🧵 Everybody knows “The boy who cried wolf”. Now, imagine for a moment that the wolf is a particularly clever one, and that deliberately triggers the boy but without actually attacking or leaving evidence. The effect would be the same: no one would believe the boy anymore. 1/2

BREAKING: Donald Trump has nominated yet another one of his personal lawyers to oversee the prosecution of a personal enemy. How are there not 1,000+ major-media reports on how Trump has made the most powerful law enforcement agents in America *people he is in an attorney-client relationship with*.

Still looks better than Rome without strikes.

Draft-dodging president tells US servicemen and women who recently risked their lives to conduct a combat operation: "Better you than me, that's all I can say."

RU has plenty of nukes but it's unlikely that they'll be used. On the other hand, it needs support in its war effort in Ukraine. Enter Iran and North Korea. I wouldn't be surprised if a few nukes weren't in Russia anymore. Deterrence still works if no one knows they're gone.

Confidence is extremely important in leadership and careers, especially political ones. Unfortunately, confidence is often more based on lack of awareness rather than skills (see Dunning-Kruger). This results in a lot mediocre, overconfident people raising to power.

IMPORTANT: Stop calling the troops in LA National Guard Troops. They are not. When Trump activated them against the wishes of the Gov they became FEDERAL troops… like the 82nd airborne with no Law enforcement power! Don’t let them confuse you!

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house." The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.

ICE is gearing up to deploy to these blue cities: Chicago, NYC, the DC area, Seattle, and Philly. If any of these are your hometowns—get ready. If not—watch anyway, all the way through, because Trump’s unhinged order will affect you. Spread the word.

There is also a far more sinister reason, which is to test his power and the loyalty of the military in being used against American people. Expect more tests, pushing the limit further and further into a full dictatorship.

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

The same dynamics we saw Andor’s Ghorman arc are happening in California. Trump needlessly involved the National Guard, escalating things and hoping for clashes that he’ll use to justify invoking the Insurrection Act or martial law. He’ll make the clashes happen.

Abandon attempt to out-Reform Nigel Farage, thereby losing votes to the left; focus on protecting people in uncertain times, not from "the boats", but poverty, illness, lack of services, low quality education, climate breakdown.. Simple lesson for UK Labour from these elections.

Ma i putiniani pacifinti continuano a difendere il Criminale di Guerra Il corpo della giornalista ucraina Roshchyn restituito dai russi: senza organi e con evidenti segni di torture 27 anni, era stata catturata dalla Russia mentre lavorava nei territori occupati nell'agosto 2023.

Amazon, a company that resists transparency over its own algorithms, knows transparency is a political act that puts information power in the hands of citizens and consumers. So it's interesting to see this decision....

Michigan police, at the direction of Dana Nessel, are breaking down doors of students' homes because someone spray-painted "Free Palestine" on a building. Literally smashing in doors and windows. Not a single person was arrested for or charged in these raids. But terrorizing them was the point.

🧵 Oggi celebriamo la liberazione dalla dittatura fascista, ma l'hummus culturale che ha generato il fascismo è ancora vivo, e non appartiene solo agli eredi della RSI. Siamo sempre un popolo pronto a cambiare casacca quando fa comodo, cosplayer della democrazia. 1/3

The Trump layoffs have started, deep in Trump country. Volvo is laying off workers in counties that Trump won by double digits. And his tariffs are a key cause. On the pod, @byheatherlong.bsky.social is so interesting on the rising likelihood of a recession. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1942...

BREAKING: Apple and Meta fined millions by EU over competition law news.sky.com/story/apple-...

#Russia officials: “Big deal” includes 150-story skyscraper, w #Trump attending groundbreaking ceremony in #Moscow Rosneft, Rosatom, and Polyus Gold – all sanctioned by US – and aluminum giant Rusal involved Trump has pursued Tower for decades, including bringing Miss Universe pageant to Moscow

Dazi: il video in cui Trump evoca i guadagni degli amici miliardari. I dem: insider trading Il filmato di 13 secondi girato nello Studio Ovale nel giorno in cui il tycoon ha prima invitato ad acquistare azioni e poi annunciato la tregua sui dazi, innescando la volata di Wall Street

If your job is to create policies aimed at human wellbeing, ask yourself: are you basing them solely on the needs of neurotypical people, or are you including neurodivergent individuals too? What feels like heaven for neurotypicals can be hell for neurodivergent individuals.

Who's getting rich off this engineered volatility?

So, can we agree that 9th of April is now "Insider Trading Day"? #Tariffs #Trump

10% is still higher tariffs than the US had before in most cases. Is this just a shock strategy to have everyone be thankful for higher tariffs, as long as they're lower than the bonkers one we had for a week?

I guess this might give RB a better reference for Tsunoda's performance than Max. www.formula1.com/en/latest/ar...

this is just a level of sickness that i don’t think any society can come back from

Even Kenshiro fought against Z!

Oh hell no. Microsoft put their fucking chatbot in notepad. NOTEPAD. The whole point of notepad is that it does nothing. I want to take a bat to this thing.

With the national congress of the League starting today, Italy continues to showcase the competition between different radical right parties that we are also seeing across Europe.

⚡️UPDATE: One killed, 3 injured in Kyiv amid massive Russian missile attack. An overnight Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv killed one person and wounded three people, local authorities reported on April 6. kyivindependent.com/explosions-h...

Just saw my book, “White Too Long” was purged from the US Naval Academy library. Listed along w/ 380 other books from @antheabutler.bsky.social , @michaelericdyson.bsky.social , @revjimwallis.bsky.social , Bryan Massingale, and others. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#Sainz. He seems lost. What’s going on with Carlos? #JapaneseGP #f1 #Williams

Yuki #Tsunoda, despite having just switched car and w/o pre-season tests or previous races, already performed better than Lawson on that 2nd RB seat. He had a solid drive, compromised by yesterday’s Q2. Just needs more confidence with the car to find its limit. #JapaneseGP #F1

From an entertainment point of view, papaya rules suck. They neuter the drivers’fighting spirit. Having to ask permission to compete is just wrong. It’d be ok only if the Driver Championship didn’t exist, but it does. #f1 #JapaneseGP #McLaren

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With Max Verstappen having issues of his own to overcome, Yuki Tsunoda holding his own AND contributing to Red Bull's #JapaneseGP prep is a great sign that his presence may lead to the end of their second seat curse. Here's why! #F1 #Formula1 #FormulaOne youtu.be/N08hVtO0TCU

Two Republican judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals just effectively overturned Justice Allison Riggs' victory over Jefferson Griffin by retroactively nullifying thousands of lawful votes. A massive and outrageous blow to democracy.

I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?

Today, at the Justice Department's urging, a judge dismissed a serious corruption case against the Mayor of New York. Not because there was any lack of evidence. Not because of any misconduct by the prosecutors…

Please don't fall for this. Elon Musk is currently bankrolling the entire Republican Party at a level no political party in US history has ever experienced. The idea that he's not going to have exactly the level of control over policy that he wants is frankly absurd and patronizing. This is optics.

Elon’s Downfall

Timothy Snyder: “The American imperialism directed towards Denmark and Canada is not just morally wrong. It is strategically disastrous.” [theguardian.com]

Tag, you’re it!

Elon Musk is reaching new levels of unhinged.