@alkibiades415.bsky.social
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We don't need answers, Senator Schumer, we already know what happened: forceful abuse of power violating rights by an anti-Constitutional regime, in defense of other abuses.
Maybe working with and appeasing them, or doing nothing and hoping they'll go away on their own, isn't the best strategy.
Maybe working with and appeasing them, or doing nothing and hoping they'll go away on their own, isn't the best strategy.
Watching this video sickened my stomach, the manhandling of a United States Senator, Senator Padilla.
We need immediate answers to what the hell went on.
www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/a...
We need immediate answers to what the hell went on.
www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/a...
Video: Sen. Alex Padilla removed from news conference with Homeland Security Secretary Noem
Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference Thursday morning with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Noem was speaking in Los Angeles about recent ICE operations in the region ...
www.nbclosangeles.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We don't need answers, Senator Schumer, we already know what happened: forceful abuse of power violating rights by an anti-Constitutional regime, in defense of other abuses.
Maybe working with and appeasing them, or doing nothing and hoping they'll go away on their own, isn't the best strategy.
Maybe working with and appeasing them, or doing nothing and hoping they'll go away on their own, isn't the best strategy.
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A billboard by The Telegraph, reportedly in Kent, England.
April 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A billboard by The Telegraph, reportedly in Kent, England.
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Born #onthisday in 1840, the French symbolist artist Odilon Redon. Known for his surreal and often haunting imagery, some of his most stunning works are his illustrations for Flaubert's failed masterpiece Temptation of St Anthony: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #OTD
April 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Born #onthisday in 1840, the French symbolist artist Odilon Redon. Known for his surreal and often haunting imagery, some of his most stunning works are his illustrations for Flaubert's failed masterpiece Temptation of St Anthony: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #OTD
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Former commander of Pituffik Susan Meyers must have known that she would be fired for this.
But apparently she found there are bigger considerations at stake than keeping her command.
Question is if we'll see more of this sort in coming months?
Berlingske has obtained her leaked email
#Defence
But apparently she found there are bigger considerations at stake than keeping her command.
Question is if we'll see more of this sort in coming months?
Berlingske has obtained her leaked email
#Defence
April 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Former commander of Pituffik Susan Meyers must have known that she would be fired for this.
But apparently she found there are bigger considerations at stake than keeping her command.
Question is if we'll see more of this sort in coming months?
Berlingske has obtained her leaked email
#Defence
But apparently she found there are bigger considerations at stake than keeping her command.
Question is if we'll see more of this sort in coming months?
Berlingske has obtained her leaked email
#Defence
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A step-by-step guide to Donald Trump’s destruction of U.S. foreign policy, from @stephenwalt.bsky.social.
How to Ruin a Country
A step-by-step guide to Donald Trump’s destruction of U.S. foreign policy.
foreignpolicy.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A step-by-step guide to Donald Trump’s destruction of U.S. foreign policy, from @stephenwalt.bsky.social.
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"Life, not computation, unlocks our non-deterministic future. Only by looking beyond our current technological moment to the next technologies creating new life forms will we be able to understand what our future could hold."
Read @saraimari.bsky.social: longnow.org/ideas/physic...
Read @saraimari.bsky.social: longnow.org/ideas/physic...
Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not
Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future.
longnow.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
"Life, not computation, unlocks our non-deterministic future. Only by looking beyond our current technological moment to the next technologies creating new life forms will we be able to understand what our future could hold."
Read @saraimari.bsky.social: longnow.org/ideas/physic...
Read @saraimari.bsky.social: longnow.org/ideas/physic...
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"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...
Ten weeks that shook the world
On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power
www.ft.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...
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I had legit completely forgotten this.
March 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I had legit completely forgotten this.
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I joined @united24media.com for a status on the war and a discussion of what victory for #Ukraine looks like. I think it was a really good conversation. You can listen to it here.
'If Ukraine Falls, Russia Won’t Stop – What’s Next for Europe' – Podcast With Anders Puck Nielsen
YouTube video by UNITED24
www.youtube.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I joined @united24media.com for a status on the war and a discussion of what victory for #Ukraine looks like. I think it was a really good conversation. You can listen to it here.
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Compared to Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, Poland, Trump is moving MUCH faster, more aggressively, and with broader claim to power. We're not in danger of becoming those autocracies--we're very quickly surpassing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook (Gift Article)
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Compared to Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, Poland, Trump is moving MUCH faster, more aggressively, and with broader claim to power. We're not in danger of becoming those autocracies--we're very quickly surpassing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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CALL TO ACTION FOR ALL WHO SUPPORT HIGHER ED:
Please join us in signing this public commitment to the value and values of higher ed as a crucial part of healthy democracies, and calling on our leaders to actively defend us against attack!
bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...
Please join us in signing this public commitment to the value and values of higher ed as a crucial part of healthy democracies, and calling on our leaders to actively defend us against attack!
bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...
Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education
Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...
bit.ly
March 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
CALL TO ACTION FOR ALL WHO SUPPORT HIGHER ED:
Please join us in signing this public commitment to the value and values of higher ed as a crucial part of healthy democracies, and calling on our leaders to actively defend us against attack!
bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...
Please join us in signing this public commitment to the value and values of higher ed as a crucial part of healthy democracies, and calling on our leaders to actively defend us against attack!
bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...
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The massive upside of U.S. security guarantees, including for Americans, has been the astonishing containment of nuclear proliferation elsewhere, Debak Das and Rachel A. Epstein write.
An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb
Without credible U.S. security guarantees, nuclear proliferation is likely to increase rapidly across Europe and Asia.
foreignpolicy.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The massive upside of U.S. security guarantees, including for Americans, has been the astonishing containment of nuclear proliferation elsewhere, Debak Das and Rachel A. Epstein write.
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»The political scientist Kenneth Waltz famously argued that when it came to the spread of nuclear weapons, “more may be better”—because all international rivalries would be durably stabilized by the prospect of mutually assured destruction. The world may be about to test his hypothesis.«
Get Ready for the Next Nuclear Age
How Trump might drive proliferation.
www.foreignaffairs.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
»The political scientist Kenneth Waltz famously argued that when it came to the spread of nuclear weapons, “more may be better”—because all international rivalries would be durably stabilized by the prospect of mutually assured destruction. The world may be about to test his hypothesis.«
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New episode just posted (featuring @justin-br0nk.bsky.social). Don't argue with anyone on social media or at pickleball without watching this first!
The Real Truth About What's Next with the War in Ukraine
YouTube video by Ward Carroll
youtu.be
March 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New episode just posted (featuring @justin-br0nk.bsky.social). Don't argue with anyone on social media or at pickleball without watching this first!
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There are two reasons why Putin invaded Ukraine. The first is that he believed he could. In 2014, Ukraine was weak, embroiled in revolution. He tested this by annexing Crimea—and succeeded. He tried again in eastern Ukraine; it didn’t go as well, but he bided his time.
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1/12
March 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There are two reasons why Putin invaded Ukraine. The first is that he believed he could. In 2014, Ukraine was weak, embroiled in revolution. He tested this by annexing Crimea—and succeeded. He tried again in eastern Ukraine; it didn’t go as well, but he bided his time.
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Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
February 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
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Trumps New world order.
February 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Trumps New world order.
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Most Ukrainian cities have not been destroyed.
Ukrainian law prohibits holding elections in wartime (unlike the US Constitution, which requires it).
isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
Ukrainian law prohibits holding elections in wartime (unlike the US Constitution, which requires it).
isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
February 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Most Ukrainian cities have not been destroyed.
Ukrainian law prohibits holding elections in wartime (unlike the US Constitution, which requires it).
isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
Ukrainian law prohibits holding elections in wartime (unlike the US Constitution, which requires it).
isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
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New episode just posted (featuring @justin-br0nk.bsky.social):
Deep Intel on the U.S. Plan to End the War in Ukraine
YouTube video by Ward Carroll
youtu.be
February 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
New episode just posted (featuring @justin-br0nk.bsky.social):
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Impeach Trump.
Americans are already protesting against Trump, — CBS
Organizers said their goal was to oppose the "anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration."
One of the signs in Washington, where hundreds of people gathered, read: "Deport Musk, Impeach Trump."
Americans are already protesting against Trump, — CBS
Organizers said their goal was to oppose the "anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration."
One of the signs in Washington, where hundreds of people gathered, read: "Deport Musk, Impeach Trump."
February 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Impeach Trump.
Americans are already protesting against Trump, — CBS
Organizers said their goal was to oppose the "anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration."
One of the signs in Washington, where hundreds of people gathered, read: "Deport Musk, Impeach Trump."
Americans are already protesting against Trump, — CBS
Organizers said their goal was to oppose the "anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration."
One of the signs in Washington, where hundreds of people gathered, read: "Deport Musk, Impeach Trump."
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Trump is right to say Russia’s war against Ukraine “never should have started”—but the blame for it lies entirely with Putin, not with Ukraine and Zelensky, writes David J. Kramer.
Why Trump Is Wrong About Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Setting the record straight on who started the war.
foreignpolicy.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Trump is right to say Russia’s war against Ukraine “never should have started”—but the blame for it lies entirely with Putin, not with Ukraine and Zelensky, writes David J. Kramer.
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After having spoken to Vladimir Putin, Trump claims Ukrainian president Zelenskyy’s approval rating is 4 percent.
The actual number is 57 percent, which Trump would know, if he ever did some fact checking.
US voters have elected a fool.
The actual number is 57 percent, which Trump would know, if he ever did some fact checking.
US voters have elected a fool.
February 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
After having spoken to Vladimir Putin, Trump claims Ukrainian president Zelenskyy’s approval rating is 4 percent.
The actual number is 57 percent, which Trump would know, if he ever did some fact checking.
US voters have elected a fool.
The actual number is 57 percent, which Trump would know, if he ever did some fact checking.
US voters have elected a fool.
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Arp 321.
a compact group of five galaxies located in the constellation Hydra. It's a fascinating object for astronomers because these galaxies are in close proximity and interacting with each other.
Processed Hubble data by Dr. Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç.
www.flickr.com/photos/mhozs...
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a compact group of five galaxies located in the constellation Hydra. It's a fascinating object for astronomers because these galaxies are in close proximity and interacting with each other.
Processed Hubble data by Dr. Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç.
www.flickr.com/photos/mhozs...
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February 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Arp 321.
a compact group of five galaxies located in the constellation Hydra. It's a fascinating object for astronomers because these galaxies are in close proximity and interacting with each other.
Processed Hubble data by Dr. Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç.
www.flickr.com/photos/mhozs...
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a compact group of five galaxies located in the constellation Hydra. It's a fascinating object for astronomers because these galaxies are in close proximity and interacting with each other.
Processed Hubble data by Dr. Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç.
www.flickr.com/photos/mhozs...
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High quality image of one of the heaviest and most luminous stars in the known universe (Hubble).
Processing: Judy Schimdt.
www.flickr.com/photos/geckz...
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Processing: Judy Schimdt.
www.flickr.com/photos/geckz...
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January 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
High quality image of one of the heaviest and most luminous stars in the known universe (Hubble).
Processing: Judy Schimdt.
www.flickr.com/photos/geckz...
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Processing: Judy Schimdt.
www.flickr.com/photos/geckz...
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