$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

There are at least a dozen Rainier Beer ads from the 70s that still feature prominently in family discourse youtu.be/nayT7SL6C-I

I saw CJ in the early '90s in LA. When they played this, Lou Reed came on stage to play with them and rocked it. It was amazing.

Get it, France!

Outstanding work by @fesonline.bsky.social mapping the tech/policy/finance connections binding the network undermining US democracy now, and that is coming for Europe next. Great visuals. www.authoritarian-stack.info

i think it is possible that people overinterpreted trump's win in 2024 because they wanted harris to win, and have not adjusted their priors for the data showing his agenda is historically unpopular and voters don't want him/his party in charge

From @theonion.com to the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social, it’s fascinating how prescient satire has proven to be. Not just in spirit, which has always been true, and is the point of satire, but also in literal substance. Every time satire moves to a higher vantage point to mock, reality quickly catches up

I recently got scammed so effectively through a Facebook ad that I have concluded the platform is absolutely optimized for scamming and little else.

Just because the opposition performs well it doesn’t mean the system is fair. A thumb on the scale is a thumb on the scale and should be called out. open.substack.com/pub/quirkglo...

Jeez, they elect one communist as the mayor of New York and the dominos start falling the next day, amazing how quickly the revolution has arrived

That should clear up a few things...

Get 'em! www.thelocal.fr/20251106/fre...

What an amazing thread! How ballots are counted in the US’s largest, most diverse, most administratively complex counties.

FAFO, Russian style. “After Irina reportedly discovered her husband’s affair, she began revealing in private conversations with other Russian emigres that Igor had been cooperating for years with an FSB officer named Yevgeny.” www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/11/04/r...

If only @nytimes.com was all Chris Chivers and Finbarr O’Reillys. Extremely brave, professional and possessing exceptional clarity and insight. I can’t believe they did this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/m...

The US military is now advising its soldiers in Germany, who are not receiving their paychecks due to the shutdown, to ask for food from local German food banks. One advantage France has of being one of the few countries in Europe without a US base: you don't have to feed starving US soldiers.

It seems Trump will stop at nothing in his quest to turn the White House into a suburban Warsaw wedding reception venue.

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

The Dems are a big tent coalition. Whether you're a communist who hates Republicans or a centrist who hates Republicans, you can be part of a united party.

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

Every time someone awful but really old dies, I think of Hendrik Hertzberg's flawless take on Jesse Helms: "Far too late for it to do anybody any good, Jesse Helms has died." www.newyorker.com/news/hendrik...

I would vote for Glory

The "Mamdani Model" isn't about a specific set of policies. It's about being (a) relentlessly charismatic, energetic, and on message, (b) creating a positive vision not just a critique, and (c) identifying a focused set of issues that connect to the real needs and lived experiences of your voters

Plan for the elections you have, not the elections you want

I don’t know who turned me on to this automated labeler that tells you who is posting hundreds of times a day, who never stops posting, etc, but it’s great bsky.app/profile/stec...

In Washington Post polling, a double-digit percentage of Republicans shifted from strongly to only somewhat approving of his presidency since February — a kind of shift that could crack the door open for GOP criticism and defections. www.pbump.net/o/the-number...

Timeline cleanse: Kodak will begin selling two famous types of film stock—Kodak Gold 200 and Kodak Ultramax 400—directly to retailers and distributors in the U.S., another indication that the historic company is taking back control over how people buy its film.

U.S. elections will be increasingly shaped by closing-space dynamics. Relying on lessons learned from two decades of work in closed and closing spaces, I explain how authoritarians weaken their opponents and what Democrats need to do to build resilience to common tactics before it’s too late.

Solidarity & resilience start from the bottom 🇨🇵🇺🇦 Short TV report on how French fishermen from Brittany region continue to collect reusable fishing nets to help protect Ukrainian civilians from Russian drones.

U.S. elections will be increasingly shaped by closing-space dynamics. Relying on lessons learned from two decades of work in closed and closing spaces, I explain how authoritarians weaken their opponents and what Democrats need to do to build resilience to common tactics before it’s too late.

I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.

Here, in a nutshell, is what makes the US legal infrastructure so vulnerable to authoritarianism: it was built for a high-trust environment in which everyone was supposed to exercise forbearance. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

RIP Igor Palmin, photographer of Soviet life both over- and underground and chronicler of late socialism in a quiet yet piercing manner. I did a podcast for the Barbican in 2018, where his work was part of the Another Kind of Life exhibition. www.barbican.org.uk/s/anotherkin.... Picture from 1991.

One of the lesser-known events in the all-Russian olympics

Maybe there’s hope? bsky.app/profile/zohr...

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

Vucic is on the back foot and he knows it. His political skills until now have been top notch but the students have outplayed him. "But in a televised public address on Friday, Vucic made a rare gesture and apologized for saying things that, he said, he now regretted." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes

Just a gentle reminder that the panic about phones melting our brains could well be a convenient way to justify rules that could be used to prevent us from using our phones to film state violence. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Outlasted by the Russian Empire. “Or must we acknowledge that the 250-year-old experiment worked for a while, and then – suddenly, utterly – failed?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Nobody: Netflix: But what we really need is a The Day After remake.

My new go-to insult

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

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Hey instead of arguing about bad strategies from the 1990s developed by self-interested people who can‘t win elections, let’s think about some new approaches. medium.com/@scottanders...

EXPERTS: US President Donald J. Trump considered highly susceptible to gaudy trinkets and baubles.

Turkey’s anti-LGBT law would be a massive rollback of rights: www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...