Q: Trump's financial disclosures show a lot of stock trades in companies he has promoted-- JD VANCE: This is a hell of a question Q: How can you argue you are cleaning up corruption when the president is doing this? VANCE: C'mon man. Have a little bit of objectivity in how you ask these questions

Pat, ja neņem vērā, ka Kulbergam daļu smadzeņu veido asfalts, manuprāt, ir bīstami par premjeru virzīt cilvēku, kurš uz līdzenas vietas spēj ģenerēt pašsacerētus "faktus" un acumirklī pats tiem noticēt, kā arī pārdroši piedāvāt sarežģītām problēmām "risinājumus", kas ir pilnīgā pretrunā ar zinātni.

Publisks atbalsts @martakotello.bsky.social un satiksmes mierināšanas iniciatīvām RD šobrīd, manuprāt, ir absolūti nepieciešams. Ja jau t.s. ceturtajai varai ērtāk pieskaņoties dominējošajām grupām un to aizstāvībai, nekas cits neatliek kā indivīdiem atkal sapurināties pilsoniskajā atbildīgumā.

Jaunatnes organizācija "Protests" bija centrāls sākotnējais spēks pērnā gada protestu vilnī.

Even saying that Musk is posting "about race" is softening what is happening here, which is that the world's wealthiest person is committing himself to spreading overt Nazi propaganda.

Headline vs. 22 paragraphs in apnews.com/article/gaza...

Let's spin up the broken record. If we're serious about CO₂ removal, we can't rely on one tech company to make it happen. It has to be a governmental effort at all levels.

The difference isn't about tone or intensity of grievance. Both forms can be angry, confrontational, disruptive. The difference is structural: how does the system respond to correction, disagreement, and failure? Does it learn, or does it escalate?

A technocratic stack: moral authority sits with expertise. Evidence is rigorous but opaque. Deliberation is minimal, disagreement is reframed as ignorance. Accountability is metric-based. It fails when its authority outpaces public consent. Sound familiar?

This is epistemic humiliation: the arrangement of political culture so that large populations experience their democratic voice as both practically irrelevant and morally suspect. Experts know; you merely feel. Your feelings are noted, but they shouldn't govern policy.

Michael Sandel, in The Tyranny of Merit, identified a specific and devastating form of this at scale: meritocratic humiliation. The system doesn't just fail people, it tells them their failure is deserved. If you didn't succeed, it's because you lack merit. Your resentment is just envy.

That architecture has now been replaced. Social media platforms curate what most people see. Their logic isn't verification, it's engagement. Whatever holds attention gets amplified, regardless of truth or consequence.

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

Love that we're at the point where he just posts cryptic stuff that is virtually indistinguishable from early 2017 Clickhole articles clickhole.com/government-i...

Tuesday is officially war crime day everyone!

Par nožēlu, bet kā vienmēr LSM auditorija tiek maldināta ar viltus neitralitāti, atstājot tukšumus kontekstā, kurus lasītājam pašam aizpildīt ar nepareiziem minējumiem, ka šis vienkārši būtu pārāk stingrs un tāpēc pretrunīgs likums nevis skaidri rasistiski motivēta vardarbības eskalācija

The US has it's own Cargo 200 problem.

Vnk nevēlos, lai šis likums, pēc kura balsojuma Izraēlas valdības locekļi, demonstrējot sajūsmu, publiski laistījās ar šampanieti, paslīdētu garām nemanīts. Jo Izraēla ir pirmā valsts vēsturē, kas pieņēmusi likumu par nāvessodu, kas attiecas tikai uz vienu etnisko grupu. www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

Washington Post says Russia’s SVR discussed staging an “assassination attempt” on Hungary’s PM Orban to boost him before April elections. No attack happened, but a European intelligence service obtained the SVR report, per WP. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

I'm seeing a lot of these fake Donald Trump truths being posted on BlueSky (and lesser sites) at the moment. Its pretty easy to check, and you owe it to yourself and other people before sharing it.

smol bean militarism is gonna be one of the dumbest fucking artefacts of this conflict and that is saying something

Biggest gainer in Dutch local elections yesterday: the far-right FvD, who saw their vote count almost quadruple to near 300K, from 1 per cent in 2022’s local elections to 4 per cent this time nos.nl/artikel/2606...

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

‼️ The @eppgroup.bsky.social "centrists" are doing the far rights' dirty work on migration. On Monday, they struck a murderous deal on the Deportation Regulation, allowing mass deportations and up to 2 years in offshore detention camps, even for children. fyeg.org/stop-mass-de...

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

Šī atziņa burtiski katru dienu iesit pa seju.

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

Kas mani uztrauc, pat ekspertu mutēs(piem.Rozenvalds), ir nu jau mediju diskusijās plaši tiražētais apgalvojums par Pro un ZZS savstarpējo apsaukāšanos, kas jau izgājusi no sliedēm. Varbūt esmu ko palaidusi garām, taču neesmu manījusi Šuvajeva, kas galvenikārt pārstāv Pro, runā apsaukāšanās pazīmes.

Democracy is an epistemic discipline, it only works if truth can constrain power. Without a faster, more transparent architecture for shared reality, the arc of democracy bends away from substance, through simulation, and toward authoritarianism. Without major action, it's the inevitable end state.

In “simulation,” the functions invert. Verification becomes loyalty testing. Deliberation becomes spectacle. Accountability becomes partisan punishment. Democratic form remains, but democratic function is gone. Sound familiar? 🇺🇸

As I've written before, people don’t trust institutions because institutions aren't doing the job. Democracy rests on three pillars: Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, which can be understood as being substantial, performative, and simulated. demos.co.uk/research/ver...

A regime that finally backs down when confronted by a united Europe is still tough enough to kidnap a five year old after preschool. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump). www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

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The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

Kā šos sauc latviski 🤔 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholphin

ŠJ Kudors teic, ka Venecuēlas, Irānas un Kubas diktatoru gāšana ārpus starptautiskā tiesiskuma rāmjiem jebkuram "labas gribas" cilvēkam būtu ļoti tīkama, bet ar Grenladi esot citādi. Lai cik nepieklājīga nacionālkonservatīvajiem šķiet norāde uz RU naratīviem... >>>

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

"Telefons ir cigaretes acīm"

When Google cuts off the headline at the proper place.

I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

Ozols tiek aicināts uz medijiem kā Tuvo Austrumu eksperts, bet samērā konsekventi vienkārši nodarbojas ar obskurantismu, jo par to ir autoritatīvs Starptautiskās tiesas lēmums, ka Izraēla kontrolēja Gazu tik būtiskā mērā arī pēc 2005. gada, lai tas juridiski joprojām būtu okupācijas turpinājums

"Politiski neitrālajā" ideoloģiskajā komplektā ir: - biznesa lobija pārstāvis Endziņš - JV top ziedotājs un politiskais aktīvists Bergs - divi valdības iecelti iestāžu vadītāji - viens akadēmiķis, kuram tad būtu jāpārstāv darba ņēmēji, NVO, vide, pašvaldības, sociālā joma utt.

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat