@thepolicylass.bsky.social
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
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The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.
May 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.
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The very word “liberalization” now seems antique. In the era of Trump and Putin and Xi and bin Salman and many others, autocracy, plutocracy, and kleptocracy are the way of the world.
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
Trump Gushes with Envy Toward the House of Saud
American-style kleptocracy is fine and all. But what Trump really wants is the kind with aggressive repression, no dissent, and a bone saw on hand just in case.
www.thebulwark.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The very word “liberalization” now seems antique. In the era of Trump and Putin and Xi and bin Salman and many others, autocracy, plutocracy, and kleptocracy are the way of the world.
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
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Nothing more on brand than Donald Trump flying around on a palatial 400 Million dollar Hamas plane as his suck-ups in Congress both excuse it and start the process of gutting medicaid.
May 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Nothing more on brand than Donald Trump flying around on a palatial 400 Million dollar Hamas plane as his suck-ups in Congress both excuse it and start the process of gutting medicaid.
I forgot how much I LOVE hbomberguy.
I think this leads to a corrosion of scientific understanding in the public, especially as oil and right wing political operations create their own sources of authority and they start speaking about climate and economics like they know something.
youtu.be/RLqXkYrdmjY?...
youtu.be/RLqXkYrdmjY?...
Climate Denial: A Measured Response
YouTube video by hbomberguy
youtu.be
May 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I forgot how much I LOVE hbomberguy.
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"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
May 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
Amazing how that works... fund a corrupt politician, get payback in return.
In the past few months, President Trump’s Justice Department has dropped a case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the Labor Department has canceled a planned civil rights review of Tesla.
Elon Musk's regulatory troubles have begun to melt away in Trump's second term
The Trump administration has halted some regulatory matters involving Musk's companies and fired people from agencies investigating Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink.
nbcnews.to
May 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Amazing how that works... fund a corrupt politician, get payback in return.
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"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
May 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
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Brian Cox ~ The purpose of life?
May 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Brian Cox ~ The purpose of life?
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A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.
May 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.
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In the U.S. in 1825, *452* out of 1000 children born died before their 5th birthday.
By 1925, that number was 135 out of a 1000 children.
Today, in 2025, that number is *7*
And it is entirely due to advances in medicine, public health, and technology.
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By 1925, that number was 135 out of a 1000 children.
Today, in 2025, that number is *7*
And it is entirely due to advances in medicine, public health, and technology.
9/
April 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
In the U.S. in 1825, *452* out of 1000 children born died before their 5th birthday.
By 1925, that number was 135 out of a 1000 children.
Today, in 2025, that number is *7*
And it is entirely due to advances in medicine, public health, and technology.
9/
By 1925, that number was 135 out of a 1000 children.
Today, in 2025, that number is *7*
And it is entirely due to advances in medicine, public health, and technology.
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your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast
April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast
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How the Republic Falls
Constitutional protections suspended. The government purging “alien enemies” and the “enemy within.”
Three months into Trumpist rule, despotism is rising in America.
New piece:
Constitutional protections suspended. The government purging “alien enemies” and the “enemy within.”
Three months into Trumpist rule, despotism is rising in America.
New piece:
How the Republic Falls
Constitutional protections suspended. The government purging “alien enemies” and the “enemy within.” Three months into Trumpist rule, despotism is rising in America
thomaszimmer.substack.com
April 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
How the Republic Falls
Constitutional protections suspended. The government purging “alien enemies” and the “enemy within.”
Three months into Trumpist rule, despotism is rising in America.
New piece:
Constitutional protections suspended. The government purging “alien enemies” and the “enemy within.”
Three months into Trumpist rule, despotism is rising in America.
New piece:
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Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?
Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.
www.newyorker.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.
The man has never bought groceries in his damn life...
Trump: I won on groceries. Very simple word, groceries. Like almost, you know, who uses the word. I started using the word. The groceries. When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs..
December 8, 2024 at 7:22 PM
The man has never bought groceries in his damn life...