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Not to mention the damage it does to the attacked, as well as to the attackers who "do their heads in" to justify their attack.
A resulting cynicism eats into the society of the attackers for decades.
A resulting cynicism eats into the society of the attackers for decades.
Supposedly we shut off the electricity before the attack and the defense systems were not working. Another Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Easy to get in; hard to get out.
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Not to mention the damage it does to the attacked, as well as to the attackers who "do their heads in" to justify their attack.
A resulting cynicism eats into the society of the attackers for decades.
A resulting cynicism eats into the society of the attackers for decades.
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There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.
bloom.bg
January 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.
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It would be nice to get a good dollar estimate for how much this Venezuela caper is costing the US. Our citizens will react to that, especially those who just had their healthcare benefits, double or triple
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
It would be nice to get a good dollar estimate for how much this Venezuela caper is costing the US. Our citizens will react to that, especially those who just had their healthcare benefits, double or triple
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#Ukraine
🇺🇦 suffers so cowards can sleep peacefully.
"This is a city of 1 million people, including 200,000 children.
Russia’s aim: to create a humanitarian catastrophe in Odesa on the eve of Christmas.
Another wave is expected — over 50 Shahed drones are approaching."
bsky.app/profile/savc...
🇺🇦 suffers so cowards can sleep peacefully.
"This is a city of 1 million people, including 200,000 children.
Russia’s aim: to create a humanitarian catastrophe in Odesa on the eve of Christmas.
Another wave is expected — over 50 Shahed drones are approaching."
bsky.app/profile/savc...
‼️‼️ I am writing this under the sound of explosions
Odesa is without electricity, water, gas, and communication after one of Russia’s most intense attacks of the war.
More than ten explosions have been reported, involving ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, Oniks missiles, and Kinzhal missiles.
Odesa is without electricity, water, gas, and communication after one of Russia’s most intense attacks of the war.
More than ten explosions have been reported, involving ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, Oniks missiles, and Kinzhal missiles.
December 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
#Ukraine
🇺🇦 suffers so cowards can sleep peacefully.
"This is a city of 1 million people, including 200,000 children.
Russia’s aim: to create a humanitarian catastrophe in Odesa on the eve of Christmas.
Another wave is expected — over 50 Shahed drones are approaching."
bsky.app/profile/savc...
🇺🇦 suffers so cowards can sleep peacefully.
"This is a city of 1 million people, including 200,000 children.
Russia’s aim: to create a humanitarian catastrophe in Odesa on the eve of Christmas.
Another wave is expected — over 50 Shahed drones are approaching."
bsky.app/profile/savc...
Yes, "spheres of influence" seem to turn out to be very different from self-chosen collectives. SOIs seem to be about control, even domination, sometimes in protection's clothing.
everyone should rebel, resist and organize against "sphere of influence" bullshit, how about none of that, nowhere
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Yes, "spheres of influence" seem to turn out to be very different from self-chosen collectives. SOIs seem to be about control, even domination, sometimes in protection's clothing.
Just for a little reality testing...
December 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Just for a little reality testing...
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Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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NEWS: Sen. Ruben Gallego is offering a war powers resolution to remove U.S. troops from ongoing boat strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
Full story:
punchbowl.news/article/defe...
Full story:
punchbowl.news/article/defe...
Gallego launches new war powers push
Sen. Ruben Gallego is offering a war powers resolution to remove U.S. troops from ongoing boat strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
punchbowl.news
December 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
NEWS: Sen. Ruben Gallego is offering a war powers resolution to remove U.S. troops from ongoing boat strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
Full story:
punchbowl.news/article/defe...
Full story:
punchbowl.news/article/defe...
Substantial conversation here imo. Informing, sharing of wisdom, heartening. It's not the shortest. Sit down with it and peel some apples, etc.?
Tonight, Dec 12, at 9pm ET join @ms.now to watch the conversation I had with Rachel Maddow in Chicago last month.
@maddow.bsky.social
@maddow.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Substantial conversation here imo. Informing, sharing of wisdom, heartening. It's not the shortest. Sit down with it and peel some apples, etc.?
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Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
Putin said Russia had taken Kupiansk weeks ago.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
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Breaking News: After a painstakingly close reading of the Constitution, the textualist and originalist majority on the Supreme Court have decided that the founders intended for the United States to to be a dictatorship.
December 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Breaking News: After a painstakingly close reading of the Constitution, the textualist and originalist majority on the Supreme Court have decided that the founders intended for the United States to to be a dictatorship.
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'In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail"
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption
The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.
www.theatlantic.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
'In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail"
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Also, tangentially,
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Also, tangentially,
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
I'm sorry Derek Guy. Thank you for your sane description.
The attack on Vietnam continues to tear people apart even if it's not called by name and is instead called "cynicism and "mistrust of government." The attack on Vietnam is a main source imo of US vulnerability to authoritarianism.
The attack on Vietnam continues to tear people apart even if it's not called by name and is instead called "cynicism and "mistrust of government." The attack on Vietnam is a main source imo of US vulnerability to authoritarianism.
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I'm sorry Derek Guy. Thank you for your sane description.
The attack on Vietnam continues to tear people apart even if it's not called by name and is instead called "cynicism and "mistrust of government." The attack on Vietnam is a main source imo of US vulnerability to authoritarianism.
The attack on Vietnam continues to tear people apart even if it's not called by name and is instead called "cynicism and "mistrust of government." The attack on Vietnam is a main source imo of US vulnerability to authoritarianism.
Or is it between a few U.S. Americans and America's traditional allies? (Then those few U.S. Americans will say they must be followed by Americans all-sorts or it's treason?)
Why is so much say-so delegated to the tippy top in some democracies? USA? Isreal? Less so Germany & UK.
Needs revising.
Why is so much say-so delegated to the tippy top in some democracies? USA? Isreal? Less so Germany & UK.
Needs revising.
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies."
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Or is it between a few U.S. Americans and America's traditional allies? (Then those few U.S. Americans will say they must be followed by Americans all-sorts or it's treason?)
Why is so much say-so delegated to the tippy top in some democracies? USA? Isreal? Less so Germany & UK.
Needs revising.
Why is so much say-so delegated to the tippy top in some democracies? USA? Isreal? Less so Germany & UK.
Needs revising.
Excerpt from this helpful talk given by Jason Stanley....
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Excerpt from this helpful talk given by Jason Stanley....
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While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
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As his approval sinks, Trump will turn to the emotion from which his power derives: fear.
Fear closes us off from each other, weakens what is our strength, deprives us of our future and only serves to secure his.
The antidote is hope. An autocrat cannot defeat a hopeful people. Hold fast to it.
Fear closes us off from each other, weakens what is our strength, deprives us of our future and only serves to secure his.
The antidote is hope. An autocrat cannot defeat a hopeful people. Hold fast to it.
November 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
As his approval sinks, Trump will turn to the emotion from which his power derives: fear.
Fear closes us off from each other, weakens what is our strength, deprives us of our future and only serves to secure his.
The antidote is hope. An autocrat cannot defeat a hopeful people. Hold fast to it.
Fear closes us off from each other, weakens what is our strength, deprives us of our future and only serves to secure his.
The antidote is hope. An autocrat cannot defeat a hopeful people. Hold fast to it.
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In today’s Russian papers: the new icebreaker Stalingrad, 14-year-olds can now be prosecuted for sabotage & “Russia’s industry is somewhere between stagnation and decline.” #ReadingRussia
"Russian industry is somewhere between stagnation and decline,” says Russian paper.
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
In today’s Russian papers: the new icebreaker Stalingrad, 14-year-olds can now be prosecuted for sabotage & “Russia’s industry is somewhere between stagnation and decline.” #ReadingRussia
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Today one Russian paper is crowing over reports of a US-Russia peace plan: “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine? That’s all in the past.” But the state of Russia’s economy is nothing to crow about: “Recession is almost inevitable.” Plus, one editorial, with two messages..? #ReadingRusia
"Recession in Russia almost inevitable" warns Russian paper.
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Today one Russian paper is crowing over reports of a US-Russia peace plan: “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine? That’s all in the past.” But the state of Russia’s economy is nothing to crow about: “Recession is almost inevitable.” Plus, one editorial, with two messages..? #ReadingRusia
So, rather than Russia giving Ukraine what's owed, he "gives" to Ukraine in the form of backing down from an outrageous position? And Ukraine should feel grateful because in this way he has arranged a peace conference?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchori...
Can also claim credit with Russia?
???
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchori...
Can also claim credit with Russia?
???
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
So, rather than Russia giving Ukraine what's owed, he "gives" to Ukraine in the form of backing down from an outrageous position? And Ukraine should feel grateful because in this way he has arranged a peace conference?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchori...
Can also claim credit with Russia?
???
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchori...
Can also claim credit with Russia?
???
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Interesting thought. Could be. Could be the other way around...
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Interesting thought. Could be. Could be the other way around...
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A 79-year-old U.S. citizen has filed a civil rights lawsuit demanding $50 million after being arrested and injured during an immigration raid at his business in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A 79-year-old U.S. citizen has filed a civil rights lawsuit demanding $50 million after being arrested and injured during an immigration raid at his business in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.