New migration policy guaranteed (meant?) to fail: keeping people in limbo for twenty years is the absolutely best way to make sure they cannot integrate and become part of society. It will also fail to appease the insatiable far-right.

Got flak for saying on CNN last Friday that Trump deserves no credit for resolving the Gaza war because he... didn't resolve the Gaza war. Sure enough:

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle. And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Thugs

The moment of the “Shahed” drone attack on the Shostka train station was caught on📹 Russia struck the train station in Shostka,Sumy region,twice.The first strike hit the locomotive of the suburban train Tereshchynska-Novhorod-Siverskyi.When the evacuation of people began,the enemy attacked again

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

❤️ www.standaard.be/opinies/te-v...

It’s so fucking funny that we’re still getting five NYT op-eds a week calling for the left to tone down their rhetoric

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

you know what probably isn't great for military readiness? turning a blind eye to violent hazing, sexual assault and bigotry, while purging leaders on the basis of race and gender.

🚨🚀 "Military demonstrations as digital spectacles: How virtual presentations of AI decision-support systems shape perceptions of war and security" from @vanderborghtr.bsky.social & Anna Nadibaidze. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social - Military demonstrations as digital spectacles: How virtual presentations of AI decision-support systems shape perceptions of war and security - cup.org/3IMQWh4 - @vanderborghtr.bsky.social & Anna Nadibaidze #FirstView #AI

🔓 New & open access 🔓 "Visuals as sources of normative substance in the debate about AI in the military domain" by our colleagues @profbode.bsky.social & Anna Nadibaidze, co-authored with @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social, available in Critical Studies on Security www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reminder that Miller once asked an admiral “When a boat full of migrants is in int’l waters, they aren’t protected by the U.S. Constitution, right?” When admiral said that’s technically true, but int’l law still applied, Miller replied: “why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat?”

​This is what the destroyed homes in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, just outside Kyiv, look like after russian attack last night. Bastards. Murderers.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Volgens VVD, BBB en Wilders is solidariteit met Palestijnen ‘onversneden Jodenhaat’, maar over de neonazi’s met hun Hitlergroeten en NSB-vlaggen in Den Haag zwijgen ze. Daarmee maken alle maatregelen van deze regering tegen antisemitisme niet alleen ongeloofwaardig, maar ook fundamenteel racistisch.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

At almost all UK defence discussions on AI, experts have raised the the problem of sovereign AI and emphasised that defence should not be locked in with US companies (which may pursue different interests and aims). This seems like a blatant disregard of this expert advice www.gov.uk/government/n...

Look who came with

please ENJOY this clip of Mark Zuckerberg *just trying to answer a video call* with the new 'neural band' Meta is shilling and failing miserably during a live demo You get a prize if you can withstand all 1:42 of this youtu.be/D97ILdUbYww?...

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

This is where impunity leads.

Pundit brain in action. Bizarre and frightening how so many "sensible" commentators are falling over themselves to effectively canonise a far-right agitator and open white supremacist. You don't have to do this. Denouncing political violence does not mean having to launder Kirk's odious legacy.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Kirk was MAGA in al zijn facetten met alle haat die erbij komt. Kader hem juist, Vlaamse media, 'opvallende uitspraken' als eufemisme gebruiken is niet de juiste manier.

Rusland test de NAVO: tijdens een massale Russische drone-aanval op Oekraïne staken zeker >10 drones de grens over naar #Polen (cf. de gele lijnen in het oosten), waar ze behoorlijk ver het Poolse luchtruim binnendrongen. Poolse en NAVO-gevechtsvliegtuigen schoten er neer

More of this sort of thing to counter the Reform shite.

I might be wrong, I’m no lawyer, but my understanding is we invented laws for the sole purpose of making sure a more powerful guy can’t just kill you because he wants to

yet opposing the integration of genAI into the classroom and other critical societal infrastructure somehow makes one a 'pessimist', 'anti-progress' & 'anti-innovation'

"Imagine knowing electricity or the internet were coming ... before both fully and wholly upended business, culture and life. That's the AI moment we see unfolding today" - possibly one of the stupidest things i've seen written about AI, great work Axios!

Republicans keep telling us not to "politicize" these shootings, but that's only because they understand that these shootings were entirely motivated by the political arguments they themselves have been making and entirely facilitated by the political campaign against gun control that they have led.

this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.

There is no sadder, more pathetic group of people than Trump’s second Cabinet.

This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.

Premier De Wever komt terug uit politiek verlof en ... kiest opnieuw voor dwarsliggen. Terwijl een volk wordt verpletterd en kinderen in Gaza verhongeren, schuift hij voorwaarden voor de erkenning van Palestina naar voren die de realiteit totaal negeren. 🧵

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

The threshold for a #famine according to the IPC is very high. To get there the human suffering must be immense. Only months of lies about humanitarian access to #Gaza & extreme cowardice in Western capitals made this possible.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Here is a press release/ summary blog post about our new paper. Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is. www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - and Germany violates human rights more than El Salvador. on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it | Jodi Ginsberg

Het Belgisch leger heeft vandaag via de lucht ongeveer 2 ton aan opiniestukken van Maarten Boudry gedropt in Gaza. De federale regering wil zo de Gazanen helpen om de genocide te relativeren die er in Gaza bezig is. vremdemirror.com/2025/08/12/b...

‘Terwijl politici met vakantie gingen, zijn opnieuw honderden Palestijnen vermoord, uitgehongerd en bezet.’

Everybody’s gonna learn this lesson the hard way: anything even adjacent to this chan culture dogwhistle shit is deeply unpopular. Like the incels they’re catering to, you and your brand develop permanent stench from being around any of it.