Putin doesn't want to use nukes. If he did, he risks the destruction of his country. Putin, like the Soviet Union in history, uses nuclear weapons as bluster to threaten countries whose leaders and people believe the likelihood of Russia using nukes is higher than it is. Trump is scared. 1/3

If anyone else did the things Trump does, they would be shunned from politics and for good reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRs3...

There's a reason Finland saw Putin invade Ukraine, and then decided that they had to join NATO. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmb8...

"Soldiers hate two things: the way things are, and change." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bp_...

Mexican cartels are using drones to drop bombs on rival cartels and police, and to intimidate civilians. Criminal organizations in many countries are using drones and have gotten good at using them in advanced ways. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBjC...

On the international stage, the United States is acting like brash Huns, its president receiving gifts of gold as countries complement him and shower him in gifts in hopes of corruption as they beseech Trump to lift tariffs. 1/4

"The Trump administration announced..it would work to shutter the department by transferring critical responsibilities to other federal agencies. 1/2

"NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has agreed to remain atop the nation’s largest police department once mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani takes over in January. 1/2

"Attacks include: accusations that a notorious Russian military intelligence hacking group targeted defense, transport and tech firms involved in helping Ukraine; arson attacks on depots containing equipment destined for Ukraine in Poland; 1/5

The main cleavage is not really Boomers vs Gen Z. It's between those willing to stand up & speak out/take action to defend democracy & the rule of law, & those who aren't.

Other, more serious countries, etc. etc.

Donald Trump isn't wielding his antitrust authority to protect the American people — he's using it to reward his allies. He's instilling his own twisted version of Bork-era antitrust enforcement, which gave corporate monopolies outsized power at the expense of everyone else.

Like with rare earths, the US needs to consider alternative sources of the raw ingredients from China that go into drug production

'DOGE’s biggest “achievement” was shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development. And the dismantling of USAID has left a legacy of death. According to one recent study, closing the agency “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” '

After ousting the BLS director and scrapping the October jobs and inflation reports, Trump is now canceling release of the advance Q3 GDP estimate. Trump doesn't mind turning the lights off on the economy because he’d rather Americans not know how badly it’s doing under him.

Once again, if the were truly terrible & everyone was Suffering From Inflation™️ as much as claimed since 2023, we simply would not keep observing "record traveling" & "record shopping" & all the other record levels-of-things-in-the-economy metrics that we keep observing: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg

Crude oil is down 19.2% from last year. A gallon of retail gasoline? Down 2 cents. ⛽️

Average electricity cost increase since Jan: Missouri ⬆️ 37% Iowa ⬆️ 30% North Dakota ⬆️ 30% Oklahoma ⬆️ 30% New Jersey ⬆️ 27% Nebraska ⬆️ 25% Montana ⬆️ 25% Wyoming ⬆️ 23% NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11% Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.

Trump threatens to jail Democratic lawmakers for saying that troops should not follow illegal orders, even though that is true, military men and women shouldn't follow orders that are illegal. 1/2

We can't assume other people in history and in the current world think like us. Not everyone is a reasonable person who can be reached with diplomacy. Some people are ideologically psychopaths and are willing to kill many many people to get what they want. 1/2

The wisdom of the crowds and the efficient market hypothesis require an amount of independence of the people in the crowd. With the internet and social media, people are much more connected and therefore much less independent. 1/2

Popular podcaster Tim Pool often doesn't know what he's talking about, yet he talks confidently and angrily. Some of it doesn't even seem honest--I'm not sure if he's convinced himself of bad arguments or if he argues dishonestly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChVW...

In secret talks, the Trump administration has been talking with Russia about Ukrainian capitulation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMZq...

"Asked..about Khashoggi’s murder..Trump defended the crown prince — who minutes earlier had pledged to increase his past commitment of $600 billion in investments in the U.S. to $1 trillion. 1/5

"In addition to easing weapons transfers, the agreement will open Saudi Arabia as a location to store U.S. weapons, and make the country eligible to bid on Pentagon maintenance and repair contracts and purchase depleted uranium ammunition." 1/2

"Why Trump Couldn’t Stop the Electric Vehicle Dream" www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The reason the two-state solution always fails is because Palestinians don't want to live next to an Israeli state. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFIO...

The Muslims defeating China led to Islam being prominent in Central Asia and to paper technology leaving China and changing the world due to captured paper makers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPeg...

Russia intervenes in Africa not just for control over resources, but to compete against the West for influence. Russia can avoid sanctions and global condemnation by having African countries vote with them. 1/2

"On some days, as many as 20 drones might fly across the Egyptian border into Israel from different points...As long as a certain percentage of the cargo gets through, the smugglers can make millions. 1/3

Trump's Saudi Arabia deal may be a lie. Multiple countries have promised to invest big money in the U.S. in deals with Trump, and many have not materialized. Is this a real deal, or a misleading press release? www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-G...

Economists have simplified models that are very simple compared to the complexity of the real world. This means a model will inevitably leave out parts of the economic world. 1/2

As the U.S. backs away from clean energy and limiting global warming on the president's false belief that climate change is a hoax, China is stepping in as a leader globally, leading on the issue and selling its technologies and products to countries around the world. 1/3

"While the most common uses of "magic mushrooms" might strike politicians or regulators as frivolous, that judgment is not enough to justify treating those personal choices as crimes." 1/2

"Less than two days after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to restrict immigration agents from using riot control weapons, including chemical irritants, a Chicago-area couple and their 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed during their Saturday morning grocery run. 1/6

"Both countries have been happy to cooperate with Washington against drug trafficking, but think that the decision to kill the suspected smugglers at sea is a step too far." 1/2

It is not normal for the justice department or the FBI to release the internal files of an investigation. Such files have lots of speculations and falsehoods in them, and releasing them can falsely destroy people's reputations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1i5...

A small Republican rebellion helped get Congress to pass the order for Trump to release the Epstein files. Trump tried to stop the order, and once it was clear Trump was going to lose, he said he now supports it, and 1/2

"In 2019, Epstein wrote to journalist Michael Wolff that Trump "asked me to resign," apparently from Trump's club, Mar-a-Lago. "[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop," Epstein added. 1/7

"The First Amendment protects filming the police, but Berenice Garcia-Hernandez says she was dragged out of her car and detained for nearly seven hours for snapping photos of ICE agents." reason.com/2025/11/12/o...

"A federal judge in Chicago ordered roughly 600 people to be released from immigration detention...The individuals, the judge found, had been arrested in violation of a 2022 consent decree designed to ensure immigration agents have probable cause before making warrantless arrests." 1/2

MAGA Mike PANICS as Trump SCREWS HIM OVER www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmQY...

In places where wealthy people want to be and are not just there for tax advantages, higher taxes often don't make many wealthy people leave. Keeping high-skilled professionals is more important to a city than keeping super wealthy people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXZ...

In Hitler's Germany, many Christians sought out Hitler and offered their support as Christians. Other Christians stood by while Hitler took over and did and said nothing, sometimes making excuses for Hitler. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLd3...

Trump is sliding the U.S. into autocracy with his repeated abuses of power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5GS...

Russia is slowly encircling Pokrovsk, but at a great cost in casualties. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPZ...

The real problem isn't deficits, It's Neoliberalism“ Top Economist warns www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ2p...

"Without the ability to recover the costs of legally mandated repairs, the unit currently sits empty." 1/2

"Cigarette Taxes Are Costing States Billions in Lost Revenue" reason.com/2025/11/14/c...