This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Jesus would have killed the survivors of His illegal war crime, too!

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

Bellingcat has been experimenting with story formats, trying to get away from drawing coloured boxes around important things. Our latest is below: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office. The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x** open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)

when u see an american action film nowadays that involves a white guy suddenely beating up a bunch of henchmen and they’re all Asian guys my first instinct is like: wtf but then often the answer is: the director is an Asian guy and he wants his Bros in the American Hollywood movie. Hence, Nobody 2

What an interesting coincidence.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Russia has lost 1% of its pre-war male population in Ukraine. In total, Russian losses in dead and wounded amounted to between 1 million and 1.35 million soldiers. Over the past three years, Russia has been able to occupy an additional 1.45% of Ukrainian territory.

Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.

I've become deeply radicalized against gambling. It's just getting more evil the longer it's allowed to fester unregulated

i am levitating

a bunch of dipshit groypers versus the most popular entertainers on the planet: who will win?

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

i fucking love my country of MPLS

JFC the hate just never stops

Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.

The bear would never

Remember how I've said AI is an attack? This is what I meant

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

The Western Hemisphere is the United States top regional priority under the new National Security Strategy. Canada has long avoided being a top national security concern for the United States, and rightly so. It's generally bad news to be at the top of that list.

As far as I can see, this nat sec strategy is far harsher on Europe than on Russia. There is no mention of a threat from Russia or of deterrence, only that "re-establishing strategic stability" is a priority. Europe is cast as a major threat to freedom. A radical, dangerous document.

Trump national security strategy: Make Europe White Again. "Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European" "the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure" www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

An American journalist helped facilitate RFK Jr's ingratiation into Trump's world and kept secret disqualifying information on him that could have kept him out of major policy, which impacts millions of people.

This document could have been 14 words long and nothing would have been lost.

heart of snow, a heron flies

This is the sort of thing that in any normal province would sink a government. The Sky Palace pales in comparison. It's such overt corruption, but they're doing everything they can to change the rules so it's not illegal.

and Russia has solid reasons for invading Ukraine (not a word of protest or condemnation of this invasion). A clear signal to Europe that Trump intends to abandon NATO and America's entire system of historical alliances in favor of a love match with the Kremlin.

Holy moly, do people still think the U.S. is an ally of Europe? It is now an officially stated foreign policy goal to undermine the EU and centrist European governments that don't ideologically align with MAGA.

Holy shit. This is like end of a geological era in Hollywood time. Theatrical moviegoing will likely never be the same. HBO series may never be weekly releases again… www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...

The Trump National Security Strategy is an act of vandalism against the things that actually make our country strong, safe, and prosperous.

There's a lot to criticize in the new NSS - almost all of it, really - but can I just start with how notably poor it is in presentation? The opening statement from the president is both childish (natch) but also looks badly scanned and the rest of the thing is just a PDF-converted word document?

The Trump administration has quietly released its National Security Strategy — apparently late on Thursday. Usually there's a rollout and fanfare for these things: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

“confidential drafting process for Donald Trump’s…National Security Strategy…has stunned some in government who’ve seen the pages so far. A federal staffer tells Zeteo that one version…they saw reminded them of “fascist internet trolls getting worked up…on Twitter.”” zeteo.com/p/trump-nati...

OK this might be a fool's errand but last night I started a #yyccc budget tracker. Tracking amendments, what they're about, who voted how—so this info can be in one place in an easy-to-digest format. Feedback welcome. Started with transit amendments. Will add housing & others.

Folks not very long from now are going to see these posts in their histories of the 2020s and will shout, "what the fuck was wrong these people?"

I mean, this is an execution

It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms. The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent. I'll post the ruling shortly.

🚨 I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data. The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros." Elon about to get big mad.

Delighted to receive my copy of Framing the First World War, a great collection edited by @draefox.bsky.social @mpmfinch.bsky.social and @dmorganowen.bsky.social who have put together a broad range of original essays

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Maybe it’s time to conclude that Mr. Putin doesn’t want peace. He wants Ukraine.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/vlad...

I am a woman who joined the Let’s Rethink Chicks Having The Right To Vote Party and I am concerned they do not take me completely seriously, somebody please help me

huh what a coincidence

uh, hol' up for a second. The implication here is that the boat had capsized? So you have a strike that kills most of the occupants and capsizes the boat and the guys *in the water* are trying to un-capsize their boat...in order to not drown. That, uh, that sounds pretty hors de combat.

That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.