Nate
@nategm.bsky.social
Rando. Game design enjoyer cursed to also follow public policy. My most defining attribute is my lack of interesting attributes.
If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
When Whitehouse is on, he's on. This is a flamethrower.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWhitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
Not a word about verifying the gender of boys... this is little girl specific. Child sexual abuse on a state level 'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners www.rawstory.com/project-2025...
'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners
A Washington State ballot measure that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before taking part in sports provoked nationwide outrage.IL26-638 w...
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i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
We can only pray that whoever convinced Max Miller to do a sweaty live recounting of all the allegations against him will be rewarded with a leading role at the RNC.
Looking forward to seeing Ohio's Republican senators -- the one currently running for re-election and the one currently running away from his daughter's allegations of abuse -- respond to this Max Miller address.
The planner in CENTCOM that had been forgetting to add the word “decisive” to the CONOP slides this whole time.
Drake & Lil Yachty Looking at Laptop
ALT: Drake & Lil Yachty Looking at Laptop
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Newsom being Newsom and planting a knife firmly in the back of every entertainment worker in the state of California to save face with the rich guys. If you think he wouldn’t do the same as the Democratic nominee you’re kidding yourself
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 5d agoThis fucking guy.
Late night scoop - Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says www.cbsnews.com/news/dod-pen...
Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says
The Pentagon is considering a sweeping remake of military higher education, including an end to civilian tenure and a "line-by-line" review of courses, according to a draft memo obtained by CBS News.
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It's genuinely insane that it's a mainstream belief that the problem with COVID was that we did *too much* to address it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."
Yglesias is connected enough in lefty media to know that he’s lying here. the idea that there’s significant money to be made pandering to the left is ridiculous.
Philip Bump@pbump.com · last wk.[guy who reportedly makes seven figures arguing for centrist positions]:
the thing about having actual principles is that when a politician I respect does some stupid shit I can just be like, “that sucks, knock it off” instead of inventing an imaginary world where I’m forced to defend stupid shit for procedural 4d chess reasons
Why does every single person in this administration act like they aren’t currently in power. JOE BIDEN DIDN’T PROCURE ENOUGH PAC-3 INTERCEPTORS Okay. Well. You knew that when you started the war. You knew what the stockpiles were. You didn’t increase capacity. How is this on him.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.WELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail
Their plan is to say as little as possible and win by default, which in their mind is the safest path that doesn't alienate anyone. This misses the opportunity to galvanize the public around important issues, and then they throw up their hands about how the voters are ignorant and apathetic
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.I do find it amazing that even in this moment, the Dems can't come up with some sort of "Contract for America" like language that offers an alternative to Trump. Maybe they have it, but whatever governing vision they have is lost in the noise.
Somehow I am cursed to personally know not one but TWO of the candidates in the Virginia 7 Republican primary and they are both in the bottom 5% of people I would want in charge of anything
the good thing about a democratic society is that we don't have to guess at what taiwanese people think:
isla@demomolos.bsky.social · 2w agoI do not give a shit about Taiwanese sovereignty because I get the feeling it’s a Chinese parcel of land that’s Temporarily An American Colony.
He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
Still the best speech in the LOTR trilogy. And feels extremely relevant to the times we live in. A lot of days do feel this hopeless.
No one truly knows how much damage field grade officers seeking OER bullets have done to the collective intellect of the profession of arms
B. A. Friedman@bafriedman.bsky.social · 2w agoI know I've brought it up before, but the best example of this is the Army replacing the three-letter word "war" with four-letter acronym "LSCO." cimsec.org/the-curious-...
No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.
America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.
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Your job as a GM in TTRPGs is to give people reasons to care. Your job as a player is to do your best to care. Without both parties investing in their parts of the process it becomes impossible to engage in collaborative storytelling, improv, and fun combats.
On behalf of the United States I want to apologize for the FIFA halftime show
Jason read their entire country into the shadow realm.
Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 2w agoargetine nationalists are so funny man lmao
bro what? whatever your view of the bare political realities here, and I strongly disagree with his, at some point you do need to step back and ask “am I openly conditioning my support for a candidate on his willingness to attack children for living their lives?”
