I will reiterate that if you are an independent journo/hobbyist I will happily set up your ghost install and host it for a few quid above cost price. You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue. And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.

head of chiquita banana wanting to ask the forbidden question now that trump is overthrowing governments for oil companies

never in my life would I have expected a FIFA Peace Prize winner to behave this way

amen

absolute cinema (derogatory)

Two Aliens Looking At Bluesky

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this just opened a doorway in my brain

So. Look. I don’t know if now is the moment. But I wrote about the rise of the Reich. And about resistance, and history, and what we did then to keep ourselves together. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

I see it’s that time of the month again

Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.

not that we needed it, but this is further moral justification for the murder of hitchbot in philadelphia

just gonna break this out again, no reason

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

trump the type of messy bitch who could have the ideal internationally-accepted face for his wildly illegal imperial adventure and throw it away because she won the nobel prize and he didn't

looks like someone is about to win the “fell for it again” award

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

*squeezes bridge of nose* okay so no further actions are anticipated but if anyone interferes with the oil companies we have a second bigger strike ready and we’re not nation building but we will be running the country and we left most of the regime intact but don’t support the opposition. Right?

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

What prize does FIFA give for occupying another country?

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

At this point there is enough material for five doctoral dissertations on how these guys willfully misinterpret music

who gives a shit about power levers. if you don't even attempt to start the process of impeachment, the fuck is the point of anything. "step on me daddy. please rig the next election, daddy" bsky.app/profile/squo...

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

As you read the news today, watch who phrases the news as an "illegal invasion and regime change" versus "bringing democracy". It'll tell you everything you need to know about the news source you're reading, and frankly should decide whether you ever read them seriously again.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

East India Company ass country

*steers wheel toward sun*

marco rubio is such a dumb bitch

the list of countries in latin america the US has overthrown without asking anyone else includes most of the countries in latin america how many americans even know about brazil or uruguay or ecuador, not that they care about anyone or anything

Trump is speaking now. He's comparing it to WW2 attacks and bragging about the operation. This is too stupid and mortifying to recount, outside of the fact this will piss off international allies further. Call your reps.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

my brain every time i log on

i know this is a very serious situation but it is kind of funny watching rubio, hegseth, & the other boys in the background start to shift uncomfortably, darting their eyes around the room in silent growing panic as the president drifts from topic to topic instead of focusing on the war he started

trump said he was gonna do the monroe doctrine and he is doing the monroe doctrine. any congresscritters acting surprised need to be given a swirly

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

man i’m glad this year is almost over

seems bad

none of this is legal. none of this is normal. feel free to tell anyone who says otherwise to fuck off.

getting real “second half of ‘Handlebars’ by Flobots” vibes for 2026

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

some real beauts in here but the little otter in a Christmas tree takes the cake for me

it’s really wild how much bezos has swung the post’s opinion operation this year. it had a lot of problems before but this morning’s editorial is “Justice in Venezuela”. (nyt is “Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise”)