You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

People who thought credibility and individual leaders didn’t matter much in international relations were taking years of cultivated and maintained credibility for granted, and didn’t sufficiently consider that a major power would voluntarily throw so much of it away by empowering a leader with none.

Roomnesia.

Why does Trump need allies to help him in a war he’s already won?

That they are moving now tells us everything you need to know about the "extensive" preparation for this war. All of these failures rest entirely in the lap of Pete Hegseth. Unlike other democracies where defense agencies are, um, laid back, OSD has much authority/practice shaping mil ops 1/2

BREAKING: World interconnected. Economies interdependent. People besides you get a say. Cultivating relationships has long-term value. Picking unnecessary fights with everyone at once: bad idea. Really sucks to have national leaders shocked by that, and who will quickly forget that they learned it.

New article by Dept. of Govt. associate prof. Anthoula Malkopoulou identifying structural similarities between "dirty hands" and democratic self-defence and analyzing how normative theorizing about the former can guide approaches to the latter. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Remember that the Russian economy is bust.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... Just a friendly reminder - Russia is still invading Ukraine.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Higher oil prices, eh. That will be good for Russia and whoever (Trump) just sit on a bunch of oil it wants to cash in on (from Venezuela) and put in private bank accounts (in Qatar). The corruption is staggering.

Tired of winning, yet?

So I hear that Iran has attacked pretty much every US base across the Middle East. When will we know how many casualties?

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Desperately launching wars to get an excuse to cancel elections...?

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Strongly recommend this excellent piece. It actually understates the US failure: Brazil and S. Korea aren’t outliers. Quite the opposite. Since 2010, 31 democracies have convicted or banned leaders from office. Accountability is the democratic norm. America is the sole outlier.

Can a hashtag cross borders faster than repression can shut it down? Examining Thailand and the #MilkTeaAlliance, this article by @joakimkreutz.bsky.social and Anthi Makrogianni explores how activists navigate online crackdowns while building transnational solidarities. doi.org/10.1080/2474...

I’m once again writing that disbelief in structural racism is similar to climate change denial and then I remembered they don’t believe in that either.

A new report from Gartner argues that by 2028, misconfigured AI will shut down the national critical infrastructure in a G20 country. www.networkworld.com/article/4132... This should concern everyone, especially those with the levers of power #AICrisis #BlueCrew

Youre gonna see a lot of bad analysis about Peru tonight But the only takeaway that matters is that Peru constantly provides empirical evidence that presidents are both useless and optional

Dumma ekonomer. ”Vi har inte behövt räkna med naturen i vårt ekonomiska beslutsfattande. Den ekonomiska teorin har vuxit fram utifrån uppfattningen att naturen är oändlig” www.dn.se/varlden/30-g...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

"But what about China?" has been a throwaway comment made many times to justify inaction on climate change or criticise decarbonisation policies. Well China is now by far the world's largest manufacturer, installer, and user of clean energy technologies.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.

More of this, please. Those seven Dems need to be replaced by less cowardly people to represent the Democratic Party in their districts.

Is this the future? I simply wanted to open a one-page document listing my personal information - had to fight copilot for 30 mins to convince it I DID NOT need a f-g "summary"...

1. From lung cancer to climate change, capitalist governments are notoriously slow to recognize and remedy the negative externalities generated by corporate activity. Generative AI is no exception. Large language models are proving a disaster in numerous spheres of public life.

The amazing pros at Bellingcat, a collective of investigative journalists and superbly skilled tech geeks, have now posted their detailed analysis of the shooting of Alex Pretti based upon all available images and video. They leave zero doubt that every word uttered by the Trump Admin is a lie.

EU - time to put targeted sanctions on US leadership for these human rights abuses!

It was a privilege to work on this report for the @europarl.europa.eu about transnational repression w/ @nateschenkkan.bsky.social @zecsaky.bsky.social & @emiledirks.bsky.social Check it out here: www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One point I’ve been banging on about in interviews the last few weeks is that the mere threat of the use of force by the U.S. President is illegal both under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter but also the U.S. Constitution by virtue of the Take Care Clause.

How it started: wow, I HAVE TO teach about this shit! How its going: sigh, I have to teach about THIS SHIT!

Everyone will be "famous". I think the appropriate word is "heroes".

A note from reality: Trump says that he is imposing tariffs on 8 EU countries, but that's not doable. The EU is a single trading block and customs union. Things made in the EU are simply "made in EU." Many products such as autos or machinery are made with components from multiple EU countries.

So let's go back to "Russian interference in the 2016 elections" and take it from there.. the idea of Trump as Putin tool is looking more and more likely. But why are the Republicans writ large onboard with it? Is it only for the money?

EU should impose targeted sanctions on businesses owned by or linked to the US president unless human rights violations and threats to democracy is ended.

also to folks who think it's ok to use AI in any capacity: our electricity bill went up several hundred $ and we were barely scraping by already. Im thankful not to be near a data center, but we're still feeling it. youre not the only person thinking "but it's just one image!"

"I will place two armies in... Greenland!" Can someone remove the boardgame RISK from the White House, please.

NEW: The Iranian regime views the protests as a proto-revolution that it must crush completely and immediately. Some Iranians are resisting the regime, in some cases violently, which reinforces the regime’s view that the protests retain the potential to transform into a revolution. (1/6)

The United States needs military access to Greenland, which it already has, to defend the Arctic, which it already does, from Russian and Chinese ships, which aren’t actually there, and this is so important we should destroy the Western alliance to get it, do I have that right?

Iran "said" they are no longer killing protesters. Well, as you were then.

@luisebendfeldt.bsky.social has also great insighta in this. Check out her work!