JSDreke
@jsdreke.bsky.social
Retired IT Geek. Spend time riding a Harley, taking photos and spoiling my grandkids.
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The 19th century is so back, baby!
"Srinivasan himself has started a 'Network School' on an artificial island near Singapore, where techno-optimists can work their day jobs remotely while living in a hotel together and learning how to 'bootstrap'... a new society [ — ] 'society-as-a-service'"
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The 19th century is so back, baby!
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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Reject any and every lie of this regime that they are fighting the drug trade. Their boss pardons a drug kingpin who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
December 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Reject any and every lie of this regime that they are fighting the drug trade. Their boss pardons a drug kingpin who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
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WHEN YOU SHARE YOUR BOOK ALWAYS INCLUDE AN ORDER LINK
Can I pre-order this somewhere?
December 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
WHEN YOU SHARE YOUR BOOK ALWAYS INCLUDE AN ORDER LINK
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There was revolution in the air in New Orleans when the Border Patrol invaded their city - as brave citizens blew whistles, chased convoys, and confronted masked agents of a tyrannical government
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
In New Orleans and across U.S., anger over ICE raids sparks a 2nd American Revolution | Will Bunch
Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.
www.inquirer.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There was revolution in the air in New Orleans when the Border Patrol invaded their city - as brave citizens blew whistles, chased convoys, and confronted masked agents of a tyrannical government
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
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Imagine bearing even a small amount of responsibility for this tragedy and not giving a damn.
The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Child deaths under 5 believed to be rising for first time in decades
Cuts to development aid from several countries is a key factor, researchers said.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Imagine bearing even a small amount of responsibility for this tragedy and not giving a damn.
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Biden earmarked billions to revitalize Appalachian mining communities. His successor took it back.
"Demoralizing": How Donald Trump undermined coal country
Biden earmarked billions to revitalize Appalachian mining communities. His successor took it back.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Biden earmarked billions to revitalize Appalachian mining communities. His successor took it back.
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This Is What It Looks Like When RFK Jr. Wins
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
This Is What It Looks Like When RFK Jr. Wins
His handpicked ‘experts’ just voted to roll back hepatitis B vaccine guidelines—and reverse a historic public health victory.
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This Is What It Looks Like When RFK Jr. Wins
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Has anyone asked Ms. Gaynor what she thinks about her precious "president" trying to erase and rewrite black history? Or about him canceling free entry fees to American national parks on MLK Jr day and Juneteenth? Just wondering
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Has anyone asked Ms. Gaynor what she thinks about her precious "president" trying to erase and rewrite black history? Or about him canceling free entry fees to American national parks on MLK Jr day and Juneteenth? Just wondering
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For policymakers, lawmakers, commentators and the public:
We provide a detailed review of the international law relevant to lethal operations against suspected drug boats
I teamed up with @mikeschmitt.bsky.social and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social
We provide a detailed review of the international law relevant to lethal operations against suspected drug boats
I teamed up with @mikeschmitt.bsky.social and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social
Operation Southern Spear: Why the Crews, Drugs, and Boats are Not Targetable
A deep dive on the international law applicable to the U.S. military's lethal operations against suspected drug boats
www.justsecurity.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
For policymakers, lawmakers, commentators and the public:
We provide a detailed review of the international law relevant to lethal operations against suspected drug boats
I teamed up with @mikeschmitt.bsky.social and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social
We provide a detailed review of the international law relevant to lethal operations against suspected drug boats
I teamed up with @mikeschmitt.bsky.social and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social
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Doctor here.
PSA:
A reminder that BY FAR, the worst & deadliest cartel in history was..
The Sackler Cartel.
Billionaires.
Fines, no jail time.
Actual narcoterrorists.
American citizens.
PSA:
A reminder that BY FAR, the worst & deadliest cartel in history was..
The Sackler Cartel.
Billionaires.
Fines, no jail time.
Actual narcoterrorists.
American citizens.
December 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Doctor here.
PSA:
A reminder that BY FAR, the worst & deadliest cartel in history was..
The Sackler Cartel.
Billionaires.
Fines, no jail time.
Actual narcoterrorists.
American citizens.
PSA:
A reminder that BY FAR, the worst & deadliest cartel in history was..
The Sackler Cartel.
Billionaires.
Fines, no jail time.
Actual narcoterrorists.
American citizens.
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This is revealing, but not in the way he thinks.
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
Imagine you're overseeing the termination of clinical trials, the destruction of people's livelihoods, the dismantling of scientific research in the US, and you're complaining that Twitter didn't give you a blue check 4 years ago.
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is revealing, but not in the way he thinks.
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
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Goodnight 🌙
Fuck Donald Trump and anybody who supports him!
Fuck Donald Trump and anybody who supports him!
December 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Goodnight 🌙
Fuck Donald Trump and anybody who supports him!
Fuck Donald Trump and anybody who supports him!
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No community should be forced to bear the weight of a system that profits from human suffering.
Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system.
Period.
Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system.
Period.
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
No community should be forced to bear the weight of a system that profits from human suffering.
Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system.
Period.
Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system.
Period.
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The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
Pregnant immigrants held for months in detention despite rules against it
With the immigration crackdown, more pregnant women are being detained. The ACLU alleges a woman was shackled while miscarrying and others were denied prenatal care.
www.latimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
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Prediction: He will ignore the Congress.
"Sprawling defense legislation set for a vote as soon as this week would place new restrictions on reducing troop levels in Europe, a bipartisan rebuke of Trump administration moves that lawmakers fear would limit U.S. commitments on the continent." www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Compromise defense bill stymies Trump on Europe troop withdrawals
The National Defense Authorization Act also would repeal a pair of decades-old war authorizations and proposes an $8 billion boost to Trump's defense budget.
www.politico.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Prediction: He will ignore the Congress.
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Of course anyone with half a brain knew how this was going to end long ago: Walk away from Ukraine, walk away from NATO, blame Zelensky, lots of business deals between Trump, his cronies, and our new “friends” the murderous, corrupt, lying Russians.
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Of course anyone with half a brain knew how this was going to end long ago: Walk away from Ukraine, walk away from NATO, blame Zelensky, lots of business deals between Trump, his cronies, and our new “friends” the murderous, corrupt, lying Russians.
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To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
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This week’s must-read
“How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
“How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This week’s must-read
“How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
“How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
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The dividing lines in America have nothing to do with party affiliation anymore.
Just open up your phone, eavesdrop at the checkout line, or talk to your neighbor, and you’ll see the lines along which we now find ourselves...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/empaths-an...
Just open up your phone, eavesdrop at the checkout line, or talk to your neighbor, and you’ll see the lines along which we now find ourselves...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/empaths-an...
Empaths, Sociopaths, and Why America's Divide Isn't About Politics Anymore
This is not about politics.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The dividing lines in America have nothing to do with party affiliation anymore.
Just open up your phone, eavesdrop at the checkout line, or talk to your neighbor, and you’ll see the lines along which we now find ourselves...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/empaths-an...
Just open up your phone, eavesdrop at the checkout line, or talk to your neighbor, and you’ll see the lines along which we now find ourselves...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/empaths-an...
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It will take DECADES to repair the damage to foreign relationships that Yam Tits has destroyed.
I have never seen Europe this angry at the US; Trump has practically destroyed the alliance and any ounce of trust left. The US is going full pariah state.
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It will take DECADES to repair the damage to foreign relationships that Yam Tits has destroyed.
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SCOTUS will consider whether Trump’s earlier order seeking to end birthright citizenship for certain children born in the U.S. can stand. The decision to take up the case comes after several lower courts blocked the order for violating the 14th Amendment.
https://bit.ly/4rBATol
https://bit.ly/4rBATol
Supreme Court to Hear Trump's Bid To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
SCOTUS will consider whether Trump’s earlier order seeking to end birthright citizenship for certain children born in the U.S. can stand. The decision to take up the case comes after several lower courts blocked the order for violating the 14th Amendment.
https://bit.ly/4rBATol
https://bit.ly/4rBATol
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Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
December 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
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Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
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Zohran Mamdani made a very informative video for the immigrants in NYC about their rights. The purpose is to help them to defend themselves against ICE and avoid any potential detention and deportation.
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Zohran Mamdani made a very informative video for the immigrants in NYC about their rights. The purpose is to help them to defend themselves against ICE and avoid any potential detention and deportation.