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Is there anyone in the world easier to manipulate than Trump?

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1519 comments

UPDATE Right now, the Chinese landing trials involving the new 'Shuiqiao' Class Landing Barges is underway with two ferries in unloading position and another cargo vessel nearby. Positions revealed by AIS #OSINT

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

Elbows up, Canada.

submitted 1 day ago • 1480 comments

"All this is probably beyond the worst-case scenario the planners at the presidential palace gamed out. There’s no obvious way out for them" argues @selimkoru.bsky.social. In the long run, I agree. In the short to medium run, Erdoğan still has quite a few tricks in his bag.

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Donald Trump: European defense contractor "salesman of the year" 2025.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

«About 60% of the building, including the books, is located in Canada» . I guess the irony of this will be lost on the geniuses on the U.S. side. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Masterful gambit, sir

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

submitted 2 days ago • 426 comments

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 201 comments

OTD 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. He immediately pardoned 8,000 violent Nazis, many of whom were involved in the failed 1923 coup.

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

From @adamtooze.bsky.social Stockholm syndrome in Mar-a-Lago: The belief that "something must be done" and the sanewashing of economic policy in the age of Trump open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When the fascists are in charge, they no longer have quiet parts. Their whole plan is shouted out loud because this keeps their hungry base engaged and eager.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Pro-tip: Norway, Sweden and Denmark have education departments.

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

Russell Brand posted and then deleted a completely fake document which he thought was from the newly released JFK files and proved British actress Penelope Keith, not Lee Harvey Oswald, killed JFK.

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

“Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, co-author of "How Democracies Die." “These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Germany, UK issue travel warnings to their citizens about traveling to the U.S.

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

Un très bon épisode où l’on répète avec l’air de pas y toucher que les Français avaient encore raison™ 😋

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“I became a global symbol of fascist politics and now people are treating me like a global symbol of fascist politics, which is unfair”

submitted 4 days ago • 58 comments

Thanks to @jay.bsky.team for writing the foreword for Bluesky for Dummies. We can’t wait until it’s out in the world. Pre-order now wherever you purchase books. Vancouver friends can order from independent shops like @bookwarehouse.bsky.social @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social @banyen.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 28 comments

This is what dictatorship looks like www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Theres no better indicator than Tesla being a sinking ship than the executives and board members themselves (including Elon’s brother) selling off tons of stock abcnews.go.com/amp/Business...

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

2000+Jewish professors, staff, students letter on Mahmoud Khalil's arrest: "We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name and cynical claims of antisemitism to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." docs.google.com/document/u/1...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against domestic travel -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Putin made Trump wait almost two hours. Their phone call was supposed to have taken place already, but Putin was still at a conference. When Putin is reminded of the meeting, everyone starts laughing; they're literally mocking Trump.

submitted 5 days ago • 293 comments

Should have got those French submarines #ToldYouSo

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The rewriting of history and dismissal of the achievements of so many people, is truly frightening

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

submitted 6 days ago • 565 comments

I mean fine, but it’s only because of France that the United States exists.

submitted 6 days ago • 69 comments

It’s the Golden Age of Constructed Ignorance.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Germany did destroy itself almost a century ago. It wasn’t because it took in too many migrants. It was because it fell for arguments uncomfortably close to Vance’s.

submitted 7 days ago • 188 comments

Making America Great Again by hitting on the Bhutanese...

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"Les deux parties ont exprimé la conviction qu’aucun effort ne devait être épargné pour assurer la tranquillité, l’ordre et la paix dans cette partie de l’Europe centrale". Trump et Zelensky ? Non, Hitler qui impose l'annexion de la Tchécoslovaquie à Emil Hacha. www.lexpress.fr/idees-et-deb...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Expensive shit (and the cars I drew when I was 5 looked better).

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Why did Trump repeat Russian propaganda and lie about this? Why would he claim that a Ukrainian army in Kursk could only be saved from annihilation if Putin benevolently agreed to Trump’s request not to do so? Why is the US President deceiving Americans with Russian lies?

submitted 8 days ago • 559 comments

Idk, I find Trump’s ideas about the EU more entertaining than offensive. They’re equally warped as Putin’s understanding of what the EU is. We seem to live rent free in their heads and I mean why not. Why not let them think that the EU is this mythical and omnipotent entity

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

We deeply regret the US tariffs imposed on Europe. Tariffs are taxes. They are bad for business, and even worse for consumers. Today Europe takes strong but proportionate countermeasures. We remain ready to engage in dialogue ↓

submitted 11 days ago • 128 comments

A lot of people who got the measles as children died or suffered lifelong disabilities as a result. The measles vaccine was a godsend to worldwide public health, and it’s an absolute scandal that this lethally ignorant dolt has any power over public health.

submitted 11 days ago • 392 comments

Dow only down 700 points. Need to get to at least 1000 to be a normal day under Trump. Low energy.

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

Trump's trade strategy in a nutshell. They said Monty Python was comedy, but they were simply ahead of their time

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Not entirely sure I want American B-52s flying around Europe when you know who's in charge of saying where they drop their bombs.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Twitter explained.

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister of Australia: "We are spending a fortune vastly more than the partnership with France would have involved. We’re spending vastly more and we are very likely, I would say almost certainly, going to end up with no submarines at all"

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Trump’s numbers on US & European aid to Ukraine are completely fabricated — Europe has given more to Ukraine and the US hasn’t reached anywhere near $350 billion.

submitted 27 days ago • 145 comments

It's only Monday

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

3 ans après le siège de Marioupol : Natalya, Sasha et «un silence de mort». C'est la une de Libération mardi. Aujourd’hui réfugiée à Kyiv, l’Ukrainienne Natalya Diedova raconte à Libération ce 11 mars 2022, quand les bombardements ont tué son mari et ravagé la ville désormais aux mains des Russes.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

This is getting messy across the board. The AI boom, crypto, Tesla, all the stuff that inflated fast last year is getting hit. www.ft.com/content/7f83...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

"Throughout the Histories, Polybius reminds his Roman readership — sometimes subtly, sometimes not so subtly — that primacy can only endure if it appears more benevolent, just, and conducive to prosperity than the system or lack of system that preceded it." Never a bad time to reread Polybius.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment