Wendell Albright
@wendella.bsky.social
Diplomatic dude. I know a little about international economics. I once explained the electoral college on Mongolian TV. Climate change believes in you. Vaccines are good, actually.
"I could smell the mustard and onions."
"I could smell the mustard and onions."
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Wendell Albright
@wendella.bsky.social
· Jun 10
It's like Asimov's "Nightfall" except instead of the stars driving us insane, it's social media...
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US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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It’s great that the grand jury said nix, but the attempt was a significant escalation.
Grand juries keep seeing through the Trump DOJ's naked attempts to intimidate critics and political rivals — this time for accurately stating that illegal orders must be disobeyed. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:09 AM
It’s great that the grand jury said nix, but the attempt was a significant escalation.
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Basically this is another step in the Republicans' intentional years-long enshittification of the federal government
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
The death of the CIA Factbook and Trump's war on usefulness
Wherever government does something helpful, the regime wants to kill it.
open.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Basically this is another step in the Republicans' intentional years-long enshittification of the federal government
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
we still have noncitizen nationals - people born in American Samoa or Swains Island (in the Pacific)...
February 11, 2026 at 2:33 AM
we still have noncitizen nationals - people born in American Samoa or Swains Island (in the Pacific)...
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⚽️🇺🇦 Ukraine gathers support from European governments to oppose FIFA’s intention to lift ban on Russian teams from international tournaments. Russia’s return to the World Cup would mean legitimizing Putin’s aggression, — Ukrainian Sports Minister
February 10, 2026 at 8:02 PM
⚽️🇺🇦 Ukraine gathers support from European governments to oppose FIFA’s intention to lift ban on Russian teams from international tournaments. Russia’s return to the World Cup would mean legitimizing Putin’s aggression, — Ukrainian Sports Minister
greatest period of corruption, for sure
Trump: "This is the greatest period of anything that we've ever seen"
February 11, 2026 at 2:01 AM
greatest period of corruption, for sure
yes, and fuck Flock
If you still have a Ring camera, you may want to think about replacing it with something a little less Continental Panopticon.
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 11, 2026 at 1:56 AM
yes, and fuck Flock
"Friends, Romans, fellow Republicans"
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
"Friends, Romans, fellow Republicans"
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60 degrees next week, guess we're back on the global warming thing
February 11, 2026 at 1:37 AM
60 degrees next week, guess we're back on the global warming thing
JD Vance, dumbass
Vance once again showed the amateur hour performance of the Trump admin when he caused an international incident just by turning up. He laid a wreath at the Armenian Genocide Memorial and posted about it, thus massively pissing off the Turks.
Then he deleted the post and pissed off the Armenians.
Then he deleted the post and pissed off the Armenians.
February 10, 2026 at 7:55 PM
JD Vance, dumbass
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In the forthcoming book ‘Altai,’ photographer Claire Thomas chronicles a time-honored way of life in Mongolia.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/alta...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/alta...
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
In the forthcoming book ‘Altai,’ photographer Claire Thomas chronicles a time-honored way of life in Mongolia.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/alta...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/alta...
it would be nice for a change to see something happening in Ohio that isn't sheer idiocy
Ohio is poised to block a major solar farm because of local pushback — even though a substantial number of public comments opposing the installation appear to be fabricated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/10/a...
Are faked public comments about to tank an Ohio solar farm? • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio is poised to block a major solar farm because of local pushback — even though a substantial number of public comments opposing the installation appear to be fabricated.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
it would be nice for a change to see something happening in Ohio that isn't sheer idiocy
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NO LIES 👇 DETECTED.......
February 10, 2026 at 10:33 AM
NO LIES 👇 DETECTED.......
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We built it
We built it
We built it. We paid for it. We already gave you half. Sit down.
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February 10, 2026 at 6:05 AM
We built it
it's like 20 degrees warmer outside than it has been for a month
February 10, 2026 at 4:50 PM
it's like 20 degrees warmer outside than it has been for a month
no doubt a masked ad agency
Who paid for the Super Bowl ICE ad?
"Ideally, in a democracy, we’d know who is spending millions trying to change public opinion on the secret police. But, in the American system, that’s just not how it works."
"Ideally, in a democracy, we’d know who is spending millions trying to change public opinion on the secret police. But, in the American system, that’s just not how it works."
Who paid for the Super Bowl ICE ad?
The group behind Sunday's bizarre commercial has a sparse paper trail.
www.motherjones.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
no doubt a masked ad agency
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Investigators from the Department of Homeland Security showed up at a Dayton area career tech high school to investigate allegations of voter fraud. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/10/s...
School officials, voting rights groups push back after DHS visits Dayton high school • Ohio Capital Journal
Investigators from the Department of Homeland Security showed up at a Dayton area career tech high school to investigate allegations of voter fraud.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Investigators from the Department of Homeland Security showed up at a Dayton area career tech high school to investigate allegations of voter fraud. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/10/s...
age verification? I remember the last World Series the Cincinnati Reds won
February 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM
age verification? I remember the last World Series the Cincinnati Reds won
wait, what - Canada made me a citizen and I didn't even know it?
(via one of my granddads)
(via one of my granddads)
I'm not saying that Canada is perfect, I'm saying that the bar is pretty low right now.
February 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
wait, what - Canada made me a citizen and I didn't even know it?
(via one of my granddads)
(via one of my granddads)
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Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt
February 10, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt
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'The Orange Seller.' (c1960) Reginald Brill was an English social realist and narrative painter whose work primarily depicts the lives of ordinary people and the landscapes that they inhabit.
February 10, 2026 at 7:22 AM
'The Orange Seller.' (c1960) Reginald Brill was an English social realist and narrative painter whose work primarily depicts the lives of ordinary people and the landscapes that they inhabit.
did they even have a control officer? this is very basic stuff
Vance took a 40 car motorcade to meet Meloni who just walked in. The funny part? Despite bringing hundreds of people Vances team forget to bring a single translator. Hubris and stupidity make really bad diplomacy.
February 10, 2026 at 2:18 PM
did they even have a control officer? this is very basic stuff