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This is the type of background lore you get after hacking a clacky old terminal in the basement ruins of REPCONN Aerospace or ArcJet or RobCo or whatever.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

biden treated republican crimes and fascism like a distraction and i feel like i’m going insane watching democrats do the exact same thing again right now

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

I've made this point multiple times before but if Bluesky wants to grow, the things they need aren't opinion pundits but accounts that publish new information. That's breaking news reporters, politicians and stuff like official organization accounts that publish official statements.

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

For every centrist preemptively crapping themselves over the propaganda value of a demonstrator holding a Mexican flag, how many regular people will just the same be exposed to clear video of a defenseless guy getting trampled, a journalist being shot, people stuck in cars getting gassed...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

submitted 20 hours ago • 1101 comments

Really hard to overstate the political risks for normie Dems at this moment. Feds have declared a MONTHLONG OCCUPATION of LA and the wide consensus is that it's an unjustified provocation from the outset. There's NOTHING to be gained by bothsidsing here, and generational damage on the table.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

ICE crossed a line in LA

submitted 1 day ago • 807 comments

I think I have a winner for "least likely social media app I'm now seeing people organize anti-ICE protests on":

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

submitted 2 days ago • 106 comments

Tom Homan: We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight

submitted 2 days ago • 3256 comments

⚠️ To give people an idea of where the Trump administration is wanting to take things, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is calling the anti-ICE protests in large cities in blue states “an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.”

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Would love to see governors mayors sheriffs (Democratic ones especially) challenge these raids formally, at a minimum refusing to assist and possibly pressing charges against ICE for harms

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

DHS again asking for blue state escalation. Yesterday's ICE actions caused a violent civil disturbance. If the goal is smooth execution of your operations, you pause, do whatever perfunctory community liaising and maybe make policy changes for future ops. This is a double dare.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

These are the "fun" projects I do while thinking about the World Economy, the United States, China, Russia, and lots of other Countries, places, and events.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hmmm!

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Undoing this kind of damage will require ironclad government and political reform and probably sweeping imprisonments just to begin to convince the world that the US can be trusted again.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Stepping aside from reactive takes and general politics brain, I've repeatedly found there's a large appetite for info. People like to learn! It's not a can opener for every topic, but in cases where things are frustrated by complexity, giving ppl credit and facilitating a bit can go really far.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

We are grateful to Washington Post for giving us their pages for a series of articles over the next several weeks about nuke weapons challenges facing the world. The first article with my colleagues @jonatomic.bsky.social and @mattkorda.bsky.social is below. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Almost every NYPD cop charged with excessive force during the George Floyd protests escaped serious discipline, a review by THE CITY found

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

submitted 7 days ago • 2222 comments

When the US returns to what the original Iran deal converged to:

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

None shall rest until we have Literal Iron Dome

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I am immensely proud to announce a $175 billion addition to the beautiful Golden Dome project in order to equip our patriotic American highway patrol officers with counter-drone lasers and rocket solutions. All semis will be screened by The Blockchain and subject to interdiction in all 50 states.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

A ~50% elimination of strategic bombers is way more escalatory than the strikes on Armavir and Orsk EW stations that we worried about a year ago. It's not Defcon 1 but it's certainly something that Moscow now needs to handle, and it's already put itself in a risky rhetorical position 👇

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

As the smoke clears, literally and figuratively, it’ll be interesting to learn precisely which sites have been hit and whether some are indeed “nuclear bases.” (I’m not worried about nuclear escalation now; the war is going too well for Russia. Also today’s strikes are legal and legitimate.)

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments