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The AP was banned from the event but the French press corps conspired to get a US AP reporter inside and insisted she be allowed to ask her question.

submitted 8 days ago • 61 comments

Le narratif russe mot pour mot : Xenia Fedorova, ex-directrice de Russia Today France, affilié au Kremlin et interdit dans l’UE, chronique désormais l’actualité internationale dans le JDNews et sur Cnews et publie bientôt chez Fayard (groupe Bolloré, encore) un livre sur … la liberté d’expression

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 14 days ago • 113 comments

Test as in destruction test

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Une baisse annoncée de 8% du budget de la défense US, chaque année, sur les 5 ans à venir. Un tiers sur 5 ans quoi! Que restera-t-il- à la fin ?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

New—Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner stepped down bc she wouldn't comply w/ DOGE. Lower-level staffer Leland Dudek replaced her. In a now-deleted LinkedIn post (pre-promotion) shared w/ me, he said he was placed on admin leave bc he "circumvented the chain of command" to help DOGE.

submitted 15 days ago • 132 comments

Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.

submitted 21 days ago • 726 comments

Comment l’administration Trump censure les femmes et les minorités à l’université Par Benjamin Jung

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

[À lire] Rapport d’analyse de @viginum.bsky.social sur la manipulation d’algorithmes et l’utilisation d’influenceurs dans le cadre des élections présidentielles roumaines de 2024. (Avec des réflexions sur ce qui pourrait arriver en France) www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

For those not familiar with how financial markets work, US Treasuries are the ultimate safe asset, used as collateral for everything. Even a hint that some Treasuries might not be honored could bring everything to a screeching halt 1/

submitted 24 days ago • 195 comments

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

submitted 24 days ago • 428 comments

I don’t know why stories like these aren’t front page headline by themselves. I’m doubtful the modal American understands Trump’s anti-DEI crusade is just naked bigotry. Behavior like this spells it out so plainly.

submitted 25 days ago • 19 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Candidates for national security roles in the new administration have been posed loyalty questions, such as: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Here's our story. wapo.st/3EF3aWN

submitted 25 days ago • 368 comments

Les baisses dans le budget de l'Etat en une image! ça ↘️ partout sauf sur le régalien (la ↗️ de l'écologie n'est lié qu'à une ↗️ des compensations versées aux fournisseurs de renouvelables) Comme dit un Ministre de Bercy : «C'est l'Etat qui porte tout l'effort [...], ce n'est pas raisonnable»!

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 32 days ago • 6188 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 32 days ago • 1093 comments

The carefully managed water systems in California's Central Valley saw a sudden deluge after the Army Corps of Engineers unexpectedly released reservoir water. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this. I was given no explanation at all.”

submitted 33 days ago • 159 comments

oh yeah thomas sowell and clarence thomas, those heroes of black america. every AME church basement has a portrait of thomas sowell and clarence thomas, our most revered Toms

submitted 33 days ago • 178 comments

Rédiger un texte en pensant fortement à un groupe (ici, les chasseurs & agriculteurs), c'est toujours la garantie d'un effet boomerang. Un tel texte réprimera donc pénalement les incitations à la haine visant les : - Cyclistes - Militants pour les droits de l'homme - Artistes... etc. (🍿)

submitted 34 days ago • 20 comments

Création d'une commission d'enquête sur les agences et opérateurs de l'Etat : la proposition de résolution du président du groupe LR au #Senat Mathieu Darnaud vient d'être mise en ligne. Examen en Conférence des présidents le 29/01 www.senat.fr/leg/ppr24-24... #DirectSenat

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Un ministre chez le terroriste : l’invraisemblable Brice Hortefeux au procès Sarkozy-Kadhafi. Après Guéant la semaine dernière, c’est un deuxième domino du jeu sarkozyste qui est sérieusement ébranlé. Nouvelle chronique d’audience ⤵️ www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.

submitted 43 days ago • 365 comments

If it talks like a Nazi & acts like a Nazi, chances are…

submitted 44 days ago • 30 comments

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.

submitted 44 days ago • 382 comments

Trump’s TikTok executive order is out - it directs the DOJ to promise app stores and services providers that it won’t enforce the law for 75 more days. And in true incoherent Trump fashion, it then also says the EO is not an enforceable promise here in 3(c). Perfect. www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24...

submitted 44 days ago • 19 comments

A massive scandal is unfolding. Trump launched a memecoin that hit $6B+market cap since Friday. He’s now a multi-billionaire from this scam, opening a portal to untraceable payoffs from corporate and foreign actors. Many in crypto who poured millions into electing him are furious.

submitted 46 days ago • 148 comments

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's adolescent energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

submitted 46 days ago • 691 comments

In 1933, America's diplomats would have sent briefings like this back home. Wild that we're here, but here we are. www.reuters.com/world/us/ger...

submitted 46 days ago • 38 comments

Men should reclaim public masculinity by telling more dad jokes.

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

Turner is one of the most pro-Ukraine, anti-Putin Republicans and as intelligence chair has access to the gritty details of what our adversaries are up to. This is an intra-party purge in the service of opponents of our democracy — and a preview of what’s coming when Trump takes power in five days.

submitted 49 days ago • 112 comments

"after the company's own analyses found that these classifiers could reduce the reach of these hoaxes by more than 90 percent, Meta is shutting them off"

submitted 50 days ago • 145 comments

As these guys usually formulate it, being “cultural elite” means having some nebulous impotent media platform, and being “not cultural elite” means having all the money and actual power. I for one am willing to make that trade!

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Dans un monde normal, alors que 2024 est l'année la plus chaude jamais enregistrée et la première à depasser les +1,5°C, qu'un département français a été dévasté par un cyclone et que la 2e ville américaine brûle, tout chef d'Etat sensé décréterait l'état d'urgence climatique.

submitted 54 days ago • 11 comments

"Sur le plan juridique, les rémunérations du Conseil constitutionnel présentent une irrégularité manifeste, car aucune disposition n’autorise une indemnité secrète dont le montant se révèle supérieur au montant de la rémunération prévue par les textes en vigueur."(Assemblée nationale)

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

Il penche quand même beaucoup à l'extrême droite le centrisme de François Bayrou.

submitted 66 days ago • 44 comments

Still guilty.

submitted 69 days ago • 713 comments

It's going to be a rough four years.

submitted 74 days ago • 3039 comments

Nicolas Sarkozy : la déchéance. 👉 Affaire Bismuth : l'ancien président hérite d’un an de bracelet électronique. 👉 Légion d’honneur : son dossier de radiation est prêt 👉 En janvier 2025, le procès de l’argent libyen [@mediapart.fr] www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

submitted 77 days ago • 12 comments

I wrote this piece a little over a year ago, analyzing the purpose of Trump’s attacks on the military. I noted that subverting the armed forces from the inside out would require undermining (or eliminating) its diversity, professionalization, and loyalty open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

submitted 88 days ago • 58 comments

#JOUE - Formulaires d’aide juridictionnelle concernant les recours directs : eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Encore une affaire de corruption de zinzin qui vise les institutions européennes : l'ex-commissaire européen à la Justice et à l'Etat de droit (!!!) a été perquisitionné pour soupçons de blanchiment via l'achat de tickets de loteries (!!!!)

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

#Censure : l'Assemblée va poursuivre ses travaux qui ne nécessitent pas la participation de ministres, incluant par exemple l'examen des textes en commission, les commissions d'enquête ou encore les missions d'information. Mais pas de QAG ni d'examen de textes en hémicycle

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment