svl
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The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.
December 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.
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"Murder, torture, rape, abuse, forced displacement, home burnings, specious arrests, and imprisonment without due process were a daily fact of life throughout the years of the American war in Vietnam."
My Quest to Make the Pentagon Care About the Crimes It Covered Up
I’ve turned the names of former soldiers implicated in atrocities over to the Pentagon. It’s shown no interest in punishment until Mark Kelly dissed Trump.
interc.pt
December 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Murder, torture, rape, abuse, forced displacement, home burnings, specious arrests, and imprisonment without due process were a daily fact of life throughout the years of the American war in Vietnam."
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Respectfully (Garrett is smarter than me), nobody citing the Manhattan Project is responding to Miller. He said "sixty years" for a reason: 1965 was when Hart-Celler scrapped the strict quota system that prioritized white European immigration and banned most non-white immigration.
Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...
December 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Respectfully (Garrett is smarter than me), nobody citing the Manhattan Project is responding to Miller. He said "sixty years" for a reason: 1965 was when Hart-Celler scrapped the strict quota system that prioritized white European immigration and banned most non-white immigration.
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In case there was any doubt about where big tech stands.
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable…
www.404media.co
December 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
In case there was any doubt about where big tech stands.
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This is so fucking dangerous.
December 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is so fucking dangerous.
The bar is so fucking low for men, it's not even funny. in a game of terrible romance options for women, it's under remarked just how interesting it is that women are able to make so much, out of so little; he's a featherless chicken-cop with a punisher arc, ffs. No wonder BG3 was such a phenomenon.
December 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The bar is so fucking low for men, it's not even funny. in a game of terrible romance options for women, it's under remarked just how interesting it is that women are able to make so much, out of so little; he's a featherless chicken-cop with a punisher arc, ffs. No wonder BG3 was such a phenomenon.
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Everyone always wants to know “Who is the American gestapo?” but no one ever stops to ask “How is the American gestapo?”
Just thinking... we give so much attention (as we should!) to the victims of state violence, ie, people sent to CECOT.
But, we give little consideration to the psychic violence suffered by those tasked with carrying out the physical violence.
Yes, they "chose" those jobs. But...
But, we give little consideration to the psychic violence suffered by those tasked with carrying out the physical violence.
Yes, they "chose" those jobs. But...
December 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Everyone always wants to know “Who is the American gestapo?” but no one ever stops to ask “How is the American gestapo?”
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At one point, the two men in this video don’t identify themselves to daycare workers, demand to know where the children are, and then try to yank open the door as the female employees pull on it to keep them out.
December 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
At one point, the two men in this video don’t identify themselves to daycare workers, demand to know where the children are, and then try to yank open the door as the female employees pull on it to keep them out.
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Everyone is justifiably upset about this but it happened in July
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and...
www.france24.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Everyone is justifiably upset about this but it happened in July
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Leqaa Kordia has been held in ICE detention for nearly ten months.
Free Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Woman Who Joined Columbia U. Protest Has Been Detained Since March
Calls are growing to release Palestinian protester Leqaa Kordia, who was arrested at a 2024 Columbia University Gaza solidarity protest. The charges were dismissed, but when she went to her ICE check-...
www.democracynow.org
December 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Leqaa Kordia has been held in ICE detention for nearly ten months.
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Anonymous DEA official:
“They are trying to avoid having to defend their policies and standards in court” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
“They are trying to avoid having to defend their policies and standards in court” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
The U.S. sank the alleged narco-terrorists’ boat — and let them go
In blowing up the vessel, destroying evidence and repatriating the survivors, the U.S. cut short a process that’s helped bring down traffickers.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Anonymous DEA official:
“They are trying to avoid having to defend their policies and standards in court” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
“They are trying to avoid having to defend their policies and standards in court” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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"While questioning the state-led, top-down nature of environmental governance and cooperation is pivotal, such criticisms will be better received when China’s valid claims to being a solution provider for the world are well acknowledged."
New paper out in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
@jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage?
It emerged from the Navigating Global China event @sppga.ubc.ca, Global Affairs Canada, & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social
@jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage?
It emerged from the Navigating Global China event @sppga.ubc.ca, Global Affairs Canada, & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"While questioning the state-led, top-down nature of environmental governance and cooperation is pivotal, such criticisms will be better received when China’s valid claims to being a solution provider for the world are well acknowledged."
Sunday/Saturday thoughts
기묘한 이야기의 모티브 중 하나는 냉전 중 실제로 초능력을 실험했던 CIA의 스타게이트 프로그램이었다. 이 계획은 물론 엄청난 세금 낭비에 불과했지만, 후에 많은 영화, 소설에 영감을 주었다. 콘텐츠로 미국이 벌어들인 돈이 지금쯤은 스타게이트로 낭비된 돈을 수십배쯤 벌충했을테니 결과적으로 이익이 아닐까?
December 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Sunday/Saturday thoughts
Morsi is a great example of how the west wants democracy, only to the extent that it doesn't step on the toes of what the US and friends want. Mubarak, longtime US backed dictator was out; three cheers! democratically elect a MB member? "hello, HR?" Sec. Clinton hit that Sisi button so quick.
I recall this article (which my father actually sent me a few years ago lol)
Mohamed Morsi was a true friend to Palestinians in Gaza
During his brief time in office, Morsi worked to stop Israeli assaults and to lift the siege on Gaza
www.middleeasteye.net
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Morsi is a great example of how the west wants democracy, only to the extent that it doesn't step on the toes of what the US and friends want. Mubarak, longtime US backed dictator was out; three cheers! democratically elect a MB member? "hello, HR?" Sec. Clinton hit that Sisi button so quick.
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Fellow economists @jayatighosh.bsky.social @thomaspiketty.bsky.social @stephaniekelton.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social, and many others, including me, call for a halt to Sri Lank debt repayments after Cyclone Ditwah
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Top economists call for halt to Sri Lanka debt repayments after Cyclone Ditwah
Group of 120 experts including Joseph Stiglitz urge fresh debt restructuring plan given scale of destruction
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Fellow economists @jayatighosh.bsky.social @thomaspiketty.bsky.social @stephaniekelton.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social, and many others, including me, call for a halt to Sri Lank debt repayments after Cyclone Ditwah
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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About 65% of registered voters in the US think that global heating is affecting the cost of living, according to the polling by Yale University.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims
New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of living
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
About 65% of registered voters in the US think that global heating is affecting the cost of living, according to the polling by Yale University.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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OWNED is 50% off at Amazon, use that gift card you got for XMas.
Read the book that launched a single lawsuit!
Read the book that launched a single lawsuit!
Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left
is the story of the underreported and growing collusion between new wealth and new journalism. In recent years, right-wing billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks ha...
www.amazon.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
OWNED is 50% off at Amazon, use that gift card you got for XMas.
Read the book that launched a single lawsuit!
Read the book that launched a single lawsuit!
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The wonderful game director of Alan Wake 2 confirmed the first time this conspiracy went around that it is completely untrue. Sweet Baby Inc is a Narrative & Writing company and the backlash against our team has only ever been rooted in paranoid racism.
Tell your friends. I’m tired of this shit.
Tell your friends. I’m tired of this shit.
December 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The wonderful game director of Alan Wake 2 confirmed the first time this conspiracy went around that it is completely untrue. Sweet Baby Inc is a Narrative & Writing company and the backlash against our team has only ever been rooted in paranoid racism.
Tell your friends. I’m tired of this shit.
Tell your friends. I’m tired of this shit.
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As Adam Curtis tried to desperately warn us for years, there was never a Russian ‘conspiracy’, instead the oligarchs with actual power in the West are trying to reshape our politics to be just like theirs.
Iowa-based journalist Laura Belin compares Bari Weiss' adventures at CBS to Putin's makeover of supposedly independent Russian media, which she covered for RFE-RL twenty years ago. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
On "fair" reporting and what happened at "60 Minutes"
Laura Belin: I was alarmed (though not surprised) when CBS News boss Bari Weiss intervened to stop “60 Minutes” from airing a segment.
www.bleedingheartland.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
As Adam Curtis tried to desperately warn us for years, there was never a Russian ‘conspiracy’, instead the oligarchs with actual power in the West are trying to reshape our politics to be just like theirs.
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One year ago, Israeli forces detained Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya after violently shutting down Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. He remains imprisoned today.
A few weeks before his detention, he told +972, “I will stay inside my hospital until the last moment.”
www.972mag.com/kamal-adwan-...
A few weeks before his detention, he told +972, “I will stay inside my hospital until the last moment.”
www.972mag.com/kamal-adwan-...
‘I will stay inside my hospital until the last moment’
The Israeli army killed his son and arrested his colleagues in Kamal Adwan Hospital, but director Hussam Abu Safiya refuses to abandon his patients.
www.972mag.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
One year ago, Israeli forces detained Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya after violently shutting down Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. He remains imprisoned today.
A few weeks before his detention, he told +972, “I will stay inside my hospital until the last moment.”
www.972mag.com/kamal-adwan-...
A few weeks before his detention, he told +972, “I will stay inside my hospital until the last moment.”
www.972mag.com/kamal-adwan-...
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I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
wrd.cm
December 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
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Was really exciting for me to sit down with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and discuss my research on her Podcast, Power User! I’ve followed her social media coverage for a long time.
Highly recommend watching the full YouTube version below (has visuals from the relevant paper): youtu.be/K-0z0j0QvPI?...
Highly recommend watching the full YouTube version below (has visuals from the relevant paper): youtu.be/K-0z0j0QvPI?...
Social Media Addiction Isn't Real (Here's What's Really Happening)
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Was really exciting for me to sit down with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and discuss my research on her Podcast, Power User! I’ve followed her social media coverage for a long time.
Highly recommend watching the full YouTube version below (has visuals from the relevant paper): youtu.be/K-0z0j0QvPI?...
Highly recommend watching the full YouTube version below (has visuals from the relevant paper): youtu.be/K-0z0j0QvPI?...
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Some ~personal news~
Yes, I'm being sued by Matt Taibbi
Does that make me the realest free speech warrior?
open.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Some ~personal news~
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NEW: Rubio and Miller drove the US to a militarized clash with Venezuela and Maduro. They started with deportations to CECOT. Then talks with Trump on oil and drugs led to boat strikes. Officials have discussed using Delta Force in "Phase Two." Gift link to our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
December 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
NEW: Rubio and Miller drove the US to a militarized clash with Venezuela and Maduro. They started with deportations to CECOT. Then talks with Trump on oil and drugs led to boat strikes. Officials have discussed using Delta Force in "Phase Two." Gift link to our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
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A year on, Israel still holds Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safia without charge https://aje.io/wmyqzo
December 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A year on, Israel still holds Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safia without charge https://aje.io/wmyqzo