Pawel Swidlicki
@pswidlicki.bsky.social
Currently clean on OPSEC
The underlying subject matter is of course very serious but the opening of this paragraph is a late contender for one of the funniest things I've read this year jewishcurrents.org/the-zionist-...
December 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The underlying subject matter is of course very serious but the opening of this paragraph is a late contender for one of the funniest things I've read this year jewishcurrents.org/the-zionist-...
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"three separate policy goals began merging that night — crippling Mr. Maduro, using military force against drug cartels and securing access to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves for US companies."
No mention of the dovish non-interventionism we heard so much about.
No mention of the dovish non-interventionism we heard so much about.
New details of White House deliberations reveal how aides with overlapping agendas drove the U.S. toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.
How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trump’s Venezuela Campaign
New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"three separate policy goals began merging that night — crippling Mr. Maduro, using military force against drug cartels and securing access to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves for US companies."
No mention of the dovish non-interventionism we heard so much about.
No mention of the dovish non-interventionism we heard so much about.
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This is a serious escalation of the supposed war against “censorship”: in the name of free speech, five people are now having their visas revoked and are facing deportation.
This is a narrative Bari Weiss’s Free Press was heavily involved in pushing, too.
This is a narrative Bari Weiss’s Free Press was heavily involved in pushing, too.
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is a serious escalation of the supposed war against “censorship”: in the name of free speech, five people are now having their visas revoked and are facing deportation.
This is a narrative Bari Weiss’s Free Press was heavily involved in pushing, too.
This is a narrative Bari Weiss’s Free Press was heavily involved in pushing, too.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
First time I've ever seen an American use the word gobshite, thought it was quite a specific UK & Irish expression
the reaction from the TWU President:
December 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
First time I've ever seen an American use the word gobshite, thought it was quite a specific UK & Irish expression
Americans are going to get to experience their own fall of Saddam moment
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Americans are going to get to experience their own fall of Saddam moment
What really melts my brain is that even if you completely disregard any moral/ethical dimension, he was a terrible leader! Just compare the state of Germany in 1933 and 1945!
December 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
What really melts my brain is that even if you completely disregard any moral/ethical dimension, he was a terrible leader! Just compare the state of Germany in 1933 and 1945!
Said it before, but when Trump rails against 'socialism', it would be useful to learn what he actually means by that. In addition, it will never not be funny how Truss, Rees-Mogg, Carswell, Hannan, Heath and rest of the 'Anglosphere free traders' flushed any credibility they had to simp for him
Trump: "I could reduce unemployment to 2%, 1%, or practically zero by just hiring people into the federal government even though those jobs are not necessary"
December 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Said it before, but when Trump rails against 'socialism', it would be useful to learn what he actually means by that. In addition, it will never not be funny how Truss, Rees-Mogg, Carswell, Hannan, Heath and rest of the 'Anglosphere free traders' flushed any credibility they had to simp for him
More 'not all cultures are equally valid' content www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
David Walliams dropped by book publisher HarperCollins
Walliams is one of the UK's most successful children's authors, having sold more than 60 million books.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
More 'not all cultures are equally valid' content www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not all cultures are equally valid
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Not all cultures are equally valid
This reminded me of a sub-plot in the woke wars about the supposed need to protect the integrity of hard mathematics
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This reminded me of a sub-plot in the woke wars about the supposed need to protect the integrity of hard mathematics
Kemi works in Westminster where sexual abuse and misconduct are completely endemic. In the last parliament, 2 MPs were convinced and jailed (Elphicke and Imran Khan), Hill lost an Employment Tribunal case and Donaldson was charged. In this parliament, there are 2 pending cases (Norris and Spencer).
December 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Kemi works in Westminster where sexual abuse and misconduct are completely endemic. In the last parliament, 2 MPs were convinced and jailed (Elphicke and Imran Khan), Hill lost an Employment Tribunal case and Donaldson was charged. In this parliament, there are 2 pending cases (Norris and Spencer).
'Nice catch' is particularly grating when you point out its got something basic wrong, something so basic in fact that you were just checking whether to even ask it to attempt something more complex.
i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
'Nice catch' is particularly grating when you point out its got something basic wrong, something so basic in fact that you were just checking whether to even ask it to attempt something more complex.
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ok so maybe I was wrong when I said Putin would never invade. and maybe I was wrong when I said Putin will win in a week and we should not help. But now we’re here, and I'm going to tell you what putin is thinking, and I’m going to do it in the most patronizing way possible
December 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
ok so maybe I was wrong when I said Putin would never invade. and maybe I was wrong when I said Putin will win in a week and we should not help. But now we’re here, and I'm going to tell you what putin is thinking, and I’m going to do it in the most patronizing way possible
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seems incredibly clear that this proscription measure was very badly done on a classic "let's Super Ban this to prove we are serious", caused a bunch of elderly people to be arrested for dumb reasons, didn't help anything and wasnt particularly necessary to arrest violent elements of the group
Terror arrests surge by 660% due to Palestine Action ban
Terror arrests surge by 660% due to Palestine Action ban
www.independent.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
seems incredibly clear that this proscription measure was very badly done on a classic "let's Super Ban this to prove we are serious", caused a bunch of elderly people to be arrested for dumb reasons, didn't help anything and wasnt particularly necessary to arrest violent elements of the group
Just not understand how you can remember what happened to Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and think 'but it might work for us!'.
NEW - Keir Starmer is planning a King’s speech in the week after the May local elections.
Will be reset moment at a time when his leadership may be under threat.
Bills could include AI, immigration, planning and electoral reform.
@jessicaelgot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Will be reset moment at a time when his leadership may be under threat.
Bills could include AI, immigration, planning and electoral reform.
@jessicaelgot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer planning new king’s speech after May elections
Timing seen as reset moment after potential loss of hundreds of council seats in England and defeat in Wales and Scotland
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Just not understand how you can remember what happened to Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and think 'but it might work for us!'.
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Keep in mind that a country that month after month sends 1000 of its men per day to be killed or wounded in order to seizes small pieces of unimportant territory from a neighbor that does not threaten it in any way is a country that has gone dangerously, violently insane.
Ukraine scrabbles for handholds against Russia’s massive assault
A counter-attack in Kupiansk is promising, but the overall outlook is not
economist.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Keep in mind that a country that month after month sends 1000 of its men per day to be killed or wounded in order to seizes small pieces of unimportant territory from a neighbor that does not threaten it in any way is a country that has gone dangerously, violently insane.
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Reims approved 2005 - opened 2011
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
What a fucking joke this country is. If we can’t build a tram faster than the late 2030s, we should just give up.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leeds-Bradford £2.5bn tram plan delayed after government review
West Yorkshire's mayor says she is confident the trams will be running
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Reims approved 2005 - opened 2011
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
Lyon approved 1996 - opened 2001
Luxembourg approved 2014 - opened 2017
Aarhus approved 2012 - opened 2017
Leeds first approval 2001 (well the Supertram proposal, anyway) - new proposal opening *maybe* late 2030s
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attention-driven platformism is a suicide pact. every influence grifter eventually faces the truth that they don’t have the control they imagine; that malign structural forces erected for chaos answer to no one.
*Chris Rufo* warns X is making the right too conspiratorial:
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
attention-driven platformism is a suicide pact. every influence grifter eventually faces the truth that they don’t have the control they imagine; that malign structural forces erected for chaos answer to no one.
It's increasingly apparent the Reiner posts seem to have been the final straw for my erstwhile Trump supporters, which given all the things he's said and done over the past decade, is fascinating from a human psychology perspective.
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
It's increasingly apparent the Reiner posts seem to have been the final straw for my erstwhile Trump supporters, which given all the things he's said and done over the past decade, is fascinating from a human psychology perspective.
Three year driving ban ☠️
BREAKING: Liverpool FC parade crash driver Paul Doyle is sentenced to 21 years and six months in prison
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
Paul Doyle sentenced for 21 years over LFC parade crash
Paul Doyle has been jailed for 21 years and six months after admitting a total of 31 charges, having driven his car into crowds of Liverpool FC fans during a victory parade
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Three year driving ban ☠️
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Notable that the small bump in Badenoch's ratings are solely within bloc, reflecting what is increasingly the main dynamic of electoral competition.
The issue, though, is that while Reform sympathetic voters might like her, few like her most (as per Labour voters liking Ed Davey).
The issue, though, is that while Reform sympathetic voters might like her, few like her most (as per Labour voters liking Ed Davey).
The recent increase in favourable opinion towards Kemi Badenoch is concentrated among Conservative and Reform UK voters
2024 Conservative: 62% favourable (+10 from 16-17 Nov)
2024 Reform UK: 50% (+9)
2024 Lib Dem: 15% (-1)
2024 Labour: 9% (=)
2024 Green: 6% (-1)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
2024 Conservative: 62% favourable (+10 from 16-17 Nov)
2024 Reform UK: 50% (+9)
2024 Lib Dem: 15% (-1)
2024 Labour: 9% (=)
2024 Green: 6% (-1)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
December 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Notable that the small bump in Badenoch's ratings are solely within bloc, reflecting what is increasingly the main dynamic of electoral competition.
The issue, though, is that while Reform sympathetic voters might like her, few like her most (as per Labour voters liking Ed Davey).
The issue, though, is that while Reform sympathetic voters might like her, few like her most (as per Labour voters liking Ed Davey).
Would be helpful for someone who understands the legal intricacies to explain how this would work in practice in terms of jurisdiction, e.g. can a US Court compel BBC execs to hand over internal docs as part of the discovery process? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
BBC bosses ‘right to stick by their guns’ against Trump, says minister
Keir Starmer urged to ‘stand up for the BBC’ after US president files $10bn lawsuit against corporation
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Would be helpful for someone who understands the legal intricacies to explain how this would work in practice in terms of jurisdiction, e.g. can a US Court compel BBC execs to hand over internal docs as part of the discovery process? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
You'll rarely see a better fit for that family guy meme than this
December 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
You'll rarely see a better fit for that family guy meme than this