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🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Remember all the American basing in Europe Trump implied could be abandoned over their supposed NATO utility? None of the current logistics movements in the face of the Israel Iran-war would be possible without them.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

The Khamenei regime for decades pursued aggressive operations that left deep grudges among European and Arab states that now won't lift a finger to stop Israel while failing to build effective alliances that would lead Russia, China or anyone else to lift a finger to help Iran

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Good morning ✌️

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Several news stories today report that China is signaling openness to trade talks, which fits with patterns of Chinese diplomacy. As I wrote recently: "Beijing has shown a strong capacity for retaliation and a tactical openness to negotiation, but not a willingness to kowtow."

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

submitted 59 days ago • 712 comments

“At MGIMO, we were taught to cite international law while violating its spirit, to defend norms while dismantling them and to speak of peace while justifying and waging wars.” www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/14/i...

submitted 66 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 74 days ago • 884 comments

You guys wanna see a dead body 🤣💀

submitted 77 days ago • 948 comments

"The wrong starting point when trying to understand generative AI is to treat what it does as creation. It’s not. It’s consumption. The users don’t want to make things, they want to have things. The machine doesn’t invent, it assembles. It’s the production line of a commodity producer. "

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Trump just imposed, by executive order, the single largest tax increase on consumers in American history.

submitted 81 days ago • 248 comments

@jonlemire.bsky.social: “For the first time since Trump reclaimed the White House, some of his close allies and aides are privately acknowledging that a president who returned to office after a historic political comeback has been knocked off his stride.” theatln.tc/IfPVn1DP

submitted 81 days ago • 6 comments

“Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse, and it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is losing the attritional war, which makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 107 days ago • 20 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 109 days ago • 1728 comments