@bastillesam.bsky.social
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When you're targeting "the worst of the worst" by posing as people in distress needing help - *and it works* - whatever makes them "the worst of the worst" in your eyes clearly isn't their actions.
February 15, 2026 at 11:34 PM
When you're targeting "the worst of the worst" by posing as people in distress needing help - *and it works* - whatever makes them "the worst of the worst" in your eyes clearly isn't their actions.
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If you dress your soldiers up as Red Cross workers, for instance, then you are suddenly validating the enemy just shooting Red Cross workers.
If you start shooting people for surrendering, you're just disencentivizing surrender. You'd prefer people to feel like surrender is an option.
If you start shooting people for surrendering, you're just disencentivizing surrender. You'd prefer people to feel like surrender is an option.
February 15, 2026 at 11:38 PM
If you dress your soldiers up as Red Cross workers, for instance, then you are suddenly validating the enemy just shooting Red Cross workers.
If you start shooting people for surrendering, you're just disencentivizing surrender. You'd prefer people to feel like surrender is an option.
If you start shooting people for surrendering, you're just disencentivizing surrender. You'd prefer people to feel like surrender is an option.
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This is called Perfidy, it is an international war crime
anyone with decent training knows why you do not do this. because it puts the innocent civilians who do need aid or are offering it in harm's way because of distrust
anyone with decent training knows why you do not do this. because it puts the innocent civilians who do need aid or are offering it in harm's way because of distrust
February 15, 2026 at 1:09 AM
This is called Perfidy, it is an international war crime
anyone with decent training knows why you do not do this. because it puts the innocent civilians who do need aid or are offering it in harm's way because of distrust
anyone with decent training knows why you do not do this. because it puts the innocent civilians who do need aid or are offering it in harm's way because of distrust
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What this means is when you are truly emotional and stressed at a critical mass point or breaking point, you end up being cognitively overloaded filtering out any new information rather than using reasoned analysis 5/
February 15, 2026 at 2:53 PM
What this means is when you are truly emotional and stressed at a critical mass point or breaking point, you end up being cognitively overloaded filtering out any new information rather than using reasoned analysis 5/
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When ICE shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg, they claimed it was justified
They said the agent was “ambushed” by men who hit him with a shovel
They blamed Governor Walz and Mayor Frey for the attack
It was all a lie
The charges against Celis were dismissed
And the agents might be charged
They said the agent was “ambushed” by men who hit him with a shovel
They blamed Governor Walz and Mayor Frey for the attack
It was all a lie
The charges against Celis were dismissed
And the agents might be charged
February 14, 2026 at 9:55 PM
When ICE shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg, they claimed it was justified
They said the agent was “ambushed” by men who hit him with a shovel
They blamed Governor Walz and Mayor Frey for the attack
It was all a lie
The charges against Celis were dismissed
And the agents might be charged
They said the agent was “ambushed” by men who hit him with a shovel
They blamed Governor Walz and Mayor Frey for the attack
It was all a lie
The charges against Celis were dismissed
And the agents might be charged
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This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...
TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance
www.tiktok.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:48 AM
This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.
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A decent amount of that seems to come from very online Americans getting their ideas about government from listening to too many people in parliamentary systems being confidently wrong
February 15, 2026 at 6:00 AM
A decent amount of that seems to come from very online Americans getting their ideas about government from listening to too many people in parliamentary systems being confidently wrong
Whole comment thread resembles a situation I found myself in conversing with an acquaintance.
Guy was like: The speeches of both Obama and Hitler rouses you, raise your spirit, strike nationalistic chords, invoke patriotic tendencies.
Thus, he concluded, there is no tell difference between two.
Guy was like: The speeches of both Obama and Hitler rouses you, raise your spirit, strike nationalistic chords, invoke patriotic tendencies.
Thus, he concluded, there is no tell difference between two.
February 15, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Whole comment thread resembles a situation I found myself in conversing with an acquaintance.
Guy was like: The speeches of both Obama and Hitler rouses you, raise your spirit, strike nationalistic chords, invoke patriotic tendencies.
Thus, he concluded, there is no tell difference between two.
Guy was like: The speeches of both Obama and Hitler rouses you, raise your spirit, strike nationalistic chords, invoke patriotic tendencies.
Thus, he concluded, there is no tell difference between two.
That's everything wrong with the American Left.
February 15, 2026 at 7:05 AM
That's everything wrong with the American Left.
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the left should have absolutely no delusions about how white rural people vote. stop dreaming of a working class populist revolution. it is never fucking happening.
either embrace the reality that the vanguard are overeducated PMCs and queer baristas, or get the fuck out of our way.
either embrace the reality that the vanguard are overeducated PMCs and queer baristas, or get the fuck out of our way.
February 15, 2026 at 2:44 AM
the left should have absolutely no delusions about how white rural people vote. stop dreaming of a working class populist revolution. it is never fucking happening.
either embrace the reality that the vanguard are overeducated PMCs and queer baristas, or get the fuck out of our way.
either embrace the reality that the vanguard are overeducated PMCs and queer baristas, or get the fuck out of our way.
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On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”
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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Swarms of bots linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China are absolutely flooding the internet.
An absolutely fascinating story from our Made in China newsletter this week, by @zeyiyang.bsky.social
An absolutely fascinating story from our Made in China newsletter this week, by @zeyiyang.bsky.social
A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web
From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.
www.wired.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Swarms of bots linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China are absolutely flooding the internet.
An absolutely fascinating story from our Made in China newsletter this week, by @zeyiyang.bsky.social
An absolutely fascinating story from our Made in China newsletter this week, by @zeyiyang.bsky.social
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"I live in a democracy but the candidates I like rarely win. Therefore, democracy is of no use to me." is the basis of way too much leftist thought on here and frankly we need to do a lot better job shutting these people down and shaming them for it than we've been doing.
February 13, 2026 at 7:04 PM
"I live in a democracy but the candidates I like rarely win. Therefore, democracy is of no use to me." is the basis of way too much leftist thought on here and frankly we need to do a lot better job shutting these people down and shaming them for it than we've been doing.
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Part 1: A basic overview of the autonomic nervous system & why learning your own ANS is so important for healing, connecting with your body, etc
(Video at the bottom of the post)
https://queeringpsychology.com/2023/02/25/somatic-theory-basics-what-is-the-autonomic-nervous-system/
(Video at the bottom of the post)
https://queeringpsychology.com/2023/02/25/somatic-theory-basics-what-is-the-autonomic-nervous-system/
July 4, 2023 at 8:57 PM
Part 1: A basic overview of the autonomic nervous system & why learning your own ANS is so important for healing, connecting with your body, etc
(Video at the bottom of the post)
https://queeringpsychology.com/2023/02/25/somatic-theory-basics-what-is-the-autonomic-nervous-system/
(Video at the bottom of the post)
https://queeringpsychology.com/2023/02/25/somatic-theory-basics-what-is-the-autonomic-nervous-system/
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The collapse of curiosity driven research has occurred in STEM too. Everything has to be outcomes focused - cure disease, grow better crops, etc. But so much of what humanity has discovered is from "basic" curiosity-driven science. I'm hugely in favor of funding curiosity in every discipline.
February 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
The collapse of curiosity driven research has occurred in STEM too. Everything has to be outcomes focused - cure disease, grow better crops, etc. But so much of what humanity has discovered is from "basic" curiosity-driven science. I'm hugely in favor of funding curiosity in every discipline.
"You know why Kamala Harris' laugh is so funny. Because she is not from Ivy league."
That's why her demeanor wasn't acceptable to the elite college class. We all saw it.
That's why her demeanor wasn't acceptable to the elite college class. We all saw it.
Harris and Walz too
February 14, 2026 at 3:45 AM
"You know why Kamala Harris' laugh is so funny. Because she is not from Ivy league."
That's why her demeanor wasn't acceptable to the elite college class. We all saw it.
That's why her demeanor wasn't acceptable to the elite college class. We all saw it.
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This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
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Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
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The way the coalitions have split, basically everyone who displays a belief system that values something beyond raw hierarchy or narcissism, or who is a personally conscientious individual, is being polarized leftward. It's really weird and unsettling.
February 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The way the coalitions have split, basically everyone who displays a belief system that values something beyond raw hierarchy or narcissism, or who is a personally conscientious individual, is being polarized leftward. It's really weird and unsettling.
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“Four of [Don Jr]’s portfolio companies have won contracts from the Trump [regime] this year amounting to $735 MILLION… It looks like more Trump enrichment. When the public and the private are as intertwined as they are in this [regime] it’s hard to tell the difference.”
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“Four of [Don Jr]’s portfolio companies have won contracts from the Trump [regime] this year amounting to $735 MILLION… It looks like more Trump enrichment. When the public and the private are as intertwined as they are in this [regime] it’s hard to tell the difference.”
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
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If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
February 13, 2026 at 1:04 AM
If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
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i don’t think there’s ever been anything like it in american history. they *are* who the most hardened conspiracy cultists *think* the rockefellars or the kennedys or the soros family are
February 12, 2026 at 9:12 PM
i don’t think there’s ever been anything like it in american history. they *are* who the most hardened conspiracy cultists *think* the rockefellars or the kennedys or the soros family are