Cup of Libertea
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Writer | Espionage Steampunk & SFF | Masters in International Relations | Swift-Fukuyama Thought
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I'm just saying, I think you all underrated Alex Garland's Civil War in any number of ways.
As someone who has been playing their games for 25 years since Shogun, the Total War showcase was awesome.
Medieval 3!
Warhammer End Times!
NAGASH!!!
New engine!
Next TW game announcement at the Game Awards!
Plus Tides of Torment release today - cannot wait to dive into the Aislinn campaign!
Medieval 3!
Warhammer End Times!
NAGASH!!!
New engine!
Next TW game announcement at the Game Awards!
Plus Tides of Torment release today - cannot wait to dive into the Aislinn campaign!
a bald man in a suit with a red poppy on his lapel is clapping his hands
Alt: Man overwhelmed with emotion.
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
As someone who has been playing their games for 25 years since Shogun, the Total War showcase was awesome.
Medieval 3!
Warhammer End Times!
NAGASH!!!
New engine!
Next TW game announcement at the Game Awards!
Plus Tides of Torment release today - cannot wait to dive into the Aislinn campaign!
Medieval 3!
Warhammer End Times!
NAGASH!!!
New engine!
Next TW game announcement at the Game Awards!
Plus Tides of Torment release today - cannot wait to dive into the Aislinn campaign!
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When Admiral Alvin Holsey abruptly resigned in October, everyone suspected it was a purge. Now we know why: Hegseth had asked the top Admiral to resign after months of discord over the legality of the boat strikes in the Caribbean. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord
The relationship between the Pentagon chief and military leader had been rocky since Trump’s inauguration.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
When Admiral Alvin Holsey abruptly resigned in October, everyone suspected it was a purge. Now we know why: Hegseth had asked the top Admiral to resign after months of discord over the legality of the boat strikes in the Caribbean. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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a fun thing from a class I'm guest teaching tomorrow: which of these will turn out OK for you, and which will be a disaster? (they're all from a single Chinese city between 2010 and 2022)
December 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
a fun thing from a class I'm guest teaching tomorrow: which of these will turn out OK for you, and which will be a disaster? (they're all from a single Chinese city between 2010 and 2022)
Warden & Leliana
Hawke & Isabela
Inquisitor & Cassandra
Rook & Taash
Hawke & Isabela
Inquisitor & Cassandra
Rook & Taash
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Warden & Leliana
Hawke & Isabela
Inquisitor & Cassandra
Rook & Taash
Hawke & Isabela
Inquisitor & Cassandra
Rook & Taash
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Coming up at 6pm ET on MSNBC to talk about this complete crapstorm about illegal orders in the Caribbean:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Coming up at 6pm ET on MSNBC to talk about this complete crapstorm about illegal orders in the Caribbean:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
City Elf HoF: Revenge.
Hawke: Not religious. Believes in the 3 Fs - family, friendship and financial security.
Inquisitor Trevelyan: Fervently devout Andrastian. Completely believes herself to be the Herald of Andraste. Doubles down after the Fade.
Human LoF Rook: Andrastian, not very observant.
Hawke: Not religious. Believes in the 3 Fs - family, friendship and financial security.
Inquisitor Trevelyan: Fervently devout Andrastian. Completely believes herself to be the Herald of Andraste. Doubles down after the Fade.
Human LoF Rook: Andrastian, not very observant.
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
City Elf HoF: Revenge.
Hawke: Not religious. Believes in the 3 Fs - family, friendship and financial security.
Inquisitor Trevelyan: Fervently devout Andrastian. Completely believes herself to be the Herald of Andraste. Doubles down after the Fade.
Human LoF Rook: Andrastian, not very observant.
Hawke: Not religious. Believes in the 3 Fs - family, friendship and financial security.
Inquisitor Trevelyan: Fervently devout Andrastian. Completely believes herself to be the Herald of Andraste. Doubles down after the Fade.
Human LoF Rook: Andrastian, not very observant.
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
Half way through Death by Lightning and it's gloriously entertaining. The characters are all wonderfully drawn, the writing is funny and poignant, the editing is so sharp!
Already dying to dive into the history of the period and figures like Garfield and Arthur.
Already dying to dive into the history of the period and figures like Garfield and Arthur.
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Half way through Death by Lightning and it's gloriously entertaining. The characters are all wonderfully drawn, the writing is funny and poignant, the editing is so sharp!
Already dying to dive into the history of the period and figures like Garfield and Arthur.
Already dying to dive into the history of the period and figures like Garfield and Arthur.
Ok this is a must read, couldn't put it down.
Police spent more than 50 days searching a lake for Ryan Borgwardt, a kayaker they assumed had drowned. Then they told his wife that they’d come to believe something different. Jamie Thompson spoke with the people involved in the case that rattled a Wisconsin town. theatln.tc/EpGemzk9
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Ok this is a must read, couldn't put it down.
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The “deal” deprives Ukraine of everything it has won by withstanding Russian aggression and defending the borders of Europe.
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The “deal” deprives Ukraine of everything it has won by withstanding Russian aggression and defending the borders of Europe.
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
XCOM but make it a KPOP Demon Hunters
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
XCOM but make it a KPOP Demon Hunters
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When the top JAG at Southern Command told the Pentagon that their plans to blow up fishing boats based on suspicions that they might have drugs in the cargo hold was certainly illegal, Hegseth simply ignored him, while others told him his career was over. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Top military lawyer concerned about Trump ‘drug boat’ strikes was ignored: report
The senior judge advocate general reportedly raised concerns that the airstrikes against the alleged ‘narco-terrorists’ could amount to extrajudicial killings
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
When the top JAG at Southern Command told the Pentagon that their plans to blow up fishing boats based on suspicions that they might have drugs in the cargo hold was certainly illegal, Hegseth simply ignored him, while others told him his career was over. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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They like Trump and want to help him
I checked the Times on my phone this morning before the Nuzzi piece dropped. I had to scroll past 9 full screenshots worth of headlines - not counting large ads - before getting to the first Epstein headline. Zelensky's alleged corruption was treated as far more important than Trump's.
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
They like Trump and want to help him
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Glad to see @sarahkendzior.bsky.social back. But READ her Thread.
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Glad to see @sarahkendzior.bsky.social back. But READ her Thread.
"Never talk to outsiders about what insiders say or do"
Summers treated Epstein as a fellow insider, even sharing views he did not want spread outside the relationship. He's absolutely guilty af.
Summers treated Epstein as a fellow insider, even sharing views he did not want spread outside the relationship. He's absolutely guilty af.
Elizabeth Warren and Yanis Varoufakis have each written of meeting Summers for the first time and him posing a specific, pretty odd question. I wonder how many of your scores of equally unimpressive people who wrote pieces defending him have gotten the same question and answered him differently.
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"Never talk to outsiders about what insiders say or do"
Summers treated Epstein as a fellow insider, even sharing views he did not want spread outside the relationship. He's absolutely guilty af.
Summers treated Epstein as a fellow insider, even sharing views he did not want spread outside the relationship. He's absolutely guilty af.
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It's not hard to figure out what the @nytimes.com ownership and editors care about and believe, we're just all supposed to pretend otherwise because they've convinced you that being willfully stupid is an important journalistic norm.
and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's not hard to figure out what the @nytimes.com ownership and editors care about and believe, we're just all supposed to pretend otherwise because they've convinced you that being willfully stupid is an important journalistic norm.
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This might even be true of this specific team but it’s obviously not true of the NYT at large. Trump’s extensive involvement with Epstein has been known for years and has always been downplayed by this newspaper
I was at NYT for 7 years & one of a dozen reporters who investigated Epstein’s interactions w/the rich & powerful. I don’t know every conversation held at every level there, but I do know we dedicated ourselves to exposing those who supported Epstein & engaged in the abuse of girls he facilitated
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This might even be true of this specific team but it’s obviously not true of the NYT at large. Trump’s extensive involvement with Epstein has been known for years and has always been downplayed by this newspaper
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More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
Jesus Christ, how is this SOB (Thomas Chatterton Williams) not in prison for this?
His memoir, referenced here robertlashley-54918.medium.com/on-a-word-th...
On A Word Thomas Chatterton Williams Needs To Keep Out Of His Mouth.
The man who blamed his act of of domestic violence on hip hop records wants to lecture black people (who think Tyre Nichols’s death’s had…
robertlashley-54918.medium.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Jesus Christ, how is this SOB (Thomas Chatterton Williams) not in prison for this?
Oh, look! What have we here?
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Oh, look! What have we here?
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The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations.
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
Don’t Build Housing, Just Deport People: The Nativist Right Recoils at Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Proposal
The backlash against Trump's proposal reveals the characteristics of his base's reactionary housing politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations.
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Take some time to read this thread if you can. The depravity and explicit racism of removing this memorial can't be overstated.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Take some time to read this thread if you can. The depravity and explicit racism of removing this memorial can't be overstated.
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM