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#qotd: "Sometimes you see young children fighting like crazy. They hate each other and they’re fighting in a park. You try to pull them apart and they don’t want to be pulled apart.” "Sometimes you have to let them fight for a while,” Trump added.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Musk got access to all the data and legal levers he needed, and now he returned to playing the loyal dissenter, gaslighting the public, and catering to deficit hawks. No, neither he nor Rand Paul want to reduce the tax cuts. www.mediaite.com/politics/elo...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

It is disappointing that even after Orwell there's no learning curve in how we understand and communicate the import of the human right to privacy (HRtP). The activists are the same every decade but society is none the wiser and the vicious circle continues. Don't reduce the purpose of privacy to..

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The misleading media circus about the court ruling reminds of Merkel's misinterpreted speeches during the refugee crisis. Merz was one of the leading critics and used that disinfo to gain power. Now some karma hit back. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Shinzō Abe's widow is visiting the Putin in Moscow. She was also one of the first foreign representatives to visit Trump in December. So many things of her life tell us, she's a national conservative, yet the image she has built is politically liberal.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It's really embarrassing when only the actor has some clue why a movie was so highly acclaimed. Maybe they should consult Daniel Cerone for ideas?! thedirect.com/article/cons...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Things led to hypernormalization in the Soviet Union due to a lack of options with manageable stakes, in a functioning democracy people instead expect too much. If they act, they want a rewarding experience, so they even skip what they're actually supposed to do www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Even if those four partners had seniority, there are still ~350 around The four probably see an opportunity in attracting dissidents from other firms that agreed to deals with Trump www.cbsnews.com/news/four-pa...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Greenland didn't suddenly open up to Europe because of Trump. The EU woke up and accelerated ongoing negotiations. Whether the threat of the obvious future conflicts with Russian Arctic fleets is taken seriously now, is doubtful unfortunately. It will be paying the last minute price again then.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The false dichotomy, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." - G. W. Bush, is so ancient and so representative of the wrong side of history, it's pathetic anyone continues to take such a leader seriously. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I agree important public voices deserve scrutiny, esp. those working w/ children, but, you know, critical thinking doesn't break one's journalistic neutrality. On the contrary, you aren't supposed to just place quotes against one another. The article leaves fallacies and allegations unchallenged.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

A compromise pope, but on the side of Francis. Just days ago, though, he was accused of bribing victims of sexual abuse to remain silent.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe that's the subject of the very positive, very important announcement that Trump announced.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The "retraction" of the extremist label of the AfD party by the German domestic intelligence agency is actually a voluntary stay of enforcement (affects labelling, surveillance, and 3rd-party references (libel)) till a summary judgement for the preliminary injunction is made.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment