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Tina- Descendant Of Antifa Soldiers @trcfwtt.bsky.social · 37m

IF the media WERE serious, they'd talk about how cuts to USAID have boosted the terrorists he wants to take out.

Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 1h

The naked emperor, big peace prize nominee, saying we are going to intervene now in Nigeria? Wherever Christians across the world are "attacked" or what? I'm confused.
Also we make commitments like this while folks go without paychecks, food, healthcare? America first? What's that?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28m

i know it will be better to live in a world where everyone pretends to have been against him all along. but if and when we get there it will still be nauseating for me to excuse how much of the american public and its betters were and still are utterly nonplussed by this

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

More Insta snaps from the let them eat cake ball at Mar a Lago

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Jeremiah Cushman @jdcushman45.bsky.social · 19m

Alberta beef

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 54m

Who wants to guess what happens next (not eligible if you were alive in 2008)

Even Morgan Stanley's analysts have conceded that the AI industry has become "increasingly circular"
, with suppliers funding customers, customers investing in suppliers, and vendor-customer revenue sharing agreements.
As Morgan Stanley noted, "the nature and complexity of these types of transactions make it difficult for investors to understand the true
economics":

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Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 7h

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 1h

It's a four month journey to the other side

A still from "Lord of the Rings" shows Gandalf standing in the pitch-black mines of Moria holding up his staff, which is lit like a torch. Text says "We now have but one choice: We must face the long dark of Standard Time."

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Saulė / Saule @sankuperis.bsky.social · 1h

Trolleybus is one of the symbols of Vilnius.

The raven is carrying the old paper ticket

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Jeremiah Cushman @jdcushman45.bsky.social · 2h

To be fair it predates CFE

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 14h

If you can answer this question this is your reminder to schedule a colonoscopy.

Tutorial from Baldur's Gate. (The first game). Dialog window. Character asks "Tell me about THAC0."

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Jeremiah Cushman @jdcushman45.bsky.social · 2h

Make secondary theaters great again

Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 6h

oh man if AFRICOM gets a carrier group before we even try to Pivot to Asia I will laugh my ass off.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 6h

I’d actually like to write about this if god forbid bombing Nigeria or Venezuela happens is that in a lot of respects, American military aviation is almost too good at its job and thus the use of air power by policymakers is a get out of jail free card to hard geopolitical problems

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 6h

We are reaching levels of bombing to win never seen before

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 6h

wait...waitwaitwaitwait okay so I pretty much did aversion therapy on myself over the hard #s for 51 weeks and you're telling me the prick has never, in any race he's run, gotten 50% of the vote?

49.8% is his high water mark? All this elite capitulation/media pliancy is over less than Bush 2004?

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7d

Comparing the relation between the presidential election results in 2020 and 2024 with the post-election commentary is a fascinating exercise.

2020
Biden 81,283,501 popular votes, 51.3%
Trump 74,223,975 popular votes 46.8%

2024
Trump 77,302,580 49.8%
Harris 75,017,613. 48.3%

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Jeremiah Cushman @jdcushman45.bsky.social · 5h

Oof.

Jeremiah Cushman @jdcushman45.bsky.social · 5h

The Nigerians have enough problems with various internal/intercommunal conflicts!

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Jeremiah Cushman @jdcushman45.bsky.social · 5h

I've written about some of the conflicts in Nigeria in the past, and that is not a place for us to get involved in haphazardly.

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Jeremiah Cushman @jdcushman45.bsky.social · 5h

Just gonna randomly insert ourselves into as many places we don't understand as we can, I guess

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h

U.S. President Donald Trump said he's ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria as he stepped up his criticism that the government is failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the West African country.

Trump threatens Nigeria with potential military action, escalates claim of Christian persecution

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria.

bit.ly

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 8h

mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12h

He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 7h

The problem with diagnosing "the electorate have unreasonable expectations around tax and spend" is that those expectations did not develop in a vacuum. They are the product of decades of politicians and the media telling them they can have x services with y tax levels, or not contradicting it.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10h

A Brexiter writes...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7h

Reading Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967). Animating fear of American revolutionaries was a corrupt executive of a nominally legitimate government who fills offices with venally corrupt buddies and establishes militarised police to uphold this. Trump is a perfect irony!

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 1d

Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.

A turreted corrugated armour nightmare box festooned with machine guns, precariously balanced upon the chassis of an unmodified 1940s farm bulldozer.

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"There's a PDF right behind me, isn't there?" Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 9h

More context

federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’

"They're stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar to private sector employment," Sean Timmons said.

federalnewsnetwork.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10h

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.

Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11h

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h

I want to live in an America where nobody does public displays of their Nazism because it will ruin their whole goddamn life, as it should.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 22h

Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.

The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.

Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.

A Halloween parade float with the gates of Auschwitz

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

There’s a sort of Dunning-Kruger effect happening where people who read widely, consider various perspectives, and put in effort to understand views they disagree with worry that they don’t do that enough, while people who don’t do any of that accuse others of being in a bubble and call it a day.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12h

*freespeechguy.jpg*

Correct and that's good because you need to know what you're talking about before debate isn't a waste of time. If you want to debate, go to grad school.

Jo_clever_ke @insidejoke.bsky.social · 12h

It's very weird to me this idea that Universities are geared towards open debate, when the vast majority of them are actually about just teaching you what is in the textbook and having you listen to the lectures.

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