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The U.S. and Russia were discussing major agreements on oil-and-gas exploration and Arctic transportation, [Putin’s slush fund manager Kirill] Dmitriev told the Journal. “If a solution is found in Ukraine, U.S. economic cooperation can be a foundation for our relationship going forward.”

It has taken this country almost 250 years to be $37 trillion in debt! One man alone responsible for 1/3 of 250 years worth of debt! At the same time making the majority of the country poorer, and him and his family raking in billions!

This is totally unfair. Witkoff and Kushner had extensive help from the Russian foreign ministry, and they are trying to hog all the credit. SMH.

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it

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This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.

Mark McCloskey, a lawyer who says he represents more than 450 Jan. 6 defendants, said he was frustrated that claims were rejected so far: “Despite the new administration, the DOJ has been very hostile to these claims.” He and his wife faced state charges for pointing guns at protesters in 2020.

Als Justizminister ordnete Mitchell Abhören ohne Gerichtsbeschluss an. Gleichzeitig leitete er das Komitee zur Wiederwahl des Präsidenten und ordnete den Einbruch in das Watergate-Hotel an. Dafür u.a. wurde er 1975 zu mehreren Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt, wovon er allerdings nur 19 Monate verbüßte.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

A good place to note that the ADL has scrubbed their website to remove Orban's antisemitism

We haven't stated that our goal is for Ukraine to win and Russia to lose. We should be crushing Russia's imperial ambitions and ending a three centuries long period of darkness. We should be talking about denazifying, demilitarizing, and decolonizing Russia.

First winner to receive the award from FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Friday, 5 December 2025, on the occasion of the Final Draw for the FIFA World Cup 26™ in Washington DC.

You’re telling me we’re allowed to intercept them, go on board and verify the cargo being transported without killing the whole crew and destroying the evidence? 🤨

Chris Wray didn't have a girlfriend half his age who sang at pretend wrestling events. If he did Kash woukd have been cool with it. Also, if an FBI Agent drives their work car more than one mile out of the direct line to or from work they get an automatic 30 day suspension. Automatic.

"In addition to the upgrades of landing and take-off capabilities at Roosevelt Roads [naval base in Puerto Rico], the U.S. is building out facilities at civilian airports [Rafael Hernandez] in Puerto Rico and [Henry E. Rohlsen] St Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands."

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Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

Freedom of speech, everyone:

#Russland Botschafter durfte auf Einladung der Wagenknecht-Partei im #Landtag #Brandenburg auftreten, trotz Ukraine-Krieg. Eine Frau protestierte. Mein Text zu dem Termin im #Tagesspiegel

Friedrich Merz: “Eine Wurst ist nicht vegan” Konrad Adenauer: ⬇️

Diminishing returns: If LLM developers “release a model that cost 10x more, likely using 20x more compute than the previous one, and it's not much better than what's out there, then we've hit a wall." www.morningstar.com/news/marketw...

Zwei Jahre Angst, Schmerz und Sehnsucht. Zwei Jahre, in denen Familien auf ein Lebenszeichen hofften. Diesmal darf die Hoffnung nicht scheitern. Dieser Krieg muss enden. Für die Geiseln, für die Familien, für die Menschlichkeit und für die Zivilgesellschaft im ganzen Gaza Streifen. #BringThemHomeNow

“… the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority …”

“About one third of GE Vernova’s turbine reservations are tied directly or indirectly to AI and hyperscalers. US power demand is slated to grow 25% by 2030, a reversal of relatively flat consumption since 2010”

Do you (Swedes) remember when Ulf Kristersson said the same thing and got a LOT of flack for it? It was not that long ago... "Sverige är inte i krig. Men det råder inte heller fred."

I was struggling to understand this article’s presentation of the problem, so I asked AI for help: copilot.microsoft.com/shares/HqNFX...

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews. Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

DHS posts an antisemitic meme about keeping "globalists" out of the US. One of the internet's most influential white nationalists, the British white supremacist known as "Raw Egg Nationalist," responds with a groyper meme. The DHS account RESPONDS, calling him "Patriot."

Absolutely been said before but if you’ve got an AI agent that is 57% accurate you have an AI agent that is 0% accurate

we have built an incredible bullshit machine.

“…the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son—they would all go Nazi …nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion… Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t…

And while these messages are blatant violations of the Hatch Act, the administration sent out a Hatch Act policy to all federal employees this week to remind them that THEY must follow Hatch Act on Social media. END/

Some years ago I wrote a piece where I talked about performing the role of the model homeschool girl in certain settings growing up, so yeah, I think I can very say that yeah, it's all drag. And, whether they admit it to themselves or not, it's why they feel so threatened by the joyous form of drag.

“At the center of Vought’s ideology is the unitary executive theory, which critics say amounts to an argument that Trump should have wide latitude to do whatever he wants.”

“Die Staatsanwaltschaft in Brest erklärte, die Besatzung habe die Zusammenarbeit verweigert und die Nationalität des Schiffes nicht begründet…Der Tanker ist unter den Namen "Pushpa" und "Boracay" bekannt…Er steht auf einer Liste von Schiffen, die von den EU-Sanktionen gegen Russland betroffen sind”:

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Dass neue Ukraine-Flüchtlinge künftig kein Bürgergeld mehr bekommen sollen, sondern wie Asylbewerber behandelt werden, spart voraussichtlichtlich gar kein Geld. Gleichzeitig verschlechtert es die Chance auf Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt. Das schreibt der Bundesrechnungshof in einem neuen Bericht:

Defend one guy doing Nazi salutes, and one president pardoning the "Camp Auschwitz" criminal, and one administration that places antisemites in influential government positions, and this is the thanks you get? I wonder if there's a lesson there.

I don't think the leopards have ever eaten faces quite so blatantly as this.

“Although all six reactors at ZNPP are in cold shutdown, the nuclear fuel and on-site spent fuel storage require continuous coolant circulation to prevent a meltdown. “The IAEA reported that the plant had a 20-day supply of diesel.

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Der Ex-EU-Abgeordnete Nathan Gill hat gestanden, dass er von Russland bestochen wurde - für Geld machte er im EU-Parlament prorussische Erklärungen. Gill war zeitweise Vorsitzender der extrem rechten "Reform" in Wales. Denkt daran, wenn Rechte nächstes Mal Russland unterstützen.

“Hegseth and his policy officials have signaled that the Pentagon will withdraw some forces from Europe and consolidate commands … Much of the internal criticism of the new strategy regards the document’s emphasis on threats to the U.S. homeland even as China continues a rapid military buildup”

habt ihr euch je gefragt, wie die deutschen in der nazizeit solchen offensichtlich dummen bullshit glauben konnten und es kaum gegenstimmen gab? sicher, angst war ein faktor, aber da ist noch etwas anderes und wir baden gerade unsere hände darin. gleichschaltung ist ein netzwerkeffekt.

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

“PeakMetrics estimates that [24% of those X posts] were likely to be posted by bots… that means 75% of those posts were from people. PeakMetrics notes that the earliest posts expressing dismay and frustration at Cracker Barrel’s decision to update its logo came from human-run accounts.”

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

In just two days the Trump administration has rhetorically expanded their bogeyman term from ‘antifa’ to ‘antifa-aligned.’ They are not hiding their goal of equating protest with terrorism.