catfitzNY.bsky.social
@catfitzny.bsky.social
Russian translator living in New York City. Registered straight ticket Democrat. Catholic. Immunocompromised. Ginger cat aide-de-camp.
My book on Snowden
https://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Not-Thee-Invincible-Transparency-ebook/dp/B00I2CJKI6
My book on Snowden
https://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Not-Thee-Invincible-Transparency-ebook/dp/B00I2CJKI6
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The social media platforms were doing the GOP a favor by booting vile bigots off their services. Now that they have largely given up, the bigots are the party's problem.
Wonder if they regret making such a stink about "deplatforming."
Wonder if they regret making such a stink about "deplatforming."
Four years ago, far-right white male supremacist Nick Fuentes was deplatformed pretty much everywhere.
Now he's back with a vengeance—and the online right can't stop fighting over whether to condemn him or welcome him. My story: wapo.st/4nJbt4M
Now he's back with a vengeance—and the online right can't stop fighting over whether to condemn him or welcome him. My story: wapo.st/4nJbt4M
Far-right provocateur Nick Fuentes is triggering a MAGA civil war
Once barred from nearly every social media platform, Fuentes’s resurgence has driven a wedge through the conservative movement.
wapo.st
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The social media platforms were doing the GOP a favor by booting vile bigots off their services. Now that they have largely given up, the bigots are the party's problem.
Wonder if they regret making such a stink about "deplatforming."
Wonder if they regret making such a stink about "deplatforming."
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America’s construction industry is unraveling as immigration raids empty job sites, workers disappear overnight, and billions in projects remain unfinished while the nation’s builders vanish from sight.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
The Slow Collapse: How ICE Is Gutting America’s Construction Workforce
ICE raids and mass deportations are gutting U.S. construction: projects halted, crews vanished, costs soaring, America’s bridges and homes are going unfinished.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
America’s construction industry is unraveling as immigration raids empty job sites, workers disappear overnight, and billions in projects remain unfinished while the nation’s builders vanish from sight.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
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Amazon eliminates 14,000 corporate jobs while increasing AI investments, offering 90-day transitions as CEO Andy Jassy shifts focus to technology.
Amazon announces 14,000 job cuts as company prioritizes AI over human workforce
Amazon eliminates 14,000 corporate jobs while increasing AI investments, offering 90-day transitions as CEO Andy Jassy shifts focus to technology.
www.scrippsnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Amazon eliminates 14,000 corporate jobs while increasing AI investments, offering 90-day transitions as CEO Andy Jassy shifts focus to technology.
Yeah, that. The problem is, people under the age of, oh, 30, is it? Before the Internet? Will not understand what it means to have that brain/hand/thinking/writing peacefully without distraction/re-writing before I write experience. I mean, they have evolved to be able to type with their thumbs FFS
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Yeah, that. The problem is, people under the age of, oh, 30, is it? Before the Internet? Will not understand what it means to have that brain/hand/thinking/writing peacefully without distraction/re-writing before I write experience. I mean, they have evolved to be able to type with their thumbs FFS
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Russian envoy Dmitriev openly admits that Russia has no intentions of restoring Ukrainian territorial integrity:
People say, no, Russia has to completely withdraw to its borders.
So they set it up to fail.
(And Russia still says it's Ukraine and Europe who want war).
People say, no, Russia has to completely withdraw to its borders.
So they set it up to fail.
(And Russia still says it's Ukraine and Europe who want war).
October 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Russian envoy Dmitriev openly admits that Russia has no intentions of restoring Ukrainian territorial integrity:
People say, no, Russia has to completely withdraw to its borders.
So they set it up to fail.
(And Russia still says it's Ukraine and Europe who want war).
People say, no, Russia has to completely withdraw to its borders.
So they set it up to fail.
(And Russia still says it's Ukraine and Europe who want war).
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Wikipedia is seeing a decline in human traffic as more people turn to artificial intelligence tools and social media for information, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikipedia sees decline in visitors as users get accustom to AI
Wikipedia is seeing a decline in human traffic as more people turn to artificial intelligence tools and social media for information, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.
www.scrippsnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Wikipedia is seeing a decline in human traffic as more people turn to artificial intelligence tools and social media for information, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.
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"The right today has joined the age-old assault upon America, deprecating its system, impugning its honor, and abandoning its unique place among the nations of the Earth." From the archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/whats-left...
What’s Left of William F. Buckley Jr.
The conservative movement he built is now besotted with the kinds of characters and urges he repudiated.
www.thebulwark.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"The right today has joined the age-old assault upon America, deprecating its system, impugning its honor, and abandoning its unique place among the nations of the Earth." From the archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/whats-left...
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NEW: The Kremlin is attempting to use all available informational avenues to convince the US, Europe, and Ukraine to acquiesce to the Kremlin’s demands by convincing them that a Russian victory in Ukraine is certain when it is anything but.
More in tonight's assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar102025
More in tonight's assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar102025
October 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
NEW: The Kremlin is attempting to use all available informational avenues to convince the US, Europe, and Ukraine to acquiesce to the Kremlin’s demands by convincing them that a Russian victory in Ukraine is certain when it is anything but.
More in tonight's assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar102025
More in tonight's assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar102025
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First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.
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It’s barely even a Ponzi scheme. There’s no guarantee that Amazon is actually making profit on this! $105bn in capex! Perhaps they’re building capacity to provide it to OpenAI in yet another money losing revenue stuffer that will end with nobody getting anything but an IOU
So am I wrong in concluding this is just another Ponzi scheme to make Bezos even richer? At what point does he just buy a yacht the size of a small island nation?
October 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
It’s barely even a Ponzi scheme. There’s no guarantee that Amazon is actually making profit on this! $105bn in capex! Perhaps they’re building capacity to provide it to OpenAI in yet another money losing revenue stuffer that will end with nobody getting anything but an IOU
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"British defense officials are investigating whether hackers stole hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight bases in the country, including two used by the U.S. military, and posted them on the dark web." @starsandstripes.bsky.social
www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...
www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...
UK probes possible Russia-linked hack that exposed files on US military bases
The files contained information on RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall, and home to thousands of American personnel and their families.
www.stripes.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 AM
"British defense officials are investigating whether hackers stole hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight bases in the country, including two used by the U.S. military, and posted them on the dark web." @starsandstripes.bsky.social
www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...
www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...
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one category of show prep material for TRMS staff is something we've always called "subway reading".
it's something that's not exactly current events or new reporting... but nevertheless relevant food for thought given the news we're in.
today's subway reading:
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
it's something that's not exactly current events or new reporting... but nevertheless relevant food for thought given the news we're in.
today's subway reading:
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
www.bbc.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
one category of show prep material for TRMS staff is something we've always called "subway reading".
it's something that's not exactly current events or new reporting... but nevertheless relevant food for thought given the news we're in.
today's subway reading:
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
it's something that's not exactly current events or new reporting... but nevertheless relevant food for thought given the news we're in.
today's subway reading:
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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💥 Simferopol, massive drones attack on Crimea!
May 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
💥 Simferopol, massive drones attack on Crimea!
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🇺🇸‼️🇷🇺 Senator Lindsey Graham announces broad Senate support for new "bone-crushing" sanctions on Russia, with 72 colleagues backing a bill to impose tariffs up to 500% on nations buying Russian oil, gas, and key products, - Bloomberg
May 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
🇺🇸‼️🇷🇺 Senator Lindsey Graham announces broad Senate support for new "bone-crushing" sanctions on Russia, with 72 colleagues backing a bill to impose tariffs up to 500% on nations buying Russian oil, gas, and key products, - Bloomberg
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🇺🇦 Ukraine has started mass production of 30-km fiber optic coils for drones, company representatives told Defence Express.
❗️Ukrainian company 3DTech has successfully tested its new coils with ranges of 25 and 30 km. All stages of production are fully localized in Ukraine.
❗️Ukrainian company 3DTech has successfully tested its new coils with ranges of 25 and 30 km. All stages of production are fully localized in Ukraine.
May 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🇺🇦 Ukraine has started mass production of 30-km fiber optic coils for drones, company representatives told Defence Express.
❗️Ukrainian company 3DTech has successfully tested its new coils with ranges of 25 and 30 km. All stages of production are fully localized in Ukraine.
❗️Ukrainian company 3DTech has successfully tested its new coils with ranges of 25 and 30 km. All stages of production are fully localized in Ukraine.
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The Oxfam International analysis examined figures from nearly 2,000 corporations across 35 countries where the average pay of chief executives reached $4.3 million in 2024, up from $2.9 million just five years ago.
CEO Pay Is Up 50 Percent Since 2019 Compared to 0.9 Percent for Workers
A new Oxfam analysis also warns that the global working class faces a new threat in the form of Trump’s tariff regime.
truthout.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Oxfam International analysis examined figures from nearly 2,000 corporations across 35 countries where the average pay of chief executives reached $4.3 million in 2024, up from $2.9 million just five years ago.
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How the constitutional order delivered Trump:
- Wins control of major party with plurality of vote in 16 primary
- Wins electoral college in 16
- Senate refuses to remove 2x
- Supreme Court intervenes to prevent prosecution
- Senate cripples Biden's BBB agenda
- No mechanism to replace Biden
- Wins control of major party with plurality of vote in 16 primary
- Wins electoral college in 16
- Senate refuses to remove 2x
- Supreme Court intervenes to prevent prosecution
- Senate cripples Biden's BBB agenda
- No mechanism to replace Biden
How did the constitutional order deliver us Trump? His historical legacy is literally people who despised the US liberal democratic order and tried to break it: the Confederates, fascists, Nazis. His power extends from his supporters' willingness to flout the rules. This just makes very little sense
It’s very important that we hold two ideas at once: Trump has taken us outside the constitutional order, AND that the constitutional order delivered Trump.
The American political system is incredibly outdated, unrepresentative and undemocratic—it needs to be changed.
The American political system is incredibly outdated, unrepresentative and undemocratic—it needs to be changed.
May 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
How the constitutional order delivered Trump:
- Wins control of major party with plurality of vote in 16 primary
- Wins electoral college in 16
- Senate refuses to remove 2x
- Supreme Court intervenes to prevent prosecution
- Senate cripples Biden's BBB agenda
- No mechanism to replace Biden
- Wins control of major party with plurality of vote in 16 primary
- Wins electoral college in 16
- Senate refuses to remove 2x
- Supreme Court intervenes to prevent prosecution
- Senate cripples Biden's BBB agenda
- No mechanism to replace Biden
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For an unknown period, Marco Rubio is going to be both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. Just as well neither of them are demanding or time-consuming roles and that we're in a period of unprecedented global stability. abcnews.go.com/Politics/mic...
Trump replacing Watlz as national security adviser, Rubio takes place for now
Trump said he's nominating Michael Waltz to be ambassador to the United Nations, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as interim national security adviser.
abcnews.go.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
For an unknown period, Marco Rubio is going to be both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. Just as well neither of them are demanding or time-consuming roles and that we're in a period of unprecedented global stability. abcnews.go.com/Politics/mic...
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump and Rubio have identified Julie Davis, currently the U.S. ambassador to Cyprus, to serve as charge d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com/world/julie-...
#usa #ukraine
www.reuters.com/world/julie-...
#usa #ukraine
Julie Davis to serve as top US diplomat in Ukraine, State Department says
U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have identified Julie Davis, currently the U.S. ambassador to Cyprus, to serve as charge d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump and Rubio have identified Julie Davis, currently the U.S. ambassador to Cyprus, to serve as charge d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com/world/julie-...
#usa #ukraine
www.reuters.com/world/julie-...
#usa #ukraine
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“So I think it’s more symbolic than anything else right now.”
“The bottom line is Ukraine has deposits of a variety of critical minerals being valued at essentially imaginary numbers...”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
“The bottom line is Ukraine has deposits of a variety of critical minerals being valued at essentially imaginary numbers...”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
U.S. and Ukraine announce signing of contentious minerals deal
The deal’s language marks a win for Kyiv, which has been seeking any concrete show of support from the United States since President Trump returned to power.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“So I think it’s more symbolic than anything else right now.”
“The bottom line is Ukraine has deposits of a variety of critical minerals being valued at essentially imaginary numbers...”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
“The bottom line is Ukraine has deposits of a variety of critical minerals being valued at essentially imaginary numbers...”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Incredible
LMAO -- a reporter breaks news during a briefing to State Department spox Tammy Bruce that her boss Marco Rubio is the new national security adviser
"I just heard this from you," Bruce says
"I just heard this from you," Bruce says
May 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Incredible
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LIVE: Major updates on next protests
LIVE: Major PROTEST UPDATES with Indivisible…The BIG ONE!!!
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
www.youtube.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
LIVE: Major updates on next protests
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Okay, I support Trump's third term now.
tough out here these days if you're trying to buy some blunt toe blocked chalk crocs
May 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Okay, I support Trump's third term now.
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"Putin is going to test us and drive the hybrid war more forward."
Military Historian Sönke Neitzel calls in his interview with DW for "strong statesmanship… to make clear that we are not willing to live under Russian hegemony":
"Putin is going to test us, it's definitely clear.⤵️
Military Historian Sönke Neitzel calls in his interview with DW for "strong statesmanship… to make clear that we are not willing to live under Russian hegemony":
"Putin is going to test us, it's definitely clear.⤵️
May 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Putin is going to test us and drive the hybrid war more forward."
Military Historian Sönke Neitzel calls in his interview with DW for "strong statesmanship… to make clear that we are not willing to live under Russian hegemony":
"Putin is going to test us, it's definitely clear.⤵️
Military Historian Sönke Neitzel calls in his interview with DW for "strong statesmanship… to make clear that we are not willing to live under Russian hegemony":
"Putin is going to test us, it's definitely clear.⤵️