You'll definitely get purged but legendary respect for whichever Troop® emails Hegseth the JCPOA.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d agoPENTAGON: Anyone got any ideas? @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago
More than 600 service members have been wounded in action during the five-month war with Iran, with a majority suffering traumatic brain injuries. Iran’s one-way attack drones could put troops at greater risk of TBI and psychological harm. #Flashes
Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups
The South Korean government has warned that heavy monsoon rains may have washed landmines from the Demilitarized Zone into rivers flowing across the inter-Korean border. www.stripes.com/theaters/asi...
North Korean land mines likely flowed south with runoff from monsoon rains
The South Korean government has warned that heavy rains may have washed landmines from the DMZ into rivers flowing across the inter-Korean border.
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“Some days later in Rhode Island, as I walked my dog on a muggy New England night, my phone vibrated. Mr. Gulab had texted me in Pashto: ‘Have you arrived at your home?’ he asked. I said I had. ‘It’s good to hear that you arrived safely.’”
From the great TM Gibbons-Neff: “Regarding the mujahedeen who were killed by your side, I do not know whether they or their families would forgive you,” Mr. Gulab said. “Those civilians may not forgive the foreign forces, but for me personally, I have my own authority and I have forgiven you.”
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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Worth reading and sitting with. TM has set an example for all of us. 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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"I’ve had a hand in killing around six people. Maybe seven. I don’t know if one man bled out on the side of the road or was taken to a doctor. I think about him often... The killing wasn’t detached; it felt deeply personal." @tmgneff.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...
Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought
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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"I have my own authority and I have forgiven you.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...
Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought
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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As a Marine and then a journalist, Thomas Gibbons-Neff spent years in Afghanistan. In search of answers, and perhaps closure, he returned to the country one last time to speak with a Taliban commander he had fought against in 2010.
Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought
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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In my previous PAO life, I released service histories for soldiers on an almost daily basis to media - it a routine and completely reasonable practice. Honestly can't wrap my head around the justification for this move by the Navy.
New, from me and @ckoettl.bsky.social: Iran has attacked at least nine U.S. military sites in the last two weeks, destroying radar sites, personnel areas, hangars, and other structures, and killing at least three service members. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/w...
What Visuals Show About Recent Damage to U.S. Military Sites in the Middle East
Video footage and satellite images reveal new details about Iranian strikes on U.S. targets during the latest flare-up in fighting.
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For some three decades, Jordan has been an important base for American military operations around the Middle East. Now, Jordan is paying a price.
U.S. Military Presence in Jordan Makes It Iranian Target
Relying heavily on U.S. aid and protection, Jordan is unlikely to restrict the American military presence there, despite escalating Iranian airstrikes.
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A Russian spy at the center of a secret operation to smuggle high-tech weapon components into Russia has left Japan after his activities were disclosed by The New York Times, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official said on Thursday.
A Russian Spy, Suddenly Cast Into the Spotlight, Flees Japan
The military intelligence officer left the country after The Times reported that he was using the Aeroflot airline office in Tokyo to conduct espionage.
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U.S. Army Deploys Hypersonic Missiles in Range of China During Exercise — USNI News news.usni.org/2026/07/22/u...
U.S. Army Deploys Hypersonic Missiles in Range of China During Exercise - USNI News
The U.S. Army deployed its Dark Eagle hypersonic missiles for a multinational warfighting exercise last month in the Western Pacific, according to recently released photos. Troops operating the long-r...
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Any discussion of women's roles in the church must begin with this fact: It was to a woman that the Risen Christ first appeared and a woman who was charged by him with announcing the Resurrection to the rest of his disciples. Thus, her justly exalted title: "Apostle to the Apostles."
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A month after a pair of history-making earthquakes ripped across Venezuela, the country’s hardest-hit state, La Guaira, remains a scene of grueling, painstaking searches for the dead. Two brothers dug every day for 26 days to find their mother, brother and grandmother. trib.al/l6gv8Bu
Wreckage from a Pan Am Clipper plane crash in 1952, where 52 people aboard died, has been located off the coast of Puerto Rico, 70 years later.
Pan Am Clipper Endeavor Is Found After Over 70 Years Lost at Sea
Fifty-two of the 69 people aboard the plane died when it crashed off Puerto Rico and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Strikes carried out by Iran last week injured dozens of U.S. service members and damaged several helicopters, according to U.S. officials. But the Pentagon did not disclose these strikes, nor the casualties and damage they inflicted.
Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War
Central Command is not required to release information about injured troops, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.
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Four Iranian attacks in five days have targeted U.S. troops in Jordan, U.S. officials said, including one on Friday that killed two soldiers and left another service member missing. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/w...
Why Jordan Is Becoming a New Focus in the U.S.-Iran War (Gift Article)
Four Iranian attacks in five days have targeted U.S. troops in Jordan, U.S. officials said, including one on Friday that killed two soldiers and left another service member missing.
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Trump Faces the Limits of U.S. Firepower and the Lessons of Past Wars From Iraq: “Sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction.” w/ @ericschmittnytbot.mirrors.bot www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/u...
Trump Faces the Limits of U.S. Firepower and the Lessons of Past Wars
Like his predecessors, President Trump has struggled to turn battlefield successes into long-term victories.
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No, it is not mentioned at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History. Nor is the disproportionate impact of uranium mining on Diné & other Indigenous people. Not. A. Single. Mention. Because official nuclear weapons heritage in the USA is propaganda.
Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 3w agoThis morning in 1979 at 5:30 AM MDT, at Church Rock, New Mexico, a 50-foot earthen dam containing the radioactive and toxic byproducts of a United Nuclear Corporation uranium mine failed, resulting in the largest single unintentional release of radioactive materials in the United States.
Using FY2026 FMS funds, so presumably this is part of the $11 billion arms package that was approved in December (which Trump likes to brag is more than Biden approved in 4 years) but hadn’t appear to move much in the months since
John Ismay@johnismay.bsky.social · 3w agoTaiwan is spending $439 million on ATACMS
The U.S. military appeared to widen its targets in Iran in recent days, hitting multiple parts of the country, according to state media reports, as clashes entered a sixth straight day. Iran also fired at bases belonging to U.S. allies in the Middle East. Here's where strikes have been reported.
Here’s Where the U.S. and Iran Have Launched Attacks as the War Escalates
The U.S. military has appeared to widen its targets in Iran, while Iran has fired at bases belonging to American allies in the Middle East.
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My work continues, uninterrupted by any recent events.