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Laurent Guy
@laurentguy.bsky.social
Data scientist, market analyst, foreign policy realist, avid history consumer.
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Replying to @brianbeutler.bsky.social
When Republicans assert that they'll be immune from accountability even in defeat, and Dems say it's a distraction from prices, it's like watching a computer play chess—maybe "right" on a scoring system. But fully drained of the moral force that drives politics. www.offmessage.net/p/wheres-the...
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When will there be serious consequences for lying? No liar on important matters should be on the public payroll.
ICE said Antonio Moreida jumped onto the hood of their vehicle. Now a local police investigation concludes that an ICE agent struck him with his SUV. The routine lying by ICE is the result of the example set by leadership of the Department of Homeland Security.
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As Trump barnstorms the country hoping to revive his base ahead of the midterm election, he is returning to an old habit: heckling protesters and encouraging violence against them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...
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Trump said he had to takeover Greenland to keep China and Russia out. And then he snuck Russia onto the North Slope. Literally just ... inviting them in. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...
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“Ramaswamy’s ad embraces a woman who enabled sexual abuse—and uses the language of ‘parental estrangement’ to mobilize MAGA voters who can’t understand why their children won’t take their calls. But they know the reason. They just don’t want to accept it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
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IMO an underrated third option is to unilaterally end American material support for Israel rather than engaging in convoluted and likely to fail efforts at “pressure.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/o...
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So, according to Ramaswamy, either Acton was raped as a child, in which case she is damaged, or she didn’t get raped, in which case she is a liar. Quite an epistemological trap.
NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy says Amy Acton being a victim of childhood sexual abuse makes her “flawed” while defending his ad featuring her estranged mother. “In politics sometimes it's a tough sport.”
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Jared Kushner has been accused of holding two secret bank accounts in the Middle East that were exposed by Russian operatives who hacked his phone.
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One of the things Teddy Roosevelt understood is that if any private citizen holds more power than the government, the republic is in deep trouble.
Elon Musk threatens Democrats who want to investigate alleged corruption and his role in the US government if they win control of Congress next month. "Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them” tinyurl.com/yjfn3u3k
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Paul Mescal, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Kneecap Sign Open Letter Against Sally Rooney Book Ban "Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist," reads the letter, also signed by Zadie Smith, Tilda Swinton, Kate Nash, and more. Read: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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A serious newspaper would say, "video shows otherwise." There is ZERO ambiguity here and anyone who says otherwise is a Trumpian liar.
“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...
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Witkoff is an embarrassment (and much worse than that.). This is essentially a pro-Putin stunt. Calling Putin a ‘Humanitarian,’ Witkoff Thanks Him for Releasing an American www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...
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This is asking for a lawsuit. Wow.
Leaked audio: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers asking for officers at polling stations to intimidate voters "We called the RNC early and said hey... Let's put police officers, retired or off-duty police officers as our poll watchers in Detroit because go ahead, try to intimidate them. Please."
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Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.
Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."
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"We are entering what may be the most dangerous phase in the life of the most dangerous political leader America has ever known." 💯
Did we really win the Cold War? Defeat fascism? Bury the Confederacy? In retrospect, thanks to Trump, MAGA and their enablers, perhaps none of those things. My latest. Hope you’ll give it a read. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/so-as-it-t...
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Le 17 octobre, ce schéma a merveilleusement fonctionné n'est ce pas? Et donc on recommence le 5 novembre. Les habitants de Limoges, Marseille, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Montpellier, Lyon, Lille, sans parler de Paris, en seront ravis
Et puis quoi encore? La manif du 5 est organisée par l'inter-syndicale et seront présent les services d ordre des syndicats pour assurer qu'il n'y ait pas de débordement. Ce qu'il se passe à l'extérieur des manifs avec les casseurs est du ressort de la Police qui sait très bien de quoi il retourne.
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Fuckerberg
❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.
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New in PN: Republicans learn to love DOJ weaponization "With early voting underway, Omar got agents at her door at 6am, when her 14-year-old was inside, over a theory cooked up on an anonymous message board. Republicans never objected to weaponizing the DOJ. They just wanted custody of the weapon."
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At least Susan Collins can still fool the New York Times.
Q: Can you name a time when you voted against Trump and it changed the outcome? SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Sec. Hegseth. At the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated. Q: So it didn't change the outcome
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Spectacularly unserious politics. Seriously, get Shabana Mahmood to say on camera that she seriously believes incidences of terror-related crime to have increased by 2000% overnight. Nobody thinks that. It‘s bad, bad law by a self-indulgent, extremist Home Secretary.
Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.
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Replying to @alexip718.com
What I'm seeing is that Western journalists have essentially been potted plants in institutional greenhouses, so shielded from the realities of authoritarianism that they have zero immunity against new and old methods of propaganda, right as Trump blows the roof off the metaphorical greenhouse
i think that western journalists with limited or outdated experience with authoritarian propaganda environments don't know how much things have evolved in like, the last 15 years. like the degree to which propaganda is chaotic, distributed, insidious, memeified.
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Last night, Starlink was reportedly restricted in Ukraine due to a political decision made in Washington. Europeans should be aware that it is dangerous to depend on a partly hostile government for your security, as they could blackmail you at any time. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Military officer who called for Trump’s impeachment held in solitary confinement. "On Friday, [Air Force Maj. Jason] Watson’s lawyer, Christopher Mutimer, told CNN that after nearly two months, Watson is ‘still in solitary confinement 24 hours a day.’" www.commondreams.org/news/jason-w...
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Russia is using its rapprochement with Trump as cover for a massive rearming of its ally, Iran. "Russia is providing missiles, echoing a separate assessment in June. The assessment of Iran’s capability runs counter to repeated claims from Trump and his team that eight months of airstrikes have
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