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G Tierce

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Lover of dogs (proud Samoyed dad), politics, housing + TOD (especially an interesting floorplan), and all things diplomatic/military (OEF/OIF x3). In the absence of a bookmark function, I often choose to repost here instead (i.e. RT != endorsement).

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · Jul 24

Although @joshtpm.bsky.social has a blind spot on Israel, I just read this piece and find myself in violent agreement.

I hesitate to identify as a Democrat because of my disgust with the cowardice and corruption of most leadership, but I'm glad to see that the much of the base feels the same way.

The Democratic Party is Its Voters and They’re Doing Just Fine

Last week, I read an article about the special primary election to...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 15d

Sliwa dragging Bill Ackman:

“He lives in Chappaqua, the whitest suburb of America, where even the lawn jockeys are white.”

If you’re gonna spoil, you may as well wreck a shitty guy on the way down.

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Alder Cheems @aldercheems.bsky.social · 8h

Trump going full BDS if Bibi gets convicted of corruption.

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 11h

no one will ever convince me that the services - or at least the army - give a shit about fitness when we encourage sleep habits that are universally acknowledged as extremely detrimental to servicemembers, and, by extension, combat performance.

Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 15h

Crossfit is stupid and so is he but high standards for physical fitness are essential and Ds interested in national security should be very careful publicly rolling their eyes around the topic

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

i kind of think this is why YIMBYism and density is so important: the more you can essentially move suburbs away from their status as wealth enclaves, the bluer they get

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11h

The maximalist good outcome for us is what I've called "the woke 4th party system" where the GOP is reduced to its cracker Solid South (ruby red rurals and exurbs) but locked out of power national because they are just blown to smithereens in the suburbs and cities

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Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 17h

Headline News: Right-wing Jews combat antisemitic stereotype by not being very clever.

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 15h

Same here, please. If I ever have either a house and/or a man-cave again, I would love to display this!

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 20d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Reminds me of the tremendously obese security guy with Nordic tattoos at the Best Buy near where I live who wears the tiniest plate carrier I’ve ever seen, like the body-armor equivalent of a string bikini

Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 4d

Semi-related but I've noticed that there is a substantial drive among US tactical units to wear JSOC/GBRS hype beast gear which extends to micro swimmers cut plate carriers that are wholly unsuitable for policing environments. It already indirectly led to the death of one SWAT officer in Washington

thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 4d

Look at this fucking shit. In Chicago the "elite" CT unit of the USBP detained (a violent assault resulting in 6 broken ribs) a 67yo US citizen driving home from his morning run, then tear gassed a Halloween party with kids in attendance. There's no reforming this. It's unamerican and unacceptable

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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 6d

Riley
@raaleh.bsky.social
IT GUY WHO POSTS ON GRUNTSTYLE
FB: Valhalla awaits us brothers

ACTUAL ARMY GRUNT: what's up TikTok it's your boy Jesse 27 today I'm doing the cinnamon challenge in my asshole

ACTUAL SPECOPS GUY: (lying burned and dead in his car from a heroin deal gone wrong)
September 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

You might note conservatives exclusively write these at outlets with large liberal readership. You and I know, say, Douthat is a conservative writing in bad faith, but many Times readers see the masthead and assume he's on the level. Don't print lies in the newspaper

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19h

The “Person who wants a political party to lose describes what that political party must do to win” genre of article is just incredibly insulting to everyone’s intelligence yet it will persist until the end of time

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 18h

in practice something of a dirty secret is what FBI discovered w/ revolvers. Because so much of fire is suppressive or misses, giving people weaker ammo and higher magazines seems to be functionally best

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

you do wonder if between Nigeria and Venezuela, you get an insurgent primary campaign in 2028 by Tucker or someone in that orbit against what the current GOP FP is

The prospect of regime changing Maduro is like Viagra to Lindsey Graham. Unfortunately it won’t prevent a single fentanyl death.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 1d

It is not a good thing that the past 20 years have been an unrelenting "fuck you" to people who believe in the goodness of humanity and following the rules.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

you cannot keep doing this without eventually becoming misanthropic and feeling that the values you grew up with are meaningless and the people around you will excuse anything as long as it doesn’t personally inconvenience them

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Tucker Carlson's friendly interview with a Holocaust denier raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's commitment to fighting antisemitism.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Watching House of Dynamite featuring rooms of dedicated professionals who work for government and think how Trump wants to either empty those rooms or fill them with yes-men

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The irony that MAGA hated America being the world’s police, but opted instead to be the world’s villain.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

this strikes me as something akin to when Greenspan remarked in 2008, about his prior economic ideas, "I have found a flaw. I don't know how significant or permanent it is. But I have been very distressed by that fact."

Greenspan has not since become a champion of social democracy, however.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

Mr. Obama sir we tried to tell you that you were running with a bad crowd (billionaires), they’re bad news

www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...

People who know Obama say he has been surprised and appalled in how many of the rich people who now form his social circle have made concessions to Trump. He's
reaching out to business and other institutional leaders, urging them not to bend to the current administration even if it
helps their bottom lines.

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Bobby Fijan @bobbyfijan.bsky.social · 2d

I agree w Emily there needs to be more housing for incremental life stages. I have 0 disagreements w her policy recommendations

My emphasis for "family" housing (as a developer) is on building Baby Maybe units rather than Studios, bc I think they are under supplied relative to demand

I'll explain🔽

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 3d

Pro-housing voices from the right of center are increasingly focused on a "we need housing For Families" framing.

In a new column I explain why broad-based liberalization, especially for inexpensive types of housing, is important for helping people start families: www.governing.com/urban/to-sup...

To Support Families, Repair the Housing Ladder

The cost of housing is one big barrier to family formation. But simply building more single family homes isn't the answer.

www.governing.com

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 3d

“We cannot go back to anything approaching the old constitutional order, which already had been in a long, terminal decline.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again

It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

This is going to cause a lot of tension in the base. Yes, MAGA-Groyper-Nazi-Nazi-adjacent is on the rise. But on the issue of Israel and Jews, evangelicals, who stood by Trump even after C'ville comments and everything else, are unlikely to let the Fuentes contingent rise to the top.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

As a thought experiment, let’s think through how US military officers can violate their oath to the Constitution, transition their perspective to… something else. Hypothetically. In case it happens on its own.

Schrödinger’s Douchebag as national security argument.

Not on internet fringes, in WOTR.

Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 3d

Hard to imagine a more sinister & dangerous argument, couched in euphemism & high-minded language. "This essay does not argue liberalism will collapse, only that [US] military officers should be intellectually (and spiritually) prepared for alternatives." warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...

The American Military Officer After Liberalism

Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what

warontherocks.com

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Castouroboros @castouroboros.bsky.social · 2d

Night of the wrong wives coming for the American right.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Have had it hypothesized to me before that Israel's image can be salvaged among the American center-left simply by way of the American center-right going fully Hitlerite but I don't really think this will happen. What's likelier is Israel loses its special status among both flanks.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3d

The CM-11 is conceptually such a wild design

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 3d

Photos of Taiwan’s 584th Armored “Dengbu” Brigade’s M1A2T Abrams commissioning ceremony.

The 584th is the first unit in Taiwan to activate its Abrams tanks, where it replaces the CM-11 Brave Tiger.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

called it, this is their only way out that doesn’t require making public concessions to Dems

it also firmly assigns blame (if they do this now why couldn’t they have done this earlier) and will give waffling Dems a lot more ammunition for their own filibuster reform when they take power

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3d

Trump: it is now time for republicans to eliminate filibuster

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