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You wish! You are currently falling _to_ your enemies.

Hey Europe, if we now all realize that the USA are, maybe, not always going to be our allies ... ... does that not also mean that it is, maybe, not a such great idea to have everything our companies and governments do and think on Microsoft servers?

it's really saying something that this is how an apparent friend explains Elon's goals www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...

I know this is going to be a surprise to everyone, but it looks like this Milei fascist in Argentina is a massively corrupt swindler. I'm Shocked! Shocked! cointelegraph.com/news/libra-c...

I highly recommend this speech by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. It's all good, but when pressed for time you can skip the first four minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS66...

"Sooner or Later", cartoon from 1923.

Shall we maybe not give Trump any ideas?

Politico headline: Trump’s America is Putin’s ally now www.politico.eu/article/dona...

I only, in this instance, endorse, the move fast; break things, Silicon Valley’s method.

i do not know how some people in this country live with themselves

To appreciate what's going on now, it may be good to be aware of one Curtis Yarvin, who is sadly extremely influential right now, and to read "A new foreign policy for Europe" which he wrote a little over 2 years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_... graymirror.substack.com/p/a-new-fore...

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This new Executive Order is one for the history books. The other end of a long arc back to Citizens United in 2010. Allow unlimited money in politics, and 15 years later a billionaire president and his billionaire friends turn off the lights of democracy. www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

One of Trump's ethnic cleansing ICE vans melted in Philadelphia.

“We're now at the stage where America's main incentive in preventing Russia from gobbling up more of Ukraine is that it would jeopardize America's theft of Ukraine's natural resources.” @michaeldweiss.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

Someone just set a new world record in mansplaining.

Denmark promised that the Greenlanders could have independence if they ever wanted. 50k people live there, and the attack is to bribe the fraction with any agency, in case the "offer to buy" doesn't yield the intended result. Greenland is practically US territory already.

I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue. www.the-reframe.com/the/

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

A step or two away from my general freaked outedness regarding the current geopolitical moment, but this is a really impressive radio project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXwD...

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

The only way this could possibly be more in your face is if they literally said "Hey Europe! Fuck You!" in the official statement. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

You can't look at the coup in the US and not get the idea there's something Russian about it. But why be so open about it, right? To understand, watch HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis, 2 hrs 46 min. (Please amplify: important many people see it soon.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T...

Trump on Canada: "I spoke to Governor Trudeau ... they don't have military protection, and you take a look at what's going on out there ... people are in danger ... they need our protection."

We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started. It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work. You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians. Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓

Just repeating it here so that none of my American followers gets in trouble: Mentioning the Gulf of Mexico is now a lie, and the administration will make sure there are consequences for such lies. boingboing.net/2025/02/12/c...

Aren't we all glad he found a wise mentor that compliments him on his insight?

Good to see the Democrats are finally finding their voice. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-v...

Executive Order: all government departments now get a DOGE commissar that can, among other things, veto all hiring. It doesn't say this person has to be a 19yo incel that goes by his 4chan handle, but that seems obvious at this point. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984

They apparently did away with the outlandish notion that someone in the federal government could stand up and contradict the president when he decides whether the elections were stolen or not. All totally normal stuff. cyberscoop.com/cisa-misinfo...

IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY PREDICTED THIS.

You might not have thought that was even possible, but in the UK the wholesale destruction of communities and environment is accelerating even further under the ironically named "Labour Party".

The First Signs of Tyranny, From People Who Missed Them www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_D-...