Nick Lloyd
@nicklloyd.bsky.social
Profferer of opinion. Weightlifter. Afghan War veteran. Trivia guru. Doer of Deeds. Man who points out where the Doer of Deeds could have done them better.
AIPAC T Swift The DNC Their respective haters all think they are omnipotent and could control the fucking weather if they wanted to lol.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6d agoOnce again I'll reiterate that the way AIPAC has been transformed into this creeping villain behind every unwanted election result is feeding a resurgence of antisemitism, and that goes triple if the winner is Jewish and was opposed by AIPAC. Please please think about your words here!
Not sure if it’s the beard or my general demeanor, but I never get the pleasure of having these types of interactions with strangers. Pity.
Leobylaw on Stan Twitter in Car During Rain
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Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2w agoincident in question
Birthright Citizenship as codified by the 14th Amendment might be the most "THESE WORDS OBVIOUSLY MEAN EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAY, YOU DUNCE!" clause in the Constitution. It's sad that three justices still decided to pretend they couldn't read plain English.
Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · last mo.www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06... Supreme Court affirms that words mean what they mean (3 dissents).
I mean, is it going to impress my old HS boss and family friend, Bob? No. But unlike him, I haven’t been doing drywall for 40 years. For a basement bathroom, it’ll do.
Here’s the very simple truth. We should ban all Gerrymandering. Until then, to unilaterally disarm is political suicide and malpractice.
I wonder if the fact that Dems view a GWOT veteran getting out and taking a job with one of the few companies that was willing to hire vets at that time as being a “problematic” part of his bio is a key indicator of why they continue to hemorrhage working class voters and lose winnable elections.. 🤷♂️
US House Equality@ushouseequality.bsky.social · 5mo agoButtigieg will be interested to know how so many people on the left can overlook employment by problematic defense contractors.
I’m hereby proposing the NFA Suppressor Deregulation and Trans Rights Act of 2026
The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler@isaacbutler.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat works instead— especially as the parties are far more ideologically consistent than they used to be— is horse trading. It works even better if the things being traded don’t really matter to the people giving them up.
*Urge to loose the fateful lightning of our terrible, swift sword intensifies*
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Down with the traitors, up with the stars"
I know this sounds petty, but I don’t take advice on life from adult virgins.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7mo agoNick Fuentes urging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota: "Bro, do it. Do something. Just stop chickening out. I'm just tired of the idle threats... Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. Please just kill them." www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
In some fairness, not many lines in that western 2/3rds of China. But overall, yes. We should have more HSR. It’s incredibly difficult to build anything in America, for a variety of reasons that are all of our own making. Hence why the Abundance agenda is so popular rn.
Rusty Foster@rusty.todayintabs.com · 7mo agoMy whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
Counterpoint: they understand it just fine. They just think they are Tom, and fuck everyone else.
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 8mo agothe great gatsby is one of the most widely assigned books in america and yet apparently literally nobody understands it www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I am a simple man of the Great Lakes. I see a book about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and I read it.
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund F…
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s …
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Virginia Spartan. Started/going. I can tell I’m out of shape because I feel just as tired as when we hiked Upper Yosemite Falls in 2019 and that was way longer lol
In some fairness, they did fuck up a lot of shit. I agree the press and DC intelligentsia were mad about the loss of US prestige, but those of us in the humanitarian left/veteran camps were more upset by how they handled the Afghan evac piece. They spiked the ball after leaving 60k SIVs behind!
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 12mo agoA reminder that Joe Biden destroyed his presidency by doing the thing everyone said for years that they wanted but really didn't. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We stan a stubborn old New Englander who refuses to budge from his spot. 🙌
Make Opening Day a National Holiday@chriscardsfan.bsky.social · last yr.Greene’s brigade occupied their 1.5 mile defensive position throughout the heavy fighting of July 2 and into the 3rd. At 62, Greene was not a young man, but had the energy, drive, and quick-thinking of one much younger. He seemed everywhere on the battlefield, handling the defense with great elan.
I take it from this Father’s Day gift that my son wants me to take a job at INDOPACOM…
Nothing makes you feel every bit of 40 like digging out stumps with a pickaxe and shovel in 85 degree weather. 🥵
Tapas is a scam. They just charge you more money for less food.
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · last yr.We need some variety on the timeline. Quote this with a take that has nothing to do with politics
It’s really hard to overstate how much of a POS this guy is
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · last yr.The co-president says speaking against Putin’s interests is akin to treason. So I guess that’s where we are now.
“She was unwilling to give the Biden administration much credit for spurring clean-energy businesses like her current employer, and she was too angry at GM to place much, if any, blame on Trump for allowing the old plant to close.” At this point, we have to stop blaming the Dems. It’s the voters!
‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises
Many in Youngstown, Ohio, believe the president-elect will tackle the town’s decline this time. Others are worried about his character flaws. Their concerns help explain how he returned to power – and...
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Currently obsessed with this podcast. The series on the French Revolution is so good. 10/10 @theresthistory.bsky.social
Pro tip: Don’t try to plant your flag in the Shoe and think you’re going to walk away unscathed.
Rachel Hopmayer@rachelhopmayer.com · 2y agoMullings: “they gotta learn how to lose man, can’t be fighting because you lost a game.” UM players planted an M flag on field. Fighting ensued and restarted a few times with brawls all over the field. Players were then rinsing their eyes of pepper spray from police on field.
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu)
