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Cold War SIGINTer, Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, craft beers, single malts, 3 dogs & 2 cats, Deighton, Herbert, Le Carre, Herron.... Feats Don't Fail Me Now

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The lives of American service members are a small price for me to pay to stay out of jail. ~ Netanyahu

09.03.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

08.03.2026 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2769    πŸ” 660    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 47
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Is it really a war?

Play along with Andrew Heaton's new game show.

07.03.2026 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 984    πŸ” 482    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 34
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Was AI used for the targeting that likely resulted in the bombing of the girls school?

We must have answers to that question and there is ZERO reason for delay because the Pentagon damn well already knows the answer.

06.03.2026 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3808    πŸ” 1265    πŸ’¬ 167    πŸ“Œ 54
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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

06.03.2026 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 17290    πŸ” 5413    πŸ’¬ 453    πŸ“Œ 326

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

05.03.2026 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 40349    πŸ” 9110    πŸ’¬ 1493    πŸ“Œ 307
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Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

05.03.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 24927    πŸ” 5646    πŸ’¬ 1386    πŸ“Œ 467

Destroying defenseless seacraft without warning seems to have become our MO.

05.03.2026 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lock this fucker Sheehy up. No, really. This isn’t a close call.

05.03.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a thing that doesn't really get enough discussion about platner is that, even if you assume the latter here is true (and i do), it's going to make him strongly susceptible to malign influences if he gets elected to the senate; the framework to think about him isn't fetterman, it's gabbard

01.03.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1155    πŸ” 201    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 7

this does in fact keep me up at night

01.03.2026 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 337    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 2

The thing about the U.S. and Israel is that both of their leaders are trying to stay out of prison.

28.02.2026 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 11164    πŸ” 3348    πŸ’¬ 314    πŸ“Œ 184

Just as the Framers intended

28.02.2026 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2580    πŸ” 407    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 12
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the one check on Trump that I thought might keep us from this day is that he has never defied Putin’s strategic patron-client interests in any way close to this before.

28.02.2026 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 208    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 6
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No doubt Tulsi Gabbard is drafting her resignation letter as we speak.

28.02.2026 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4866    πŸ” 1194    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 59

if the media had any integrity β€” and it doesn’t anymore β€” they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

28.02.2026 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4899    πŸ” 1610    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 47
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Never forget

28.02.2026 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 260    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 Reza Pahlavi, son of Iran's last shah, released a video within minutes of today's bombs falling: "We are very close to final victory. I want to be by your side so we can take back Iran."

A U.S. backed successor. Ready and waiting with a video. Not a coincidence.

28.02.2026 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 312    πŸ” 166    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 7

Operation Epstein Fury

28.02.2026 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2475    πŸ” 632    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 15

A reminder that the administration spent the day before it launched a war in the Middle East feuding with tech companies over whether and how the AI models the Pentagon buys will be restrained from autonomously killing people.

28.02.2026 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2212    πŸ” 625    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 5
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Yes, they really are that stupid.

26.02.2026 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

Good read.

25.02.2026 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is β€œfeared.”

24.02.2026 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5226    πŸ” 1000    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 47
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The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

23.02.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 22908    πŸ” 8815    πŸ’¬ 5579    πŸ“Œ 3313

no matter how incompetent he is (and he definitely is) if you had serious shit going on with the fbi right now β€” like, idk, maybe your elderly mother’s abduction β€” i imagine the anger seeing this would fuel future generations

23.02.2026 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1053    πŸ” 203    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 7

That kid's number was being called the entire match. Shades of Roy Kent!

22.02.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
1/22/2026 New York Times story headline, "Denmark Rejects Trump's Plan to Send Hospital Boat to Greenland.", subtitle, 'Denmark's defense minister said Greenland did not need health care assistance, a day after Trump said he planned to send a "great hospital boat" to the island.'

1/22/2026 New York Times story headline, "Denmark Rejects Trump's Plan to Send Hospital Boat to Greenland.", subtitle, 'Denmark's defense minister said Greenland did not need health care assistance, a day after Trump said he planned to send a "great hospital boat" to the island.'

Here's an especially disgusting example of how the New York Times uses its vast resources to sane-wash Donald Trump's Alzheimer's rantings. Trump's "hospital ship" was imaginary. Both of the U.S. Navy's 2 hospital ships are undergoing maintenance and are currently unavailable.

22.02.2026 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 251    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

"The architect of the current Court β€” the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo β€” was behind the litigation that undid the tariffs. That tells you all you need to know."

20.02.2026 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 230    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

20.02.2026 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 20073    πŸ” 2892    πŸ’¬ 557    πŸ“Œ 170