The United States has NOT accepted the jurisdiction of the ICC. But there seem to be ways around this. Emphasis mine.

Between Epstein, Venezuela, and the oh-so-important Nuzzigate scandal, there's a lot of news that demands our attention. Thanks to the indefatigable @thcarter123.bsky.social for reminding us not to forget about Leonard Leo, the radical Catholic weirdo who helped create this mess.

I can't believe that John Roberts is in any way dissatisfied with this state of affairs. In his mind, upon his death, eternal life in paradisaical orgy is assured. (I have a somewhat dim view of eternal life.)

Of course he needs to go. I don't know what the odds are that this will happen, but I'll go out on a probabilistic limb and say this is not likely to happen before more damage is done.

POTUS DEUS. There is but one god, even though it's a one bit god.

Vyshhorod, Ukraine Lors d'une attaque sur la ville, un drone a touché le toit d'un immeuble et n'a pas explosé. Le drone endommagé, sa charge et 21 munitions à sous-munitions restaient sur le toit. Les éléments à sous-munitions sont équipés d'autodésamorceurs, ...⬇️

Good to work together, but… we, Europe, may need a plan for decoupling from America (to be resilient and build on our strenghts and interests). Interesting piece in @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3KtTXUG

Great reporting on the Tai Po fire.

Pour le moment, aucun voyage envisagé.

RFKjr: “I’ve been asking for 15 years for somebody to come up and debate me on this,” Debate? Are you F-ing nuts? The purpose of peer-reviewed science is to establish a playing field for competing ideas outside of an arena, where the loudest participant or the most skilled charlatan wins.

There's only so much of "Listening to the other side" I can take. At this point, what is the POINT? Scherer: Kennedy himself has done much to fuel the rising distrust. He views some of the world’s most celebrated scientific and political leaders as charlatans. "Has done much?" Gimme a break.

I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.

On Native American Heritage Day, California celebrates the strength, survivance, and leadership of the first people of this land. May today inspire us to embrace these values as we collectively face the challenges of our time.

BIG IF. Ukraine [even severed from the Donbas Crimea, if] it can maintain its sovereignty, consolidate its democratic institutions, be assured of entry into the EU, acquire the arms it needs to defend itself.. it has a chance My paraphrase. The logical structure of your paragraph seems unclear

Trump says there will be a ction on the ground shortly, according to this report in Folha de São Paulo.

IRL I'm a dull rock. Incredibly dull.

A product of Trump's addled brain? Maybe. But aside from the idea's origin, Marco Turbio is all in on it & may consider it as a selling point (if it works out in some way) to establish his bonafides w/ donors from a very conservative & wealthy segment of the Latin American exile community,

We are small, and as long as Trump and his allies are in power will get smaller. And if and when they leave it will take perhaps a decade or more before we gain anything resembling moral authority in fact authority of any kind, bullying conveys no authority.

These people are all going to prison. Find out where.

By his own admission, [Hegseth] was an adulterer with an alcohol problem. His tenure so far has featured a series of appalling security lapses and janky public performances that call into question not only his character but his emotional stability.

Whoa! And here I thought after reading the big letters in the headline that he was going to pull a David Brooks.

‼️🇺🇦 L’Ukraine a accepté le plan “de paix” américain !… … avec ses propres amendements. Autrement dit, l’Ukraine a accepté SA version du plan. Celui-ci a peu de chance d’être accepté par les Russes. Attention aux emballements médiatiques : nous sommes à la case départ.

NYT: There’s no such thing as the cartel. Cartel de los Soles is a pejorative Venezuelan term for corrupt figures in the armed forces coined over 30 years ago as journalistic shorthand. It’s as if Donald Trump classified the “deep state” as a criminal gang. He just might as he has done with Antifa.

1/ I've set up an account with OpenAI to use their API and made an Emacs interface that makes it easy to interact with it. So far I am NOT too impressed. It does some simple programming tasks well. It wrote a little story about Ruby Bridges that I included in my weekly letter to my granddaughters.

I'm sure Sean thinks this guy could have dressed a litlle better, (Painting by By Norman Rockwell - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain

I know nobody likes cranky old Jimmy, but he's got a point! "It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage." PS I don't like the term Latinx much either, although generally, I'm gung-ho woke

BREAKING: The indictment of Comey has been DISMISSED because Halligan was unlawfully appointed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I know nobody likes this cranky old guy, but he's got a point! James Carville: It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage.

Brazilian Supreme Court: Keep 'em in there!

Le Monde: Si la majorité des dirigeants européens ont manifesté leur choc à la lecture du plan initial en 28 points sur l’Ukraine, soutenu par les Etats-Unis,..une partie de l’extrême droite européenne a de nouveau joué une partition différente.

At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.

European friends: the US admin is not your friend. What can you do to defend your interests? Surely, unless all your intelligence services were asleep at their desks or watching dubbed reruns of bad US sitcoms or worse, you have serious dirt on our leaders. Use it. Leak it. Whisper it softly.

This isn’t a “peace plan.” It’s a blueprint for Ukraine’s capitulation. If implemented, it would turn this pro-Western, democratic nation, which has been courageously resisting Russian aggression since 2014, into a Kremlin colony. wapo.st/3XcRot6

"Bottes sur le terrain" face à l’éventualité d’une guerre avec la Russie

Trump diz que prisão de Bolsonaro 'é uma pena'

"But let’s get one thing straight. The men who comprise the USCCB knew about Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric a decade ago."

But there's a method to this madness and it's called (Catholic) Integralism.

Why am I the only one who believes that the Dishonorable John Roberts is the center from which all evils emanate?

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This picture is incredible. It's Trump preparing a charm offensive in case his world comes crashing down around him. It now seems possible it will, soon.

As @joshtpm.bsky.social observes, Trump seems genuinely happy, something we very rarely see. If he actually had a moment of lucidity, he would resign immediately, ask for forgiveness for his transgressions, call JD an a**hole à la @radiofreetom.bsky.social and surrender himself to a prison.

What's going on here is anybody's guess. My crazy guess, is that Trump has had a moment of lucidity, in which he's become aware that his empire is (or might) be coming crashing down on him & is suddenly using his "charm" to escape a catastrophe for him, especially if the Epstein files see the light.

As the French may soon realize, they and the rest of the Europeans may have to boots on the ground.

The origin of this violence against trans persons doesn't come from a perceived threat or learned racial or ethnic animus; I can only imagine that arises from a deep fear of something inside the attacker themself, that needs to be quashed to obliterate even the very possibility of its existence.

Article from 1945. Mussolini is my basic unit to measure fascism. Hitler is 10 M. Franco is slightly less 0.95 M since he was less inclined to carry out foreign adventures. I would put Trump himself at > 1 M. The US as a whole does not quite yet get far beyond 0.5 M (Stephen Colbert isn't in jail.)

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

Blow you away? That may not be the best figure of speech at the moment.

The President of the United States has called for the execution of members of congress. You know this. I want to repeat it anyway. In so doing, I can clearly parse the terms in it and assure myself that my horror at the meaning of the whole was justified. You should do the same IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

How did the news and information (& disinformation) system work at that time? A vague question, but listing more specific subquestions is part of the task of providing an answer. Maybe some of those subquestions may be impossible to answer; was there an equivalent of Fox news with similar reach?