AdmiralPaco
@admiralpaco.bsky.social
Non-Professional Historian, Pretend Admiral, Definitely a Cat, Content Creator (New Videos weeklyish!) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCillSo91sHy_Kfg1lwVppWQ
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happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
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"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
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Aside from everything else, we have technology such that material prosperity and pro-climate policy are inextricably linked.
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Aside from everything else, we have technology such that material prosperity and pro-climate policy are inextricably linked.
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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imo if you think chaos at the border is bad for your party you should think a couple of moves ahead about something that has the potential to produce the largest refugee crisis in human history
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
imo if you think chaos at the border is bad for your party you should think a couple of moves ahead about something that has the potential to produce the largest refugee crisis in human history
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
This graph makes me so sad at what the US economy could have been. (Though I think the AI bubble was going to burst within a few years regardless and God help us all when it does)
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This graph makes me so sad at what the US economy could have been. (Though I think the AI bubble was going to burst within a few years regardless and God help us all when it does)
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November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
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As Charlotte faces an increased federal presence, I want to keep sharing what worked for us in the Chicago area.
The more prepared you are, the more people you can save and the more evidence you can collect to eventually enable our nation to bring the perpetrators of this horror to justice.
The more prepared you are, the more people you can save and the more evidence you can collect to eventually enable our nation to bring the perpetrators of this horror to justice.
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
As Charlotte faces an increased federal presence, I want to keep sharing what worked for us in the Chicago area.
The more prepared you are, the more people you can save and the more evidence you can collect to eventually enable our nation to bring the perpetrators of this horror to justice.
The more prepared you are, the more people you can save and the more evidence you can collect to eventually enable our nation to bring the perpetrators of this horror to justice.
There can be geopolitical reasons a country wants to maintain certain kinds of manufacturing, but "bringing back manufacturing to have good jobs" isn't one of those reasons. Manufacturing jobs were historically 'good' in the US because of unions. They were awful jobs pre unions.
Dani Rodrik in the NYT the other day with a pretty compelling argument about making service sector jobs into good jobs
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
There can be geopolitical reasons a country wants to maintain certain kinds of manufacturing, but "bringing back manufacturing to have good jobs" isn't one of those reasons. Manufacturing jobs were historically 'good' in the US because of unions. They were awful jobs pre unions.
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One thing that's abundantly clear: passing the SAFE Research Act would permanently end the United States' ability to be competitive in any area of advanced technology. Just straight up suicidal policy-making.
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
One thing that's abundantly clear: passing the SAFE Research Act would permanently end the United States' ability to be competitive in any area of advanced technology. Just straight up suicidal policy-making.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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It would make America a banana republic to investigate the very obvious crimes of the former president that he is extremely guilty of
it's a real shame there wasn't just a Democratic president with control of federal law enforcement for 4 years, otherwise it would be pretty fuckin outrageous that he didn't find this
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It would make America a banana republic to investigate the very obvious crimes of the former president that he is extremely guilty of
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One of the GOP's sweatier Epstein defenses has been "if they had good stuff they'd have used it when Biden was president." But the growing awareness that Garland spiked anything that could look political explains this!
I feel like “mad at Merrick Garland” is going to hit a whole new level.
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
One of the GOP's sweatier Epstein defenses has been "if they had good stuff they'd have used it when Biden was president." But the growing awareness that Garland spiked anything that could look political explains this!
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Folks, the reporting is that Trump is making PERSONAL CALLS to Mace, MTG and others about the discharge petition. Would you be doing this if you had nothing to hide? Let's please all be serious here.
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Folks, the reporting is that Trump is making PERSONAL CALLS to Mace, MTG and others about the discharge petition. Would you be doing this if you had nothing to hide? Let's please all be serious here.
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Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
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I'm sorry but if you say "antisemitism is a big problem — that those *other guys* are responsible for," I will never take you seriously
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I'm sorry but if you say "antisemitism is a big problem — that those *other guys* are responsible for," I will never take you seriously
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Antisemitism, like every form of bigotry, is *endemic* and you have to clean up your own backyard before you start pointing at your neighbor's mess
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Antisemitism, like every form of bigotry, is *endemic* and you have to clean up your own backyard before you start pointing at your neighbor's mess
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Like you guys really think that the left has lingering problems with racism and homophobia and transphobia and sexism and Islamophobia but is totally unproblematic when it comes to the Jews?
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Like you guys really think that the left has lingering problems with racism and homophobia and transphobia and sexism and Islamophobia but is totally unproblematic when it comes to the Jews?
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As I sometimes like to mention, s the only reason you know who Jeffrey Epstein is (that is, if you weren't one of his friends/clients/beneficiaries) is because Ms Brown, below, broke the story of his sweetheart deal to get out of the 2008 trafficking charges.
BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
New Epstein emails claim Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim
Democrats on the House Oversight say the emails provide evidence of a cover-up by the White House
www.miamiherald.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
As I sometimes like to mention, s the only reason you know who Jeffrey Epstein is (that is, if you weren't one of his friends/clients/beneficiaries) is because Ms Brown, below, broke the story of his sweetheart deal to get out of the 2008 trafficking charges.
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the year is 1925. The co-leader of the German far right has suggested Poland is as much of a threat as Russia.
the year is 2025. The co-leader of the German far right has suggested Poland is as much of a threat as Russia.
the year is 3025. The co-leader of the German far right
the year is 2025. The co-leader of the German far right has suggested Poland is as much of a threat as Russia.
the year is 3025. The co-leader of the German far right
The co-leader of the far-right AfD, Germany's largest opposition party, has suggested that Poland is as much of a threat to his country as Russia is.
Leader of far-right AfD suggests Poland as great a threat to Germany as Russia
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November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
the year is 1925. The co-leader of the German far right has suggested Poland is as much of a threat as Russia.
the year is 2025. The co-leader of the German far right has suggested Poland is as much of a threat as Russia.
the year is 3025. The co-leader of the German far right
the year is 2025. The co-leader of the German far right has suggested Poland is as much of a threat as Russia.
the year is 3025. The co-leader of the German far right