PhilipRy
@rebelalianceone.bsky.social
Resister and Fascist Fighter
The US intervention in Venezuela is about oil, sure. But it's way more than that. Another dimension to this is China. Venezuela exports a LOT of oil to China and India- both of whom give the US a lot of headaches in terms of geopolitical pressures...
January 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
The US intervention in Venezuela is about oil, sure. But it's way more than that. Another dimension to this is China. Venezuela exports a LOT of oil to China and India- both of whom give the US a lot of headaches in terms of geopolitical pressures...
In plain English, the Supreme Court ruled that a president can federalize a state’s National Guard only in the rare circumstances where the Posse Comitatus Act allows the military to be used for domestic law enforcement...
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The Supreme Court finally pushed back against Trump
The court’s approach is precisely what Congress had in mind in 1878 in prohibiting the use of the military for domestic law enforcement.
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January 2, 2026 at 5:27 PM
In plain English, the Supreme Court ruled that a president can federalize a state’s National Guard only in the rare circumstances where the Posse Comitatus Act allows the military to be used for domestic law enforcement...
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-...
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-...
If you are white and you aren't actively protesting or opposing ICE and by extension the entire edifice of the Trump administration, you are either willing to be complicit in the racist Nazification of America or you are, in fact, a racist Nazi. There can be no other interpretation...
January 1, 2026 at 6:41 PM
If you are white and you aren't actively protesting or opposing ICE and by extension the entire edifice of the Trump administration, you are either willing to be complicit in the racist Nazification of America or you are, in fact, a racist Nazi. There can be no other interpretation...
We are so prone to simplistic questions that it might not seem like such a big deal at first. But it is...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/o...
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Opinion | How Did We Get to Such a Bad Question?
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January 1, 2026 at 6:26 PM
We are so prone to simplistic questions that it might not seem like such a big deal at first. But it is...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/o...
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An interesting read, although a bit dated now...
January 1, 2026 at 6:23 PM
An interesting read, although a bit dated now...
I had known that Brigitte Bardot's history of racist remarks were... well, racist. I had forgotten just how much. But I did not know how well connected she was to the French Far Right and pseudo-Nazis of Le Pen...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/w...
Brigitte Bardot’s Legacy of Racist Rhetoric
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January 1, 2026 at 6:17 PM
I had known that Brigitte Bardot's history of racist remarks were... well, racist. I had forgotten just how much. But I did not know how well connected she was to the French Far Right and pseudo-Nazis of Le Pen...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/w...
"No matter how low one’s expectations were for 2025, the most striking thing about the year when Donald Trump became President again is how much worse it turned out to be."
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Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
A damage assessment of the President’s first year back in the White House.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"No matter how low one’s expectations were for 2025, the most striking thing about the year when Donald Trump became President again is how much worse it turned out to be."
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www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The Russian soldiers are victims of Putin's war on Ukraine as much as any Ukrainian. But I would not spend much time worrying about them...
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How Russia’s War Machine Brutalizes and Exploits Its Own Soldiers
Confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal patterns of wrongdoing in the ranks that are hidden from the Russian public.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Russian soldiers are victims of Putin's war on Ukraine as much as any Ukrainian. But I would not spend much time worrying about them...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"What’s striking, for all the talk of culture wars, is how left and right spent the past half-century chopping at opposite sides of the same tree."
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Opinion | There Is a Way Out of This Mess
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December 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"What’s striking, for all the talk of culture wars, is how left and right spent the past half-century chopping at opposite sides of the same tree."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
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"The Nuremberg trials showed us that normal people can commit war crimes for normal reasons, such as wanting to make a profit or to keep their job. What hasn’t been normal is to see them held accountable."
Perhaps Sweden leads the way...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
Perhaps Sweden leads the way...
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Opinion | The Oil Company Drilled. The Government Slaughtered. Who Is Guilty?
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December 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"The Nuremberg trials showed us that normal people can commit war crimes for normal reasons, such as wanting to make a profit or to keep their job. What hasn’t been normal is to see them held accountable."
Perhaps Sweden leads the way...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
Perhaps Sweden leads the way...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
The most worrisome part is that the development of AI comes at a time in history where government controls and regulations are at their weakest point in history. It may be our undoing...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
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Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
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December 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The most worrisome part is that the development of AI comes at a time in history where government controls and regulations are at their weakest point in history. It may be our undoing...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
MTG was given an extensive interview in The New York Times. I didn't read it and I have no intention of reading it. I don't think MTG should be sane washed by The Times or any other media...
December 30, 2025 at 5:50 AM
MTG was given an extensive interview in The New York Times. I didn't read it and I have no intention of reading it. I don't think MTG should be sane washed by The Times or any other media...
No need to bomb Nigerian ISIS...
December 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
No need to bomb Nigerian ISIS...
"How can any missile crewman know that an order to twist his launch key in its slot and send a thermonuclear missile rocketing out of its silo—a nuke capable of killing millions of civilians—is lawful, legitimate, and comes from a sane president?"
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How Cold War Maj. Harold Hering Asked a Forbidden Question That Cost Him His Career
It was a risk. Dedicating a book to someone I'd had had a five-minute phone conversation with three decades ago. Someone who, last I'd heard, had...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"How can any missile crewman know that an order to twist his launch key in its slot and send a thermonuclear missile rocketing out of its silo—a nuke capable of killing millions of civilians—is lawful, legitimate, and comes from a sane president?"
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"If professional associations have any legitimate purpose in our system, it is to enforce ethical standards and hold professionals accountable to them...."
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Ethics Shmethics
Why are America’s most powerful professional associations silent in the face of professional disgraces in the Trump regime?
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December 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"If professional associations have any legitimate purpose in our system, it is to enforce ethical standards and hold professionals accountable to them...."
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Opinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger
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December 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. How is that possible?"
Easy: they lied like hell...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Easy: they lied like hell...
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How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
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December 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. How is that possible?"
Easy: they lied like hell...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Easy: they lied like hell...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Putin casts a giant shadow across Europe in exactly the same way as Hitler did. Europeans would be wise to remember their history...
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The shadow Russia casts over Europe has forced it to face the truth: the risk of war is once again real | CNN
When a group of defense insiders gathered in Whitehall, the home of the British government, last month to discuss how prepared the United Kingdom and its allies were for a war they believe could come ...
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December 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Putin casts a giant shadow across Europe in exactly the same way as Hitler did. Europeans would be wise to remember their history...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/e...
With MAGA, "...informed argument exists alongside phony outrage, profiteering, self-aggrandizement and saying things for the hell of it."
But I would not accept the death of the MAGA movement until I see its cold, dead body.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
But I would not accept the death of the MAGA movement until I see its cold, dead body.
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Opinion | The Strange Death of Make America Great Again
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December 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
With MAGA, "...informed argument exists alongside phony outrage, profiteering, self-aggrandizement and saying things for the hell of it."
But I would not accept the death of the MAGA movement until I see its cold, dead body.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
But I would not accept the death of the MAGA movement until I see its cold, dead body.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
"The bleak irony is that even after sacrificing real prosperity to chase this 4chan-level political economy, they still won’t achieve their goal..."
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A Year In, the MAGA Labor Market Story Has Fallen Apart
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and a gendered theory of growth. The data say otherwise.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"The bleak irony is that even after sacrificing real prosperity to chase this 4chan-level political economy, they still won’t achieve their goal..."
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"The merger means that soon, President Donald Trump will simultaneously have a major financial interest in a company whose fortunes will be influenced by the actions of a government that Trump himself presides over."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/b...
Ethics watchdogs are alarmed by $6 billion marriage of Trump’s social media platform and nuclear fusion company | CNN Business
The Trump business empire’s expansion into nuclear fusion is alarming ethics experts who warn it poses glaring conflicts of interest and risks the federal government playing favorites in what has been...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"The merger means that soon, President Donald Trump will simultaneously have a major financial interest in a company whose fortunes will be influenced by the actions of a government that Trump himself presides over."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/b...
"Should the court rule that all ballots nationwide must be received by Election Day, it could lead to the rejection of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of ballots in the future, affecting a swath of American voters in rural and urban areas."
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How the Supreme Court’s mail-in ballot ruling could affect voters
Should the court rule that all ballots nationwide must be received by Election Day, it could lead to the rejection of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of ballots in the future, affecting a swath of...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"Should the court rule that all ballots nationwide must be received by Election Day, it could lead to the rejection of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of ballots in the future, affecting a swath of American voters in rural and urban areas."
www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
The Sackler family didn't invent opioids. But their relentless pushing, and I use that term deliberately, has so damaged our country that generations will be feeling it's horrific effects for a very, very long time...
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Opinion | In Appalachia, Children Inherited the Opioid Crisis
The pain of drug addiction continues to course through towns like Clarksburg, W.Va., where many babies are born withdrawing and have to be taken from their parents.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The Sackler family didn't invent opioids. But their relentless pushing, and I use that term deliberately, has so damaged our country that generations will be feeling it's horrific effects for a very, very long time...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There is now a trend of increasing "diagnosis" of Trump and "what the fuck is wrong with that guy?". Usually I tend to stay away from them if only because it carries with it the danger of letting him off the hook for his bullshit, because he's "sick".
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DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario
You deserve the facts, not conjecture. Alzheimer's diminishes a person. Trump's not diminishing, he's escalating, and you need to know the frightening reason why.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
There is now a trend of increasing "diagnosis" of Trump and "what the fuck is wrong with that guy?". Usually I tend to stay away from them if only because it carries with it the danger of letting him off the hook for his bullshit, because he's "sick".
open.substack.com/pub/frankgeo...
open.substack.com/pub/frankgeo...
Mamdani's win in NYC proved that a candidate with "socialist" in his official designation can win. I sincerely hopes he can actually govern a city that is truly among the most ungovernable in the US. Not for his sake but for the sake of Democratic Socialists...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
Opinion | Inside a Democratic Socialist Convention Galvanized by Mamdani’s Big Win
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December 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Mamdani's win in NYC proved that a candidate with "socialist" in his official designation can win. I sincerely hopes he can actually govern a city that is truly among the most ungovernable in the US. Not for his sake but for the sake of Democratic Socialists...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...