Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close. And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness. Musk is everything he hated.

Saying we need to focus more on economics and less on climate change is just saying you don't understand either.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Authoritarianism doesn't happen in a vacuum. It requires enablers. When a leader posts fantasies of monarchical rule, and his entire party looks the other way, they become complicit. The issue isn't just Trump's posts; it's the institutional decay of a party that refuses to be a check on his power.

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Also rotating Lincoln Memorial www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Explain me who your Christ is before telling who your antichrists are.

60 seconds on María Corina Machado and why her Nobel Peace Prize win really matters 👏👇 vm.tiktok.com/ZNdn3rHvb/

🌍 La privacy non è “nascondersi” È scegliere a chi dai i tuoi dati. Ecco il mio #PrivacyPack EU/CA, con alternative europee o canadesi ai soliti servizi a stelle e strisce. Ogni piccolo switch è un grande passo verso la sovranità digitale. 🧵 @sonoclaudio.ransomnews.online @garantepiracy.it

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

If I send money to a politician for favors, that’s a crime. If a politician sues me and I “settle” for billions, that’s not a crime.

The Ukrainian military—the toughest, most experienced, most adaptable, most successful on the modern battlefield—is beardy old men, women, artists, gamers who can’t deadlift sh*t but can fly a drone into a Russian helicopter rotor Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory

That seems fair to me, as soon as OpenAI fully releases the entire Sora as open source and grant perpetual free access and limitless use worldwide to its tools. Let's get rid of these outdated copyrights and intellectual property rights: You first!

It’s insane that the only thing Mark Zuckerberg has more of than bad idea is money.

If you look at the wholly evil people pushing AI (the same evil people responsible for social media, and largely, Trump) it’s apparent that AI isn’t a tool for the benefit of anyone other than to help billionaires consolidate their power and grip on information.

Recent experience shows that is nuclear impunity rather than deterrence. No country and no leader should be able to shield by nuclear threats.

HISTORY MADE TODAY! The global majority has joined the #NuclearBan Treaty! Today Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬 signed and Ghana🇬🇭 ratified the UN Treaty banning nuclear weapons, bringing us to bringing the total to 99 out of 197 eligible states.🎉

The full text of Merz oped on Russian assets is available here without FT subscription:

Kimmel: "He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now."

Truffatori, bugiardi e ignavi. Dall'attuale inquilino della Casa Bianca non mi aspettavo nulla di diverso: negazionismo totale, menzogne, arroganza e pochezza. Il solito repertorio che non dovrebbe sorprendere più nessuno. Il problema è un altro, anzi sono altri. 1/6

From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:

Trump making Gadaffi's UN speech look normal.

Sempre più spesso mi trovo inutilmente a sperare che certe notizie siano false.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

The thing about the first time the FBI catches you on camera receiving a $50,000 bribe is it's definitely not the first time you've received a $50,000 bribe.

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Struggling how an image of two friends together is malicious communication

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

People need to see this on a map to understand how wild the claim it is that the drugs were imminently on their way to the US, requiring the killing of everyone on board. The first boat was heading to Trinidad and Tobago and never made it within 1,500 miles of the continental United States!

Sadly, no gadget will provide sufficient empathic advantage to compensate the loss due to your cognitive advantage gadget.

In merito alla proposta d’abbattere droni e missili Russi, quando sono in volo sull’Ucraina ed agendo in coordinazione con loro, seguirei la policy standard Russa: - Abbatterli, senza alcun avviso, e poi negare, senza alcun ritegno.

Non sorprendiamoci se nei prossimi mesi continueremo a parlare di caldo anomalo ed eventi alluvionali. Siamo ufficialmente entrati in una fase ignota, perché se 2023 e 2024 potevano essere eccezioni, il 2025 suona come una conferma: siamo ad un tipping point.

Had Tyler Robinson shot up an elementary school instead and killed dozens of kids, Charlie Kirk, JD Vance and all their kind would have just shrugged and said that's just a way of life, price worthy paying for guns. How do we know? Because that's exactly what they did and said many times before.

its wild how slippery objective consensus reality is right now

This never would have happened if Trump was President.

Humanity needs breathable air, abundant water for drinking and irrigation, and affordable clean energy to reduce global warming. Humans do not need to widely adopt technologies, like LLM, that compete with them for the same resources, just to gain a small competitive advantage over… other humans.

If Russia is unable to control its drone’s its well due time for it to stop launching them, to quit fighting Ukraine and to retreat to its internationally recognised borders.

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘 CHICAGO!! Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below. Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ? 🧵

“Star Trek” premieres 59 years ago today. “It was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate — but take a special delight in — differences in ideas ..” - Gene Roddenberry #RIP @georgetakei.bsky.social

it's so funny that all these economic pieces are like 'could it be that silicon valley has made a bad bet?' and then the bet is that a text prediction software will achieve consciousness

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Perhaps renaming it 'Department for Nobel Prizes' would be helpful.

È orribile trovarsi a sperare che ogni individuo lungo la catena di comando della US Navy abbia agito senza provare soddisfazione nell’assassinare 11 persone in acque internazionali ed, al contempo, nello sperare che qualcuno si sia opposto dimostrando la necessaria rettitudine, venendo destituito.

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.