liotier.bsky.social
Like an old information technology blog that collided with a European Union politics column, a geographic information systems consultancy and a defense think tank.
French alt: https://bsky.app/profile/liotier-fr.bsky.social
Matrix: @liotier:tedomum.net
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I actually want to make a personal web site of Good Papers in my field. Not sure how to do it though.
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BART can't close deficit with service cuts, and such cuts would further reduce ridership and revenue...
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probably half of the mainstream media was destroyed by Facebook and Google, replaced by social media which *intentionally prioritizes* hysterical lies and conspiracy theories. what remains of the MSM is largely owned by right-wing oligarchs or dimwitted conservative failsons
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If transgender service members don't voluntarily agree to resign, they'll be forced by the Defense Department to repay the signing bonuses they received at enlistment. Not only will they be fired, they'll be punished with thousands of dollars in debt. All for attempting to serve their country.
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Everyone comparing the possibility of Trump ordering the Army to shoot protestors to the Kent State massacre needs to get a sense of scale.
Kent State was dozens of shots in a few seconds, killed four, and stopped. A subset of National Guardsmen did it on their own, not under a presidential order.
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The main ideological tension in conservative politics — between social conservatives and economic libertarians — was papered over for a long time because the economy's winners were mainly center-rightish white men anyway.
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Someone asks about this every time and no. "I will deliberately sabotage my own job and lie to my audience because I think it will be good for my employers' bottom line several years from now" is much weirder, less-held belief than "I like Trump and want to help him" bsky.app/profile/scot...
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6/ Russia also appears to be relying on a charm offensive toward Washington to obscure its deep commitment to weakening the US and its friends and allies around the world. The Trump administration should be clear-eyed about this larger Russian threat.
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5/ Putin's victory in Ukraine will enable China, North Korea, and Iran. These states are counting on a Russian victory in Ukraine—and it is in America’s national security interest to deny them and weaken the entente that has coalesced around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rather than strengthening it
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"It’s worse than you think because by the time the courts catch up, the damage will already have been done. It’s worse than you think because the people running the government seem to have no higher mission than to watch it burn," @brbarrett.bsky.social writes: