Gotta say, my job would be so much easier if there were some "Central Organising Minnesota Moms ICE Extinguishers (COMMIE)" group paying and directing protesters everywhere. Because they'd probably have a press officer able to tell me what is up. All this organic stuff is very hard to report on

As seen on r/nursing Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him

Welp.

The thing about Trump is, that he stumbled into fascism because it fulfills his psychological needs, but there is no even semi-coherent ideology at the center-just vibes. So there is no unity of purpose and no ruthless pursuit of clear goals, just chaotic and increasingly deadly mess.

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Without the US reconnaissance and communication infrastructure in space (not to mention specialized munitions and aircraft), gaining air superiority against Russia by the rest of the NATO would be extremely hard, if not impossible. And without it defending Baltics becomes next to impossible too.

Ok, looks like Neom will outlive Noem after all

commiserations to non-Dutch speakers, who will never know what this is about

Genuinely the funniest possible panel line-up of all time and it's for a real estate conference in Riyadh

crazy etymology

A really good use case for an AI chatbot.

In other words…

Always suspected this type influence in the forex.

‘The play we need now’ — how images of Auschwitz staff at leisure became Here There Are Blueberries—theatre writer and director Moisés Kaufman, “This is the play we need now, especially in America.” www.ft.com/content/5caf... @sarahhemm.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

Founder of r/SexWithNazis being like “guys I’m beginning to think that this sub might not be the wholesome sex-positive environment I envisioned” is incredible content

Stalinism is the new congestion charging.

I'm not going to post screenshots for obvious reasons but I have been alerted that a bunch of the top posts in r/MassiveCock are anti-ICE now and anyone who defends ICE in comments is getting yelled down lol

It’s heartwarming that there are people in the press still committed to maintaining journalistic standards and defending anonymity of the victims, even when they are animals.

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

🤯 Russia is so short on planes it’s putting civilians on cargo aircraft. Ukraine’s CCD says passengers in the Irkutsk region were switched from a scheduled An-24 to a cargo An-26 without warning, highlighting the deepening crisis in Russia’s civil aviation. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

jules they can't do this in one city and does it look like they are effectively suppressing dissent

One of the theologians I read a lot recently did a long essay on how doing a big Bonhoffer project helped him realize that MAGA evangelicals have kind of already gone through the process that made the German people see potential mass murder as sanctifying! Once you see it, it's hard to unsee

I wonder which one will last longer.

Heh-Ed „Chaos” Miliband, like general Mattis.

OTD in 1935 Hitler assured Poland he would not invade them. A few years later he said Germans were being oppressed & killed so he attacked, carried out genocide and spent the last years of his life in bunker detached from reality. Imagine all that happening today.

youtu.be/GB7FFmCpmBE?... @sharonk.bsky.social the entire "We Love Cold War" universe is gloriously nuts

The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported. economist.com/united-state...

Another way to think of ICE right now is as the institutionalization of the Kyle Rittenhouse model of vigilantism under the state's authority. Escalation and aggressive violence is clearly intentional. But it's also cooked into the sociological model of how this force has been mobilized. 🧵

Bad news keep coming for the British prime minister. Little farmer Starmer at least had some quiet dignity.

There needs to be bigger punishment than this, but it’s a start

The 2017 reforms et al was him proactively doing the consolidating power + dragging the PLA to be effective thing, this is reactive to discovering the PLA senior leadership didn't get the "okay for real time to be a real military and not a graft network" message

"Hey guys be ready to go by 2027 as a part of the whole world class military thing" "Hey guys vlad's military kinda pantsed itself, y'all are cool though right" "Okay the rocket force was apparently fucking around, which is bad, but everyone else is cool" "fffffffffff"

holy shit, Xi purged Zhang Youxia. that's pretty much a clean sweep of PLA senior leadership at this point.

Still one of my favourite tweets

From this zinger of a paragraph

Bishop’s bedroom indeed.

"in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses." Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.

honestly JFK is proof we don't live in a comic book universe because this would have absolutely given him strange powers

The former commander of Poland's GROM special forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has condemned Donald Trump for questioning the contribution of America's allies "This is the cynicism of a coward who hasn’t been on the front lines himself," said General Roman Polko.

Footage of French forces conducting a helicopter assault to seize the Russian dark fleet oil tanker Grinch in the Mediterranean yesterday morning.

Clinton!

There is a live action adaptation of Cat’s Eye manga and it’s currently the most expensive French tv series. How I missed this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s...

notable how many of the Brexit guys are now *desperate* for Britain to be openly subordinate to a despotic foreign capital

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Agree on this however. I am all for short books.

Heh-rosyjski Batyr.