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took a few days off for my brain and one pretty alarming observation i have is just how easy it is to not hear about the bad stuff that is happening if you don't explicitly dip into specific information streams (not a new problem but feels orders of magnitude more siloed than even 2-3 years ago)
April 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
took a few days off for my brain and one pretty alarming observation i have is just how easy it is to not hear about the bad stuff that is happening if you don't explicitly dip into specific information streams (not a new problem but feels orders of magnitude more siloed than even 2-3 years ago)
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They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
www.freep.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.
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Howard is the obtuse simpleton that Wall Street folks told me he was
Lutnick: "European Union won't take chicken from America ... they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."
April 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Howard is the obtuse simpleton that Wall Street folks told me he was
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(tracy chapman voice) clowns got a fast car
the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
Whatever the immediate fallout of the scandal, what is going to stick around is the impression it gives, of hapless idiots doing ridiculous things. And I think that seriously reduces the appeal of capitulating to these jokers.
March 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
(tracy chapman voice) clowns got a fast car
Yep, definitely that and not a screw up by incompetent people who are out of their depth.
Wow — Mike Waltz on Fox News suggests Jeffrey Goldberg somehow schemed his way into the Signal group instead of just being invited by accident
March 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Yep, definitely that and not a screw up by incompetent people who are out of their depth.
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I think the Atlantic piece is probably the scoopiest scoop of the last few decades. And it has clarified one thing - other than the total idiocy of sending opsec over group chats - Hegseth and Vance have a genuine animosity towards Europe. Something for us all to ponder.
March 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I think the Atlantic piece is probably the scoopiest scoop of the last few decades. And it has clarified one thing - other than the total idiocy of sending opsec over group chats - Hegseth and Vance have a genuine animosity towards Europe. Something for us all to ponder.
It did get a bit daft in the UK at one point, but it would be blissful right now in the US
I am envious of the ability of other countries to just decide to have elections and then do it six weeks later
Annnnnd we're off. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has just called a snap election for April 28.
"We [need] to act to fight the Americans," Carney just told reporters in Ottawa.
Over the past week, Carney has been working on new military and defensive deals with Australia, France, and the UK.
"We [need] to act to fight the Americans," Carney just told reporters in Ottawa.
Over the past week, Carney has been working on new military and defensive deals with Australia, France, and the UK.
March 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It did get a bit daft in the UK at one point, but it would be blissful right now in the US
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Also also also appeasing Trump never ever works
Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.
March 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Also also also appeasing Trump never ever works
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World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.
March 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.
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if you read one FT article this weekend make it this blistering piece by @edwardluce.bsky.social on Trump’s assault on democratic norms in America
www.ft.com/content/3741...
www.ft.com/content/3741...
March 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
if you read one FT article this weekend make it this blistering piece by @edwardluce.bsky.social on Trump’s assault on democratic norms in America
www.ft.com/content/3741...
www.ft.com/content/3741...