@dinidu.bsky.social
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This is a huge scandal.
As Foreign Secretary, David Cameron tried to intimidate the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Courts into dropping his Israeli arrest warrants.
A violation of international law - ignored by British news outlets.
As Foreign Secretary, David Cameron tried to intimidate the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Courts into dropping his Israeli arrest warrants.
A violation of international law - ignored by British news outlets.
Exclusive: David Cameron threatened to withdraw UK from ICC over Israel war crimes probe
Former foreign secretary told ICC prosecutor Karim Khan that issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders would be like ‘dropping a hydrogen bomb’
www.middleeasteye.net
June 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is a huge scandal.
As Foreign Secretary, David Cameron tried to intimidate the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Courts into dropping his Israeli arrest warrants.
A violation of international law - ignored by British news outlets.
As Foreign Secretary, David Cameron tried to intimidate the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Courts into dropping his Israeli arrest warrants.
A violation of international law - ignored by British news outlets.
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So that's the epiphany. There are consequences. We are suffering the consequences of much of our history. The guys in power are panicking because Eternal Power is THEIR only way out of the consequences of last term.
I hope that thought helps you make it through, and helps you help others survive.
I hope that thought helps you make it through, and helps you help others survive.
Their only way out of THAT, is if the United States government well and truly falls. And if it does, all the jackals come in and these idiots get out-maneuvered and pushed out and executed.
This really IS an extinction burst. I don't know if the philosophy goes away, but these guys do.
This really IS an extinction burst. I don't know if the philosophy goes away, but these guys do.
February 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
So that's the epiphany. There are consequences. We are suffering the consequences of much of our history. The guys in power are panicking because Eternal Power is THEIR only way out of the consequences of last term.
I hope that thought helps you make it through, and helps you help others survive.
I hope that thought helps you make it through, and helps you help others survive.
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Thank fucking Christ he’s saying it
Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight.
"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
February 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Thank fucking Christ he’s saying it
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This is it. This is why I want to scream when people with terminal consultant-brain say USAID isn’t popular and therefore Dems shouldn’t defend it
If it’s not popular, fucking MAKE it popular. TELL A FUCKING STORY
If it’s not popular, fucking MAKE it popular. TELL A FUCKING STORY
February 8, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This is it. This is why I want to scream when people with terminal consultant-brain say USAID isn’t popular and therefore Dems shouldn’t defend it
If it’s not popular, fucking MAKE it popular. TELL A FUCKING STORY
If it’s not popular, fucking MAKE it popular. TELL A FUCKING STORY
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So a thing that has been really overwhelming the last few weeks. These attacks are happening *retroactively*. They are taking money that has been granted to universities and researchers back. It is absolute chaos. We often are planning years out. To suddenly have that money (ILLEGALLY) reduced??
6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
February 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
So a thing that has been really overwhelming the last few weeks. These attacks are happening *retroactively*. They are taking money that has been granted to universities and researchers back. It is absolute chaos. We often are planning years out. To suddenly have that money (ILLEGALLY) reduced??
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I want a cure. I’m watching the chance of one in my lifetime slip away.
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
www.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I want a cure. I’m watching the chance of one in my lifetime slip away.
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It is beyond crucial that this injunction be enforced.
If Trump won’t do it, we need to.
If Trump won’t do it, we need to.
BREAKING: Early this morning a federal judge issued an injunction stopping Musk team’s access to Treasury.
The showdown is about to happen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...
The showdown is about to happen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...
Judge Halts DOGE Access to Treasury Payment Systems
The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It is beyond crucial that this injunction be enforced.
If Trump won’t do it, we need to.
If Trump won’t do it, we need to.
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This is almost a verbatim convo I had with my parents earlier this week 😭
My Mom: “Dave, you seem down. What’s wrong”
Me: “the guy you voted for is destroying the foundations of research and science in this country. Here’s some examples of how it’s directly affecting me…”
Mom: “well…let’s talk about something else”
Me: “the guy you voted for is destroying the foundations of research and science in this country. Here’s some examples of how it’s directly affecting me…”
Mom: “well…let’s talk about something else”
February 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This is almost a verbatim convo I had with my parents earlier this week 😭
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It's important to remember Trump won with less votes than he got in 2020. There's a number of things you can extrapolate from that but one big one is the vast majority of people don't support this bullshit.
February 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It's important to remember Trump won with less votes than he got in 2020. There's a number of things you can extrapolate from that but one big one is the vast majority of people don't support this bullshit.
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The one thing this regime is going to be giving their opponents in spades, if they actually have the sense to exploit it, is the argument of how the nanny state is actively interfering with their lives and freedom every day. It's gonna get harder and harder to handwave away for regime sycophants.
February 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The one thing this regime is going to be giving their opponents in spades, if they actually have the sense to exploit it, is the argument of how the nanny state is actively interfering with their lives and freedom every day. It's gonna get harder and harder to handwave away for regime sycophants.
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There are tons of liberals who are open about the limits of their tolerance. (Immigrants, trans people, etc.)
Maybe some of these liberals think it's worth making common cause with the left.
That can *only* work one way: you drop your bigotry. All the way. Period.
Maybe some of these liberals think it's worth making common cause with the left.
That can *only* work one way: you drop your bigotry. All the way. Period.
February 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
There are tons of liberals who are open about the limits of their tolerance. (Immigrants, trans people, etc.)
Maybe some of these liberals think it's worth making common cause with the left.
That can *only* work one way: you drop your bigotry. All the way. Period.
Maybe some of these liberals think it's worth making common cause with the left.
That can *only* work one way: you drop your bigotry. All the way. Period.
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But it got framed by view-from-nowhere journalists as "Trump's answer to housing costs" and not "a terrifying desire to do nazi shit."
And it's just... I don't know how to defend American journalists anymore, man. The entire industry is broken.
And it's just... I don't know how to defend American journalists anymore, man. The entire industry is broken.
December 24, 2024 at 9:00 AM
But it got framed by view-from-nowhere journalists as "Trump's answer to housing costs" and not "a terrifying desire to do nazi shit."
And it's just... I don't know how to defend American journalists anymore, man. The entire industry is broken.
And it's just... I don't know how to defend American journalists anymore, man. The entire industry is broken.
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Like, I know it's been discussed to death, but the way that the media is covering absolutely batshit things being proposed by Trump is shocking. Instead of breaking down what they actually mean they just parrot his intent as a quirky potentiality. It's absolute journalistic malpractice.
December 24, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Like, I know it's been discussed to death, but the way that the media is covering absolutely batshit things being proposed by Trump is shocking. Instead of breaking down what they actually mean they just parrot his intent as a quirky potentiality. It's absolute journalistic malpractice.
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Unsatisfied with this original take, CNN has decided to frame the whole thing as a casual purchase option - the way you would frame considering getting a new stove
December 24, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Unsatisfied with this original take, CNN has decided to frame the whole thing as a casual purchase option - the way you would frame considering getting a new stove
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Describing proposed imperialist invasions and territory grabs of sovereign nations as “teases” like he’s dropping hints about the next Marvel movie you should get hype about sure is an Editorial Choice
December 24, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Describing proposed imperialist invasions and territory grabs of sovereign nations as “teases” like he’s dropping hints about the next Marvel movie you should get hype about sure is an Editorial Choice
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In no small measure, this is because social media is a highly individualising medium. It's about the satisfaction of personal appetites. Over time, you'll even bend your ideology or religion towards the goal of personal satisfaction.
Social media is *profoundly* solipsistic.
Social media is *profoundly* solipsistic.
we live in the era where the language of social justice is being co-opted into arguing in favour of literally every position the speaker wants a justification for irrespective of reality
very funny that i have a quote tweet calling this “right wing bullshit” because few people can store leftovers for a week or two. “you should learn how to cook and be responsible with your money as much as that is possible” is not “right wing bullshit,” it is basic life advice.
January 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In no small measure, this is because social media is a highly individualising medium. It's about the satisfaction of personal appetites. Over time, you'll even bend your ideology or religion towards the goal of personal satisfaction.
Social media is *profoundly* solipsistic.
Social media is *profoundly* solipsistic.
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"Would anyone let any other defense contractor or government vendor run a "department" that was trying to reduce government spending?"
(turned this into a full blog post) www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D...
Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"Would anyone let any other defense contractor or government vendor run a "department" that was trying to reduce government spending?"
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DOGE is not a dept and clearly has no intention of following federal guidelines for outside advisory groups. What it does have is a massive social media pulpit via Musk, one that can be used for misinformation about public services and to attack critical voices.
January 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
DOGE is not a dept and clearly has no intention of following federal guidelines for outside advisory groups. What it does have is a massive social media pulpit via Musk, one that can be used for misinformation about public services and to attack critical voices.
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I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.
January 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.
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I will see you an election post-mortem, and raise you the only one based on a comprehensive look at the existing data on what voters actually did. TLDR: "Voted" no confidence in the whole damn system.
My new deep dive on how Trump “won” the popular vote.
I put “won” in quotes because it wasn’t his win, but Harris’s loss. The results were not a “swing right” embracing Trump/MAGA, but a vote of no confidence in Democrats (and in our system as a whole).
www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...
I put “won” in quotes because it wasn’t his win, but Harris’s loss. The results were not a “swing right” embracing Trump/MAGA, but a vote of no confidence in Democrats (and in our system as a whole).
www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...
How Trump “Won”
The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority
www.weekendreading.net
January 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I will see you an election post-mortem, and raise you the only one based on a comprehensive look at the existing data on what voters actually did. TLDR: "Voted" no confidence in the whole damn system.
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The Vegas cyber truck bomber being just another shitty white supremacist fascist is the least surprising part of it all
The media is really under playing how violent the manifesto was. I was initially under the impression it was just a warning of collapse, not a violent call for the military to form death squads and kill Democrats. www.fox5vegas.com/2025/01/03/l...
January 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The Vegas cyber truck bomber being just another shitty white supremacist fascist is the least surprising part of it all
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Two disturbed guys rent trucks and commit public acts of violence to deliver explicit ideological messages: one gets the scare story about who radicalized him, the other gets a sympathetic, nonpolitical account of his trauma
January 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Two disturbed guys rent trucks and commit public acts of violence to deliver explicit ideological messages: one gets the scare story about who radicalized him, the other gets a sympathetic, nonpolitical account of his trauma
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the really funny bit about where this whole conversation started( survival of the fittest so don't need vaccines) is that we devised that really put us over the top was the greatest teamwork the planet had yet seen
When you ready to go out there and run down a “larger” animal I’m ready to watch
Hold up, running. Endurance hunting. Humans actually have a super power in the animal kingdom and it's sweat glands.
We can (measuring distance) outrun virtually any larger animal. Chase it until it gives up and collapses. That's how hunting used to work and fitness mattered a ton.
We can (measuring distance) outrun virtually any larger animal. Chase it until it gives up and collapses. That's how hunting used to work and fitness mattered a ton.
January 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
the really funny bit about where this whole conversation started( survival of the fittest so don't need vaccines) is that we devised that really put us over the top was the greatest teamwork the planet had yet seen