Hey, remember when Assad decided not to pay his troops and got an all expenses paid vacation to Moscow? Good times.

The West has fallen but unironically. For some reason it's perfectly socially acceptable to live as a bug who's sole concern is personal well being: no principles, no ideals, no personal responsibility in upholding the current achievements of your nation and civil society, let alone advancing it.

Keep talking, Howard, keep talking.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

"The Old Wisdom" ~Jane Goodall

Release the Epstein Files before he nukes somebody 😶

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR. POPE

Oh no - he's on to us!

"You can only cry wolf if you can prove you've been eaten." -- NATO

86% of my sample has a serious hallucination problem. And yet it was only 77% bots?

Republicans are nervous. AI is a bubble. The economy is heading for a recession. Trump is starting to ignore the budget authority of Congress. What could go wrong?

The lastest from the Hermes platform is out 🪽 Riccardo Stigliano from @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social on “Laonikos Chalkokondyles: The Last Byzantine Historian and the Dawn of Ottoman Historiography” earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/10/01/l...

There is method to their narcissism though - the deeper the cuts, the more credibly big AI can present their tools as "the only alternative."

If you don't teach students how to have hos, they will never grow up to be like Charlie Brown.

'In every woman, there is a soldier’ – Yaryna Chornohuz, the brave poet fighting Russia Editor's Note: This story was originally published in The Kyiv Independent's first-ever print edition, titled "The Power Within." You can order a copy in our e-store . If there were four wo...

Twosiderism about waffles/pancakes will never bring us justice for hash browns.

Neoliberalism has taught that all change must be "creative destruction" -- now the fascists come to put a stop to creativity because they've been taught that culture is a zero-sum game. bsky.app/profile/shau...

Eh -- go ahead, get the Republicans to own it. Full steam ahead..

I think President Trump is brave to shut down the government instead of releasing the Epstein files

Indeed we used to imagine personhood in literal stone idols. How much easier in an LLM.

Russia's interference failed.

It was abundantly clear from the data available that “mass deportation” would never be about catching the “worst of the worst” criminals. I knew the stories to come would be terrible, but there’s really no way to emotionally prepare for the reality of it.

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

Dear NYT: "Some legal experts"?! This is the official position of the US Government taken in the Nuremberg trials, that every Naval JAG officer learns in basic training. There is no "alternate view." See In re Großadmiral Karl Dönitz, avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/juddoeni...

this was three days ago already and, surprise, they didn’t

🇲🇩 Results of the elections to the Parliament of Moldova

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

If we get to the other side of Trump, we'll need to do the same.

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"War ravaged" is plainly aspirational. Think of it like a campaign promise Trump will do his best to fulfill.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Expect any non-citizen (for now) in any position of power to be harassed and abused on pretext by the secret police.

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

Analysis: Russian disinformation sets the stage for Transnistria provocations ahead of Moldova's elections #Ukraine

This is what unity looks like.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Alas for the fond buyer of the vanities.

Beria update: "Show me the day, I'll show you the Reichstag Fire."

Given this is what the Russians think, there is no longer any downside to enforcing a no fly zone for Russian aircraft over crimea and the other occupied territories, including a sufficient buffer zone in Russia to insure the best possible conditions for Ukrainians defending their country.

I was arrested 14 days after the 2024 presidential election. I was a victim of IPV, but the police didn't believe me. When they were writing up the false charges against me--& these were really false, more than "victim mis-id," they laughed & said, "Bet she's proud of those Kamala Harris signs now."

🇪🇺 The EU will impose tariffs on Russian oil. 🇭🇺Hungary and 🇸🇰Slovakia will have to pay extra to buy oil from Russia — Rzeczpospolita

In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MAGA diagnosis: sounds right

Perhaps the idea (of Vance etc ... any who actually think in administration) is that the real economy will be AI. Everything else is just social window dressing.

revealed preference is that many US elites prefer crony capitalism and promises of a mechanical god to science and innovation

BREAKING: The Board of Immigration Appeals is trying to deport our client Mario Guevara, a journalist from El Salvador, despite his clear legal path to residency and an immigration judge's order to grant his release on bond.

Instead of rallying Europe to prepare for war with Russia, the European leaders are falsely claiming they "stood up" to blatant and repeat Russian aggression and territorial violations when in fact they did not retaliate whatsoever. This will end very badly.

It's not just Taiwan that counts on the US for defense ... even more so Japan.

Putin fears Ukraine's success would undermine his dismal failure. Let us all follow Ukraine's route and fight for our freedom and prosperity. Not Putin and Trump's path away from freedom and toward decline. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

The future repeats itself: the first time its fantasy the second time its farce.