’ve got teams of people saying “hey let’s work with these barely anti-Trump people” to reach across the aisle

It’s a problem

24.10.2025 03:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brown liquid?

It was shit. There’s no sugarcoating this; how truly pathetic can you be?

20.10.2025 04:04 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Air Force Academy alumni board to vote on honoring Charlie Kirk A board of U.S. Air Force Academy graduates is to vote Friday on whether to award honorary membership in the academy’s alumni association to Charlie Kirk.

We should just abolish service academies. They’re overly politicized, ROTC is cheaper, and the idea of separating soldiers from society is bad for America.

17.10.2025 11:22 — 👍 59    🔁 10    💬 7    📌 3

Haven’t read the piece yet, but remember, conservative men don’t want conservative women

They want liberal/leftist women so they can break someone down, destroy and subjugate them to their beliefs

And it says so so much about their morals and ethics

13.10.2025 10:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.

12.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 495    🔁 144    💬 12    📌 13

Cops start violence so they can justify violence against peaceful people. We’ve seen it time and time again and, every time, we get the same arguments:

“It’s both sides…”

“They enforce not interpret…”

“They’re blocking traffic…”

Pro-police sycophants of that type are the worse kind of person

13.10.2025 07:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I know people who continue to vote & praise Trump when their immediate family members (daughters, grandsons, etc.) have physical and mental disabilities

You can’t reach people who are invested & proud of their ignorance

13.10.2025 07:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are there any good books or journal articles even that touch on this? I have a few on my list, but I’m really looking to improve my reading list on that subject

So, any leftist or progressive book reccs on law enforcement or intersection of police & the far-right, send them my way

13.10.2025 01:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reason #1,391,872 why Frank Luntz is a secret right-wing bro and a shitty pollster

Seriously, it says a lot about the Republican Party that this guy got to become the Republican intellectual the mainstream painted him as

13.10.2025 00:05 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The U.S. government wants anybody brown to suffer

That’s the message and it is downright unacceptable that my country thinks it is an acceptable way to act

13.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I remember there was an Anarcho-Capitalist website that was strongly aligned to right-Libertarian, sovereign citizen, and right-wing talking points yet consistently put out ACAB and anti-govt. memes on Reddit which always got traction from leftist and liberal people

12.10.2025 22:57 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Exact reason why I never did well in school or got into any of the Ivy League schools

Also my family was not upper crust, white collar elite and you damn well better believe that played a part …

12.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Fund The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. An instant New York Times bestseller!Ray Dalio does not want you to re...

Not to mention this book too is a great read, definitely a necessary counter to any Dalio authored work us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

12.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Does the World’s Largest Hedge Fund Really Make Its Money? (Published 2023)

Source: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/b...

12.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just want to point out that Ray Dalio has repeatedly urged for capitalism reform (which directly contradicts to American democratic principles & values) and that there are allegations of his firm being successful based off his connections to government figures rather than any “methodology”

12.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Republicans care solely about making money for them and their friends and life worse for everybody else, even if they are on the same page politically

That needs to stop. If we get out of this, the moral of the story is never ever vote conservative

12.10.2025 20:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I first knew we were cooked when I heard the narrator of PBS Frontline (who did a doc on these gaming institutions back in 2015 or 16) doing the narration of an online gaming ad

Now that’s real insanity there

12.10.2025 20:19 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“But I graduated college at 20 and law school at 23!” Yeah, we can all tell, believe me it shows

And it’s (1) telling of America’s educational system that you were able to jump a lot of that and (2) telling of Harvard’s shitty standards to allow you to study law there

12.10.2025 20:18 — 👍 139    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

Ben is literally Max Naumann of the Association of German National Jews at this point btw

12.10.2025 20:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Move over ADL, we’ve got another nominee for the 2025 Leopards Won’t Eat my Face Award

12.10.2025 20:16 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Link to the full piece here: media.defense.gov/2025/Sep/25/...

12.10.2025 20:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What does the BluSky nat sec/defense community think of this proposal?

12.10.2025 20:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Provided we beat this & hold people accountable, honestly how many of these same people will want to come back to the U.S.? How many from the same family, neighborhood, region, or country would also want to come?

I truthfully don’t think many will. And that’s the generational cost of this

12.10.2025 03:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

11.10.2025 23:10 — 👍 21600    🔁 6513    💬 457    📌 374

Given this is a threat, doesn’t it imply that they recognize that arresting American citizens is, at best, unethical and at worst, illegal?

11.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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