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Incidentally fight/don't-fight maps pretty well onto not-crank/crank in terms of Dem constituencies
There is actually a coherent political concept, in the current era, behind AOC-Kristol-Bouie Thought
There is actually a coherent political concept, in the current era, behind AOC-Kristol-Bouie Thought
My very strong suspicion is that the left/right axis and the fight/don't-fight axis are in the process of unlinking, and that the fight/don't-fight split is emerging as the core struggle in the Democratic Party.
We seriously need to separate the left/right axis from the fight/don’t fight axis.
March 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Incidentally fight/don't-fight maps pretty well onto not-crank/crank in terms of Dem constituencies
There is actually a coherent political concept, in the current era, behind AOC-Kristol-Bouie Thought
There is actually a coherent political concept, in the current era, behind AOC-Kristol-Bouie Thought
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Do you mean "artificial intelligence" or "really dumb search terms?"
Because they are probably going to deport people from The Bahamas the way they've been using "AI" lately...
Because they are probably going to deport people from The Bahamas the way they've been using "AI" lately...
Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...
www.axios.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Do you mean "artificial intelligence" or "really dumb search terms?"
Because they are probably going to deport people from The Bahamas the way they've been using "AI" lately...
Because they are probably going to deport people from The Bahamas the way they've been using "AI" lately...
Their messaging is preparing the Canadian public for war, but not the American one.
March 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Their messaging is preparing the Canadian public for war, but not the American one.
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I think it’s fascinating how this administration’s guiding principle on every single policy is just “be evil.”
Starving children? Take away their food. AIDS patients? Take away their treatments. Refugees from conflict zones? Deport them. Nations under attack? Cut off assistance. VA? Fire everyone.
Starving children? Take away their food. AIDS patients? Take away their treatments. Refugees from conflict zones? Deport them. Nations under attack? Cut off assistance. VA? Fire everyone.
March 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I think it’s fascinating how this administration’s guiding principle on every single policy is just “be evil.”
Starving children? Take away their food. AIDS patients? Take away their treatments. Refugees from conflict zones? Deport them. Nations under attack? Cut off assistance. VA? Fire everyone.
Starving children? Take away their food. AIDS patients? Take away their treatments. Refugees from conflict zones? Deport them. Nations under attack? Cut off assistance. VA? Fire everyone.
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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getting into the leo frank conspiracy theory is hardcore nazi shit. hardcore. the most hardcore. this woman has no place in public life
Some of the antisemitic conspiracy theories and associations the Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, has amplified online:
🔎 Long-debunked lies about Leo Frank
🔎 Great Replacement theory
🔎 Celebrating Christian nationalism
🔎 Praising Germany's far-right AfD party
🔎 Long-debunked lies about Leo Frank
🔎 Great Replacement theory
🔎 Celebrating Christian nationalism
🔎 Praising Germany's far-right AfD party
Pentagon deputy press secretary Kingsley Wilson is a prolific purveyor of antisemitic conspiracy theories
The Trump appointee compared the slaughter of Israeli babies by Hamas to abortion shortly after the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks
jewishinsider.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
getting into the leo frank conspiracy theory is hardcore nazi shit. hardcore. the most hardcore. this woman has no place in public life
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Sale of state assets was what created the first generation of Russian oligarchs. They're running plays from a known playbook
March 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Sale of state assets was what created the first generation of Russian oligarchs. They're running plays from a known playbook
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Pretty clear. The goal here was to do a kind of ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine. They pushed Zelensky past his limit. Trump now says, in essence, you're own your own with Russia. Up to the free states of Europe now.
Trump declares that Zelensky is “not ready for peace,” accuses him of trying to prolong the war using U.S. leverage, and says he’s not welcome back at the White House “until he’s ready for peace.”
February 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Pretty clear. The goal here was to do a kind of ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine. They pushed Zelensky past his limit. Trump now says, in essence, you're own your own with Russia. Up to the free states of Europe now.
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I also hint on what would be a just peace for Ukrainians.
Read the full opinion here - english.nv.ua/opinion/why...
Read the full opinion here - english.nv.ua/opinion/why...
February 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I also hint on what would be a just peace for Ukrainians.
Read the full opinion here - english.nv.ua/opinion/why...
Read the full opinion here - english.nv.ua/opinion/why...
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Thread on why you don't hate legacy media nearly as much as you should.
(1/X) The next four years are likely to be a disaster in many regards: more plane crashes, more outbreaks of measles and other infectious diseases, snafus with tax refunds and Medicaid payments, terrorist attacks, and probably a recession.
The media will tell us none of it is Trump's fault...
The media will tell us none of it is Trump's fault...
February 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Thread on why you don't hate legacy media nearly as much as you should.
This is my ideology
February 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This is my ideology
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it’s extremely revealing that the countries most frequently cited as role models by the alt-right are Hungary, El Salvador, and Russia
unlike Elon, I actually like America and don’t think we should be importing corrupt governance structures from authoritarian states with a fraction of our GDP
unlike Elon, I actually like America and don’t think we should be importing corrupt governance structures from authoritarian states with a fraction of our GDP
February 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
it’s extremely revealing that the countries most frequently cited as role models by the alt-right are Hungary, El Salvador, and Russia
unlike Elon, I actually like America and don’t think we should be importing corrupt governance structures from authoritarian states with a fraction of our GDP
unlike Elon, I actually like America and don’t think we should be importing corrupt governance structures from authoritarian states with a fraction of our GDP
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This is money already owed. For work already done. They’re asking SCOTUS to let Trump run the government the way he runs his businesses.
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS over order that State/USAID pay owed contracts by the end of the day.
This is coming out of Judge Ali’s Feb. 13 TRO, which he ordered the government to adhere to — with a deadline — in a new order issued on Tuesday.
This is coming out of Judge Ali’s Feb. 13 TRO, which he ordered the government to adhere to — with a deadline — in a new order issued on Tuesday.
February 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This is money already owed. For work already done. They’re asking SCOTUS to let Trump run the government the way he runs his businesses.
There's this tendency among right wing politicians and silicon valley types to say the dumbest shit and frame it in this "why do you hate efficiency" or other "just asking questions" ways, knowing their bots and (even dumber) followers will just parrot it.
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"Amazon deliveries." This is Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist & prominent Musk toady. And he does not know a big percentage of Amazon deliveries are made by the USPS. I will never get over how stupid the people at the top of US society are.
February 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
There's this tendency among right wing politicians and silicon valley types to say the dumbest shit and frame it in this "why do you hate efficiency" or other "just asking questions" ways, knowing their bots and (even dumber) followers will just parrot it.
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"Amazon deliveries." This is Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist & prominent Musk toady. And he does not know a big percentage of Amazon deliveries are made by the USPS. I will never get over how stupid the people at the top of US society are.
February 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"Amazon deliveries." This is Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist & prominent Musk toady. And he does not know a big percentage of Amazon deliveries are made by the USPS. I will never get over how stupid the people at the top of US society are.
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His tweet reminds me of the children's game MadLibs.
February 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
His tweet reminds me of the children's game MadLibs.
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…and follow this good advice.
to people want a strong press in coming years: identify the smaller, independent, niche or local pubs that you already read and love, & make sure to subscribe to them & support them.
if @bolts.bsky.social is among them, easy to do here: we thrive on your support boltsmag.org/donate
if @bolts.bsky.social is among them, easy to do here: we thrive on your support boltsmag.org/donate
February 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
…and follow this good advice.
Anyone want to wager whether Russia or China would go along with this?
Do these illiterates know what happened to the small and medium German states once the Holy Roman Empire was gone?
Do these illiterates know what happened to the small and medium German states once the Holy Roman Empire was gone?
Even calling Yarvin (or any of these people) midwit is too complimentary.
Every part of this is unworkable (and undesirable). Even if they could get it to temporarily happen, all these microduchies would get swallowed up by those that could finance large states.
Every part of this is unworkable (and undesirable). Even if they could get it to temporarily happen, all these microduchies would get swallowed up by those that could finance large states.
February 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Anyone want to wager whether Russia or China would go along with this?
Do these illiterates know what happened to the small and medium German states once the Holy Roman Empire was gone?
Do these illiterates know what happened to the small and medium German states once the Holy Roman Empire was gone?
Read another book, but for fascist tech bros.
This is a lift from Neal Stephenson's 1992 sci-fi novel "Snow Crash". In it, the world has been carved up into "Franchise-Organized Quasi-National Entities (FOQNEs), each run by its own big business franchise (such as "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong". Gated communities become sovereign "Burbclaves".
February 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Read another book, but for fascist tech bros.
Exactly.
Elon doesn't care when he lies but he looks like a moron when he says things like the USG doesn't use SQL.
And his broccoli boys are so incompetent they didn't filter out judicial or natsec accounts from the DOGE email.
These subjunior devs can't write a line of code without Copilot.
Elon doesn't care when he lies but he looks like a moron when he says things like the USG doesn't use SQL.
And his broccoli boys are so incompetent they didn't filter out judicial or natsec accounts from the DOGE email.
These subjunior devs can't write a line of code without Copilot.
Stories like this matter because Elon still has lots of soldiers who genuinely believe that he lives up to his "first principles" patter, and puts merit and efficacy first.
Experienced tech folks need to make it clear that he and his goons are partisan hacks with "limited technical understanding."
Experienced tech folks need to make it clear that he and his goons are partisan hacks with "limited technical understanding."
So they started out with ~100 existing staffers, 60 have now resigned.
*21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS
*21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS
February 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Exactly.
Elon doesn't care when he lies but he looks like a moron when he says things like the USG doesn't use SQL.
And his broccoli boys are so incompetent they didn't filter out judicial or natsec accounts from the DOGE email.
These subjunior devs can't write a line of code without Copilot.
Elon doesn't care when he lies but he looks like a moron when he says things like the USG doesn't use SQL.
And his broccoli boys are so incompetent they didn't filter out judicial or natsec accounts from the DOGE email.
These subjunior devs can't write a line of code without Copilot.
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So many rich guys living a fantasy where they're freeing children from traffickers even as they back a rapist in the White House who is pardoning sex criminals, gutting CSAM investigations, separating kids from parents at the border and endorsing the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children by Russia.
You really have no idea where this corporate press release will end up, I encourage you to read the whole thing www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
Goya Foods CEO, Bob Unanue, Announces Next Chapter
/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Robert "Bob" Unanue, with over 20 years as President & CEO of Goya Foods, is releasing a statement about his status with the...
www.prnewswire.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
So many rich guys living a fantasy where they're freeing children from traffickers even as they back a rapist in the White House who is pardoning sex criminals, gutting CSAM investigations, separating kids from parents at the border and endorsing the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children by Russia.
The Russification of America
The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
Florida congressman investigated for alleged DC assault as police probe their own handling
D.C. police confirm they are investigating an alleged assault by Florida Rep. Cory Mills, a Republican representing a district northeast of Orlando, calling it an active criminal investigation.
www.nbcwashington.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Russification of America
I've commented elsewhere about this but the only candidate in recent history with any sort of valid complaint about the primary process is...Hillary Clinton.
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February 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've commented elsewhere about this but the only candidate in recent history with any sort of valid complaint about the primary process is...Hillary Clinton.
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Just as I said, surrendering to Russia makes WWIII more likely, if not imminent, not less.
Polish general Rajmund Andrzejczak: "If Russia attacks even an inch of Lithuanian territory, the response will come immediately. Not on the first day, but in the first minute. We will hit all strategic targets within a radius of 300 km. We will attack St. Petersburg directly". (October 2024 onet.pl)
February 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Just as I said, surrendering to Russia makes WWIII more likely, if not imminent, not less.
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