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Why Steve Witkoff is Selling Out Ukraine? Why did Witkoff write a recommendation for Russian mobster Anatoly Golubchik? He said his only tie to the "enforcer" for Russian Mafia was via an unnamed "mutual acquaintance." And who might that be? open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

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Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.* So many forget that last part.

It is a bit alarming, when rereading Machiavelli's The Prince, that it lands as reportage rather than political theory. However, I find great comfort in the fact that they are really effing it up.

- He stopped the policy of encouraging flu immunization in Louisiana - Delayed reporting on a pertussis outbreak that killed two children in Louisiana. -Promoted false information on covid vaccine harms. He is now number 2 at CDC. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

look, polyamory is extremely not for me but I have a ton of friends who it works great for, so obviously I disagree with him here but I always find it very funny when you get a bunch of outraged posts about the Pope being Catholic even if he’s pretty cool for a Pope he is, you know, the Pope

Such classic gaslighting it's an instructive moment. The question is not whether generic is better or worse, it's that a list with more expensive brand names is not the same as a list with cheaper generics. Perverting that truth into an attack on those calling it out is Manipulation 101.

Is the Trump admin using ICE to settle family disputes? This is fucked up.

Considering Eric Adams deliberately, as one of his last acts, left a huge $5 billion hole in the budget to screw over Mamdani, feel like Zohran's justified in purging all Adams staffer actually

Have any news outlets that ran scathing front page headlines, op-eds and editorials about Biden pardoning Hunter admitted that they were wrong after we've seen Trump maliciously prosecute Comey, James, McIver etc?

Average electricity cost increase since Jan: Missouri ⬆️ 37% Iowa ⬆️ 30% North Dakota ⬆️ 30% Oklahoma ⬆️ 30% New Jersey ⬆️ 27% Nebraska ⬆️ 25% Montana ⬆️ 25% Wyoming ⬆️ 23% NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11% Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.

It seems so fake I had to look for myself www.dhs.gov/leadership

Technocrat billionaires nuclear energy projects: 📍Seadrift, Texas X-energy/Amazon: Funding from Cathie Wood (ARK Invest - SpaceX, Palantir, Tesla) Valar Atomics: Funding from Anduril’s Palmer Lucky & Palantir’s CTO Shyam Sankar TerraPower: Bill Gates archive.is/WsB1T via Financial Times

🧵I started digging into Radiant Industries because MAGA organizers in Wyoming including Moms for Liberty, Liberty’s Place 4 U WY, and Natrona County Conservative Women were holding town halls with SoS Chuck Gray to fight a nuclear waste facility near Bar Nunn.

The technocrats acceleration has been met by fierce resistance by both sides of the aisle much like data centers.

Lutnik is back bullying the EU on behalf of the Technocrats. He said “The EU must loosen tech regulations if it wants the US to lower tariffs on its steel and aluminum” He also said Brussels should “solve” outstanding cases against Google, Microsoft and Amazon. archive.is/LzQGI

They absolutely kidnapped this woman so they could seize control of her son.

Let's first visit the excerpts. Adapted from a series of BBC radio talks he delivered during the last few years of the Second World War, CS Lewis's Mere Christianity (1952) touches on some big topics — the meaning of the universe, Christians beliefs, and what is considered proper Christian behavior

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

In saner times, Witkoff would never know freedom ever again.

Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.

I mean, that's just tech in a general sense

Oh please just fuck off

Michael Scott Screaming NO dot gif Via Lachlan Cartwright / Breaker

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year

New interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9y9...

West Point plaque: "Our code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law."

DOGE & Trump's billionaire agenda hollowed out & weakened our government agencies, stripping public services of the basic tools federal workers need to serve the public well. But we will keep fighting for a government that works for all people. #savepublicservices www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Had to make a 3D wine bottle for an assignment so I went ahead and made the grape juice from Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice

If you have a tendency towards conscientiousness and a tendency towards conscience, it is very easy to drink this sort of Kool Aid and think: If just work hard enough, just connect deeply enough, just speak convincingly enough... Change will come.

And sometimes it does, but sometimes it also doesn't. And if you put all that on yourself, you are laying the groundwork for the worst kind of saviorism. Which is likely not great for others but also definitely not great for you.

It feels REALLY BAD when you've been told you can save Tinkerbell if you just believe and clap loudly enough, and then she dies anyway. You will always wonder. Did I believe hard enough? Did I clap loudly enough?

The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

I also love how this theory is presented as perfectly normal, rather than as clear evidence of mental imbalance. It's like publishing a profile about me that reads, "Stephen Robinson isn't too worried about death because of his longheld theory that he's a Time Lord on his first incarnation."

If you ever find yourself accusing someone else of only pretending to be concerned about a child's *suicide*... you should probably have an "Are we the baddies?" moment

Got the screenshot, Ari Cohn of FIRE

Are would-be dictators always insane? They’re always insane, aren’t they?

Brett Ratner, Alan Dershowitz, and Benjamin Netanyahu together in one picture... iconic

If you are on BBC live, you know what to do (I don't even think this statement would be controversial among experts. He's openly monetizing the office and making literally billions of dollars!)

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

This was disgusting

I got pepper sprayed yay

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

Which is certainly true for THIS COUNTRY AS A WHOLE. But I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you were taught that your activism/organizing was going to prevent all this? Be gentle on yourself. We are not in hell just because you played hooky on a phone bank shift once back in 2014.

That sort of belief at any level is especially devastating in a country that seems hell-bent on going backwards into some of the worst of our history. It can feel like we just didn't push hard enough on the arc of history.