Plutonaut

There's so much else wrong with this stupid lawsuit but on this specific point: despite being "busy" with "lives" and "jobs," Alaskans were able to spell M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I when they reelected her to the Senate as a write-in candidate in 2010 after she lost the GOP primary.

Behold: The US Defense Intelligence Agency has released a report on challenges to security in space, including an NEI image of China’s spaceplane from Maxar, taken in 2024.

this man is a gotdamned patriot

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

Twee berichten naast elkaar op de site van het Parool. De ongelijke stad, anno 2026:

Something horribly Dickensian about this. The weight of the world.

Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

I am requesting that we bring back shame a bit more urgently than usual

Het kwartje viel langzaam, maar uiteindelijk viel het wel. "Geen draagvlak" vind ik nog vrij eufemistisch ... nos.nl/artikel/2636...

Wie denkt dat dit nieuw is, vergist zich. Al sinds de voorbereiding voor de staat Israël werden Palestijnen verdreven en hun goederen en infra vernietigt. Het is vet illegaal en mensonterend. Niet voor niets noemde de VN gisteren (opnieuw) dat Israël misdaden tegen de menselijkheid pleegt.

Nog even over die Quote 500: die doneert massaal aan extreemrechts. En aan rechts. Sommige partijen hadden waarschijnlijk niet eens bestaan zonder de geldimpulsen van superrijken. Het amper leden tellende 50plus werd voor tonnen gespekt door Quotelid Chris Thünnessen. jacobin.nl/wie-kocht-de...

Lezersbrief in de Volkskrant

‘Cryptobaas.’ Wat in hemelsnaam is een Cryptobaas? Meer dan 300 miljard. 500 mensen. #taxtherich

Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch designer & architect, born in Utrecht #OTD 1888, known for his distinctive Red & Blue Chair of 1917 and De Stijl design of Rietveld Schröder House of 1924 (Utrecht) Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Köln | UNESCO World Heritage

Het is tekenend voor deze tijd dat ons (geschiedenis)onderwijs gepolitiseerd wordt en er dit soort suggestieve stellingen worden gedaan, over scholen of leraren. Als vakvereniging van geschiedenisleraren vragen wij zorgvuldigheid en nuance en daarmee om respect voor het werk dat wij doen.

Russia’s war on Ukraine is not going well. Russia is basically fighting for nothing

This just happens in the US, remarks by a cabinet member and no government official condemns this, also no republican protests against these kind remarks. Trump is not the only problem.

National borders have *never* been containers for politics and political processes. I don't have time to write a full thread, so here are some resources.

The FRENCH don’t play when it comes to a REVOLUTION

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

I'd have a bit more time for this MattyY take if I wasn't 99% sure that had the result gone the other way he be all over Twitter smugly claiming there are important lessons for leftists to learn from Lula's failure (be more conservative, do not fight for anything ever).

De motivatie om op 8 november weer mee te doen aan de #rodelijn demonstratie groeit met de dag.. Zondag 8 november, 13 uur op De Dam Amsterdam.

Make a band edible: The beetles

Not too early to start thinking about how grassroots pressure on a Dem House could help produce better results -->

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Op mijn verjaardag! Iedereen is welkom 🔴

Children's laureates for both Ireland and Wales have announced they are donating their royalties to fiction author Sally Rooney in a show of solidarity after her publisher stopped selling her books in the UK 👇

All politicians who worship at the altar of low taxes are fundamentally unserious people.

Me, for the last idk 25 years of my life, so all of my adult life: The stock market is just gambling lol The stock market: Sooooooo big news

Lula Goes HARD

Spanish Police battering teachers peacefully protesting for better working conditions. We need to elect leaders who will fund education AND put these thugs and their bosses in jail where they belong.

Everyone with a shred of objectivity already knows this to be obviously true, but it's still good to have data supporting the fact that transphobes are just bog-standard misogynist bigots, and the attempts to frame transphobia as some kind of feminist virtue are insultingly transparent.

The people who trade in despair, including progressives on here, are not their enemies. They are their handmaidens.

So the women in the first photo were indeed "dressed like witches", because their (now ceremonial) uniform was established around the same era witches were put on trial in New England. The truth is: witches are CREATED out of respectable older women by accusation & this is what they wore.

French police sees children walking mere meters away, casually throws teargas right at the children. If you wanna understand why so many people hate the police x.com/tartarle/sta...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Laat me raden. Het leger gaat onderzoek doen maar wijst erop dat ze aanwijzingen hadden dat Hamas in elk tent zat. Het houdt verdomme maar niet op. Gore klootzakken.

We need to stop always making the far right the subject of political agency and the object of voter decisions in our analyses of contemporary politics. The success of the far right is not inevitable. But single elections do not signal the end of the far-right threat to our democracies.