John Ford
@jfjord.bsky.social
Judt-Stancilst Rortarian. Taxation grants citizenship.
the state is not something separate from society. it is a consequence thereof
A must-read for anyone that fought in Afghanistan, or any war, or knows someone who did, or wants to know what it is like to come home. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...
Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought (Gift Article)
First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.
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Strangely, South Korea's JCS did not announce detection of a North Korean ballistic missile test Thursday, while NK claims they launched Hwasong-11D CRBMs. Seems launch was from Ragwon County in S. Hamgyong (39.896586°, 127.874964°). Missiles pointed east and south www.nknews.org/2026/06/nort...
Icarus shoulda used carbon fiber that’s way better than whatever wax bulkshit they were pulling on Crete. Yet another cautionary tale solved by materials science, losers
That's the point of the Holocaust idea: it needs to be high profile and go for the throat. I want this to be Threads level of feel bad television. I want to make people sad and angry. What happened is becoming abstract, numbers and scary stories, not things real people did to people. Never forget.
John Ford@jfjord.bsky.social · 2mo agoI do genuinely feel that one reason we are "here, now" is because White Americans were spared the 20th Century and have therefore decided to repeat it.
I wrote something for @fpri.bsky.social on CENTCOM's request for Dark Eagle. While not super useful in that theater, the flexibility its range offers means such a deployment could pose issues for Moscow. Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/behindth...
Dark Eagle in the Desert | Considerations for Deploying LRHW to CENTCOM
At the end of April, Gerry Doyle at Bloomberg reported that CENTCOM had requested the deployment of Dark Eagle to the Middle East.
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I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing
It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.
NOTUS@notus.com · 3mo agoThe differences between Rep. AOC’s and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ approach to tax cut plans are indicative of the divides Democrats must bridge as they form their agenda going into 2028. https://www.notus.org/economy/democrats-tax-cut-plans-splintering-progressives
I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society. You do not want to live in that kind of society.
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3mo agoI think that we should simply run on prosecuting the rich for their crimes instead of creating a low trust society that will sow the seeds for further fascism
Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.
There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 4mo agofun fact: no pangolin has ever done a single thing wrong in the entire history of the world
This is a neat project to produce tiny ADS-B receivers that can be used for just about anything, but are especially designed for fpv drone integration my ADS-B station at home is the size of a shoebox and relies on a Raspberry Pi which is pretty inefficient, love the idea of dedicated hardware
PicoADSB - Easy Flight Tracking, No Compromises
Ultra-lightweight and miniature ADS-B receiver with 500km+ range; track flights effortlessly with plug-and-play simplicity.
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The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
The message needs to resound clearly and constantly: "THESE PEOPLE STOLE YOUR FUTURE. WE ARE PUNISHING THEM FOR EVERY PENNY." And along with it, the rich will need to be soaked completely. If the middle class has to pay for a mismanaged public fisc, the rich must be devastated for it.
He fucked up and overestimated the American people. He thought voters voted for Trump because they liked and/or agreed with him but they voted for the magic money man to make them rich because girls have cooties.
Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · 5mo agoOne of the reasons I think Newsom will prove himself juiceless in any primary (if he makes it that far) is that there is no actual market among Dem primary voters for this kind of Yglesias-brained, internet-poisoned triangulating.
man, reading about the Flying Tigers (US pilots flying for China during WW2) makes me feel like sobbing 😭
perhaps its better that some unknown known unknowns remain unknown
Sam Lair@slair.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn light of everything going on, I took a look at some Iranian air defense sites and found something surprising. Namely, what appears to be S-300 launchers! This contradicts past claims they had all been destroyed. Read more on the Arms Control Wonk Blog: www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1221...
In light of everything going on, I took a look at some Iranian air defense sites and found something surprising. Namely, what appears to be S-300 launchers! This contradicts past claims they had all been destroyed. Read more on the Arms Control Wonk Blog: www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1221...
Whither the Iranian S-300?
In light of the increasing tensions between the U.S. and Iran, the expanding American regional military presence, and the talk of potential U.S. strikes as [...]
armscontrolwonk.com
