⚠️ Danish military intelligence report raises concerns about U.S. for the first time: “The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...

Trump has confirmed Europeans’ worst fears. Are their leaders ready to stand up to him now?

GUARDIAN: “The richest .0001% hold 3x the wealth of the poorest half of humanity.” www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

I think it's actually more insidious than this. Religion routinely teaches people there's meaning and holiness in community and connection with the rest of humanity, but simulation theory teaches that only a sacred few are smart enough to notice they're players in a computer game full of NPCs.

No AI videos I've seen offend and upset me as much as fake funny animal videos. Real animals are infinite entertainment machines placed on Earth by God to make us smile, and you're wasting resources on this? Point a camera at a dog and throw a ball. It could not be any simpler you fucking ding dongs

“Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR” An absolutely shocking headline and not what I expected from a Labour government. The Prime Minister won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Senor Democrats need to start banging the 25th amendment drum loudly and constantly.

Never forget, car dependency isn’t freedom. Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?” Choices. Choices are more free than car dependency. It’s not a hard concept. I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport. I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.

Today in insanity: "Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection."

I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.

This is true well beyond academic associations. I would not consider proposing the US as the physical venue for an arbitration, & I wouldn’t expect lawyers’ orgs of which I am a member to hold events & conferences in the US.

Put another way, we’ve been convinced that cars represent “freedom” in places where we’ve built car dependency. That dependency took away our freedom, and the car industry convinced us that we could ONLY get it back if we paid whatever increasing costs of car ownership they demand. Some “freedom.”

Unbelievable and despicable How far can a former human rights lawyer fall? www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

9 December 1885 | Jewish man, Tanchum Arsch, was born in the Russian Empire (today Jēkabpils in Latvia). In 1914 he emigrated to Norway. A watchmaker. He arrived at on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

Centrism in a meme:

"Shattered norms"

i will probably keep saying some variation of this because its inevitably going to happen but dems campaigning on “reform ice” need to be met with the same reaction as a someone asking if they can kick your child in the head

Apparently the “terrorist” who “posed immediate threat” is a 3 year old child named Ahed al-Bayok.

A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function. www.idiv.de/majority-of-... #biodiversity

We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.

Donald Trump has unilaterally decided that one of America's largest media companies must be sold to one of his cronies. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the oligarchs, backed by the scum in the Kremlin and the White House, want to carve up Europe between the USA and Russia.

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Can we shoot Jeffries into the sun now?

Amazing “'We have been wounded by the tentacles of corruption and by the criminal networks that have deeply scarred the life of our country,' Mr. Zelaya said in announcing the warrant on X."

No community should be forced to bear the weight of a system that profits from human suffering. Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system. Period.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

I’d say an excellent example that Farage’s racism didn’t end at school is he went to a dinner last year where they sang “we’re all racists now” and laughed at Hitler Jokes.. Enough said 🤷🏼‍♂️

Just thinking about the 2024 economy for no reason.

This! The Big Oil executives who have known this forever AND have had the power to change things - pivoting wholeheartedly away from fossil fuels - deserve life imprisonment with no parole, and confiscation of their assets and companies. Now the apocalypse has been hard-wired in - harder to change.

""Because working people have been shunted into defined contribution, self-funded retirement schemes, their futures are wedded to stock market returns in a way that people in similarly wealthy democracies find unimaginable."

I never thought people would put up with this level of humiliation.

We need the names of those responsible.

Man, there is a lot of evil in this world.

7 December 1913 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helena Haeutnerová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 October 1942. She did not survive.

Carbon Capture and Storage is NOT a credible climate solution. It's a really expensive way to make big oil look a lot cleaner than it is to dishonestly manufacture support for expanding instead of reducing fossil fuel dependency. @mark-carney.bsky.social is gaslighting the country about it. 🧵1/

We literally found the stupidest people in the country and put them in charge.

Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces. There’s no such thing as a “free market.” It is designed. It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Jesus Christ, Russisns are dumb.

This decrepit, child-raping, fuck just shits on everything, doesn't he? God, the pathetic kneeling swine who give in to this guy. How do they live with themselves? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I can count on one hand, maybe two, the number of Democrats in Congress who understand the fight and don't deserve to be primaried

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

I’m less afraid of being be killed by fascists, than I am of growing old and bitter, and afraid of other people because I’ll never be able to forget how fucking evil and greedy and cowardly and pathetic everyone became in the final hours before climate change decimated the planet.

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

Who can forget this description??

Inject this into my veins.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

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.