James Buckland
@jamesbuckland.bsky.social
Refugee from the other place
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Look, maybe Khamenei can buy some of Trump's memecoin and we can all move on from this.
June 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Look, maybe Khamenei can buy some of Trump's memecoin and we can all move on from this.
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I think going to war with Iran is a terrible idea, but no one believes this “two weeks” bit. He’s used it a million times before to pretend he might be doing something he’s not. It just makes America look weak and silly.
beyond parody -- Trump, through Karoline Leavitt, announces he'll make his decision about whether to strike Iran "within the next two weeks"
June 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I think going to war with Iran is a terrible idea, but no one believes this “two weeks” bit. He’s used it a million times before to pretend he might be doing something he’s not. It just makes America look weak and silly.
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A favourite thing about the Falkland Islands referendum was that only three people voted against remaining British despite the fact there were 11 Argentinians with voting rights.
June 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A favourite thing about the Falkland Islands referendum was that only three people voted against remaining British despite the fact there were 11 Argentinians with voting rights.
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DSS Galatea arrives in 🇳🇱Den Helder today (Damen FCS 5009 platform).
Vessel leased by RNLN with civilian crew provided by Fugro. Equipped with UUVs and UAVs, will be tasked to patrol the Netherlands' EEZ and protect critical marine infrastructure.
Vessel leased by RNLN with civilian crew provided by Fugro. Equipped with UUVs and UAVs, will be tasked to patrol the Netherlands' EEZ and protect critical marine infrastructure.
June 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
DSS Galatea arrives in 🇳🇱Den Helder today (Damen FCS 5009 platform).
Vessel leased by RNLN with civilian crew provided by Fugro. Equipped with UUVs and UAVs, will be tasked to patrol the Netherlands' EEZ and protect critical marine infrastructure.
Vessel leased by RNLN with civilian crew provided by Fugro. Equipped with UUVs and UAVs, will be tasked to patrol the Netherlands' EEZ and protect critical marine infrastructure.
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The best way to conceptualize Jake Tapper's Joe Biden book is that a lot of media views problems that occur under Democratic administrations as caused by Democrats, and problems that occur under Republican administrations as caused by Democrats not having prevented Republicans winning an election.
June 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The best way to conceptualize Jake Tapper's Joe Biden book is that a lot of media views problems that occur under Democratic administrations as caused by Democrats, and problems that occur under Republican administrations as caused by Democrats not having prevented Republicans winning an election.
Oh for fucks sake I’ve triggered the Americans again.
June 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Oh for fucks sake I’ve triggered the Americans again.
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A notable statement coming from a former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
June 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A notable statement coming from a former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Shows pretty clearly that Trump got rolled by Netanyahu - the same “we will attack with or without you” gambit that every other president back to Obama managed to resist, and Trump just crumpled like dry leaves.
Big @nytimes.com story tracing Trump’s apparent conversion to a pro-war position, by Maggie Haberman, Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman, and Jonathan Swan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Shows pretty clearly that Trump got rolled by Netanyahu - the same “we will attack with or without you” gambit that every other president back to Obama managed to resist, and Trump just crumpled like dry leaves.
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"Motivation boosting" for meat assaults in the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Armed Forces — footage from the phone of a captured Russian soldier.
Disciplinary measures were applied because the beaten Russian serviceman abandoned his comrades during an assault.
t.me/c/1377735387...
Disciplinary measures were applied because the beaten Russian serviceman abandoned his comrades during an assault.
t.me/c/1377735387...
June 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"Motivation boosting" for meat assaults in the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Armed Forces — footage from the phone of a captured Russian soldier.
Disciplinary measures were applied because the beaten Russian serviceman abandoned his comrades during an assault.
t.me/c/1377735387...
Disciplinary measures were applied because the beaten Russian serviceman abandoned his comrades during an assault.
t.me/c/1377735387...
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June 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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"Let's not overthink this," Graham says.
June 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"Let's not overthink this," Graham says.
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New York City comptroller Brad Lander arrested at immigration court hearing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New York City comptroller Brad Lander arrested at immigration court hearing
Mayoral candidate was detained by Ice as he escorted an immigrant out of court, says his wife
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
New York City comptroller Brad Lander arrested at immigration court hearing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump posts: "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"
Looks like we are headed for a US-backed war of regime change in Iran. Buckle up.
Looks like we are headed for a US-backed war of regime change in Iran. Buckle up.
June 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Trump posts: "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"
Looks like we are headed for a US-backed war of regime change in Iran. Buckle up.
Looks like we are headed for a US-backed war of regime change in Iran. Buckle up.
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“Sky trackers”—another data point related to the F-35 invisibility thing. I think what we’re zeroing on here is that it isn’t *stealth* that Trump finds incomprehensible, per se, but rather *radar*
Trump: "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran."
June 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“Sky trackers”—another data point related to the F-35 invisibility thing. I think what we’re zeroing on here is that it isn’t *stealth* that Trump finds incomprehensible, per se, but rather *radar*
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Look, I don’t much care what Tulsi Gabbard says either, but here’s the thing: I didn’t appoint her to be my Director of National Intelligence.
COLLINS: Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon
TRUMP: I don't care what she said
TRUMP: I don't care what she said
June 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Look, I don’t much care what Tulsi Gabbard says either, but here’s the thing: I didn’t appoint her to be my Director of National Intelligence.
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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
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Wild stuff: Mohsen Rezaei in Iran says that Iran has a secret commitment from Pakistan to use nuclear weapons against Israel, leading Pakistan's defense minister to publicly clarify that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are "solely" for its defense www.livemint.com/news/world/p...
June 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Wild stuff: Mohsen Rezaei in Iran says that Iran has a secret commitment from Pakistan to use nuclear weapons against Israel, leading Pakistan's defense minister to publicly clarify that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are "solely" for its defense www.livemint.com/news/world/p...
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“We don’t trade children. That’s madness - and by the way, it’s something the Russians actually proposed: we give them soldiers, and they give us children. It’s simply beyond comprehension, beyond international law. But it’s typical of them. Children must be returned,” Zelensky stated.
June 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“We don’t trade children. That’s madness - and by the way, it’s something the Russians actually proposed: we give them soldiers, and they give us children. It’s simply beyond comprehension, beyond international law. But it’s typical of them. Children must be returned,” Zelensky stated.
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”The high volume of maritime traffic makes it challenging to identify every instance of abnormal maritime activity.”
You are a state?
I follow hobbyists that could code in weeks software to find large chunks of it if they just got hands on the expensive data.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
You are a state?
I follow hobbyists that could code in weeks software to find large chunks of it if they just got hands on the expensive data.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK ‘woefully’ unprepared for Chinese and Russian undersea cable sabotage, says report
CSRI finds China and Russia may be coordinating ‘grey zone’ tactics against vulnerable western infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
June 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
”The high volume of maritime traffic makes it challenging to identify every instance of abnormal maritime activity.”
You are a state?
I follow hobbyists that could code in weeks software to find large chunks of it if they just got hands on the expensive data.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
You are a state?
I follow hobbyists that could code in weeks software to find large chunks of it if they just got hands on the expensive data.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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“Special thanks to our sponsor Coinbase.”
*cuts to empty stage*
Has a national military force ever allowed themselves to be so debased and humiliated so quickly?
*cuts to empty stage*
Has a national military force ever allowed themselves to be so debased and humiliated so quickly?
June 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Special thanks to our sponsor Coinbase.”
*cuts to empty stage*
Has a national military force ever allowed themselves to be so debased and humiliated so quickly?
*cuts to empty stage*
Has a national military force ever allowed themselves to be so debased and humiliated so quickly?
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Swedish Maritime Administration extend their warning of GPS jamming in the Baltic Sea. Russian hybrid warfare.
www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
Sjöfartsverket utökar varningen för GPS-störningar i Östersjön
Sjöfartsverket har sedan i maj varnat för GPS-störningar i södra och mellersta Östersjön. Nu utökas varningen till norra Östersjön och Finska viken, säger myndigheten till SVT Nyheter. – Vi har skicka...
www.svt.se
June 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Swedish Maritime Administration extend their warning of GPS jamming in the Baltic Sea. Russian hybrid warfare.
www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
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Police departments have exponentially more control over how officers are recruited, trained, and overseen than a protest does over its participants, but are allowed by a sympathetic press to use the "bad apples" defense to separate deeds from goals and institutions in a way protestors often aren't.
June 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Police departments have exponentially more control over how officers are recruited, trained, and overseen than a protest does over its participants, but are allowed by a sympathetic press to use the "bad apples" defense to separate deeds from goals and institutions in a way protestors often aren't.
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"sponsored by palantir" (no joke)
June 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"sponsored by palantir" (no joke)
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#Breaking | IRGC confirms the death of multiple other high-ranking officers killed alongside Brigadier General Hajizadeh, namely generals Davoud Sheikhian, Mohammad Bagher Taherpour, Mansour Safarpour, Masoud Tayyeb, Khosrow Hassani, and Javad Jarsara.
June 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
#Breaking | IRGC confirms the death of multiple other high-ranking officers killed alongside Brigadier General Hajizadeh, namely generals Davoud Sheikhian, Mohammad Bagher Taherpour, Mansour Safarpour, Masoud Tayyeb, Khosrow Hassani, and Javad Jarsara.