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I think the US tech advantage is just extremely brittle, especially if US foreign policy remains this dumb
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I think the US tech advantage is just extremely brittle, especially if US foreign policy remains this dumb
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NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
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It's always funny to watch the crowd of "Epstein is a myth, nothing really happened, quit being lurid" people change and transform over time.
July 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It's always funny to watch the crowd of "Epstein is a myth, nothing really happened, quit being lurid" people change and transform over time.
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Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
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I think this is what is cooking so many people in the beltway who constantly rationalize the serial failures. The rationalization has to be excruciatingly painful. Actual mind shredder stuff, a self censoring reality.
this shit has to look so wild to countries that have that societal trait where they'll still physically remove despots for trampling on their society and values
Best case scenario is “swing voters” and low activation republicans remember and care that he’s a pedophile and correctly associate defenses of him towards other republicans and this helps swing things in uuuuuuh 13 months
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I think this is what is cooking so many people in the beltway who constantly rationalize the serial failures. The rationalization has to be excruciatingly painful. Actual mind shredder stuff, a self censoring reality.
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politics rn are when youre playing a social deception game and one of your teammates on the not-hitler side doesn't want to take the game seriously and you all lose and they don't know why everyone is so upset at them
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
politics rn are when youre playing a social deception game and one of your teammates on the not-hitler side doesn't want to take the game seriously and you all lose and they don't know why everyone is so upset at them
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JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
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honestly never would've expected this to be indivisible's trajectory
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
honestly never would've expected this to be indivisible's trajectory
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Schumer and his friends want Trump to have power because they hate you. They are furious Mamdani won in a landslide and are afraid of repeats all over the country. Their solution is open capitulation to the far right.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Schumer and his friends want Trump to have power because they hate you. They are furious Mamdani won in a landslide and are afraid of repeats all over the country. Their solution is open capitulation to the far right.
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
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is there any clearer indication that Schumer was actually fine with the defections than the party whip breaking ranks
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
is there any clearer indication that Schumer was actually fine with the defections than the party whip breaking ranks
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Imagine an EU-wide government shut down in its 6th week leading to serious disruption of air traffic. We would not hear the end of it in Anglophone media.
Look forward to more grand declations about how Europeans must emulate an America whose government is in the sixth week of shutdown and now can't provide safe air travel
✈️ FAA Ops Summary - 09/0300 ✈️
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ADDITI0NAL STAFFING TRIGGERS ISSUED. LGA GROUND DELAY PROGRAM TIMED
OUT. DFW, IAH AND HOU GROUND DELAY PROGRAMS WERE CA... More info in image.
FAA Details. #AvGeek
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ADDITI0NAL STAFFING TRIGGERS ISSUED. LGA GROUND DELAY PROGRAM TIMED
OUT. DFW, IAH AND HOU GROUND DELAY PROGRAMS WERE CA... More info in image.
FAA Details. #AvGeek
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Imagine an EU-wide government shut down in its 6th week leading to serious disruption of air traffic. We would not hear the end of it in Anglophone media.
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the reality is that they have already won & they do not want to change anything. they want a strong republican party, as they say often. the only time they put any work in is to sabotage candidates running to the left of them, otherwise they just sit around doing insider trading
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
the reality is that they have already won & they do not want to change anything. they want a strong republican party, as they say often. the only time they put any work in is to sabotage candidates running to the left of them, otherwise they just sit around doing insider trading
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None of them deserve to see another quiet moment in public. Shout them down wherever they go.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
None of them deserve to see another quiet moment in public. Shout them down wherever they go.
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THE FOLLOWING DEMOCRATIC SENATORS VOTE “YES” ON THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION IN EXCHANGE FOR NOTHING:
MAGGIE HASSAN (NH)
CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
JEANNE SHAHEEN (NH)
JACKY ROSEN (NV)
DICK DURBIN (IL)
TIM KAINE (VA)
ANGUS KING (ME)
JOHN FETTERMAN (PA)
ITS OVER
MAGGIE HASSAN (NH)
CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
JEANNE SHAHEEN (NH)
JACKY ROSEN (NV)
DICK DURBIN (IL)
TIM KAINE (VA)
ANGUS KING (ME)
JOHN FETTERMAN (PA)
ITS OVER
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
THE FOLLOWING DEMOCRATIC SENATORS VOTE “YES” ON THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION IN EXCHANGE FOR NOTHING:
MAGGIE HASSAN (NH)
CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
JEANNE SHAHEEN (NH)
JACKY ROSEN (NV)
DICK DURBIN (IL)
TIM KAINE (VA)
ANGUS KING (ME)
JOHN FETTERMAN (PA)
ITS OVER
MAGGIE HASSAN (NH)
CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
JEANNE SHAHEEN (NH)
JACKY ROSEN (NV)
DICK DURBIN (IL)
TIM KAINE (VA)
ANGUS KING (ME)
JOHN FETTERMAN (PA)
ITS OVER
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE WASN'T IN DC
Apparently his flight just landed
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE WASN'T IN DC
something very bad should happen to chuck schumer very soon. unbelievable own goal.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
something very bad should happen to chuck schumer very soon. unbelievable own goal.
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So just to be clear, the arc of this evening went:
- it’s not happening, you’re stupid to believe this is happening
- okay so they’re talking about it, but it’s not actually going to happen
- okay so it’s happening and here’s why that’s good, actually
- it’s not happening, you’re stupid to believe this is happening
- okay so they’re talking about it, but it’s not actually going to happen
- okay so it’s happening and here’s why that’s good, actually
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
So just to be clear, the arc of this evening went:
- it’s not happening, you’re stupid to believe this is happening
- okay so they’re talking about it, but it’s not actually going to happen
- okay so it’s happening and here’s why that’s good, actually
- it’s not happening, you’re stupid to believe this is happening
- okay so they’re talking about it, but it’s not actually going to happen
- okay so it’s happening and here’s why that’s good, actually
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory really is the party's tagline
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory really is the party's tagline