Rand Paul really is that broken clock that's right twice a day. He has his stance, he's broadly never moved from it, and he doesn't really care if it's GOP or Dems he's arguing with. I think he's wrong most of the time, but he is right here.

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

Indeed. I'm getting very bored of the 'Europe couldn't possibly' argument and associated internalised helplessness. There is no reason why Europe could not handily deter and defend ourselves against Russia if we put our minds to it.

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"what if the next administration will be democratic and they cut all the contracts with us?" maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!

One thing the regime has failed to learn from that is a common failure of other regimes attempting state capture is that if you create significant disruption in the day-to-day lives of people, they suddenly have both a lot of free time and identifiable reasons to rebel against you.

In one headline, the essence of why political reporters are the worst placed to cover a moment like this. Foreign reporters know you can be objective and still judge truth yourself. Nobody would write: "A battle over truth erupts after Tiananmen Square violence" bsky.app/profile/poli...

The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.

Again. Shutdown the government. Part of opening needs to be unannounced inspection access by Comgress which is actually a current law.

The top post on @nflreddit.bsky.social right now is "[Highlight] Fox censors 'Fuck ICE' chant from fan during National Anthem". This is really breaking containment, folks. www.reddit.com/r/nfl/s/KLWj...

The key to the far right’s recent ascendence is the realization that if they simply go on traditional or social media and describe things that are completely false but they’d prefer to be true, many people will treat this fictitious reality as, at least, a competing theory that must be dignified.

You truly don’t hate these people enough.

Some official U.S.-government social-media accounts have become a reliable stream of xenophobic messaging that aims to redefine what it means to be American, @alibreland.bsky.social reports:

Absolute drivel from the BBCs live feed. Despite there being abundant evidence to contradict the repulsive Noem, her words are reported uncritically, in line with the apparent belief that presenting a lie alongside the truth and calling both “narratives” has anything to do with journalism.

"an attempt to disarm" is certainly one way to describe what we saw.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

The thing about Trump 2.0 is that he learned his lesson from before. There’s not a single Smithers in his orbit anymore; not one single person to say “Uh, sir, I don’t think that’s such a good idea.” Say what you will about Pence, Sessions, Bolton, or Barr, they had lines they wouldn’t cross.

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

New National Defense Strategy is out. It's mostly slop, it's heavily politicized, it mentions PRC nuclear capabilities and Taiwan each precisely zero times but somehow manages to say Trump's name exactly 47 times... But it's mostly just empty fluff for MAGA midwits to jack off to.

Why am I being made to cheer/defend the French. What is this timeline 😭

Hey American people this is a great way to get yourself excellent news coverage AND help the mutual aid fund for the people of Minnesota

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how it started how it's going

A critical part of the Titanic tragedy is that they could have turned away at almost any point prior to hitting the iceburg but hubris meant they didn't. I know that is lost on Vance etc.

NEW: The ICE List website listing thousands of ICE employees cites LinkedIn as the source of much of its info about ICE agents. Despite DHS's threat to treat revealing agents' identities as a crime, it's trivial to find their profiles. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

When we say “This is un-American” or “This is not what Canada stands for” we are appealing to ideals upheld by the best of us, like the resilience my uncle and his family showed in rebuilding their lives after being betrayed by their government. Theirs is a Canadian story too.

Laughing, crying, welcome back twitter

2000 Meters to Andriivka was snubbed by the Oscars, but it's still the absolute best documentary of modern warfare. When the soldiers who survived stood up after the film's premier in Kyiv last summer, they received a 15 minute standing ovation. Watch here 👇

He threatened war—which I’m still not convinced is impossible—to get a deal that changes absolutely nothing.

Shaping up to be a zinger of a testimony. Unfortunately, I'm the short term, it's unlikely to matter. Will be an important record for future.

Today is the day www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Sick.

Consider the following. Two founding members of the board of peace can't be part of the signing ceremony, because they have an arrest warrant for war crimes issued against them.

Everything you want to know about the chemistry of green smoke from M18-type colored smoke grenades. apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...

I have a similar story of wandering off as a very young child in a zoo. I was looked after by staff and security until they could reunite me with my panicking parents. Mine is a happy memory. Traumatic memories last longer and cut deeper. Fuck ICE

Thank you Mr President, that clears things up.

I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans. When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.

Not even joking, Europe should just say "No". End of.

Jeden Tag wieder berichten etliche Medien über das was Trump gerade erzählt, als sei das total vertrauenswürdig. Als würde er nicht nächste Woche das Gegenteil von dem tun, was er ankündigt. Und nie werden seine Aussagen mit dem kontrastiert, was letzte Woche gesagt wurde. Es ist zum Verzweifeln.

Rhetoric like this is exactly what Carney's speech so expertly dismantled. And he nailed it ahead of the US speeches.

Its nice to know that Newsom will go to Europe, turn to an American audience, and go "It's all fake" instead of to a European/international audience and saying "This is real and we caused it." Telling.

I'm just amused that Davos is the new UN, and that world leaders give back-to-back speeches like it's General Assembly week. Almost like capital rules the world order or something

I really hate the term "sanewashing" in part because I think what mainstream news outlets really do is something different, which is take Trump statements that intentionally have several contradictory meanings and broadcast the most optimistic one

Somebody has tried to teach him about the GIUK gap and this is the result

Right on cue, here are the push alerts from the 3 major newspapers lmao

He is 100% threatening to use force. He still might not, but a headline that accepts this as a climb-down from force is simply inaccurate. And his word means nothing anyway.

So they managed to get that into his speech. Unfortunately Trump and his enablers have shown they can't be trusted. During this admin the rest of the West must proceed on the basis that they'll continue to be undermined and betrayed by this administration.

it’s cool that I don’t even know if this is a verbal typo or not