Trump-Putin business plan

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

ICE stormed a residence hall at Augsburg University, detained an undergrad, and aimed rifles at students and staff then admitted they had no warrant to be on campus. This is state violence. This is terror. And this is exactly what Trump’s America unleashes on our communities.

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

旧統一教会の名称変更めぐる「黒塗り」文書　不開示を取り消す判決 www.asahi.com/articles/AST... 名称変更は第2次安倍政権下の15年に認められました。 国側は、資料を公にすれば、教団への誹謗（ひぼう）中傷を招いて「信教の自由」を害すると主張。 SNSでは名称変更を批判する書き込みもあり、不当な干渉の恐れは「極めて具体的」で、開示の利益より弊害のほうが大きいと反論していました。

Cites @alexandrastein.bsky.social Joseph Metz 2025 Unlearning Agency: Lessons from Cults journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Ukrainian Aonishiki wins his first Sumo tournament abema.tv/video/episod...

Thread!

In Mo Yan's "Frogs", Tadpole writes of traditional "midwives" pushing babies out with rolling pins, then charging a fur coat for their services. FBS, RFKjr, et al. have no grasp of how far medicine has come in the past century.

とても感動的 news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/3d6...

If you know, you know. If you don't, you're going to think really silly things right now. You might be shocked how many people don't know.

Japan’s labor market and social welfare challenges demand foreign labor, yet the current political framing from Takaichi's new government treats foreigners as a social problem, writes Stefan Aichholzer in his analysis:

Hold the mayo

【『地平』2025年12月号】 奪われた人生と尊厳を取り戻す――統一教会2世による提訴 藤田庄市（フォトジャーナリスト） 違法伝道によって親が絡めとられた信心とはどのようなものだったのか。とりわけ、信者（教団と親）を2世に対する「虐待」に突き動かした教えの核心とは。 chihei.net?p=6197

【『地平』2025年12月】 醜悪な日本の私――統一教会のレイシズム 野浪行彦（作家） 統一教会は、単に神の血統の優位を主張したのではなかった。また、単に悪魔の血統の側の人間性や人権を否定したのでもなかった。むしろ、そこには逆説がある。 chihei.net?p=6204

「てっちゃん、ごめんね」って

Today, Yumi Arai released her Wormhole album. Arai trained an AI model on her own earlier music. This enables, for example, her to sing duets with her younger voice. #ai yuming-wormhole.jp music.apple.com/jp/album/wor... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cYC...

Osaka High Court issues a ruling today on the appeal of Yuji Yukawa, head of the Kan'nama union. An extraordinary, underreported story of blatant union-busting, Yukawa was held for 644 days without trial and given a 4-year prison sentence in his 1st trial: apjjf.org/2022/9/mcneill

botulism: ByHeart Whole Nutrition powdered infant formula cendigitalmagazine.acs.org/2025/11/14/f...

Religion was never more than idealizations that AI can provide as well.

Note that the person standing next to Clinton in the lower picture is not the same person who asked him the question in the upper picture.

I'd guess that 85-90% of American scientists would be ineligible for future funding under this law, maybe close to 100% in the R1 universities. So much for funding proposals based on scientific merit. Apart from being sinophobes, the people pushing this have no clue how science or higher ed works.

Note that Yamagami's mother apologized for his actions, not for her own actions. The cult never apologizes.

Note that Yamagami's mother apologized for his actions, not for her own actions. The cult never apologizes.

Note that Yamagami's mother did not apologize for her actions, just for his actions. The cult never apologizes.

Unforgivable

By preemptively pardoning them, he tells the people who are now and in the future called upon to perform illegal acts for him that he has their back. This is not about Giuliani & Co, this is about the thousands of current and future ICE agents, the soldiers who execute people in the Caribbean, etc.

Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that. We need to protect our institutions open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Interesting new study shows what I would argue is one of the biggest changes of the last year: Over 70% of Germans say “What happens on the world stage has (rather) a major impact on my life and my everyday routine.” Study by @moreincommonde.bsky.social www.moreincommon.de/wp-content/u...

「不法移民」って、どの法律を、どの裁判判決により、だれが違反した。

#参政党　#神谷宗幣 へ www.instagram.com/reel/DQ1VC3h... "農林水産における投資は２０２３年に日本対海外直接投資額(FDI)＝3.47億ドル、海外対日本FDI＝0.22億ドル(16倍） 飲食タバコにおける投資は２０２３年に日本対海外直接投資額(FDI)＝90.62億ドル、海外対日本FDI＝2.04億ドル(44倍）データはFAOSTATから 資本は日本からのほうが圧倒的多いです。" データ：https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FDI

Fifty years ago tomorrow, November 10, the Great Lakes’ most famous shipwreck claimed the lives of 29 men. SS #EdmundFitzgerald, a 729-foot freighter, sank in Lake Superior. Read about the tragedy: buff.ly/NYMctdR 📸 Greenmars/ Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Did religion ruin everything?

So that is why Bluesky is sterile.

I had the privilege of being in Leipzig that night and the next day. Here is to hope!

ネトフリやりすぎ！解約せよ！ #netflix #wbc news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/589...

This is old chestnut: measures to prevent child abuse, slavery, sexual abuse, false advertising, coercive control, privacy invasion, and financial and labour exploitation, and hold perpetrators to account “will impede on religious freedom”

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Politics restricted to the right hemisphere of the brain

How does a fringe, anti-vaccine party come to influence national politics? In this insightful article, Romeo Marcantuoni and Robert A. Fahey examine Sanseitō, a Japanese political party founded during the pandemic. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Japan #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #APJJF

Bolloré and Bonnassies is a right-wing attack on science. #antiscience

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

Complete bullshit! Note that he completely ignores evolution. Nothing in modern biology and medicine makes sense without it. For a brilliant overview of evolution and immunology as "sciences of selection, see archive.org/details/brig... .

I learned that a rabbit hole has no room for science.

旧統一教会をめぐる3つの裁判／日本と韓国での政界工作から見えるもの【10月31日(金) #報道1930】 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmgH...

Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw: - Improved life expectancy - Lower chance of incarceration - Lowers chance of poverty - Lived in better neighborhoods - Higher human capital SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.