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NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

submitted 1 day ago • 423 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 1 day ago • 1304 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 5 days ago • 1195 comments

FAFO stage of the game 👊🏽

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Knowledge is power…

submitted 7 days ago • 1040 comments

Category 5 Severe Cyclone #Zelia spins furiously near the Pilbara coast of Western Australia. The cyclone is expected to slowly track toward the coastline and make landfall west of Port Hedland late Saturday / early Sunday.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Too many loop holes for the poor

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Tя☭mp’s response to this tragedy may surprise some, but it really shouldn’t. It’s exactly who he is and always has been (as @sarahkendzior.bsky.social documents in her incredible book Hiding in Plain Sight). If you haven’t read it yet, you owe it to yourself. It’s horrifying, but it explains a lot.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

What the ‘Adolf Hitler’ fuck Is this?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

America, what have you done?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This Guardian excerpt from two years ago gives you a sense of where my research as an Elon Musk biographer is headed. Understand this: Elon Musk and his friends are not your pals. They don't consider you their equal. They're creating global crises they don't plan to suffer in.

submitted 37 days ago • 86 comments

TikTok Timeline: 1. Trump calls for immediate ban citing nat sec 2. Rs introduce bill 3. Rs secure Dem support after Biden insists it be softened from ban to divestiture 4. Trump reverses position after meeting with TikTok CEO during campaign 5. Chinese owners refuse to divest 6. People blame Dems

submitted 38 days ago • 358 comments

This is a novella. But if you read it you’ll understand everything you need to know about what Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg are doing right now. I’m a biographer of the first two men, and have chronicled here exactly how and why the third is following their lead. Again—a long read.

submitted 43 days ago • 127 comments

"Men of multiple passports, men of copious currencies, criminal elites who tell you their plots outright to test not only the limits of their own might but whether civic obligation still exists." -- THEY KNEW (2022)

submitted 58 days ago • 21 comments

Canada keeping it real

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The NZ economy has shrunk 1.0% in September quarter, -1.5% on year ago. This is all due to the decisions of this coalition. They will try to blame the left but this is on Luxon, Willis et al. Remember the borrowed to give $$ to the wealthy & landlords. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Shutting down Tik Tok, allowing a megalomaniac to weld power, the corruption that is America. What a fucken train wreck.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Stunning

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

For all the pearl clutches melting down over Biden pardoning his son. Don’t even go there.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

South Korea impeaching its problem meanwhile America is peachy with its. Dose of democracy anyone?

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America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

submitted 73 days ago • 1576 comments

Be careful of the people who may betray you.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Disgusting decision. "It's very poor law making. This government has had a lot more urgency than previous governments ... I think we're seeing one of the effects of that, which is that you don't necessarily think all this stuff through when you're rushing it…” www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

kindness is love made gentle without the force of need

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Which swamp exactly are they cleaning up?

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

I ran into the fabulous @mazzucatom.bsky.social yesterday, one of the world’s leading economists, & she gave this super clear explanation on why the Guardian management should be listening to its journalists. AND restructuring its board. Please watch! 1/

submitted 81 days ago • 11 comments

Can we just stop and admire the beauty of Korean citizens help to take back their Parliament ✊

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

What on earth South Korea?

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Trump would tweet his nutsac off if a tie was the final outcome, please please please let it be. The fallout could be entertaining if nothing else.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I just can’t even comprehend why you wouldn’t protect your child from diseases where there is a solution at hand.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments