happy anniversary of christopher columbus mistaking manatees for mermaids and complaining about how mid they were

REGIME CHANGE 🇺🇸

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter www.ft.com/content/ad94...

The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.

Be too funny if Maduro gets acquited

New analysis of China’s ‘Q-ship’ with containerised weapons -> www.hisutton.com/Chinese-Q-Sh... It’s not what many people think. * history of containerized weapons on merchant ships * the drone carrier angle * the implications for a potential war in Asia

kid accidentally sees a lady’s nipple? end of civilization chatbot gives kid step by step instructions on how to commit suicide? should have read the TOS, dummy

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

What X is allowing Grok to do is unlawful or regulatory-illegal in multiple jurisdictions, creates clear DSA violations, and continues despite regulator scrutiny. The images do not need to be pornographic, non-consensual sexualised or intimate depictions are enough.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Trump’s obsession with Canada and Greenland is probably just because of the Mercator projection

head of chiquita banana wanting to ask the forbidden question now that trump is overthrowing governments for oil companies

And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations

Down a rabbit hole on Q-ships and containerised weapon systems. Expect long read analysis on Covert Shores (www.hisutton.com) in next few days. History, what we are seeing, what it might mean for a near future war with Taiwan

In the long list of ignored warnings, this statement by Fiona Hill from 2019(!) deserves our attention (& shame). She explicitly describes Putin's 'Venezuela Swap' with Trump, for Ukraine. Putin's cries for his pall Maduro are as fake as Trump's care for the innocent people of Ukraine (& elsewhere).

“.. There is no evidence that anyone on the Trump team has thought about what will happen tomorrow, or next week, or next year .. “.. we’re not even 24 hours into this .. Decades later, we’re still dealing with the aftermath in Afghanistan and Iraq.” fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...

Anyone advocating regime change in Venezuela is implicitly advocating for a long, bloody, expensive commitment—whether they acknowledge it or not. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social:

Several people have asked me “how did you know to write this article right before the attack?” I’ll never tell (it was luck).

That didn’t take long. What, a few hours? @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Maduro should have bought more Trump Coin

This is mainly an imperialist cricle-jerk at the moment.

Trump just announces the US will be running Venezuela now, until the can do a "safe, proper, and judicious" transfer of power. Announcing an occupation before you've occupied a country is a new one.

You voted said driver in. Don't pretend you're just the passenger!

after all this, there is a non-zero chance that Maduro successfully lobbies/bribes Trump for a pardon

When historians discover that the Alaska summit was to negotiate a secret clause dividing the world into 3 spheres, this will all make sense.

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

After this, the EU should absolutely proceed on the assumption that Trump meant what he said about Greenland. Nothing is off the table anymore.

Also if anyone is interested in the history of the United States' attempts to topple leaders in South America and install more friendly dictators then you can - and I'm not joking here - download the files from the CIA website.

But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?

Good that Gen Z gets to experience what Iraq was like for older generations, but somehow dumber.

A US indictment doesn’t give you the right to invade another country, seize its leader, or decide who governs next. Criminal charges and non-recognition don’t erase head-of-state immunity, this is regime change dressed up as law enforcement.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

If he carries on like this it's going to make the FIFA Peace Prize look ridiculous

1/ A memorial to African-American soldiers who fought to liberate the Netherlands in World War II was removed to comply with Trump Administration anti-DEI policies, according to newly released records, contradicting later claims about the reasons for the removal. ⬇️

Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost

It is a common misconception, but Oliver Cromwell did not actually ban Die Hard from being a Christmas movie during the 1650s.

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. I wonder how long it will take for various US government agencies to recover from actions of this utter moron. www.globaltimes.cn/page/202512/...

Of great interest, Russian Navy KILO class submarine struck in Novorossiysk, seemingly by an underwater drone (!).

BREAKING: Da steht er jetzt! Walter Lübcke – vor der CDU-Parteizentrale. Er mahnt gegen den Kurs einer Annäherung zur AfD. – Lübcke wurde von einem AfD-Anhänger erschossen. Wer den Fall kennt, baut Brandmauern. Hilf der CDU und werde Teil der Gedenkstätte: cdu-denkmal.de

If Pete Hegseth was drunk when he ordered the second strike on the Venezuelan sailors, then he cannot be held accountable for their deaths.

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