spectre of Dax haunting Europe

mondoweiss.netRemembering Aaron BushnellAaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world.

12 Feb 2025

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Mondoweiss

@mondoweiss.net

25 Feb 2025

Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/reme...

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Christina

@cszhu.dev

25 Feb 2025

due to personal reasons I have decided to be evil now. Thank you for understanding

🚨 my zygo is blooming 🚨 #orchid

surprise appearances by Elon (selling the failed solar panels) and Bibi Netanyahu (selling the failed roofs)

James Medlock@jdcmedlock.bsky.social

Very funny article about a tech billionaire trying and failing to revolutionize something outside their domain of expertise archive.is/W1MnG

this is why we simply can't have billionaires or israel

"THEY TARGETED GAMERS" in 2025, amazing

L@banalplay.bsky.social

I wish I could go back to just before my idk 7th or 8th birthday and tell my mom thanks but no thanks on that NES.

have these people not heard of the most famous of pastas? or are they riffing and they think that was a cool post actually? either way they shouldn't be allowed to express thoughts in public

they should invent a type of clockwise that's the same from above and below.

plumbing is hard

this is an interesting exchange but people are acting like the Economist guy won - by criticizing the rancid details of Trump's policy (mucho texto) while skating over the fundamental issue. if this is the best pro war folks have got...

Ankit Panda@nktpnd.bsky.social

To spare you all from Twitter, here’s @shashj.bsky.social’s great rebuttal.

In case that analogy doesn't make it clear, I consider the primarily-aggrieved party in each case to be the Ukrainians and Palestinians. I'm frustrated because liberals don't seem to grasp that their own guy threw both into the woodchipper.

I can't believe im sympathizing with the wormlike Vance but id be pissed too if some dipshit from the Economist tweeted a whole essay criticizing my policy but treated the fundamental point of distinction between it and Biden's as an afterthought, barely worth a mention.

Ankit Panda@nktpnd.bsky.social

To spare you all from Twitter, here’s @shashj.bsky.social’s great rebuttal.

Broad strokes, the policy program suggested here is "increase the forced mobilizations, hope for the best militarily, and then maybe eventually negotiate but that part's whatever". My own view is that part's not whatever

Imagine if hamas had orders from iran or whatever not to negotiate. Because for iran the strategic interest at stake is not the defense of gaza, it's the degradation of the idf. Think about how that would that change the nature of that conflict.

Ankit Panda@nktpnd.bsky.social

To spare you all from Twitter, here’s @shashj.bsky.social’s great rebuttal.

If we agree there's no military victory, that makes the fact that negotiations JUST BEGAN morally important to reckon with. What was biden trying to do exactly? mr Economist skates over this with "i wouldn't criticize" phrasing. Ok, who gives a shit about ending the war then.

This kind of shit still drives me crazy. Which side's infantry runs on kidnap-busses? I think that's a relevant distinction yes i do

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ESG Hound

@esghound.com

texasobserver.orgICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X AccountThe Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Damn I should have figured that the man who looks like a giant thumb would also be the most easy to spy on phone typist. He probably has to bang his head on the screen one letter at a time lol

steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

just finished DS9 S6 for the first time. i genuinely shouldn't be alone right now

reading about this now and getting more enraged. i guess this guy berman was a psycho boss, misogynist, and opposed everything potentially good about star trek? cool! bsky.app/profile/buck...

Buck Doyle@buck.aboli.sh

do you know the backstory? It’s terrib 😵‍💫

explains why the narrative event at issue felt so rushed / abrupt tho

just finished DS9 S6 for the first time. i genuinely shouldn't be alone right now

question: what the fuck? how dare they? what gives them the right?

what if we wrote the one compelling romantic partnership in the entire star trek franchise and then.... did this

maybe team nato should have bothered to negotiate for several years now and then you wouldn't have the inevitable 🇺🇦 policy wind down being negotiated by a singularly rapacious criminal

The cope line I see, for people who can't admit they were wrong, is “Biden didn't give 🇺🇦 the chance to win”. So unprecedented military & diplomatic support wasn't enough. If the gop had voted thru a few more appropriations, it would've solved the manpower problem via magic

In the end if we had to start ww3 over the principle that everyone's theoretically but not practically allowed into nato, would that not have been worth it? No. No it wouldn't have been

maybe team nato should have bothered to negotiate for several years now and then you wouldn't have the inevitable 🇺🇦 policy wind down being negotiated by a singularly rapacious criminal

here is Blinken claiming that he tried negotiating, but with no specifics on the offer it's safe to assume it was more of the same intransigence we've seen from the state dept since the 90s. bsky.app/profile/spec...

spectre of Dax haunting Europe@spectreserf.bsky.social

Really interesting assertion that SHOULD HAVE been followed up on. How did Blinken test that proposition? Is he saying he offered Putin "no 🇺🇦 into NATO"? That would be a bombshell. If not, how does another offer test the proposition exactly?

the particulars of the deal trump imposes will be awful no doubt, but in terms of the broad strokes im really struggling to imagine what the mainstream fp critics offer as an alternative. Supply enough guns that the conflict can be (best case scenario) frozen forever?

guy attending Julius Caesar's Lupercalia festival of 44 BC:

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

aren't they at least supposed to pretend they don't want him to be king??

Trump is being less crafty about this than the ides of march guy.

nytimes.comOpinion | This Isn’t the Donald Trump America ElectedHe is making us a corrupted, brittle superpower.

Obama foreign policy guy says USAID is good because we can't send US troops *everywhere*

Ben Rhodes@rhodesben.bsky.social

"When the richest man in the world can so easily undermine our place on the global stage, it is, quite simply, a harbinger of decline: a sign of a corrupted superpower so brittle that its sources of influence can be taken apart from within." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

This is the left wing of mainstream FP, folks: The American state *trying to dominate the entire world* may lead to a “mindset” of “hubris”, but the goal is fundamentally sound. Something Americans can take pride in! So send in the social engineers and political schemers along w the aid trucks.

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Jeremy Appel 🍉

@readtheorchard.org

yvesengler.comI’m being charged for responding to anti-Palestinian hate on X - Yves EnglerTomorrow the Montreal police will arrest me for posting to social media against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Today I received a phone call from a Montreal police officer by the last name of Crivello. Sh...

Speaking of attacks on press freedom, they’re not just happening in Alberta. yvesengler.com/2025/02/18/i...

17 Feb 2025

Unlike you (I suspect), I have a BA degree in Egg Science from a top-50 ag university, and (I suspect unlike you), I’ve been following global egg supply issues for 38+ years, concentrating on the XL market segment. What are your credentials for understanding basic concepts?

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Ruth Malone, RN, PhD

@remalone.bsky.social

17 Feb 2025

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

17 Feb 2025

just heard a PP ad saying verbatim “woke obsessions dishonour our history” lmao he's not Trump, he's DeSantis 🤮

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Ken Klippenstein

16 Feb 2025

Senator Mark Warner spills the beans about "the real story" of how the TikTok ban went down. Turns out, its passage had more to do with the Gaza war than China. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tiktok-ban...

kenklippenstein.comTikTok Ban Fueled by Israel, Not ChinaCongressional insiders spill the beans on how the law was passed

16 Feb 2025

i don't think you'd have 3 separate fights in the first 7 seconds of a 🇺🇸🇨🇦 hockey game without Donald J Trump