„Ihre Brutalität, Großmäuligkeit und Hirnlosigkeit haben nicht abschreckend, sondern anziehend gewirkt. Das bleibt eine nicht leicht zu beseitigende Tatsache."
Carl von Ossietzky, Journalist, Publizist nach der Wahl von Hitler zum Reichskanzler am 30. Januar 1933
The Most Dangerous Woman in the World
claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-most-d... She is going to hand the midterms to Trump's GOP singlehandedly. The world cannot afford this.
"So we've stopped calling you 'killer whales' because frankly it made you sound like aquatic psychopaths."
"Oh, okay, cool. Here, hold this sunfish for me a moment will you?"
Folks complaining the actors in The Odyssey don't look Ancient Greek are oddly nostalgic for the era when John Wayne was apparently the most qualified Mongolian on Earth.
to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber
12 years ago we shot down MH17. My trolls will remind you that Russia got rid of that kind of BUK in late 1990s so we couldn't have shot it down. So here's Prez at Russia's 102nd Military Base in Dec 2013 with a Russian BUK-M1 vehicle with 9M38(M1) missiles that only Ukraine has had since the 90s..
Today we remember the 298 lives lost in the downing of Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014.
A Dutch-led investigation confirmed a Russian missile brought the plane down, yet Russia continues to deny responsibility and shields those convicted.
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
If physically capable, everybody should work both a service industry and a manual labor job at some point in their lives, because nothing else will ever make you appreciate your laptop and Excel spreadsheets more
Captain Oleksandr Yabchanka commands the Da Vinci Wolves regiment's drone platoon. He builds the kill zones he is describing.
He tours Europe because no one has answered the scenario.
euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/29/t...
A Ukrainian drone commander walked into GLOBSEC with a scenario for Europe.
20 armed men capture a village on NATO's eastern border. Russia denies it. The country sends armored vehicles in.
They don't make it. Russia builds 20-kilometer kill zones now. 98% vehicle destruction inside the belt.
4. Ship leaves port with visible "mine" on hull. Pilot would check draught marks on departure. "Mine" attached right next to marks. "Mine" is not noticed by several pilots, linesmen, tugs, etc...
5. Story highly unlikely
Donald Trump has done a lot of terrible things to this country over the last decade. But here’s what I think is most insidious of all:
Trump has taught Americans that cruelty is strength, that resentment is identity, and that hating other people somehow makes you superior.
I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.
That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
While the ”Narva scenario” has become such a popular doom narrative that it even has its own Wikipedia page, trying to take it wouldn’t be a walk in the park for Russian little green men.
Here’s four reasons why.
With Marek Kohv @icds-tallinn.bsky.social
This is so essential for Europeans to understand: "Russia is not a threat to us in the short term."
Europe has time to urgently and rapidly build a common defence without America. If we... 🧵
The world is outraged about goods and trade disrupted by the closure of Hormuz. But the thousands of seafarers trapped in that war zone? Silence. These are the very people whose courage and labour will eventually put those goods on your shelves. www.seatrade-maritime.com/crewing/the-...
This is arguably the real “elite bubble.” The dumbest person most educated professionals have any meaningful social interaction with—the guy at the office they snicker about in the group chat—is a solid standard deviation brighter than the American mean. This necessarily skews one’s perspective.
“Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”
Fran Lebowitz
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
These ghouls act like they've discovered some novel secret: "Hey, guys, GUYS! Did you know that we can just kill people whenever we want?" Yes, you absolute idiot, that's ALWAYS been true. We just chose not to, for good and self-interested reasons which the entire world is about to learn yet again.
I've long believed that MAGA is simply a pride movement for sociopaths.
This type of comment is anthropologically interesting.
Most of us understand empathy to be the basis of all civilization. I.e., we cannot have a society without common concern. It doesn't function otherwise.
Zelensky: "We have made many compromises. Putin and his friends are not in prison (!). This is the biggest compromise that the world has already made."