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I would say remotely competent historians understand that major events in history are historically shaped by men born into wealth and power and lots of them were idiots. (Caligula: psychopathic dumbass!)

submitted 8 hours ago • 80 comments

A Polish acquaintance went to British Museum specifically to see this tablet only to be cheated by Ea-nasir from beyond the grave

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1460 comments

Take J. Edgar Hoover and then make him 30 times worse. The whole nation will suffer for this folly. Suffer so much more than anyone yet realizes. This was a critical benchmark Trump had to hit to advance his plan to destroy democracy. Everyone who voted for Kash Patel should live in infamy forever.

submitted 3 days ago • 254 comments

Two Ukrainian oppositional leaders: Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko (both hate Zelensky and hate each other) have publicly supported Zelensky, said his term prolongation is legit until the end of the war, and said elections are impossible now. Listen to Ukrainian opposition.

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

submitted 5 days ago • 819 comments

500 million Europeans are waiting for 340 million Americans to protect them from 140 million russians who haven’t been able to win against 40 million Ukrainians for 3 years. what happened to our confidence?

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room

submitted 5 days ago • 141 comments

There is no specifically enumerated Constitutional right to safe air travel, so it's hard to see why Democrats are so upset about all the plane crashes. by Jonathan Turley

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

This is quite a thing to find 18 paragraphs down in a story. wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 5 days ago • 125 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8255 comments

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

submitted 7 days ago • 230 comments

At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed. Although HHS…

submitted 9 days ago • 862 comments

New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter

submitted 8 days ago • 589 comments

Today, we honor Frederick Douglass on his chosen birthday. 🎂 His 1855 autobiography MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM is a powerful account of his journey from enslavement to freedom. Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/mybondagemyfreed6062doug/ #Blackhistorymonth #LetReadersRead #InternetArchive

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

This is master negotiating. He really has Putin on the ropes. One more unprompted unilateral concession and Putin will surely crack. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

The Russian strike on the protective sarcophagus at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant is not accidental - it is symbolic. The installation of Chornobyl New Safe Confinement was a unique event in the history of nuclear power safety in the world.

submitted 9 days ago • 36 comments

❗️Last night, a Russian high-explosive combat drone hit the shelter over the nuclear reactor at Chornobyl Nuclear power plant - President Zelenskyy. Radiation monitoring comes back as normal so far - Ukrainian Emergency services. Russia is a danger to humanity.

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

OK, I'm calling it. The WSJ op-ed page is being used as a means to get an utterly bankrupt case for the anti-birthright-citizenship EO "on the wall" as something to be taken seriously. I am sharing this to take about why they should not, and no one should. Thread below www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

Just realized Bluesky can rotate images now! 🥳

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is basically my entire book in chart form

submitted 11 days ago • 510 comments

Bureaucracy, famously not important in war

submitted 12 days ago • 736 comments

2 awesome new patches in the mail today! Very proud to have helped provide two evacuation trucks for 🇺🇦 126th Brigade 🤝 thx @69thsb.bsky.social #NAFO

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

thinking about roads not taken a lot

submitted 15 days ago • 94 comments

“…Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots.”

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

submitted 16 days ago • 51 comments

Laws. The word you're looking for here is "laws."

submitted 14 days ago • 59 comments

I just wanna see more of this happening

submitted 15 days ago • 40 comments

This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration. “Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 205 comments

They are who we think they are

submitted 15 days ago • 607 comments

RIP to an extremely real one. If you don't know anything about Shoup, he was the sort of academic who could write a 700 page book about municipal parking policy and not only have thousands of people read it but have thousands of readers be inspired to change the world by reading it.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Holy shit this cartoon.

submitted 15 days ago • 302 comments

On February 8th, the Baltics will "switch off all electricity connections to Russia and Belarus... and these lines will be dismantled." Going forward, Kaliningrad, occupied by Russia, will be completely isolated and must rely on its own power generation. www.euractiv.com/section/eet/...

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Teen Vogue is the only mainstream media outlet capable of writing proper headlines.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

I remember when Charles Manson opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how his actions could be consistent with the rule of law.

submitted 18 days ago • 62 comments

NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...

submitted 19 days ago • 228 comments

Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

submitted 18 days ago • 35 comments

ginny organized a whole coup for you and you don’t remember her name??

submitted 18 days ago • 120 comments