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ciaoquirktax.bsky.social

Unapologetically verbose & curious. Student--Poli Sci & Int Rel. Talking snake denier. Claw machine aficionado. I eat books for breakfast. Keep up. Taking notes & forgetting names. Vatnick & bully bonker. Politics/disinfo/cults/corruption. Be brave.

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Now's a good time to reup my factual assertion that if you're pissed Trump didn't go to trial for his coup attempt, SCOTUS is singularly responsible (and DQing him would have been even further impossible).

submitted 45 days ago • 15 comments

Oh my. Trump asks Supreme Court to pause the TikTok ban law. An expert on Supreme Court’s procedure & practices tells me the Court cannot do what Trump’s asking. Another says this is a PR stunt. Remarkably, Trump’s attorney on the filing is his Solicitor General nominee. That’s very troubling! :-(

submitted 58 days ago • 39 comments

www.sec.gov/newsroom/pre...

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

That's just one. It makes me queasy, to say the least. I'm getting reports about other ones, ranging from 300-20,000.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

While rummaging through my Twitter archives, overcome with emotion seeing this post from February 21, 2022, at the onset of Putin's brutal, unilateral invasion of Ukraine. 3 days later, Russia would invade Ukraine. 1,023 days later, Ukraine still stands. Let's keep it that way. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦🕊️

submitted 73 days ago • 7 comments

The power went out for 10 minutes. I haven't experienced that in forever, so it's really weird to me now. The entire street (houses & sidewalk lights) & the driving roadway went dark. I thought it was just my house. Whew, I guess. And it cut off the heat. I hope that returns. It's 28F out. Brrr.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

It tells me that they're lacking votes in even the "conservative" female demographic. Also of note: Using "we" is a political tactic to make people & voters believe that they're in an allied & special group. Maye Musk doesn't live in Florida. She lives in NYC. Secrets? How juicy. 🙄

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Musk may be using his mother's account to publicly test out political ideas. Exactly one month ago:

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

What's next? Steve Bannon as the director of Radio Free Europe or Asia? Bannon was an executive producer. But I'm sure that felon guy doesn't think Bannon's "straight outta casting".

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

#crypto

submitted 76 days ago • 13 comments

As I note in this piece, we've actually seen this weird mishmash of ridiculously wealthy businessmen and dipshits whose main qualification is loyalty to the president about a hundred years ago. It was the Cabinet of Warren G. Harding and, hoo boy, did that not turn out well.

submitted 75 days ago • 198 comments

Satellite images show some Russian navy ships have left Tartous and are currently sitting offshore in the Mediterranean Sea. This is happening amid continuing uncertainty about the future of Moscow's military presence in Syria. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Biden has approved a new national security memorandum ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House that could serve as a road map for the incoming administration as it looks to counter growing cooperation among China, Iran, North Korea and Russia. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Wrapped Up, 2024

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

If it were proven instead of suspected, do you think the UK/Europe would wake up?

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

From now on, when they go low, I’m going subterranean.

submitted 76 days ago • 315 comments

Cue Daniel Penny having dinner at Mar-a-Lago inauguration in 3… 2…

submitted 76 days ago • 17 comments

This morning, I heard my students talking about what they did over the weekend. Some shopped, some went to the movies, some put up decorations, and one said he spent the weekend watching the news so he could translate for his parents what Trump is planning to do. This is who we are now.

submitted 76 days ago • 20 comments

In addition to intl law issues does it seem smart to be doing photo ops showing your take over of an area that the leader of the group that just ousted Assad is named after?

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

1/ "Education is also critical. It can empower individuals to think independently, question sources & understand the complexity of the endless information available on the internet." - @eliothiggins.bsky.social of @bellingcat.com #NewsLiteracy #Misinformation www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

A report from Saidnaya prison by my colleague Gareth Browne. A monument to the depravity of the regime. "Freed prisoners were still filing out of the building, gaunt & haggard, their heads shaved. Some were so traumatised that they had forgotten their own names." www.economist.com/middle-east-...

submitted 76 days ago • 9 comments

Don’t. Be. Useful. To. Evil. People.

submitted 76 days ago • 24 comments

Death Cult Warning ⚠️ www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Sad!

submitted 76 days ago • 371 comments

Generally speaking, I am far on the “free speech” end of the larger deplatforming debate, but there are strong arguments for deplatforming based on actions, especially when there’s a pattern and intent to cause harm. I encourage @aaron.bsky.team to consider Jesse Singal’s presence in that context.