This is like the Haitians story used against immigrants in the US. Just recycling the same sad propaganda round and round.

A repost: The line between American chaos and America greatness is a thin blue & yellow line running through Ukraine We can’t “good luck to all” Ukraine. It’s our fight, and can help us see what needs to be done at home, too. www.greatpower.us/p/thin-blue-...

Some people have asked me about this — which I had to make sure was real — and I’ll say what I’ve said since 2016: If POTUS wants to realize that being the savior of the free world is a much better gig than dealmaking with autocrats who hate America, I will cheer it. **And freedom starts at home.

To be fair — we are also the laughing stock of the still-developing world

This is unconscionable.

Everyday we remain an unserious nation, Americans are in danger

Someone just fund all this as a private project. It’s too important not to have.

Totally unprepared, and now riddled with “leaders” actively looking away and incapable of defining the threats we face and how to defeat them 10 minutes in Ukraine reminds any American how truly unprepared we are for any true adversity

I guess we’re just casually doing eugenic as an adjective now? and just a reminder that 1920s “looksmaxxing” — which is the stupidity word in the history of words and thus fairly represents its adherents — was just how Nazis recruited men and taught them to subjugate women.

"Hearts, Minds, and Uniforms: New Data Reveals China and Russia’s Growing Military Diplomacy Footprint in Latin America and the Caribbean" @csis.org www.csis.org/analysis/hea...

When your AI is training itself by interacting with the worst parts of the internet, how did you think it would end up? Yup, just like that.

As John Oliver said — “f*ck you, make me”

Every single person described in this story and who is a source for this story is morally reprehensible. Devastating that any Americans watch this reality show with admiration instead of abject horror. nymag.com/intelligence...

Just going on record that you, any pregnant women, should not take any kooky supplement recommended by these kooks in the WH

But they all got to meet the king like good little boys

Let’s make taxes a subscription to America

💯 is just rich people using state assets (middle class tax dollars) to make rich people more money, on which they will pay no taxes Aka the giant con we live in

Sometimes you just need a giant pot pie y’all

How stupid is absolutely everything? Behold, a case study

Highly underrated as a general way to be

If there’s a white dwarf available we have some thing here we’d like to chuck in warwick.ac.uk/news/pressre...

It’s funny because everyone thought it would be the Madison Square Garden event that gave it away

I just want them all to stop stealing company names and quotes from Lord of the Rings like we don’t know what they are doing.

Also everyone knows the Gates of Hell are properly housed at Stanford, duh

It’s almost like outsourcing critical national science interests to people who bop around podcasts playing eugenicist weirdos isn’t the greatest idea

Ok, one more Bluesky sequence appreciation, which was 🎯 my childhood I mean, this stuff almost makes the toxic brainworms spread elsewhere worth it Read in order, plus one bonus “No, they did not know”

Bluesky, just here to say I appreciate you when things are otherwise no laughing matter

I don’t know how we are ever going to be able to repent for this as a nation — but we owe it to ourselves to think creatively now about what re-engaging the world in a way they will believe actually looks like

After the August 2008 war, Russia bulldozed dozens of villages in occupied regions of South Ossetia (Tskhinvali, Georgia) to ensure there could be no return 190,000 were displaced, ancestral villages erased totally Looked just like this If we stopped Russia then, it would be a different world

There has not been a day since February that I didn’t feel a hair’s breadth away from transforming into Ann Dowd’s character in the Leftovers Or maybe Margo Martindale in Justified Also Ann Dowd and Margo Martindale are amazing and should be in everything

“Everybody who isn’t posting on X is failing to influence the real people” 🙄🙄🙄

This practice is bad for America and for every country accepting a role to pass deportees along to people who may kill, torture, or disappear them. If we can take YEARS to find someone who will accept every cleared GITMO detainee into a place of safety, we can respect human rights in deportation

“All my media oligarchs will make a psyop box for influencers and youfs to stick their heads into”

Good analysis and recommendations here (for Estonia): estonianworld.com/opinion/why-...

Warm day Warm sea Bryan Adams on the forever nostalgia radio Highly recommend not being in the American info space

Tech bros are helping end what we know of as liberty Predictive policing is unconstitutional www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ok, so like, everyone does realize that his brain confused “seeking asylum” for “insane asylum” and he just stuck with it, right?

When there’s 5 Russians assets speaking at your memorial service, it’s like the worst game of bingo ever

I wonder if he reported the $50k on his taxes or how he registered it with his bank.

If you live near any of these parks, print materials and post them frequently

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Everyone wants all your data all the time — but the govt doesn’t want any data that will show their policies are monstrous and wrong www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Just a reminder that you don’t have to watch it and in fact should not watch it since all these mad clowns care about is ratings

“The black and Baltic Sea friendship fleet”

It’s a satire within a satire within a satire of the end of American power www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Lies and the clowns who tell them:

Umm I hope we’re making it clear to folks that there’s no doctor’s note to get you out of war crimes? If that’s why they are asking for … notes? www.politico.com/newsletters/...

**deep sigh** Let’s repeat. There is no “split China and Russia” in the current menu. China is very happy with the war in Ukraine, because they have Russia over a barrel and their adversaries are dumping weapons and ammo into Ukraine and not replacing them fast enough. They watch and wait.

Article 4 consultations keep getting called The alliance needs to make some choices