@craigsmith.bsky.social
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Peter Arnett has died at 91. The Pulitzer-winning journalist was one of the world’s best-known TV reporters covering wars and insurrections.
Peter Arnett, Pulitzer-Winning War Correspondent, Dies at 91
He won the prestigious award for his daring coverage of the Vietnam War for The Associated Press, and went on to cover conflicts for CNN for nearly two decades.
nyti.ms
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Peter Arnett has died at 91. The Pulitzer-winning journalist was one of the world’s best-known TV reporters covering wars and insurrections.
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For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
bit.ly
December 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
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"SNL" mocked gussied-up year-end features such as Spotify “Wrapped" with a sketch about data-mining the most embarrassing parts of your life, @yeehawchsburger writes:
'SNL' Knows Everything You’ve Been Up to This Year. Do You?
The show mocked prettily packaged year-end features, such as Spotify “Wrapped,” that spit data collected about consumers back at them.
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"SNL" mocked gussied-up year-end features such as Spotify “Wrapped" with a sketch about data-mining the most embarrassing parts of your life, @yeehawchsburger writes:
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Speaking on CNN about mass shootings, Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT):
"I think the country is exhausted. I think our kids are exhausted"
"I think the country is exhausted. I think our kids are exhausted"
December 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Speaking on CNN about mass shootings, Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT):
"I think the country is exhausted. I think our kids are exhausted"
"I think the country is exhausted. I think our kids are exhausted"
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Christ almighty, what now.
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merrychristmas.gov
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Christ almighty, what now.
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Congestion pricing seems like a great example of a policy where the effects are immediately legible to the public in a way that changes their views. Before, people were unsure; after, most people see the benefits and don't want to go back (see also smoking in bars).
Particulate pollution in the air down a whopping 22% in NYC’s congestion pricing zone.
Not only are the streets less congested, but so are our lungs.
e360.yale.edu/digest/new-y...
Not only are the streets less congested, but so are our lungs.
e360.yale.edu/digest/new-y...
In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution
e360.yale.edu
December 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Congestion pricing seems like a great example of a policy where the effects are immediately legible to the public in a way that changes their views. Before, people were unsure; after, most people see the benefits and don't want to go back (see also smoking in bars).
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i have thoughts...thoughts drawn from the history of fascism...Mussolini had this level or micro managing including which fonts could be used in newspapers
Petty? Yes. Callous to those with visual disabilities who the government is supposed to serve? Yes.
But something more sinister is going on. Rubio's resurrection of a Roman font is part of an effort to enforce a MAGA aesthetic that echoes fascist propaganda efforts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
But something more sinister is going on. Rubio's resurrection of a Roman font is part of an effort to enforce a MAGA aesthetic that echoes fascist propaganda efforts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
i have thoughts...thoughts drawn from the history of fascism...Mussolini had this level or micro managing including which fonts could be used in newspapers
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Trump's farmer bailout will primarily go to massive row-crop farmers. Big Ag as they say. Smaller and diversified farms are getting something else - it rhymes with shackjit.
Trump is going to dump tens of $ billions in payments for huge commodity farmers to compensate for huge losses they will suffer from his idiotic trade war. Meanwhile, small farmers growing for local markets will get nothing. Just canceled grants and "thoughts and prayers". wapo.st/3YXdAbU
A Kansas family farm, barely getting by, grapples with Trump’s cuts
Like many of his rural neighbors in northeast Kansas, Jacob Thomas is trying to compensate for deep losses in federal funding. There’s worry and anger.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Trump's farmer bailout will primarily go to massive row-crop farmers. Big Ag as they say. Smaller and diversified farms are getting something else - it rhymes with shackjit.
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PS The Thompson essay is well worth reading: harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
PS The Thompson essay is well worth reading: harpers.org/archive/1941...
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The December print issue of The New Republic begins with an unbylined "11th Hour" column whose author I am not free to divulge. Suffice it to say I have admired him since birth. It's not online so I attach it here. If you can't make it out you'll just have to buy a paper copy.
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The December print issue of The New Republic begins with an unbylined "11th Hour" column whose author I am not free to divulge. Suffice it to say I have admired him since birth. It's not online so I attach it here. If you can't make it out you'll just have to buy a paper copy.
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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European reaction to the new American national strategy document
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
European reaction to the new American national strategy document
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New from me:
Hegseth’s responses are nothing more than sniveling from a man who is supposed to be a model for an organization built on bravery and competence.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Hegseth’s responses are nothing more than sniveling from a man who is supposed to be a model for an organization built on bravery and competence.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth’s Weak Excuses
His evasive responses to Signalgate are shameful nonsense.
www.theatlantic.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
New from me:
Hegseth’s responses are nothing more than sniveling from a man who is supposed to be a model for an organization built on bravery and competence.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Hegseth’s responses are nothing more than sniveling from a man who is supposed to be a model for an organization built on bravery and competence.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Nixon administration consumer advisor Virginia Knauer in 1973
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Nixon administration consumer advisor Virginia Knauer in 1973
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There is something very wrong with Megyn Kelly.
December 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
There is something very wrong with Megyn Kelly.
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Opinion: 'If Trump goes for regime change in Venezuela, it will be on the basis of Hegseth’s planning,' writes Edward Luce. on.ft.com/4pHsbTB
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Opinion: 'If Trump goes for regime change in Venezuela, it will be on the basis of Hegseth’s planning,' writes Edward Luce. on.ft.com/4pHsbTB
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Good read from @radiofreetom.bsky.social.
“In the name of God, Pete Hegseth, go.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
“In the name of God, Pete Hegseth, go.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Good read from @radiofreetom.bsky.social.
“In the name of God, Pete Hegseth, go.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
“In the name of God, Pete Hegseth, go.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Climate pragmatists have resigned to a half-hearted approach to minimizing global warming—but they are “downright oblivious to the implications of a 3 degrees–warmer world,” Peter Brannen argues.
Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Climate pragmatists have resigned to a half-hearted approach to minimizing global warming—but they are “downright oblivious to the implications of a 3 degrees–warmer world,” Peter Brannen argues.
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Not the Onion
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Not the Onion
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“Even for an intermediate emissions scenario [which is our current emissions pathway] the probability of AMOC shutdown is way above 50%”
(AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.)
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(AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.)
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Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“Even for an intermediate emissions scenario [which is our current emissions pathway] the probability of AMOC shutdown is way above 50%”
(AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.)
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(AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.)
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
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I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
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My god. My god.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
My god. My god.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
Oh fucking hell.
God.