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We had friends & allies around the world based on alliances & relationships that were built over many decades. In one month, Trump has torched them all. Now our friends are Putin, Orban, the crypto scammer in Argentina, and the guy in El Salvador offering us mercenary prisons.

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PEOPLE WITH A “DON’T TREAD ON ME” FLAG: “Actually, an all-powerful king is great.”

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@jwomack.bsky.social @greatdismal.bsky.social @boursier.bsky.social @johnrt.bsky.social Unmistakable mushroom-headed silhouette of the WG/Buzzrickon extreme cold-weather USAF parka. Going to Mexico tomorrow, but sonofabitch today I sure need it here.

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the biggest downside of having a brain is i’m burdened with knowing things

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Cc @jwomack.bsky.social

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I read a blog post in International Living (of all places) that had a sentence to the effect of “The United States has been teetering between democratic governance and oligarchy for all of its existence” and I can’t stop untangling that in my brain. 1/2

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This front page story in my local newspaper is written in the passive voice like the Social Security office just fell over or something, never mentions Doge once, never says the words musk or trump.

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The Inquirer is covering the protests, even if Vichy NYT won't www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

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French President Emmanuel Macron is convening European leaders for an emergency summit in Paris on Monday, according to Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

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So I’m not like, a naval historian, but my understanding was that the US Navy is the single most powerful military force to exist on earth…ever

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Linda Ronstadt and Hoyt Axton

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Mae Questel, the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Que...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Actual quote in here from an active duty general: "It's f---ing racist… For the Army now, it's 'Blacks need not apply' and it breaks my heart."

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*I don't want to declare this "the most Madeline Ashby remark that I've ever heard," but it's gotta be among the top five

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The CIA being ovethrown by a right-wing coup is, one must admit, a pretty hilarious outcome for the Agency

submitted 18 days ago • 85 comments

Trump’s DC US Attorney says that “Any threats, confrontations, or other actions in any way that impacts” what Elon Musk’s people are doing will be investigated by his office since that “may break numerous laws.”

submitted 20 days ago • 1145 comments

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

submitted 21 days ago • 240 comments

Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might be just as expensive as the American plagiarism machines after all search.app/4M4wRJZzACWk...

submitted 21 days ago • 114 comments

World’s second wealthiest person on earth paywalls access to the illegal activities of world’s first wealthiest person on earth

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

something that’s immensely frustrating about the current moment, with the utter collapse of the mainstream press, is that we don’t have a great sense of how much of what Trump does is performative bluster and how much is actually doing a ton of damage major initiatives are barely getting writeups

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Honestly, seeing Musk’s massive head being projected through the Net to a hold court over a far-right rally in Germany makes me question the producers’ decision to hire @greatdismal.bsky.social to script this part of the 21st century.

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He actually spent 44 billion to buy it.

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*I blame John W. Campbell, an editor who was hugely influential on the development of science fiction stories after taking over the magazine "Astounding" in 1937, went in for all sorts of "new psychological technology" schemes maxread.substack.com/p/the-zizian...

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Well, it's Groundhog Day. Again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kEW...

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Some delectable lines of wit in the new 🙂, bravo @harkaway.bsky.social

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In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence. I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/

submitted 22 days ago • 130 comments

This photo hits hard.

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The Geisha Mobile is one of those things I could put in a comic and everyone would make fun of for being too unrealistic. The Meiji period was wild.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

how’s the falcon doing, re: the falconer?

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No way this goes terribly wrong a few years down the line. wapo.st/4hbQ55U

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A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . . www.history.com/this-day-in-...

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