Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Taking a measure on tragedy is cruelty

The view from Venezuela. A good read.

Nother reason to hate all these cretins who decide that UAE and Dubai are good holiday destination.

I won't be posting the videos because they are gut wrenching. Yes. The RSF besieged a town in the region where the black minority lives, and now that the town has falled they are mass murdering all black people they can find.

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

Orwell hated the theatre of moral absolutes that let people excuse cruelty as duty. “They are only doing their duty” was his warning about bureaucratised violence of the kind being carried about by ICE in the USA and often cheered on by Musk.

My granddad's cousin went to Spain in early '37 to fight the fascists and kept a diary of his experience. One entry read that he'd been shown how to clean his rifle by another, more experienced, Englishman by the name of Eric Blair. So yeah, I think we all know what Orwell would think.

If there was any meaning to this obsolete undemocratic and generally terrible concept of monarchy, it would be the king stepping up now and saying that all Nazis should jump of the Dover cliffs and then human rights respecting liberal democracy is the only way forward.

Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas 0/n 🧵

Interesting priorities... Israel has impressive military, but also a joke of of "justice" and "law enforcement" systems, let alone the tragedy that is human rights there. I used to support Israel, but now it is just another (very well armed) MENA shithole.

"If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai. But know that you will not be blameless for doing so. Every Instagram post, every TikTok video, every gloating WhatsApp message sent from its luxury is an abomination."

Political religion is the source of the largest threat to liberal democracy.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

In total 15 died, they claimed on methane, well more likely they were hit by own chloride gases they use frequently but who knows, in any case better to leave Kurdistan

Gen alpha so cooked they’re gonna need an LLM to write their mass shooter manifestos

East Germany is in its current desolate state for two reasons: they elected Nazis who lost the war, and then they ended up in Russia's sphere of influence and Moscow made it into underdeveloped hole without future. So one would expect people to endorse whomever else than pro-russian Nazis.

The Khamenei regime's willingness to support Assad and Hezbollah in the mass murder of 100 000s of Syrians to preserving an "Axis of Resistance" against Israel proved not just a crime against humanity but also a complete strategic failure even in terms of cynical Realpolitik

and the answer is, of course, that it's the blood and the tyranny that they're really excited about, not the prospect of helping others or making a better world.

Dictatorship and theocracy where only certain people of male gender can vote has it's new head 🥰

Sailors on USS Bunker Hill celebrate Victory in World War II Day by lighting a large bonfire on its deck, May 1945

One of the biggest victories of the right is that they've managed to nearly completely substitute one's relationship to capital with masculinity as the determinant of class in popular discourse. Many deem a self-employed electrician to be more working-class than a minimum wage Starbucks employee!

Asi starnem, celý deň som sa udržal nenapísať nič o pápežovi, minule ⬇️ sa mi to nepodarilo. Tak aspoň tak zoširšia: myslím že demokrati by sa nemali upínať k hlave absolutistickej monarchie, ktorá s demokraciou a jej hodnotami nemá nič spoločné.

They're not fascists, they just think we're in a state of exception due to the pollution of the polity and citizen body by undesirable racial elements whose removal is of such paramount importance that it transcends the dictates of the law, justified by their embodiment of the Will of the People.

Foraging? Might come handy in Trumpian economy...

Tapping the sign.

🔥 GUR Drones of special unit “Prymarу” skillfully dodge enemy air defence missiles and hit landing boats 02510 BK-16 and “Raptor” in Crimea. 💥 Later, they strike “TOR-M2”.

We did it together thanks really for raise your voice up 💚

in slightly-early honour of St Patricks Day, I will once again remind the world of the time Amazon united Ireland (and apologized for the Troubles), still one of my favourite moments on twitter

>Person who wanted to kill Assad in 2011 and spare the world the dual shock of the refugee wave and ISIS rampage that imploded our politics in the 2010's >Was right Those with prescience and the Sight spoke even 14 years ago when people laughed at Obama's joke. Alas the blind could not see

When Budanov's raiders or DGSE barbouzes make something go boom in ways that ignore US preferences you can gurantee that the Vances or McGurks of this world will say "OK we wanted Europeans to do more for their defence, but not like this!"

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

trump: I’m going to protect women women: no thank you trump: I’m gonna do it women: please don’t trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team women: what trump: and brought back andrew tate women: why trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore

they call it DOGE but all I see is MICE

In every European country streets would be full of protesters by now, general strikes, riots... What the fuck is going on with Americans...

In 1998 brilliant Mike Davis wrote ‘The Case for Letting Malibu Burn’. 30 years later the wealthiest aren’t necessarily any safer from climate disaster, they’re just richer. I predict more events like the King & Queen of Spain getting shit thrown at them in Valencia. longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...

Count me among the people driven absolutely batty by this conversation. There's a large group of "kids" who learned press-button-get-treat from the delivery apps and now they think it's a human right lol

We also defeated #Russia from #Syria, don't forget that.

sitcom idea: with the Russian state increasingly financially strapped, Edward Snowden has a new set of roommates - the wacky Assad family.

And btw: Syrians have done more in 2 weeks to get rid of symbols of fascism than Italy has since WWII. Mussolini’s body is still in a literal mausoleum in Predappio with a bust of his head and fascist symbols around it. Same for Spain’s Franco in Sierra de Guadarrama until… 2019.

Let's be clear here: now that Assad is gone, this is literally just an attack on the assets of a sovereign nation in the process of transition into democracy. This is no different than if America suddenly bombed Lithuanian airfields in late 1991.

Now that Assad is in Moscow, someone should pitch Mr. Jolani on deploying an expeditionary HTS force to Ukraine to finish the job. I already know the exact highway they can drive down towards Moscow.

The 'Syria litmus test' - it never fails!

Regardless of your shitty geopolitical analysis. Regardless of legitimate fears for the future. If you can't celebrate the collapse of one of the most brutal police states in history & liberation of prisoners from torture dungeons, then there is something wrong with your politics & humanity.

The key distinction here is that unlike Zelenskyy, Assad was never faced with a foreign enemy, it was always us he was fighting, his own people. And after 14 years of struggle when we finally came face to face with him, he's nowhere to be seen. Slava Ukraini, this is their day as well. (4/4)

I will fight for secularism in Syria.

“While the operation was initially spearheaded by hardline Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, the offensive has been characterized by a high degree of cooperation between secular opposition factions and HTS… under the singular banner of the Syrian revolution,” ETANA reports. etanasyria.org/north-west-o...