@talisman2093.bsky.social
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‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life.
My interview with Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, who was sanctioned by the US for ruling to authorise an investigation into war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
My interview with Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, who was sanctioned by the US for ruling to authorise an investigation into war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life.
My interview with Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, who was sanctioned by the US for ruling to authorise an investigation into war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
My interview with Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, who was sanctioned by the US for ruling to authorise an investigation into war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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Most of Vancouver is de facto a gated community for rich people. It’s been said many times, but can’t be said often enough.
Luckily, this is going to change!
Luckily, this is going to change!
Your regular reminder that it takes a ginormous amount of privilege to claim that our low-density neighbourhoods are "working".
(Old data, but story did not change.)
(Old data, but story did not change.)
Vancouver SFH Affordability Estimator
Who can afford to live in Signle Family Zones?
mountainmath.ca
December 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Most of Vancouver is de facto a gated community for rich people. It’s been said many times, but can’t be said often enough.
Luckily, this is going to change!
Luckily, this is going to change!
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SCMP: "In early November, China’s most populous province launched its biggest ever consumer subsidy programme, with the government pledging to commit 3.5 billion yuan to offer discounts on a slew of products: from smartphones to snowboards."
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
SCMP: "In early November, China’s most populous province launched its biggest ever consumer subsidy programme, with the government pledging to commit 3.5 billion yuan to offer discounts on a slew of products: from smartphones to snowboards."
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
Huge subsidy scheme in China’s most populous province falls flat with consumers
The Chinese province has launched its biggest ever consumer subsidy programme to revitalise its economy, but shoppers remain cautious.
www.scmp.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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SCMP: "In early November, China’s most populous province launched its biggest ever consumer subsidy programme, with the government pledging to commit 3.5 billion yuan to offer discounts on a slew of products: from smartphones to snowboards."
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
SCMP: "In early November, China’s most populous province launched its biggest ever consumer subsidy programme, with the government pledging to commit 3.5 billion yuan to offer discounts on a slew of products: from smartphones to snowboards."
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
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Russia's 1st humanoid robot was revealed today. A bit like a mobik, it fell over as if shot and our efforts at hiding the disaster convinced no one.
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Russia's 1st humanoid robot was revealed today. A bit like a mobik, it fell over as if shot and our efforts at hiding the disaster convinced no one.
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CNN is reporting that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social referred to a voter he was meeting as “my man” at a campaign event today, even though the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution has made it illegal to own human beings since 1865 and remains the law in states including New York
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
CNN is reporting that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social referred to a voter he was meeting as “my man” at a campaign event today, even though the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution has made it illegal to own human beings since 1865 and remains the law in states including New York
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Look out y'all, straight up CCP propaganda in Time magazine... 🥴🤦
The U.S. Must Beware of Taiwan's Reckless Leader
William Lai is lurching toward formal independence, which could trigger a catastrophic U.S.-China war, writes Lyle Goldstein.
time.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Look out y'all, straight up CCP propaganda in Time magazine... 🥴🤦
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OTD in 1980 West Germany signed what was then largest ever gas deal with USSR. We had just invaded Afghanistan. But our butchery never gets in the way of profits. A message we noted.
Imagine, Germany funding Russian war machine & dismissing warnings about it.
Imagine, Germany funding Russian war machine & dismissing warnings about it.
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
OTD in 1980 West Germany signed what was then largest ever gas deal with USSR. We had just invaded Afghanistan. But our butchery never gets in the way of profits. A message we noted.
Imagine, Germany funding Russian war machine & dismissing warnings about it.
Imagine, Germany funding Russian war machine & dismissing warnings about it.
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“.. So far this earnings season, for companies beating on EPS, they're underperforming the S&P 500 by 0.35% after reporting results ... that is the worst spread since the fourth quarter of 2020."
- Kev Gordon @dailychartbook.bsky.social
- Kev Gordon @dailychartbook.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“.. So far this earnings season, for companies beating on EPS, they're underperforming the S&P 500 by 0.35% after reporting results ... that is the worst spread since the fourth quarter of 2020."
- Kev Gordon @dailychartbook.bsky.social
- Kev Gordon @dailychartbook.bsky.social
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We couldn't find anyone among the 7 million+ No Kings attendees who says they were paid to protest. But X user @crypto4u1488 says each attendee was paid $750 by George Soros and bused in from other states. The truth may lie somewhere in between.
October 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We couldn't find anyone among the 7 million+ No Kings attendees who says they were paid to protest. But X user @crypto4u1488 says each attendee was paid $750 by George Soros and bused in from other states. The truth may lie somewhere in between.
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Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US intervention on.ft.com/48FKy6a
Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US intervention
Currency gains sparked by estimated $400mn of US purchases melt away ahead of crucial election for president Javier Milei
on.ft.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US intervention on.ft.com/48FKy6a
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"Supremacy is an all-consuming logic on the MAGA right today. Christian supremacy, white supremacy, male supremacy, almost every corner of MAGA is marked by...supremacist logic and a desire to subjugate some other group."
@aselrod.bsky.social theorizes MAGA:
www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...
@aselrod.bsky.social theorizes MAGA:
www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...
Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies
The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Supremacy is an all-consuming logic on the MAGA right today. Christian supremacy, white supremacy, male supremacy, almost every corner of MAGA is marked by...supremacist logic and a desire to subjugate some other group."
@aselrod.bsky.social theorizes MAGA:
www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...
@aselrod.bsky.social theorizes MAGA:
www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...
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don't care what anyone says, I'm glad I got to witness the unipolar order. to watch a country completely waste its hegemonic status? we will never see anything like it again
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
don't care what anyone says, I'm glad I got to witness the unipolar order. to watch a country completely waste its hegemonic status? we will never see anything like it again
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This is very, very bad
October 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This is very, very bad
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"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
Acceptable Losses
Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?
www.the-reframe.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
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immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen
"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen
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take a moment to really think about how hard Democratic leaders have had to work to somehow be losing to Trump on the issue of corruption
October 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
take a moment to really think about how hard Democratic leaders have had to work to somehow be losing to Trump on the issue of corruption
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U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.
www.nbcnews.com/business/con...
www.nbcnews.com/business/con...
U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says
The findings suggest U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.
www.nbcnews.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.
www.nbcnews.com/business/con...
www.nbcnews.com/business/con...
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Unprecedented corruption
Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.
October 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Unprecedented corruption
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“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
October 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Trump’s family has expanded its business relationship with Binance founder CZ — who spent four months in prison after pleading guilty to anti–money laundering failures and now says he’s asking Trump for a pardon.
October 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Trump’s family has expanded its business relationship with Binance founder CZ — who spent four months in prison after pleading guilty to anti–money laundering failures and now says he’s asking Trump for a pardon.
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"After the Kapp putsch in 1920 the [German] government charged 705 persons with high treason; only one, the police president of Berlin, received a sentence—five years of 'honorary confinement.'"
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 109).
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 109).
September 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
"After the Kapp putsch in 1920 the [German] government charged 705 persons with high treason; only one, the police president of Berlin, received a sentence—five years of 'honorary confinement.'"
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 109).
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 109).
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An outstanding interview. Patrick Iber of Dissent Magazine has interviewed the legendary Polish political scientist Adam Przeworski about de-democratisation in the USA, and what lessons he’s gleaned from Chile, Peru & beyond.
Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.
Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.
September 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
An outstanding interview. Patrick Iber of Dissent Magazine has interviewed the legendary Polish political scientist Adam Przeworski about de-democratisation in the USA, and what lessons he’s gleaned from Chile, Peru & beyond.
Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.
Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.
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The Ukrainian military—the toughest, most experienced, most adaptable, most successful on the modern battlefield—is beardy old men, women, artists, gamers who can’t deadlift sh*t but can fly a drone into a Russian helicopter rotor
Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory
Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory
September 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The Ukrainian military—the toughest, most experienced, most adaptable, most successful on the modern battlefield—is beardy old men, women, artists, gamers who can’t deadlift sh*t but can fly a drone into a Russian helicopter rotor
Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory
Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory
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Donald Trump waxes poetic about his redecoration of the Oval Office. Actually the ornaments are made by a company in Taiwan of polyurethane and have been spray painted gold. He's deluding himself about this, just like everything else.
September 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Donald Trump waxes poetic about his redecoration of the Oval Office. Actually the ornaments are made by a company in Taiwan of polyurethane and have been spray painted gold. He's deluding himself about this, just like everything else.