gzt aka zoidberg
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gzt aka zoidberg
@giziti.bsky.social
· Nov 13
i think the latest moves really clarify that conservatism has nothing to offer the world but death and destruction
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By turning away Afghan refugees, many of whom have worked directly with the United States before the Taliban took over, this is what Trump is condemning tens of thousands of innocent people to: a regime where religious leaders can decide when you can use the Internet or call your business partners.
“100% of our communication is done through mobile phones,” farmer Iqbal Momand says. “When the blackout happened, everything came to a standstill. We could not contact the markets. Our harvested crops could not be transported.”
The Taliban's Internet Blackouts Are Devastating Afghan Farmers
When the Afghan government shut down all communication channels for two days due to political reasons, farmers were unable to contact buyers and transporters, resulting in significant losses.
www.thexylom.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
By turning away Afghan refugees, many of whom have worked directly with the United States before the Taliban took over, this is what Trump is condemning tens of thousands of innocent people to: a regime where religious leaders can decide when you can use the Internet or call your business partners.
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
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If you really want to signal status, do the normal thing and buy a $20 bottle of olive oil, then serve it to your guests with decent wine and homemade hummus and foccacia. Maybe some charcuterie if you can stretch to it.
bring back respectable middle-class financial values (not blowing $100k plus $50k interest on a depreciating asset)
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If you really want to signal status, do the normal thing and buy a $20 bottle of olive oil, then serve it to your guests with decent wine and homemade hummus and foccacia. Maybe some charcuterie if you can stretch to it.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that the only western value they care about is property rights and all other uses of the phrase are just code for being white. It’s not like they sit around reading Classics. At best they’ve picked up some things about Western Civilisation from video games and “300.”
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I’ve come to the conclusion that the only western value they care about is property rights and all other uses of the phrase are just code for being white. It’s not like they sit around reading Classics. At best they’ve picked up some things about Western Civilisation from video games and “300.”
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it's hard to get your mind around how irredeemably broken this country has become. no one in charge at this time seems to understand even the basics of our system of government as written or our stated set of values as a secular society
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
it's hard to get your mind around how irredeemably broken this country has become. no one in charge at this time seems to understand even the basics of our system of government as written or our stated set of values as a secular society
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The IDF massacred hundreds of civilians in extrajudicial executions at Gaza hospitals. They do this kind of thing as a matter of course.
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The IDF massacred hundreds of civilians in extrajudicial executions at Gaza hospitals. They do this kind of thing as a matter of course.
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WHY IS THE MILITARY IN ANY US CITY
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
WHY IS THE MILITARY IN ANY US CITY
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They'll build a statue to the first reporter who tells this old dumbass to eat shit on camera
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
They'll build a statue to the first reporter who tells this old dumbass to eat shit on camera
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Do younger people know about the Bush shoe incident?
It's a disgrace to American journalism that no American reporter has tried to bean one of our presidents with a shoe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
It's a disgrace to American journalism that no American reporter has tried to bean one of our presidents with a shoe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
George W. Bush shoe-throwing incident - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Do younger people know about the Bush shoe incident?
It's a disgrace to American journalism that no American reporter has tried to bean one of our presidents with a shoe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
It's a disgrace to American journalism that no American reporter has tried to bean one of our presidents with a shoe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
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If I'm spending $100k on a personal vehicle, it better guarantee favorable treatment from the Supreme Court for years to come.
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
If I'm spending $100k on a personal vehicle, it better guarantee favorable treatment from the Supreme Court for years to come.
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good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
Arizona pair celebrates decade of friendship that started with wrong text
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
www.azfamily.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
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the guy is behind in his dues to karate church
I don’t have a particularly common name but there are multiple people around the world who accidentally use my email when signing up for accounts. There’s a guy in Missouri who has been my constant companion for going on twenty years. He’s recently divorced and joining some sort of “karate church”
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
the guy is behind in his dues to karate church
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In the long term this is what will kill what's left of America's miniscule credibility in MENA: US-backed ceasefires are when the Arab ceases and Israel continues to fire.
And this is not a Trump problem, but a bipartisan problem. This "ceasefire" was achieved by the previous president.
And this is not a Trump problem, but a bipartisan problem. This "ceasefire" was achieved by the previous president.
A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect a year ago today.
Since then, Israel has violated the ceasefire nearly 10,000 times: 7,500 violations of Lebanese airspace and almost 2,500 ground violations, according to the UN.
Since then, Israel has violated the ceasefire nearly 10,000 times: 7,500 violations of Lebanese airspace and almost 2,500 ground violations, according to the UN.
Lebanon: Israel’s attacks continue one year into "ceasefire"
www.nrc.no
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
In the long term this is what will kill what's left of America's miniscule credibility in MENA: US-backed ceasefires are when the Arab ceases and Israel continues to fire.
And this is not a Trump problem, but a bipartisan problem. This "ceasefire" was achieved by the previous president.
And this is not a Trump problem, but a bipartisan problem. This "ceasefire" was achieved by the previous president.
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Continually amazed that someone who's been in public life as long as Trump has lacks the capacity to say anything appropriate when someone has died.
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Continually amazed that someone who's been in public life as long as Trump has lacks the capacity to say anything appropriate when someone has died.
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a young woman who signed up to serve her community and our narcissistic, despotic president decided to use her as a prop for his ego
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
a young woman who signed up to serve her community and our narcissistic, despotic president decided to use her as a prop for his ego
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I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
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Ah yes, we are going to be bombing the territory of a sovereign country and yet some of the most insufferable people in the FP and IR fields will get on the news and tell you that bombing a sovereign country doesn't mean we are at war with them and anchors with eat that shit up like slop.
Breaking: President Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start "very soon"
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start ‘very soon’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that...
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Ah yes, we are going to be bombing the territory of a sovereign country and yet some of the most insufferable people in the FP and IR fields will get on the news and tell you that bombing a sovereign country doesn't mean we are at war with them and anchors with eat that shit up like slop.
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. The President is a racist.
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. The President is a racist.
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My statement on infants being held by ICE in a basement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement.
“He was held in a crowded basement w/o access to food or water. He could hear babies crying throughout the night. ICE didn’t respond if infants are held in the basement.”
“He was held in a crowded basement w/o access to food or water. He could hear babies crying throughout the night. ICE didn’t respond if infants are held in the basement.”
He was building a life in San Diego. Then he got a one-day notice for an ICE check-in
The U.S. deported just five immigrants from Turkey in the 2024 federal budget year. One Turkish immigrant now fears deportation after being summoned to a San Diego ICE office.
www.kpbs.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My statement on infants being held by ICE in a basement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement.
“He was held in a crowded basement w/o access to food or water. He could hear babies crying throughout the night. ICE didn’t respond if infants are held in the basement.”
“He was held in a crowded basement w/o access to food or water. He could hear babies crying throughout the night. ICE didn’t respond if infants are held in the basement.”
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Malley and Daniel Levy (who I think is a British Israeli?) are the only Westerners who seem to have actually learned anything from having been involved in the peace process themselves as negotiators.
![In a discussion at Harvard, host Tarek Masoud asked former U.S. diplomat and longtime Middle East peace negotiator Rob Malley [
@Rob_Malley
] why Americans should “invest in the Palestinian cause” when Palestinians reject what Masoud called the only “realistic” outcomes available under Israel’s overwhelming power.
Malley responded that weakness does not create an obligation to “surrender,” saying “dignity, pride [and] national self-determination matter. You don’t simply say we’re weaker, therefore we’re going to give everything up.”
Under the logic Masoud proposed, Malley pointed out, “the Israelis could say: we’re going to give you 10% of the West Bank, you’re going to live in Bantustans… and why shouldn’t the Palestinians accept it?”
Malley, who took part in negotiations in the 1990s and early 2000s, said the U.S. peace team “was not that diverse in terms of understanding why a Palestinian may not react as enthusiastically to what some people call a ‘generous’ offer.”
He said decades of talks were shaped by a “major discrepancy of narratives”: “The Israelis believe that the original sin was Palestinian rejection of ’48. The Palestinians think it was the partition plan which took away the majority of their land.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlpy6zuqqum5tumv7b6dw5fp/bafkreibgsay7mhsuv2miolitb5ez7vghp6lek74kvqjmb6oof527oouvrq@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Malley and Daniel Levy (who I think is a British Israeli?) are the only Westerners who seem to have actually learned anything from having been involved in the peace process themselves as negotiators.
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like, literally:
anything that contributes to society functioning is labeled something maga hates and is burned to the ground
anything that contributes to society functioning is labeled something maga hates and is burned to the ground
so a functioning society is woke dei socialism
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
like, literally:
anything that contributes to society functioning is labeled something maga hates and is burned to the ground
anything that contributes to society functioning is labeled something maga hates and is burned to the ground