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submitted 8 hours ago • 407 comments

In THIS administration we value WARFIGHTERS who WARFIGHT the enemy and if you’re not WARFIGHTING the enemy to DEATH we don’t want you in the DEPARTMENT OF WARFIGHTING, take your “logistics” and “intelligence” BULLSHIT somewhere else this place is for WARFIGHTING WARFIGHTERS WHO WARFIGHT. GRRR!

submitted 3 days ago • 779 comments

'Librarians are dangerous.' by @bradmontague is highlighting a clear and present danger to society: bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

submitted 10 days ago • 614 comments

periodic reminder that while USA is not signed on to the whole International Criminal Court project, El Salvador is

submitted 11 days ago • 42 comments

THREAD: When @thekrebscycle.bsky.social and his workplace, @sentinelone.com, were singled out by Donald Trump on Wednesday, I thought it was an opportunity to weigh the cybersecurity industry's rhetoric against their real world actions.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

submitted 16 days ago • 297 comments

Yet another excellent analysis by Perun: The New U.S. Tariffs - Weird Formulas, Risks, & The Coming Trade War www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVZ1...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday, 1,400 protests were held to protest the Trump whose headlines fill this page. But to the #BrokenTimes this morning, they are a buried BTW. It has plenty of photos; none here. This is what they call "news judgment." To the Times, we are not news.

submitted 19 days ago • 147 comments

TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands entirely populated by penguins? ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.

submitted 19 days ago • 4967 comments

In these hyperpoliticized times, this guidance from Joshua Idehen is helpful: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS9B...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), writer and Auschwitz survivor #HandsOff ‼️

submitted 20 days ago • 63 comments

The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.

submitted 20 days ago • 164 comments

Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation. It’s an essential step in the process.

submitted 20 days ago • 63 comments

This is the way.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign. This is Rafah today.

submitted 20 days ago • 271 comments

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

submitted 21 days ago • 1282 comments

This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting. Go Denmark, Go Greenland!

submitted 21 days ago • 386 comments

Who did this?

submitted 21 days ago • 1452 comments

Must be absolutely infuriating for people suddenly discovering that ‘Owning the Libs’ turns out to be a really expensive hobby.

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

These aren't tariffs. They are a horse's head in the bed of (almost) every world government and business leader.

submitted 22 days ago • 552 comments

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

submitted 22 days ago • 1193 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 22 days ago • 1035 comments

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

submitted 22 days ago • 180 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 22 days ago • 958 comments

Ah, he never disappoints.

submitted 39 days ago • 135 comments

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 201 comments

A recent Swedish opinion poll shows that the people of Sweden have a more favorable view of Ukraine than even their opinion of the EU, NATO or the US. On the other hand, only 1% of Swedes have a positive opinion of Russia.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

"In Greenland what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain." snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-g...

submitted 27 days ago • 151 comments

Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech. “Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money-obsessed mania of the Gilded Age, and any expression of mindless American might or self-importance.” [kottke.org]

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

WE HAVE POWER This was a hell of a moment to witness. You could see the shift—the moment this constituent realized her voice had power. She spoke louder, stood taller, and owned that room. 🔥 Republican Rep Victoria Spartz’s SignalGate response did not land well with the crowd.

submitted 27 days ago • 423 comments

The Trump Administration is trying to forge a personalist authoritarian regime and honestly the conditions for success are there. However, they're way out over their skis at the moment. Their pure recklessness is making their path to success way harder 1/x

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect. I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

submitted 28 days ago • 370 comments

1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵

submitted 28 days ago • 57 comments

The thing about Signalgate is that despite getting more coverage, it's really instrumental to the real scandal: that they are just fundamentally unserious people; fully unable to grasp the gravity of the issues their roles necessarily deal with day-to-day

submitted 30 days ago • 42 comments

I want to see a whole new class of Democrats willing to ram the most progressive agenda through the next time they’re even technically in a place to do it. I want elected progressives who obstruct this administration period. No compromises. No bailing out Republicans. Just sand in the gears.

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

It's not uncommon for principals to put things together for a president's final sign off. Presidents are busy. But you can't read these texts and not get the strong sense the actl commander in chief isn't really part of the convo, not literally or figuratively. Out to lunch. Weekend at Bernies vibe.

submitted 31 days ago • 382 comments