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the case for nationalizing SpaceX just keeps making itself

Krugman is a liberal economist but even still 10 years ago I couldn't imagine him calling for expropriation and (temporary) nationalization of a major company. What stage of capitalism is this? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

“Pete broke the world Eisenhower built.”

Very valuable and very sober analysis www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-puti...

Trump just claimed the United States had done “a lot” for Ukraine, but that Ukraine has done “nothing” for the United States. This is unjust in the highest degree. And not just untrue in the normal sense — it is a big lie, designed to bring about horror and chaos. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-big...

Extremely sound mickryan.substack.com/p/what-has-u...

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I wish Biden had been a war hawk who shipped thousands of Bradleys to Ukraine. I wish our entire stockpile of 155mm rounds were used on Russian soldiers. There isn’t a single escalatory act NATO members could commit against Russia that I wouldn’t support.

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

reliance on starlink is a national security threat for every country, including the united states, where musk would absolutely use it to sabotage the foreign policy of a dem president it must be replaced posthaste

Ukraine's survival requires an anti-Putin, anti-invasion Congress

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The contest for this country’s future is the MAGA Monoculture vs the American Multiculture. And this clip shows the American Multiculture winning. Abdul El Sayed is the American here. Not this Tommy character.

In their design of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786), Jefferson and Madison declined to make Christian belief a requirement to hold office, and explicitly said that if a Muslim could get elected, there should be no barrier to their holding office.

crucially this applies to western dictators too

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

No Kings. No Courtiers. No Oligarchs.

In competitive authoritarian countries, regime allies limit and control mainstream media visibility to opposition figures and media. We're not there yet, but this is what it looks like.

Russia was never a hoax

Trump tells Congress he doesn't care about what they think and lifts Russian energy sanctions www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

well well well not so easy to find an interagency that doesn't suck shit huh

He's probably doing it because he authentically wants Putin to win. The war between Putin and Ukraine is a proxy war between the forces of nationalist far-right reaction and those against it. Which is why the anti-Ukraine left is so deeply misguided.

I'm fuckin sick of this shit man. in retrospect Biden was way too lenient on Putin

Elon Musk has started working on his Nuremberg defense for Ukrainian civilian deaths.

So Musk is saying it was the Trump Admin who did it and the Trump Admin is saying it was Musk who did it.

guess who just got Yelled At

In Lord Keynes' 1930 essay on the economic problems of our grandchildren, he makes clear that a billionaires tax will eventually (as in right now) become essential to maintaining and safeguarding democracy because without it the descent into plutocracy will be stark and steep.

"Starlink gets turned into universal basic Wi-Fi after Elon's assets are forfeited" is an abundance vision i can get behind

Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...

Trump is being bribed to sell out Ukraine, Europe, NATO and the United States of America.

Also, the Alberta independent movement basically disappeared after the Yandex site was bombed. Fancy that.

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

This exchange between Russian Yandex and the Ukrainian missile company Firepoint.

the cuck american president: stop attacking russian oil the gigachad ukranian military: we will burn their refineries

Re: Trump's diesel deal with Putin Conversion factor is 7.5 barrels of diesel per metric ton. Daily global diesel consumption is around 25 million bpd. So, the initial 300,000 tons, or 2.2 million barrels, would meet global demand for about two hours.

So Russia is apparently exporting diesel to the US which they themselves can't even put into petrol pumps around Moscow. Right.