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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 1h

It’s easy to lose sight of how radical the MAGA agenda is by focusing on each action in isolation. Only by glancing at the entirety of what Trump and Hegseth have wrought can one see what a far-reaching assault they are mounting on the apolitical professionalism of the US military. bit.ly/47aHw7J

The Dilemma of Duty Under Trump

What his assault on the U.S. military means for America.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

This is a bullshit headline in the New York Times. There’s no “uprising” in Chicago. Rather, Chicagoans are peacefully defending themselves against ICE violence. Use of the term “uprising“ is just what the Trump regime wants to excuse a further fascist crackdown in Chicago.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 4h

If you’re a lawyer & there’s a string of attorneys who say no to a client, but you’ll say yes.

You’re not courageous, you’re the dumbest fucking imbecile sworn into the bar within earshot. Outside of obscure contract law, there is no novel law.

You carry that weight.

You’re buried with it, too.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 4h

Going to need a purge of remaining JAGs and referrals to bar discipline when this is over. If it’s ever over.

Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
New details here about how the Army’s top uniformed lawyer was fired just weeks after raising concerns about the use of the military domestically and mass firings of DoD employees www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 4h

Every update on the supreme court is basically "the supreme court's conservative majority overturned a lower court ruling that had prevented the trump administration from using ICBMs to suppress anti-ICE protests. In her dissent Justice Sotomayor claimed the majority is 'batshit insane'."

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 21h

Courts are going to be extremely busy with all the prosecutions that will necessarily follow the end of the Trump regime.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 21h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 21h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 21h

The USA does not regard it as such, and Qatar is a pretty crucial partner in the region, particularly the US use of Al Udeid Air Base.

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 21h

Canada's F35 pilots, like many countries, train at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas. Lots of countries send contingents to the USA to train on equipment they buy from the USA. This isn't new, nor is it news. Qatar bought F-15s in 2017. Training at Mountain Home was part of that.

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, it's been a thing for a long time. Tends to be when countries buy American equipment, they need to send people to train on it. Where the Qataris will train, there's been a Singaporean squadron for a long time. Lots of countries have training detachments in the USA.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

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leftynavyseal.bsky.social @leftynavyseal.bsky.social · 1d

Guardian: Hegseth demanded that news outlets print only DOD stories that he permitted them to, or turn in their press credentials today. The Guardian, NYT, WAPO, CNN, The Atlantic, Reuters, NPR, Huffpost, and Breaking Defense have refused. No objection from worthless legacy CBS, NBC, ABC.

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JAG says it’s legal, but stupid. @jagsaysstupid.bsky.social · 1d

I must’ve missed the wave of violence AGAINST ICE in all the violence BY ICE.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

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Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 2d

Correct. They are as stupid as Whiskey Pete. And you, it would appear. You seem like exactly the sort of credulous, low IQ moron that would take the bait.

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing you need to know about the Qatari Air Force presence in Idaho is that Donald Trump is all over the Epstein Files.

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 2d

I doubt they were smart enough to plan it, but it's been a great pointless distraction.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 6d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

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Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 3d

Ask yourself, as well, "Why would Qatar want or need a base nowhere near its country or any area of interest to its military?"

They wouldn't.

Which is why I don't get why people took this very dumb ragebait.

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 3d

And it's vital to remember that Hegseth is an unqualified drunk who is totally out of his depth.

Though he could also be a genius, who used a non-story to massively distract the opposition and waste its time and energy on something that doesn't matter... Guessing it's more just coincidence though.

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 3d

You replied to a post on with a link to an article which explains it in detail. The article is from 2022.

Some Guy Called Nick 🇨🇦 @pisseartiste.bsky.social · 3d

Not exactly, and it isn't new. It's training facilities for their new F-15s, it's been expected and planned a while. www.spokesman.com/stories/2022...

$12 billion deal may bring hundreds of Qatar, US Air Force members to Idaho base

BOISE – The U.S. Air Force may soon bring 170 members of Qatar’s air force to live on the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. They would be coming to learn to fly the newest model of the F-15 fight...

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

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For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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