LET'S GOOOOOOOO

Brutus was right

Just renamed it to Gulf of America 2. No longer Persian, problem solved.

A grim parallel between US escalating a trade war w/ China & realising that China has serious leverage in the form of rare earths & US launching a war vs Iran & realising Iran has serious leverage in the form of being able to blow up the world economy. Failure of statecraft.

Congratulations to President Trump for making the most powerful possible case for green energy and for the Chinese renewables and auto industries.

Just non-stop high intensity burning of US credibility for the stupidest of reasons.

I think it's going to be between Cyberpunk 2077 and Horizon Zero Dawn for me. Can we count expansions? Because Phantom Liberty puts Cyberpunk over the top if so!

Today is my birthday🎂 So, if you feel like giving me a small gift, sharing my VP would mean a lot🥰 Here are 4 that, I think, represent my work well. I started VP a year ago with Baldur's Gate 3. And only recently moved to other games. I don't know what else to say🫣 #virtualphotography

no endgame only startgame

In the midst of the most aggressive and alarming federal assault on the First Amendment since the Palmer raids, the Biden-era free speech warriors have focused their outrage on . . . the injustice of releasing the Epstein files.

As ever, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social researched and wrote for years about the networks of corruption and patronage that enabled elite crime and impunity, and we kept dismissing it.

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

Yoon sentenced to life (death preferable but we'll take it). Andrew arrested in the UK. A good start.

Worth watching the entire segment instead of just the clip, but it's notable that CBS demonstrably *lied* twice - 1st to Colbert & the show when they made clear they could not broadcast the interview, and then a 2nd time with the written statement claiming the opposite & that options were presented.

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

Twitter is full of Helots convinced they’re just temporarily embarrassed Spartiates.

A throughline for so much of the American political commentariat, from left to right, is the utter and total incomprehension that American actions have consequences.

The importance of having a good grounding in classical history is specifically so that you will be able to look at people like this and understand the ways in which they are completely full of shit

NEW: Easily one of the most important interviews I've done. This is bigger than the intel that led to Trump's first impeachment, and Tulsi Gabbard, Susie Wiles, & seemingly Trump himself are feverishly trying to cover it up. You can watch the interview here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-tulsi-...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Serious people abroad taking PET (Putin-Epstein-Trump) seriously. www.reuters.com/world/poland...

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard BLOCKED an NSA report of a call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump. I will sit down with the whistleblower lawyer TOMORROW at 12 PM PT on @meidastouch.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

We all know Tulsi is a foreign agent (almost certainly for Russia, but perhaps not exclusively). Good odds that she's not the only one. The DNI blocking a report like this is yet another 5 alarm national security scandal this regime seems to undertake almost weekly.

Looking forward to Spielberg's disturbing sequel to The Post, where the Post's billionaire owner in the 2020s repeatedly guts the paper to curry favor with a fascist White House. Working title *Dies in Darkness*.

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

There’s literally a straight line between Trump, Epstein, and the retaliatory lawsuits against women who came forward with allegations against celebrity men like Amber Heard and Blake Lively. They all even have the same PR folks. And yet people still refuse to see it

Jesus Christ. The "pivot" lasted about 15 minutes. Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling.

ICE’s tactics have been terrifying and tragic, but Minneapolis is responding in incredible ways. Residents are organizing, feeding and housing their neighbors, and putting real social infrastructure in place. What’s taking shape isn’t just a reaction, it’s a blueprint for resistance.

I certainly would not have been able to write my story about all the bravery I witnessed in Minneapolis without the access I was given! bsky.app/profile/whst...

Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.

Absolute indictment of our media that there isn't round the clock brow beat coverage of this insanity. They are absolutely capable of doing it but refuse to do so.

Yeah if Trump were just normal corrupt the Garland approach would’ve been fine but he is and was an active existential threat to the Republic and humanity itself so it was very much not fine at all

the one excuse/scenario here I think we need to permanently dispense with is the 'Trump's people rise up and overthrow the government' one, because we have now seen in both South Korea and Brasil that you can break these populist right wing cults if you nove decisively enough.

A year after the Trump admin. began dismantling USAID, the human costs have been staggering and devastating. "While we cannot recover the lives lost, we are not powerless to change our path forward." @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social

Whiny little shits. These boys want to play at being "Real Men" so bad, but we can't make them something they're not.

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

I can't overstate my excitement for Life is Strange: Reunion! I *loved* Double Exposure, ranks just behind the original for me, so I'm thrilled we are getting the follow up so soon. So happy to be going back to Caledon. The Chloe return in the truck headlights was perfection!

cyberpunk 2077 is legit one of the best games of the decade and if you disagree you’re not a real gamer you’re just a reddit browser who doesn’t actually play video games

this is what i mean about the new liberal internationalism: we, liberals, need to start thinking about what it means to organize liberal-liberal rather than state-state

"In the end, however, if senior officers—starting with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the heads of each service—follow Trump down this dark road, the officers and enlisted people below them will likely obey the chain of command." #Greenland

This is a sobering piece from Tom. The tension within the military of contemplating (and potentially launching) an attack on a NATO ally is significant. But as Tom writes, if Congress doesn't restrain Trump, and the Joint Chiefs don't reject such orders, soldiers will likely follow chain of command.

this isn't a fight between like, empires, it's a fight between a president who has daddy issues and is mad about the nobel equating the US to the EU is absolutely stupid

Wonderful thread from Sharon. If we had social media in WW1.

recorded this last week

A true hero. If you can't read the article, there's some incredible excerpts in the thread.

We gotta decouple "taking seriously the idea that Trump is going to try to end constitutional government in America" from "we're doomed and nothing matters" Of course the latter is toxic, and only serves Trump. But the former is just obviously true

Rubicons being crossed all over the place at an hourly basis. Gestapo in the streets, concentration camps, openly white supremacist regime. I fear it won't be long now until Trump attacks Greenland. Europe will denounce it but won't risk fighting. NATO ends. The US will have become the 4th Reich.

If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+