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I used to be horrified that there are 400 million guns in civilian hands in U.S. Then I learned it’s more like 500 million. Or more.
December 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I used to be horrified that there are 400 million guns in civilian hands in U.S. Then I learned it’s more like 500 million. Or more.
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🇮🇹Italy: Thousands demonstrate against Prime Minister Meloni's budget.
Italian unions have said that the new budget bill would "worsen people's living and working conditions," underfunding healthcare and education, while overspending on defense.
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.dw.com/en/italy-tho...
Italian unions have said that the new budget bill would "worsen people's living and working conditions," underfunding healthcare and education, while overspending on defense.
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.dw.com/en/italy-tho...
Italy: Thousands demonstrate against Meloni's budget – DW – 12/13/2025
Italian unions have said that the new budget bill would "worsen people's living and working conditions," underfunding healthcare and education, while overspending on defense.
www.dw.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🇮🇹Italy: Thousands demonstrate against Prime Minister Meloni's budget.
Italian unions have said that the new budget bill would "worsen people's living and working conditions," underfunding healthcare and education, while overspending on defense.
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.dw.com/en/italy-tho...
Italian unions have said that the new budget bill would "worsen people's living and working conditions," underfunding healthcare and education, while overspending on defense.
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.dw.com/en/italy-tho...
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If you’re not white make sure you carry your fucking freedom papers with you bsky.app/profile/radl...
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you’re not white make sure you carry your fucking freedom papers with you bsky.app/profile/radl...
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The Kremlin likes to exercise rhetorical dominance over Trump and they say this in the safe knowledge that we won’t invade or that if we do it will be a disaster. Trump might think of Putin as a friend but that’s not how Russia sees the US. The US is to be humiliated, fragmented, and weakened.
I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
"The Russian President expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and confirmed his support for [the Maduro] government's course in defense of the country's sovereignty."
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Kremlin likes to exercise rhetorical dominance over Trump and they say this in the safe knowledge that we won’t invade or that if we do it will be a disaster. Trump might think of Putin as a friend but that’s not how Russia sees the US. The US is to be humiliated, fragmented, and weakened.
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This is the man who runs the federal police force. What could go wrong?
MS NOW, citing three unnamed sources, reports Patel has, at least twice, ordered his girlfriend's FBI security detail to also escort one of her allegedly intoxicated friends after a night of partying. Agents have objected to the order, only for Patel to throw a fit trib.al/IruNVbk
December 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is the man who runs the federal police force. What could go wrong?
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A denial of death, post-truth, and "foul is fair" all speak to a refusal to acknowledge boundaries. For Trump and Putin, there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death. In the absence of any boundary, nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss.
In a Post-Truth World: The Fate of Birth, Death, and Other Boundaries
If there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death, then nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss.
www.iwm.at
December 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A denial of death, post-truth, and "foul is fair" all speak to a refusal to acknowledge boundaries. For Trump and Putin, there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death. In the absence of any boundary, nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss.
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American English really needs the Russian word prodazhnost': the quality or existential state according to which anything--and anyone--can be bought and sold.
December 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
American English really needs the Russian word prodazhnost': the quality or existential state according to which anything--and anyone--can be bought and sold.
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Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
Putin said Russia had taken Kupiansk weeks ago.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
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Quick guide to interpreting US foreign policy propaganda: if the word “deal” was used, some American made some money, and the war is still going on.
An estimated 200,000 people have fled fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo just days after Trump hailed a “historic” peace deal to end the conflict.
200,000 Flee Congo After Trump’s ‘Historic’ Peace Deal
Why the Rwanda-Congo accord misses the point.
foreignpolicy.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Quick guide to interpreting US foreign policy propaganda: if the word “deal” was used, some American made some money, and the war is still going on.
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The most important story of 2025 that we're not talking about enough (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The most important story of 2025 that we're not talking about enough (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
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“I’m just one [Scientist, Doctor, Epidemiologist, Nurse, Mother, Person] what can I do?” said millions of people.
So glad you asked! Go here and do these things: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Follow @standupforscience.bsky.social
So glad you asked! Go here and do these things: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Follow @standupforscience.bsky.social
standupforscience.ne
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“I’m just one [Scientist, Doctor, Epidemiologist, Nurse, Mother, Person] what can I do?” said millions of people.
So glad you asked! Go here and do these things: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Follow @standupforscience.bsky.social
So glad you asked! Go here and do these things: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Follow @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Happy to have contributed to this week's @spiegel.de cover story. www.spiegel.de/ausland/wie-...
December 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Happy to have contributed to this week's @spiegel.de cover story. www.spiegel.de/ausland/wie-...
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HARWOOD: “What distinguishes Trump’s second presidency is the breadth and depth of its crookedness… an orgy of corruption and criminality that threatens the American experiment itself.” zeteo.com/p/trump-corr...
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
HARWOOD: “What distinguishes Trump’s second presidency is the breadth and depth of its crookedness… an orgy of corruption and criminality that threatens the American experiment itself.” zeteo.com/p/trump-corr...
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
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This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
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I will be joining Jessica Yellin for a live conversation on "News Not Noise" today, 12/11 at 12pm ET.
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/podcast
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/podcast
News Not Noise with Jessica Yellin | Jessica Yellin | Substack
Separating the news from the noise. We give you information, not a panic attack.
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I will be joining Jessica Yellin for a live conversation on "News Not Noise" today, 12/11 at 12pm ET.
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/podcast
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/podcast
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Given recent press attention to the rotation of South African oligarchs through the White House, I am re-posting "Oligarchs’ Island," which I wrote back in November 2024.
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
Oligarchs' Island
A Sitcom Pitch in a Tragic Moment
snyder.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Given recent press attention to the rotation of South African oligarchs through the White House, I am re-posting "Oligarchs’ Island," which I wrote back in November 2024.
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
If you care so much about our people, why does @uninoticias.bsky.social & @noticiastelemundo keep running ICE ads?
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If you care so much about our people, why does @uninoticias.bsky.social & @noticiastelemundo keep running ICE ads?
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
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An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
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It's great that the media, Congress is going all Watergate on one of Trump's many crimes, the 'double-tap' murder of 2 Caribbean sailors
But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Trump regime murders that aren’t on video | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, troubled Mount Airy Lodge is a perfect Trump venue.
www.inquirer.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It's great that the media, Congress is going all Watergate on one of Trump's many crimes, the 'double-tap' murder of 2 Caribbean sailors
But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?