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Overlaying 36 talking heads reading the same MAGA talking point verbatim hits that point really well. No surprise why so many Trump / Project 2025 marks parrot the same line. It's very calculated to enforce the Party line, no doubt inspired by the Putin media sphere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i9j...

"I know some people … dealing with [dementia], but then imagine [they have] omnipotent power…& paranoid about anyone trying to control them and will attack anyone who contradicts them. It's…a worst case scenario…That the person holding the nuclear codes is incompetent, but nobody can rein him in."

🚨NEW: Stephen Colbert's opening tonight will forever be remembered as one of the most powerful moments of late-night comedy in modern history. This is a must-watch. Damn. 🔥

I legit want to see a journalist ask him about a picture of Tiffany Doe (witness to him raping 13 year old Katie Johnson) for this reason. It worked for E. Jean Carroll. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

To help revive what once was Philosophy Twitter, here's my hot take for today: Frege (symbolic formalism), Carnap (logical positivism), Sherrington (blackbox associationism), & Chomsky (grammar-centrism) are the four horsemen of the ontological apocalypse that we need to overcome.

We're at the stage of authoritarian consolidation where "about a year" is the new "two weeks". =L

I hated Kirk's hateful rhetoric, but at least 2 things I can agree with him on: 1. Release the Epstein files. 2. Re: Southpark -- “We have a good spirit about being made fun of. This is all a win. We as conservatives have thick skin, not thin skin, and you can make fun of us and it doesn’t matter.”

I wonder if they chatted about Trump and Epstein's rivalry over who could bed Princess Diana first. 🤢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSNH...

I couldn't help but notice at the root of the pressure, again, was ABC's upcoming merger deal that needed gov't approval. The msg here is that media conglomeration makes outlets vulnerable to censorship & kowtowing to power, including self-censorship when there's not even much official pressure. 1/2

This isn’t just! It’s unconstitutional! It’s hypocritical! It’s immoral! It’s illegal! It’s wrong! It’s unprecedented! They don’t care about any of those things. They laugh at handwringing. It’s about acquiring & wielding power. You can’t shame them, you have to defeat them.

What kind of joke is this? If it didn't actually happen, I'd say it's unreal.

For anyone that cares about these things, today is "Pythagorean Triple Square" Day: 4^2 + 3^2 = 5^2 or 16 + 9 = 25. 🤓

Trans-fishing, one of their favorite pastimes... 🎣

The 1st intuition I had about Kirk's death was accellerationism, & the indications TN may be a groyper supported the idea. The attached video gives the basic explanation of what it is put much better than I could have put it. If it were a value disagreement, I don't think CK is the one you'd pick.

This is the main impression I'm getting from the doom feed this week, with a lot of posting as if Kirk is the first victim of political violence since Trump's admin started, and about the other recent victim: "You cared so little that you don't even remember it." (I condemn all political violence.)

Epstein's scheme was to traffic girls just for himself, & he would sometimes parcel them out to special friends on the side. But the entire machine was always just for himself. I think the way to read Trump's actions is that he wanted to create the same kind of machinery to traffic girls to himself.

I knew there was more to the FBI informant claim & the Palm Beach property sale story for that matter, & Michael Wolff never disappoints. In Trump's head, he's the one that originally blew the whistle on Epstein & he wants people to know it. Not for the victims of course, but for the worst reasons.

The thing about this is he really does check girls' teeth. A Trump spokesman told us; “Donald meticulously inspects the teeth and tits of all children before groping or ‘dating’ them. He assures us that he makes sure ‘his’ women have a full set of adult teeth before ‘dating’ them. No milk teeth.”

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Accountability is important, otherwise impunity sets in and things just get worse & worse. I won't be cheering if he dies before seeing harsh punishment for his crimes.

"We are no longer in the muzzle velocity stage of this presidency where Donald Trump is trying things and seeing what sticks. We are in the authoritarian consolidation stage of this presidency." - Ezra Klein www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-0...

The constitution has a clause that forbids the president from using his position for personal profit, and he literally converted the White House into a personal business. 🤮

We had a steady group of ~65 people following our event today for the whole 2 hours as we summarized the work of the last Human Rights Council on issues like Gaza, Ukraine, Myanmar, violence against women, Fukushima, & and others. I'm encouraged to see so many people so interested in rights issues.

WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?

In light of the Epstein victims speaking out today, here's a little reminder (again from me) of the context in which Democrats aren't the ones obstructing the release of the files.

Everybody seems to find Virginia Giuffre credible now, even Trump admitted she was a victim. So I think it's only a matter of time until her direct predecessor Tiffany is believed, and she signed an affidavit (attached) that she witnessed Trump rape Katie. I hope she can come forward publicly.

It's only a matter of time until an innocent civilian vessel gets mistakenly shot down again: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Pe... When you don't have any real due process, it's almost inevitable.

大学進学以来、東京が唯一の故郷だなんて言うのは許されない。友人は私が日本に引っ越したのと同じ年にカナダに引っ越した。彼は今年カナダ国籍を取得する。私がそれを想像することは許されません。 でも、想像してよ東京。この歌はいろいろな意味で私とつながっている。実は私は戦争や人権問題に取り組んでいる。でも、一番大切なのは、君と歩くいつもの帰り道でのことだ。

This is not okay. This has not been okay from the start, but how much clearer does it need to be made when the leadership of the Vaccine Unit of your health department, actual medical professionals, resign en masse?

The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.

This week: The President said “a lot of people want a dictator.” His chief advisor called the Democratic Party “terrorists.” They sent military to occupy our cities under phony pretexts. Nobody declares “now it’s Fascism.” It’s here. In the White House & on the streets.

How is the President declaring “a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" not the headline of every newspaper in America? And don’t say, what are newspapers?

Not even Democrats want to protect Bill Clinton.

If you look at their timing as staff, Tiffany would have been the one to train Virginia when she came on & T was a witness in VG's defamation suit of course. If Virginia goes into detail about Tiffany in her book, people are going to look at Tiffany's affidavit against Trump with a new credibility:

Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.

The one thing most comparable to the scale of the famine in Gaza is the scale of the denial about it happening. Reports of it have been building all year, but Haaretz has just given one of the most powerful accounts yet. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This isn't even a joke. 😅

Still my favorite graph that I made for my Quantum Mechanics course.

Y'all often give Texas grief & my city Ft. Worth more than its fair share, not always unfairly, but note that the hero for our times State Rep. Nicole Collier also represents my city & is meeting this moment with courage & determination. Thank you for your service to us all, Representative! o7 💜

When this is over, not only will the official portraits be removed, but even elementary schools will cross out his picture on those laminated posters of presidents they keep on their walls. To begin with, I believe Katie Johnson & think if Virginia got credibility, so will her predecessor Tiffany.

Trolley Problem Apotheosis

Then the kicker was when Paramount paid Trump $16 million to settle the lawsuit over the "60 Minutes" Harris interview nothing burger w/the Skydance merger approval hanging over its head. Corruption hidden in its brazenness. As he says anybody else doing these things "would be convicted of a bribe."

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HRN has submitted a written statement to the Human Rights Council calling on Cambodia's government to cease arbitrary arrests of civil society, release those arbitrarily detained, rescind its denaturalization amendment, & end human trafficking and modern slavery practices. hrn.or.jp/eng/news/202...

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