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He got stuck in an anti drone net look at him
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
He got stuck in an anti drone net look at him
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Mike Johnson: "Imagine a scenario where they were in charge and they didn't have the filibuster. We would have nationalized elections, they would infringe on our 2A rights, they'd pack the Supreme Court, and they'd make Puerto Rico and DC states."
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Mike Johnson: "Imagine a scenario where they were in charge and they didn't have the filibuster. We would have nationalized elections, they would infringe on our 2A rights, they'd pack the Supreme Court, and they'd make Puerto Rico and DC states."
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"Although it has a long way to go, Taiwan is making enormous strides in preparing its government, society, and military to face China’s multidimensional challenges."
Taiwan’s Will to Fight Isn’t the Problem
China’s increasingly powerful military has bracketed Taiwan with exercises. Its air and naval forces launch daily incursions, and Beijing has erased the
warontherocks.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"Although it has a long way to go, Taiwan is making enormous strides in preparing its government, society, and military to face China’s multidimensional challenges."
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A DOJ study showing most domestic terrorism in the US comes from the far right is suddenly missing and replaced with a note saying DOJ is complying with Trump's executive order www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A DOJ study showing most domestic terrorism in the US comes from the far right is suddenly missing and replaced with a note saying DOJ is complying with Trump's executive order www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
The @nytimes.com bothsidesism is terminal. “Trump declares self messiah, critics disagree” is a headline you will live to see
August 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The @nytimes.com bothsidesism is terminal. “Trump declares self messiah, critics disagree” is a headline you will live to see
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This is sadly not surprising and should not be separated from the rise of extremism, distrust and misinformation across a range of social media platforms (as well as in some legacy media outlets) since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vaccine warning for England as one in five children start school unprotected
Experts say country needs ‘wake up call’ with levels far below those needed for herd immunity
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is sadly not surprising and should not be separated from the rise of extremism, distrust and misinformation across a range of social media platforms (as well as in some legacy media outlets) since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Public school enrollment is declining across the U.S.—our new analysis for @brookings.edu maps the trends:
www.brookings.edu/articles/dec...
www.brookings.edu/articles/dec...
Declining public school enrollment | Brookings
www.brookings.edu
August 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Public school enrollment is declining across the U.S.—our new analysis for @brookings.edu maps the trends:
www.brookings.edu/articles/dec...
www.brookings.edu/articles/dec...
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Macron, Merz and Tusk join Moldova independence day with show of EU support
Macron, Merz and Tusk join Moldova independence day with show of EU support
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will travel to Chisinau on Wednesday for Moldova’s 34th Independence Day. Their visit is meant to celebrate the occasion and show European support for the country’s push to join the EU.
www.rfi.fr
August 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Macron, Merz and Tusk join Moldova independence day with show of EU support
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Petition to rename the United Kingdom to something like the Autonomous United Kingdom so I don't have to scroll so far to select my country on drop-down lists.
August 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Petition to rename the United Kingdom to something like the Autonomous United Kingdom so I don't have to scroll so far to select my country on drop-down lists.
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This is pretty cool. Yesterday Rob Fitts alerted me to his and Yoichi Nagata's discovery that record of baseball being played in Japan now dates back to about a year and a half earlier than previously known, in Kobe in July 1869. Rob's post on the finding: www.robfitts.com/post/newly-i...
Newly Identified Newspaper Article Pushes Earliest Date of Japanese Baseball Back to July 1869
Kobe, Japan in 1871In 2022 Japanese baseball celebrated its official 150th birthday. Most officials and historians date the introduction of baseball to Japan to 1872 when American teacher Horace Wilso...
www.robfitts.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is pretty cool. Yesterday Rob Fitts alerted me to his and Yoichi Nagata's discovery that record of baseball being played in Japan now dates back to about a year and a half earlier than previously known, in Kobe in July 1869. Rob's post on the finding: www.robfitts.com/post/newly-i...
It’s a continuous problem that you can’t parody the Trump guys. No matter how outrageous you make an SNL skit about them it’ll never be far enough removed from something they could plausibly do
April 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It’s a continuous problem that you can’t parody the Trump guys. No matter how outrageous you make an SNL skit about them it’ll never be far enough removed from something they could plausibly do
Tesla is Trump’s trade policy in miniature: declare war on your own best customers.
April 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Tesla is Trump’s trade policy in miniature: declare war on your own best customers.
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Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
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This is quite fun.
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
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“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1
April 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is quite fun.
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1
Perfectly captures the unified ideological project of Trumpism: opposition to an open society and the construction of a closed society
April 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Perfectly captures the unified ideological project of Trumpism: opposition to an open society and the construction of a closed society
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"Between the elections of 2019 and 2024, roughly as many Conservative voters dropped dead as switched from Conservative to Labour."
April 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
"Between the elections of 2019 and 2024, roughly as many Conservative voters dropped dead as switched from Conservative to Labour."
If US foreign policy is genuinely threatened by criticism from college students, we have more significant problems than whatever their criticism is.
April 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If US foreign policy is genuinely threatened by criticism from college students, we have more significant problems than whatever their criticism is.
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Evercore analysts reckon the weighted average US tariff post April 2nd is a Smooth-Hawley-busting 29%.
April 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Evercore analysts reckon the weighted average US tariff post April 2nd is a Smooth-Hawley-busting 29%.
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Amazing things are possible if 1) you can afford enough lawyers to neutralize any case against you, 2) you can pick the court, and 3) you are confident you'd get a full pardon if you step in it.
I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.
In a video posted by Elon Musk’s PAC, a $1M check recipient linked voting to receiving the money:
“My name’s Ekaterina Deistler. …I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.”
“My name’s Ekaterina Deistler. …I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.”
March 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Amazing things are possible if 1) you can afford enough lawyers to neutralize any case against you, 2) you can pick the court, and 3) you are confident you'd get a full pardon if you step in it.
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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scraps Host In Favor Of Terrified Silence. “While we respect the legacy of a presidential roast, if you so much as cough, you will be forcibly removed.” Please enjoy each autocratic shift equally. [theonion.com]
White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scraps Host In Favor Of Terrified Silence
WASHINGTON—In the wake of comments the comedian made that reportedly angered the Trump administration, the White House Correspondents’ Association confirmed Monday that it had scrapped Amber Ruffin as the host of its annual dinner in favor of terrified silence. “After much deliberation, we have opte
theonion.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scraps Host In Favor Of Terrified Silence. “While we respect the legacy of a presidential roast, if you so much as cough, you will be forcibly removed.” Please enjoy each autocratic shift equally. [theonion.com]
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The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
war.ukraine.ua
February 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
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“Naked power politics is alien terrain for the United States, but it is familiar territory to its current rivals.” Read Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay on why China and Russia could have an advantage over the United States in a dog-eat-dog world:
The Price of Trump’s Power Politics
Why China and Russia stand to win in a might-makes-right world.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“Naked power politics is alien terrain for the United States, but it is familiar territory to its current rivals.” Read Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay on why China and Russia could have an advantage over the United States in a dog-eat-dog world: