Michael Soland
@msoland.bsky.social
Engineering, Mountaineering, Surfing
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Several residential buildings just burning and it doesn’t stop, there’s more explosions
June 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Several residential buildings just burning and it doesn’t stop, there’s more explosions
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Yeah who the fuck needs to know foreign languages man. We only need the warrior culture now and last time I checked DLI didn’t teach the warfighter how to speak LETHALITY
May 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Yeah who the fuck needs to know foreign languages man. We only need the warrior culture now and last time I checked DLI didn’t teach the warfighter how to speak LETHALITY
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I’m gonna get as trashed as a North Korean destroyer tonight
May 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I’m gonna get as trashed as a North Korean destroyer tonight
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“If you don’t engage in good faith we’ll have to abandon our support for your adversary” is quite a negotiating position.
May 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“If you don’t engage in good faith we’ll have to abandon our support for your adversary” is quite a negotiating position.
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U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 "Wake Island Avengers" fly over Wake Island. May 10, 2025
May 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 "Wake Island Avengers" fly over Wake Island. May 10, 2025
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May 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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I'm just saying we shoulder consider it.
April 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm just saying we shoulder consider it.
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I have to believe in the existence of a hell because I just have to believe that he will get punished
April 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I have to believe in the existence of a hell because I just have to believe that he will get punished
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Right-wing American Catholics *really* do not get how much right-wing American Evangelicals hate them.
April 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Right-wing American Catholics *really* do not get how much right-wing American Evangelicals hate them.
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Call bros rn:
April 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Call bros rn:
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What
Trump: "I don't hold Zelenskyy responsible, but I'm not exactly thrilled with the fact that that war started ... so I'm not happy with him."
April 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
What
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To put in perspective, the total cost of U.S. military aid to Ukraine throughout the entire conflict is .005% of the total stock market cap lost since the beginning of Trump's presidency.
If you wanted a sense of the scale of how utterly incomprehensibly stupid our political policies have become.
If you wanted a sense of the scale of how utterly incomprehensibly stupid our political policies have become.
April 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
To put in perspective, the total cost of U.S. military aid to Ukraine throughout the entire conflict is .005% of the total stock market cap lost since the beginning of Trump's presidency.
If you wanted a sense of the scale of how utterly incomprehensibly stupid our political policies have become.
If you wanted a sense of the scale of how utterly incomprehensibly stupid our political policies have become.
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I’m gonna become the joker
LOL -- White House econ adviser Kevin Hassett admits on Fox News Sunday that on tariffs "I can't give you any forward-looking guidance on what's gonna happen this week. The president has got a heck of a lot of analysis before him, and he's gonna make the right choice I'm sure."
March 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I’m gonna become the joker
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another thread i want to emphasize--and one that came up in my discussion with bret devereaux last week--is how successfully responding to a constitutional crisis requires understanding the nature of that crisis. it's therefore worth considering what trump+musk *think* they are trying to do--
on neon liberalism today: the great @jamellebouie.net. we talk the political economy of the antebellum south, constitutional settlements, and the still-revolutionary
potential of the reconstruction amendments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBBZ...
potential of the reconstruction amendments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBBZ...
A New Reconstruction?
YouTube video by Liberal Currents
www.youtube.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
another thread i want to emphasize--and one that came up in my discussion with bret devereaux last week--is how successfully responding to a constitutional crisis requires understanding the nature of that crisis. it's therefore worth considering what trump+musk *think* they are trying to do--
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The first AC newsletter of 2025 arrives with members this week.
Alongside Club news & expedition reports, this issue also includes a piece from Andy Taylor on learning to climb with a stoma and an interview with ski instructor Alison Thacker.
Alongside Club news & expedition reports, this issue also includes a piece from Andy Taylor on learning to climb with a stoma and an interview with ski instructor Alison Thacker.
March 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The first AC newsletter of 2025 arrives with members this week.
Alongside Club news & expedition reports, this issue also includes a piece from Andy Taylor on learning to climb with a stoma and an interview with ski instructor Alison Thacker.
Alongside Club news & expedition reports, this issue also includes a piece from Andy Taylor on learning to climb with a stoma and an interview with ski instructor Alison Thacker.
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Trump TLAM Veternarian
SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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