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A German businessman was charged with drug trafficking in Australia after 200kg of cocaine was found in a hotel room last December. Bellingcat and the Sunday Times now investigate the alleged connection between him and the Kinahan cartel. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

I’ve published several threads on disordered discourse, how it captures democratic systems, and how we might counter it. For those who want to know more, the following playlist takes you through the philosophical ideas that have shaped much of my thinking. open.spotify.com/playlist/3NJ...

submitted 64 days ago • 26 comments

Adolescence, a Netflix series about the “malign influence of the online ‘manosphere’” arrived just as news broke that killer Kyle Clifford—who raped & murdered 25-year-old Louise Hunt last year after she broke up w/ him—had searched the web 4 Andrew Tate’s podcast mere hours b4 killing Hunt. 3/22/25

submitted 64 days ago • 23 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 64 days ago • 1556 comments

“One of the biggest issues are these so-called four regions: Donbas, Crimea, Lugansk & there are two others” “They’re Russian speaking & overwhelming majority want to be ruled by Russia” Ukrainian geography aside, US envoy Steve Witkoff shares Moscow’s view of its invasion.

submitted 64 days ago • 7 comments

🧵I've posted previously about how institutional capture by disordered discourse works, and I want to highlight this post from DOD Rapid Response to show what it looks like in action, and what it tells us. It’s a textbook example of Stage 5: Entrenchment & Epistemic Closure. bsky.app/profile/elio...

submitted 71 days ago • 32 comments

Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand

submitted 64 days ago • 528 comments

The only thing you'll gain by not standing up to this is a boot on your neck.

submitted 64 days ago • 13 comments

the endgame here is him withholding federal tax dollars from blue states entirely unless they let him personally rewrite all their laws it is the end of the “states’ rights” conservatives claimed to believe in so fervently in favor of absolute dictatorship

submitted 64 days ago • 65 comments

Don’t believe her? Believe him. New presidential memorandum just dropped: “I hereby direct the Attorney General to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation against the United States…” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 64 days ago • 27 comments

Trump says he will withhold federal tax dollars to Maine colleges unless the Gov of Maine personally apologizes to him.

submitted 64 days ago • 2978 comments

He says he’s willing to move to Peru to be with her after she is deported.

submitted 64 days ago • 1578 comments

We've been combing through the JFK files and talking to experts and in short, there's plenty of fascinating details and newly unredacted documents for those keen on the historical record. But none of them will satisfy the fantasies of conspiracy theorists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 66 days ago • 10 comments

Waste and fraud? Has the Pentagon dropped its investigation into Musk's abuse of its own reporting rules? newrepublic.com/article/1913...

submitted 106 days ago • 42 comments

Caligula rules www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 106 days ago • 124 comments

You snooze. You win. While you were sleeping, a federal judge issued an emergency TRO: ➖ blocks DOGE from accessing Treasury systems ➖ requires DOGE to "immediately destroy" any material already downloaded Case brought by attorneys general of 19 states Added to the Litigation Tracker⬇️

submitted 106 days ago • 152 comments

The US government has now gutted all of the tools created to fight kleptocracy. It's going to be up to other democracies to save their political and financial systems from anonymous flows of cash. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/07/w...

submitted 106 days ago • 222 comments

Skandynawia czy Wyszehrad? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCFb... z @ilonaarte.bsky.social na kanale @janpinski.bsky.social pozdrawiam Oboje!

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Moja "Historia Rosji bez mitów" osiągnęła 81 stron komputeropisu. Dziś głównie dłubałem w czasach Iwana Groźnego. Tymczasem przypominam o przedsprzedaży naszej książki o Liberalizmie, która jest obecnie w SKŁADZIE a niedługo w druku: theatrumilluminatum.pl/shop

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Nasza książka LIBERALIZM HISTORIA WALKI O WOLNOŚĆ już w składzie wkrótce druk dr Piotr Napierała www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UK8...

submitted 116 days ago • 4 comments

My full lecture and Q&A about information disorder and what to do about it at Leiden University youtu.be/UfX5RLAcgLg?...

submitted 106 days ago • 17 comments