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Renaissance man wannabe, drone builder, night sky watcher, hummingbird feeder. Like Diogenes, looking for honest people. Slava Ukraini
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“Who are you with” and “You’re a terrible reporter” are the last remaining clues that a question with any merit was asked. @nbcnews.com

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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I wonder how things might have turned out differently if John McCain had selected someone besides Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 election.

This did not change my mind, but it challenged my assumptions more than anything has in a long time. The anger is still there, replaced partly by confusion. I'm sure the anger will return. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxlo...

us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

"If you can prove someone's a gang member or has committed a crime or is violent, round them up, put them on a plane, get them out. But you have to prove that, right?" Right? Rep. Jason Crow joins @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest Bulwark Podcast:

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.

The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

How long will it take Trump to realize that by calling Navarro a moron, Musk is calling him one, too? www.bbc.com/news/article...

As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.

Chinese 🇺🇸 embassy shares the anti-tariffs Reagan clip mwe have shared multiple times…

Powerful words from attorney Brenna Trout Frey, who resigned from Skadden after the law firm bowed to Trump's threats and signed a disgraceful deal with the Trump administration: "There is only one acceptable response from attorneys to the Trump administration's demands: The rule of law matters."

DOGE where are you?

Dear Martha, next time something like this comes up remind the American that the UK helped America after 9/11 when America asked for help. Remind him/her that the UK fought next to America in Iraq and Afghanistan and lost many troops. Ask the American to say 'thank you' for the help we gave.

Just back from a much-needed end-of-class-term trip to Paris and Provence. Best sign I saw was a display at a British book store in Aix-en-Provence. The books on display were top notch also.