Boy, what a time to have gutted our counterintelligence and counterterrorism establishments and re-tasked the vast majority of federal LEOs to chasing down roofers and hotel housekeepers in Bumfuck, Iowa.

The Drunk's Task Force Smith. People are dying because of ketamine, X, 7 Mountain theology, white nationalism, and narcissistic personality disorder and they didn't even have a plan for retaliatory strikes. "As for those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them, for by God they deserve it."

The only concern I have with a congressional candidate who wants to back Ukraine to the hilt, defend Taiwan, and impose costs on Israel for gross civilian harm is how much money I can donate to them. You fucking losers.

Look forward to reading this. We do need to have a conversation about what we want the world to look like; right now I think our oligarchs want to strip it for scrap and whatever comes after humans. But the rest of us should get a say. We don’t need billionaires.

When you have a global sex trafficking network, there is clearly a ton of money laundering going on. It's not conspiracy theorizing when you can follow the money and you find out the most outrageous ties to the most nefarious historical events. In this case, Iran/Contra.

Fantastic. Read it. open.substack.com/pub/celestem...

I like this guys style and I want to have his food.

Dropkick Murphys put on a great show! This was dedicated to the white house

If you hear "Warrior" or "Warfighter" tune your understanding accordingly. Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, Guardian, or Coast Guardsman is all the United States has ever needed. Anyone rusting those titles with aphorisms is telling you the country would be better if it were entirely lawless.

"Warrior" fits the same broad function. It took off after some tactical humiliations in the opening phase of the Iraq War, i.e., "ROTC Advanced Camp" in 2003 was "Operation Warrior Forge" by 2004. "Warrior Creed" recitals, etc. Nonsense. "Warrior" is a now a soldier without the need for the law.

Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters Epstein may not have fully understood crypto, but he helped shape its culture anyway. www.theverge.com/tech/885252/... Bypass archive.is/202602271311...

Millions of years of geological history written in stone, captured beautifully in this photo by Alexandre Lima on Pexels. The Grand Canyon's layered rock formations tell a story older than words, each stratum a chapter in Earth's ancient narrative.

Media consolidation is just as much a detriment to democracy as Citizens United is.

Love the FT, but the Trump Administration is not cultivating links with mere “conservatives” in UK and across Europe. “Tommy Robinson” is not a conservative in any sense, he’s purely from Oswald Mosley’s tradition. Call it what it is.

(Free) How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System and Why This Story is Important open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

THIS 👇🏼

Trump is doing all he can not to die in prison. He doesn't care who or what he leaves behind, just as long as the history books never get to read, "...and he died, broke and disgraced, in jail." Strangely, this also applies to Putin and Netanyahu.

Gosh then why is Drumpf's personal lawyers aka Department of Justice not releasing those names unredacted and then investigating them? Because your orange messiah is all over those files and the DoJ only punches down on sammich throwers, immigrants, and folks using their 1st Amendment rights...

when rape culture sets policy

oops

So a cover up.

Potential witnesses to Republican crime have shortened life expectancies. I'm sure it's just coincidence, never mind the convenience to Republicans.

Meanwhile, in the US, where every rich person seems to be involved we are letting them steal everything while the opposition has an existential crisis about how much fascism is OK before they lose their seat and access to these criminals.

The Pedo-House is White.

A Cory Doctorow post that begins with @greatdismal.bsky.social and ends with Bruce Sterling is always worth a read.

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Concise. Accurate.

www.forbes.com/sites/lindse... Worth reading

Brilliant sunshine in Central Park today as NYC emerges from the blizzard. The Northern Cardinals were poofed up and positively luminescent in the morning light! ☀️☀️☀️ #Cardinals #CentralPark #birding

if you aren't familiar with LifeTouch, the company took every school picture of mine from probably 2nd grade on

“There’s no way a guy who blew up apartment buildings and killed hundreds of his innocent countrymen to gain power could ever be even the slightest bit duplicitous”

Gift.

"Liberalism"? Dunno, but the U.S. *left* is weak b/c billionaire techbro fascists & Christian nationalist theocrats are kneeling on its neck. Thiel & his pals are themselves engineering the very problem they propose to solve with authoritarianism.

Yet another tale as old as time. Undermine the existing system you don't like because you do not profit from it enough or control it. Emphasize how terrible the old system is. Then break or disestablish the old existing system and replace it with a new system that you control and profit from. /1

What do FRENCH DRAINS have to do with the LINCOLN MEMORIAL? A "French drain" sounds very Continental & sophisticated, but it's actually named for this guy, Henry Flagg French. French served as US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 1876–1885. He wrote extensively on farm innovations...

..same as it ever was.. 🎶 youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8?...

The US military org reported to have fed Mexican forces intel for the Oseguera operation today, JIATF Counter Cartel, was only established last month, but at the same base and under the same Air Force 1-star as the existing JITF Southern Border. He has a background in ISR (mostly non-SOF).

Shelter in place order for the states of Jalisco, Tamaulipas, Guerrero, Nuevo Leon and parts of Michoacan. This after Nemesio Cervantes, aka El Mencho, head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), was killed by the Mexican military earlier today.

As a retired educator married to a still working educator, this trend has grown over the decades. It is disturbing, there is no safer place to learn about appropriate consequences than home and school. These lessons are important. Children should be handled with care but still need consequences.

Like, constantly the clownishly inept people appointed to senior cabinet positions solely for loyalty and notoriety will take initiative and move in a direction they think will make Senpai notice them and time and again it blows up in a media scandal and they have to hurriedly walk it back.

Gift.