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I have been practicing lately

many such cases

agreed, even if implemented “privacy first”

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In this special collaboration with @varnvlog.bsky.social , we combined in our Captain Planet team of pessimism. We are opening up a multi-part investigation into New York Times columnist Ross Douthat's landmark 2020 thesis, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victim of Our Own Success.

🤿DITW: Only Black Pills🏚️ @seankb.bsky.social interviews @varnvlog.bsky.social back from tour, discuss DSA & prepolitics, climate crisis, Complexity theory, inability of US capitalists to get their shit together in the Trump era & much more www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

This week the boys all got together to do a bonus episode about the current state of the republic. We are clearly ailing as a society and we are clearly in trouble as a country. Will the decline of the empire lead to the fall of the republic? www.patreon.com/theregrettab...

there are two great videos on Horses w/ @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social on Varn Vlog @varnvlog.bsky.social here is the 2025 one www.youtube.com/watch?v=zek7...

As climate risk intensifies, so does a struggle among insurers, homeowners, renters, and governments over which lives and homes deserve protection—and who pays.

~E341: The People are Not One~ @varnvlog.bsky.social and Daniel Tutt discuss their new book, a critique of populism offering their vision of path forward for the left www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...

Here it is, my 284th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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Average magazine in the Duniverse:

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This week we invited Daniel Tutt and C. Derick Varn to talk about their new book, The People are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism.  www.patreon.com/theregrettab...

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Utah Republican Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson told reporters at the Utah News Dispatch that the SAVE database “is notoriously inaccurate and frequently flags individuals who are, in fact, citizens.”

Whispers say Labour looks beyond Starmer already * Reform candidate appears in 2 seats at once * Cambridge eyes Lib Dem–Green coalition * Restore nibbling chunks out of Reform’s flank All the drama this week in Pecksniff's political diary ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

It was also, unfortunately, easy to see that this is where things were going: arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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The Pentagon is planning to keep the National Guard deployed in Washington, DC through the entirety of Trump’s second term. That will cost hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.

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Seriously the idea that this war is will go better than Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc promoted by both its supporters and the “nothing ever happens crowd” when the president changes both rationale for it and stated mission objectives almost every time he talks, is absurd.

Slow roll it out and fail… probably because you didn’t want to do anything about it and you think you can leverage it electorally.

The number of people I know in MENA both in locals and in expat teachers means this stuff hits home for me directly. I am underplaying how angry I am.

I say this as a podcaster (so glass house) but left streamers, even after the decline of breadtube and the rise and stagnation of redtube have a charismatic person-who-talks until-they-blabber-based on vibes-problem that is more honest but as embarrassing as old school punditry.

he outlines this massive surveillance society under the pretense that ethical, responsible people will be in charge, undermined by his effort to cement a permanent zealot kakistocracy in a country too corrupt to have working regulators or corporate accountability of any kind

‘How ghoulish.’ The depravity economy moves into the nuclear war business.

News literacy and how to read it critically is at an all time low at a time when it is more important and even legacy media spouts bullshit (actually they always have but they aren’t sophisticated about it anymore). That isn’t dealing with fake pictures and videos.

So let me get this straight: “we” “participate” in a bombing campaign in Ecuador, threatening to indict Delcy Rodriguez, which would mean going back in Venezuela, and yet Trump is openly mad that they didn’t ramp up production for the Iran situation, and proxy plans are leaking.

Doesnt this threaten the unity of not just NATO but the entire EU?

There are three Horsemen of the AIpocalypse: First, a data center debt deal collapses - it fails to come together and the project is canceled. Second, a data center in construction falls apart, running out of money before it’s complete. Third, a data center fully built runs out of money and dies.

Publicly admitting you are nearly out of interceptor missles and starting an unrelated military action in Latin America when you look to be losing control of another one. “No new wars” this is not