G Tierce
@gtierce.bsky.social
Lover of dogs (proud Samoyed dad), politics, housing + TOD (especially an interesting floorplan), and all things diplomatic/military (OEF/OIF x3).
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In the absence of bookmarks (originally), I often choose to repost here instead (i.e. RT != endorsement).
Pinned
In between work, school, and getting ready for the next parachute jump, I've been thinking about European nuclear deterrence and strategic autonomy. The attached paper proposes extending French nuclear umbrella over the EU through a rail-mobile ICBM derived from the M51.
files.catbox.moe/7ie4im.pdf
files.catbox.moe/7ie4im.pdf
For anyone interested in this concept, here's a substantially expanded v3.0, now designed to allow the UK to potentially join, and to shift from Trident D5 to integrating its warheads with the M51/M53.
files.catbox.moe/4zfo4y.pdf
Fortunately Anthropic just decided to offer me bonus usage credit!
files.catbox.moe/4zfo4y.pdf
Fortunately Anthropic just decided to offer me bonus usage credit!
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Master and Commander: Bond edition
Virtually all national financial markets are tied to the U.S. Treasury market. This makes it a potentially powerful target for European pressure.
Bond Markets Are Now Battlefields
The world is returning to an era of weaponized finance.
foreignpolicy.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Master and Commander: Bond edition
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And there is a version of traditional conservatism that encourages this: volunteerism, sports, church, family, ways of being something in the world. One of the poisonous things about MAGA is how it chokes off this stuff in favor of an inchoate sense of rage and worship of the mighty.
February 8, 2026 at 7:22 PM
And there is a version of traditional conservatism that encourages this: volunteerism, sports, church, family, ways of being something in the world. One of the poisonous things about MAGA is how it chokes off this stuff in favor of an inchoate sense of rage and worship of the mighty.
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A friend on the Hill once described the Tinker Bell theory of the Constitution.
Once you stop believing in it—it dies.
Once you stop believing in it—it dies.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 AM
A friend on the Hill once described the Tinker Bell theory of the Constitution.
Once you stop believing in it—it dies.
Once you stop believing in it—it dies.
For anyone interested in this concept, here's a substantially expanded v3.0, now designed to allow the UK to potentially join, and to shift from Trident D5 to integrating its warheads with the M51/M53.
files.catbox.moe/4zfo4y.pdf
Fortunately Anthropic just decided to offer me bonus usage credit!
files.catbox.moe/4zfo4y.pdf
Fortunately Anthropic just decided to offer me bonus usage credit!
In between work, school, and getting ready for the next parachute jump, I've been thinking about European nuclear deterrence and strategic autonomy. The attached paper proposes extending French nuclear umbrella over the EU through a rail-mobile ICBM derived from the M51.
files.catbox.moe/7ie4im.pdf
files.catbox.moe/7ie4im.pdf
February 9, 2026 at 9:04 AM
For anyone interested in this concept, here's a substantially expanded v3.0, now designed to allow the UK to potentially join, and to shift from Trident D5 to integrating its warheads with the M51/M53.
files.catbox.moe/4zfo4y.pdf
Fortunately Anthropic just decided to offer me bonus usage credit!
files.catbox.moe/4zfo4y.pdf
Fortunately Anthropic just decided to offer me bonus usage credit!
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"I went through my 'I'm jaded with America' phase; don't do what the founding fathers did, but listen to what they said motherfuckers"
I promise this is an accurate transcription of what was said, no ruthkanda here lol
CC @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
I promise this is an accurate transcription of what was said, no ruthkanda here lol
CC @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 AM
"I went through my 'I'm jaded with America' phase; don't do what the founding fathers did, but listen to what they said motherfuckers"
I promise this is an accurate transcription of what was said, no ruthkanda here lol
CC @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
I promise this is an accurate transcription of what was said, no ruthkanda here lol
CC @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
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One of the best examples of racial exceptionalism clouding basic cognitive function on the part of a subset of the US commentariat was when the NYT ran a rare story about the IDF shooting children in the head and evidenced this with actual MRIs and X-Rays and people still denied this was possible.
February 8, 2026 at 10:45 PM
One of the best examples of racial exceptionalism clouding basic cognitive function on the part of a subset of the US commentariat was when the NYT ran a rare story about the IDF shooting children in the head and evidenced this with actual MRIs and X-Rays and people still denied this was possible.
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Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world?
NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.
NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world?
NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.
NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.
In between work, school, and getting ready for the next parachute jump, I've been thinking about European nuclear deterrence and strategic autonomy. The attached paper proposes extending French nuclear umbrella over the EU through a rail-mobile ICBM derived from the M51.
files.catbox.moe/7ie4im.pdf
files.catbox.moe/7ie4im.pdf
February 8, 2026 at 10:28 PM
In between work, school, and getting ready for the next parachute jump, I've been thinking about European nuclear deterrence and strategic autonomy. The attached paper proposes extending French nuclear umbrella over the EU through a rail-mobile ICBM derived from the M51.
files.catbox.moe/7ie4im.pdf
files.catbox.moe/7ie4im.pdf
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X is a health threat for anyone who uses it and I'm not sure there's any safe level of exposure. It's like mercury or lead, but faster acting.
Bill Ackman, for example, shows us what X toxicity does to humans at a high level. It has completely liquified his brain and hollowed out his skull.
Bill Ackman, for example, shows us what X toxicity does to humans at a high level. It has completely liquified his brain and hollowed out his skull.
Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, manages 18 billion dollars for wealthy clients, billions of it for the Harvard Endowment
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
February 8, 2026 at 2:56 AM
X is a health threat for anyone who uses it and I'm not sure there's any safe level of exposure. It's like mercury or lead, but faster acting.
Bill Ackman, for example, shows us what X toxicity does to humans at a high level. It has completely liquified his brain and hollowed out his skull.
Bill Ackman, for example, shows us what X toxicity does to humans at a high level. It has completely liquified his brain and hollowed out his skull.
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I invite you all to get into the weirdest, hardest and most wonderful sport: Biathlon.
(I love it so much I went to Norway last March to see my favs biathletes retire.)
Here’s an intro I wrote in December 2024.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/you-should-g...
(I love it so much I went to Norway last March to see my favs biathletes retire.)
Here’s an intro I wrote in December 2024.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/you-should-g...
February 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I invite you all to get into the weirdest, hardest and most wonderful sport: Biathlon.
(I love it so much I went to Norway last March to see my favs biathletes retire.)
Here’s an intro I wrote in December 2024.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/you-should-g...
(I love it so much I went to Norway last March to see my favs biathletes retire.)
Here’s an intro I wrote in December 2024.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/you-should-g...
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Good training sucks! It makes you get to the end, stare into the middle distance, light up a smoke, and realize how exhausted and beat up you are after two weeks in the desert getting your ass handed to you five times a day. It *has to* or you don’t learn anything except what’s already in the book!
February 7, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Good training sucks! It makes you get to the end, stare into the middle distance, light up a smoke, and realize how exhausted and beat up you are after two weeks in the desert getting your ass handed to you five times a day. It *has to* or you don’t learn anything except what’s already in the book!
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One of the more fucked up media policies that the DOD has implemented is the lockdown on postings from individual battalions and brigades. No more memorials from KIAs or anything of that nature. The 16th anniversary of my buddy’s death was this week and not a peep from the unit FB page.
February 7, 2026 at 2:52 AM
One of the more fucked up media policies that the DOD has implemented is the lockdown on postings from individual battalions and brigades. No more memorials from KIAs or anything of that nature. The 16th anniversary of my buddy’s death was this week and not a peep from the unit FB page.
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A year ago, I published a very long article about administrative capacity and execution of laws. If DOJ has ever needed to be in receivership, it would be now... (I don't think the Court would actually permit that. I'm just saying...)
review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...
review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...
February 4, 2026 at 10:55 PM
A year ago, I published a very long article about administrative capacity and execution of laws. If DOJ has ever needed to be in receivership, it would be now... (I don't think the Court would actually permit that. I'm just saying...)
review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...
review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...
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AIPAC a little birdie told me that Cory Booker cosponsored ONE piece of legislation that would restore sanctions on a grand total of FIVE ISRAELI JEWS. That man is an antisemite and it is VITAL that you spend 80,000,000 dollars against him when a socialist runs against him.
February 6, 2026 at 4:54 AM
AIPAC a little birdie told me that Cory Booker cosponsored ONE piece of legislation that would restore sanctions on a grand total of FIVE ISRAELI JEWS. That man is an antisemite and it is VITAL that you spend 80,000,000 dollars against him when a socialist runs against him.
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New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants.
The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
Trump's Schedule F Rule Finalized
A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:16 AM
New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants.
The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
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Four years ago I suggested that AIPAC’s scorched earth tactics against Dems who make meaningful critiques of Israel while still trying to position themselves as “pro-Israel” were going to significantly strengthen the influence of further-left critics, and things have gotten far worse in the interim.
February 6, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Four years ago I suggested that AIPAC’s scorched earth tactics against Dems who make meaningful critiques of Israel while still trying to position themselves as “pro-Israel” were going to significantly strengthen the influence of further-left critics, and things have gotten far worse in the interim.
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Much of this is downstream of having successfully catapulted a socialist into executive office without a sufficiently strong socialist parliamentary bloc. We would have been running into the same problems if Bernie won in 2016. Sucks but that's what it is.
I think Zohran understands, unlike a lot of his very online supporters, that actually running a functional NYC administration is going to be a lot more effective victory for "the Left" than anything else he can do, and that doing that is in no way, shape, or form something you can take for granted.
it is, to me, insane that people mad at Zohran for endorsing Hochul without explicit promises in her *primary* are also just pretending that other *primaries* aren't happening and he's stuck with this state leg. No, he's not! this is to help ensure Hochul doesn't block anything
February 5, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Much of this is downstream of having successfully catapulted a socialist into executive office without a sufficiently strong socialist parliamentary bloc. We would have been running into the same problems if Bernie won in 2016. Sucks but that's what it is.
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The Epstein files is a ton of chit chat about how unfair it is that society puts any constraints on billionaires’ ability to own and exploit people
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
The Epstein files is a ton of chit chat about how unfair it is that society puts any constraints on billionaires’ ability to own and exploit people
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Important thread. @joshtpm.bsky.social knows more about digital publishing than pretty much anyone I'm aware of.
I think he's made a category error in his assumptions about Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post: that Bezos is a good businessman and is self-aware enough to correct his errors.
I think he's made a category error in his assumptions about Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post: that Bezos is a good businessman and is self-aware enough to correct his errors.
I can say without any fear of contradiction that I know as much or more than anyone in modern American journalism about the absolute, no excuses necessity of operating in the black. In many cases much more since if you’re a big player there are lots of creative ways to operate ….
February 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Important thread. @joshtpm.bsky.social knows more about digital publishing than pretty much anyone I'm aware of.
I think he's made a category error in his assumptions about Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post: that Bezos is a good businessman and is self-aware enough to correct his errors.
I think he's made a category error in his assumptions about Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post: that Bezos is a good businessman and is self-aware enough to correct his errors.
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Musk isn't rich. The person who has enough is rich. The person who doesn't is poor.
Paraphrasing Guillermo del Toro, who changed my life when he said that.
Paraphrasing Guillermo del Toro, who changed my life when he said that.
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Musk isn't rich. The person who has enough is rich. The person who doesn't is poor.
Paraphrasing Guillermo del Toro, who changed my life when he said that.
Paraphrasing Guillermo del Toro, who changed my life when he said that.
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These are people trying to win a place at the summit of an anti-human machine. Consider the fear & the contortion of the soul that brings one to this place. We must defeat them so that we can afford to pity them.
Best I can tell from photos of social gatherings at Mar-a-Lago is that all of the men there are into women who look like they were repeatedly stung by bees and are big fans of the Joker.
February 4, 2026 at 9:20 PM
These are people trying to win a place at the summit of an anti-human machine. Consider the fear & the contortion of the soul that brings one to this place. We must defeat them so that we can afford to pity them.
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In 2009, this was the mask of a UK SAS character in “Call of Duty.” By 2015 it was de rigeur among Iraqi government commandos and Shiite militiamen. In 2018, in “Sicario 2,” it was what CIA surrogate characters wore to disguise themselves as cartel gunmen.
Now US law enforcement wears it.
Now US law enforcement wears it.
February 4, 2026 at 2:08 AM
In 2009, this was the mask of a UK SAS character in “Call of Duty.” By 2015 it was de rigeur among Iraqi government commandos and Shiite militiamen. In 2018, in “Sicario 2,” it was what CIA surrogate characters wore to disguise themselves as cartel gunmen.
Now US law enforcement wears it.
Now US law enforcement wears it.
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This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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Dems should announce that anyone who resigns before midterms can rejoin with seniority intact if we win 2028
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Dems should announce that anyone who resigns before midterms can rejoin with seniority intact if we win 2028