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If I could win a lottery & learn fluent Ukrainian, I'd move there eventually, but the greater hitch is the latter. RuZZia is Mordor & Putin belongs in the Hague. MAGAs are Children of a Lesser GOP and also political oppositional defiance disorder cases.
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Bluesky is complying with requests from the Turkish government to censor political speech. There’s no hope for this platform if this continues. What happened to “ A World Without Cesars”

This is kind of like…at LEAST an espionage charge, or it would be if we were still a nation of laws.

Model S Plaid cost $95k new, this one was purchased used in February for $76k, and the top bid now is just $56k, less than the $61k still on the loan. Teslas are toxic assets. Avoid at all costs. Get what you can, while you can. www.autoevolution.com/news/son-tri...

How it started // How it's going

i mean, he's not wrong. sesame street has indoctrinated millions of american children in the cult of "sharing" and "counting" and "cookies" behold the cult leader and his top priest

🇺🇦Most of the 7 promised Patriot systems from last June have been delivered or will arrive in Ukraine soon, – NATO boss Mark Rutte said during an interview. He notes it's not always possible to deliver pledged systems quickly, but that support continues.

"8 1/2" is not just a Fellini classic, but the length of this report on the history of the US military in Greenland, now the target of a grotesque, orange troll's barely-contained animus and greed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBBe...

Dude is a Koch Network alum.

New— Trump's crusade against the American Bar Association continues, this time terminating all grants via DOJ's Office of Violence Against Women. This morning a webinar on trauma-informed representation was canceled moments before starting. ABA sent email attachment to participants (shared w/ me):

I hope that the ethical and pissed-off Europeans who've cancelled their travel plans (even for conferences!) to the US, only to see the US$ plummet relative to the Euro, don't yield to tempation. The global Trump-spurred tourism boycott will cost the US $90++ billion. www.reddit.com/r/politics/c...

🇺🇦🇩🇪🚫 Pistorius: "Germany is not able to provide more Patriot systems to Ukraine at the moment as we are waiting for fresh Patriot deliveries ourselves."

Zelenskyy: Ukraine is ready to buy 10 Patriot systems from the US for $15 bn Ukraine is willing to explore multiple formats including purchase, licensing, or renting Patriot air defense systems, President Zelenskyy said euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/14/z...

It looks very much like the Department of Homeland Security memo seeking to revoke Ozturk's visa copied language directly from the Canary Mission website. Is DHS just following the "deport list" from an anonymous website? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

Rubio: “I don’t know what the confusion is. This individual is a citizen of El Salvador. ... That’s where you deport people - back to their country of origin. Truth: A 2019 court held he must not be sent to El Salvador due to persecution risk. Trump admin has admitted was wrong to send him there.

Trump's first term's "Infrastructure Week" bullshit finally realized (albeit in his second term), in less than three months. [Imagine a clip from the original "Twilight Zone" ep. "To Serve Man", but the "Infrastructure" plans are the Project 2025 blueprint for Trump's fascist democracy makeover.]

One of the worst aspects of our times is how Putin & Trump are in a race to execute time-tested fascist and/or Stalinist policies to reshape demographics boosting Slavic/Cauc pop'ns & ROC/Protestant Christofascism... at the expense of minority races, faiths, and most of all, women's bodily autonomy.

Oh Matthew’s good judgment is beyond all reproach To question is mere juvenalia His centristical wisdom cannot be denied And I am Marie of Romania

Republicans: “If the ICC ever arrests an American citizen, we’re invading The Hague.” Also Republicans: “Nicely ask an ally to send someone back after we told them to imprison said person? Impossible! Unimaginable!”

Some day, this will be Exhibit A at The Hague.

The US President: “I don’t know what the laws are”

The kidnapping and extortion tactics the Trump administration uses against US universities and international students are mafia-like and fascistic---reminiscent of Erdogan govt's attacks on higher education in Turkey, only much more sudden and unabashed. 1/2

I just wish that O'Malley would "fight back" on bsky instead of Shitter.

Martin O'Malley just mentioned state attorneys general filing state kidnapping charges. Just imagine the collective cheer in this country if state troopers pulled over, arrested and cuffed a van full of masked ICE fascists.

MIT following Harvard's lead here

It really takes a lot to totally floor me these days, but the administration demanding an audit to Harvard’s *entire divinity school* out of bogus accusations of “antisemitic harassment” and “ideological capture” actually fucking does. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard following in what Princeton did and said F U to the administration, because they both have large endowments and have been under severe criticism for how they cracked down in student protestors last year

Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

60% of American incarcerated women in JAILS are legally innocent. They have not been convicted of a crime. They just cant afford bail. We kidnap people every day in this country. It was ALWAYS coming to this

An important concept in sociology is that people need to eat and have some means of resolving disputes. If someone has been criminalized, and excluded from the institutions that allow them to continue to eat and resolve disputes, *they still need to eat and resolve disputes*.

There we go. Support this man.

‼️ “Trump Announces 'Deadline for Putin' to Ceasefire” But also… “He did not give a precise date, citing the "diplomatic sensitivity" of the issue.” Does he have concepts of a deadline? www.kommersant.ru/doc/7657530

From a mass email by the Union of Concerned Scientists [UCS], re. their lawsuit against the Trump admin. over their deleting many public-interest, taxpayer-paid-for USG web pages and databases of scientific data relating to climate change and various environmental & energy [in]justice concerns:

There are numerous calls to investigate whether Trump and his cronies engaged in insider trading, pump and dumps, etc. But it won't be DOJ. It won't be the SEC. It won't be Congress. You know who CAN investigate this? NY AG Letitia James - who has jurisdiction over Wall St.

Your daily reminder to drag these motherfuckers daily and often. That ain't what America is about.