i think we deserve to know exactly how much of our money trump just set on fire trying to cover for elon musk's fuckbro millei bsky.app/profile/carl...

Things like this keep happening.

We just killed his friends and sunk his boat for no reason

It's translation Thursday, let's fund the African Translation Project! These books deserve a wider audience and they won't get it without our help! ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Really enjoyed recording this podcast for @plutopress.bsky.social I was being attacked by a fly 🪰 through the recording - so there is some over-the-top gesticulating. A combination of passion and attempting to swat said fly. I think it enhanced my contributions.

Who are the private donors funding the disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the people's house for Trump's $250M gilded ballroom?

It has rebuffed America and rewritten the norms of global commerce

This is very good. It lines up with a lot of research I have seen on political science, public policy, communication, etc., but it is more accessible. Download the report and share it with your friends who are concerned about the erosion of democracy around the world.

Chill Out to 70 Hours of Oceanscape Nature Videos Filmed by BBC Earth

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”

21 Oct 2025 -- Swimmer Lia Thomas opens up in a rare interview: "It’s easier to fight the whole world than to fight yourself every day. Because when I look back on my journey, on all the difficulties, all the highs and lows, I would do it all over again in a heartbeat." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

I recall the very senior CBP official who told me this past February that were entire fentanyl factories in Canada. I know the training he had, the units he led, and I don’t know what to do about people leading a country through shadowboxing. There’s just no answer to willful fantasy.

Speaking of Maine and Nazis—this was a great story about the state’s response to one Mira Ptacin for @atavist.com

It needs to sink in - there will not be any overarching strategy under this admin. It isn’t possible. It isn’t set up nor has any interest in that. China will not be a priority; the traditional bipartisan methods and ideas for foreign policy are gone.

"Brokers influence almost every aspect of a #migrant worker’s life, from where they live, to their meals, to the terms of their employment contracts." Yet those working in #childcare and #fisheries aren't even subject to Taiwan's monthly minimum #wage of US$944. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:

www.thehandbasket.co/p/dc-metro-p... woo!!

Since military tattoo discourse has become a thing, it's always good to go to the source. BLUF: Marines don't get Nazi tattoos. If they do, they become - dare I say it - ex-Marines: www.marines.mil/portals/1/Do...

the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster

"A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries."

For those of you wondering about this I have not actually met any marines with a Totenkopf tattoo. Other dumb tattoos? Many, typically featuring SpongeBob or something. But not that!

Surprised to learn that I had an anti-American tilt.

seems like you could be minimally fit, join ICE for the signing bonus, and then just not do the job

Social media makes you dumber, less curious, and less happy.

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.

Worth plugging our interview with the former deputy director of ops at AIVD. youtu.be/CmGXr0nrGFk?...

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

The Trump Administration is straight up murdering people without any due process and lying about it to the world. Senator Rand Paul is right to be concerned about this could mean for the security of our country and relations with our allies. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

NEW: ICE remains mum regarding prosecutor exposed as white supremacist. "They want to signal to the other white supremacists...out there that under this administration things are going to be different and you’re not going to have to worry about losing your job" www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-su...

“Supremacy is an all-consuming logic on the MAGA right today. Christian supremacy, white supremacy, male supremacy, almost every corner of MAGA is marked by one or some combination of supremacist logic and a desire to subjugate some other group.” www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Whatever happened to #GuiMinhai that day in Thailand? - Last photo while still free. See the full compilation of video footage, maps, images from his home, photos of his kidnappers, and more. youtu.be/LWmTdSj9Trc

They aren’t carrying fentanyl! That is not where fentanyl comes in from!!!! It’s a cocaine trafficking route!!!

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

Washington Post report details deal that I and other El Salvador watchers have been talking about for years: Bukele made a pact with MS-13, DOJ has known about it, and now Rubio’s State Dept is helping him cover it up by handing over gang leaders in US custody to Bukele to be silenced.

My understanding of why more journos are not talking about the jet dropping diarrhea video is because they didn’t actually watch it/watch it to the end. I base this on the exactly two reporter buddies of mine that admitted the above so with N of 2 imma assume for 100% of journos this is the case

Every ceasefire negotiated under Trump has failed. People just didn’t talk about it because the other ones (Thai-Cambodia, DRC-Rwanda) were too obscure. also it doesn’t fit the narrative

If only there was some way to avoid this...

“.. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Ok, I figured out what happened. Will make this a thread but TL;DR is some one on the gunline put the wrong time on a time fuze which made the shell function early.

at its core, the leadership believes that the paper, not the facts, should get to set the agenda. this is one of the reasons why coverage of the *most prominent* stories - especially U.S. politics - is usually so bad at the Times, whereas its coverage of everything else is often very good

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

the NYT decides on its narratives and really, really has a hard time adjusting coverage to reality. it was the biggest pusher of 'resistance is dead', reflecting the general desire among the US establishment for Trump to be a punitive force against their critics. #nokings doesn't fit its story

Remember when they hounded Hillary for years over insufficient email security protocols?

Without a doubt, this calls for an independent international investigation. I certainly do not trust the Trump administration, and I do not know enough about Colombia’s public media apparatus to trust them either.

Nexperia China tells employees to ignore orders from Dutch head office – SCMP: ‘Nexperia China said in a Chinese-language statement on its official social media channel on Saturday that it was an “independent” Chinese entity […].’