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@wachelreeks.com actually really enjoyed the latest game knights, which surprises me cause I have no interest in the TMNT show, but Jarvis is always a good time and the decks seemed fun

On the contrary to what Trump has said about the imminent threat from Iran, this continued series of campaigns against Iran have taken place precisely because the US believes Iran does not have the capacity to impose costs or threaten the US in the short term

Holy hell this Epstein stuff is crazy, obviously one has to wait for a proper investigation (which will not happen under this DOJ), but oh my god

@lukeoneil47.bsky.social ‘s verse about this never fails to move me

You didn't just watch them kill Alex Pretti, you saw them attempt to kill democracy

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country. As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

I remain resolved to the idea that, despite all that this administration has done and continues to do, the American people are fundamentally good at heart. If we could get to the synthesis part of the dialectic soon that would be great though

I can't help that notice that the #GOP representatives interviewed today don't seem to be mentioning why they support what Trump has done in Venezuela, or talked about what the plan is, but just are really thankful towards him personally for being strong or whatever. Fucking weird

Justice for Joe Marlow. The only faithful with a brain

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Elizabeth Tsurkov IS FREE.

I know it's sort of clear to all, but the point of deploying the national guard is to induce a riot not to supress one #LA

adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-... A very good explainer on the nexus of the potential crisis in the financial system by @adamtooze.bsky.social worth the read

Trump in his unreflective dim consciousness embodies the total figure of an American empire, to which all the world is the periphery, is the colony. His obsession with manufacturing is no surprise at all if you recognise he's a boorish cartoon from Pravda

Copium in MAGAland over the tariffs is nothing if not entertaining

I'm sure in a few days we will hear from insiders that, like in the case of the Jan 6 pardons, Trump got bored and frustrated with the nuances of what to vs what not to levy and said "fuck it" we'll just do it all

I wonder the degree to which these tariffs are incentivised by the common American view that they benefitted economically from the destruction of all other industrial countries in the second world war

What we have seen in the last few days is the process in authoritarian or hybrid regimes referred to as negative selection, where the leader surrounds himself with those who cannot outshine him. Given the stupidity of #Trump the process required some truly moronic underlining's to emerge.

So the director of the #CIA perjured himself before the senate intelligence committee when he said he's never been a GC which contained classified information. Good to know

Assuming our survival, the first task of any administration that follows #Trump must be deconstructing the infrastructure of the surveillance economy that the last 25 years of tech has created. All the tools of totalitarianism exist already for whichever despot wishes to seize them

"I will do that. I'm gonna stop them." -- Trump on declaring that Tesla protesters are domestic terrorists

Trump’s message to the people of Gaza: “You are DEAD!”

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine. (...) We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor" #3E #EndOligarchy

Perhaps the greatest similarity shared by #Trump and #Putin is the belief that their individuality constitutes a holistic representation of the state, wherein their enrichment and prestige is a natural function of the state, being an implication of health, and their fall is the death of the nation

The Republican's have offered up #America 's soul on the altar of power, decades of mendacious demagoguery has hollowed them out 2 the core, all that remains is identity and grievance, even grievance is an identity now. They wish to drag the rest down into the dirt without hope or meaning or purpose

The party of Lincoln...

The position of house republican's is that #Zelensky should lick boot as much as they do cause it worked out so well for those slaves

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

The target of modern political propaganda is the human self, to hollow out all dignity through cynical despair and replace what was once decency with identity and grievance alone. #Trump

It's not at all surprising that #Trump supporters want to ally with an eschatological regime that frequently displays its desire to nuke them on state TV. Because they view him as the Republican in this war, yes they are that shallow, dumb and myopic.

The smallest man alive #Zelensky

This is the only thing I've found shocking so far

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

Zelenskyy calls for the creation of a #EuropeanArmy: “We must build the armed forces of Europe, so that Europe’s future depends only on Europeans,” the creation of a unified European force outside of NATO comes after the US elected a Russian asset making it no longer reliable or to be counted on.

It's rather amazing to see American's have willingly decided to do to their own country what they saw happen in Russia in the 90s, with the oligarchy made only more insidious by the infostructure of surveillance that they themselves have created over the intervening years. #Musk

#city are officially crap

I want to highlight what I believe is a significant document that I reviewed for this story. It's a memorandum of understanding between DOGE & CFPB. In all the coverage of DOGE's takeover of agencies I haven't read or heard about a document like this. I think this stands out 1/

I so hope this is true

Really very beautifully written

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

Crowd keeps growing outside Treasury as Members who were DENIED entry speak

It's worth asking the question why wouldn't #Elon break as many laws as he wants given that he knows Trump can just pardon him?