Tankbag
@tankbag.bsky.social
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Tankbag
@tankbag.bsky.social
· Nov 13
The United States is an oxymoron.
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In the UK and US, platforms reward speed, emotion and identity signalling. Even well-educated people get pulled into distorted information spaces, so the core problem isn’t ignorance, it’s the incentive environment that shapes how information spreads and sticks.
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In the UK and US, platforms reward speed, emotion and identity signalling. Even well-educated people get pulled into distorted information spaces, so the core problem isn’t ignorance, it’s the incentive environment that shapes how information spreads and sticks.
Trump Jr. says US must submit to Putin.
US may end support for Ukraine war effort, says Donald Trump Jr
US may end support for Ukraine war effort, says Donald Trump Jr
Eldest son of Donald Trump makes speculative comments during tirade against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and EU
Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference.
In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Trump Jr. says US must submit to Putin.
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Voting Republican makes America stupid.
Thanks in good part to Trump's return to the White House, the MAGA Year in Education has been brutal. Here is a sampling of stories.
January:
-rural school funding cut
-TN passes private school voucher bill
-schools as sites of immigration enforcement
-DPS investigated for all-gender bathroom
January:
-rural school funding cut
-TN passes private school voucher bill
-schools as sites of immigration enforcement
-DPS investigated for all-gender bathroom
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Voting Republican makes America stupid.
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I re-read the 2017 Trump I National Security Strategy and the differences to the 2025 strategy are really striking. This reads like a document from different times
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
December 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I re-read the 2017 Trump I National Security Strategy and the differences to the 2025 strategy are really striking. This reads like a document from different times
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
Spoken like a true deer.
People who put little antlers on their cars: we aren’t stupid, we can still tell they are cars
December 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Spoken like a true deer.
After a week of eating turkey…
December 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM
After a week of eating turkey…
With liberty and justice for some.
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
With liberty and justice for some.
The Republican Party‘s foreign policy supports and encourages Nazis.
The new National Security Strategy praises Europe’s populist right parties. How are the centrist governments in Europe, who see those parties as a grave threat, then supposed to treat America as an ally?
Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy
Allies may panic; despots will cheer
econ.st
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The Republican Party‘s foreign policy supports and encourages Nazis.
MAGA Christmas… youtu.be/5Zfa41Fws6Q
Green Christmas
YouTube video by Stan Freberg - Topic
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
MAGA Christmas… youtu.be/5Zfa41Fws6Q
If the NFL wants to score points with President Trump, there's a new way to get there: Change the name of the sport.
www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
President Trump wants American football to be named something other than football
If the NFL wants to improve its relationship with the current administration, there's a new way to do it.
www.nbcsports.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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Immigrants make America great
December 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Immigrants make America great
Voting Republican makes America stupid.
“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Voting Republican makes America stupid.
Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
December 6, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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The Center for Disease Control can now officially be renamed the Center for Disease Communication
Make no mistake: this is a vote to kill Americans for years to come
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Make no mistake: this is a vote to kill Americans for years to come
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Center for Disease Control can now officially be renamed the Center for Disease Communication
Make no mistake: this is a vote to kill Americans for years to come
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Make no mistake: this is a vote to kill Americans for years to come
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Republicans’ goal of the past 30 years…
12/6/2025- The Boat Strike www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/de...
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Republicans’ goal of the past 30 years…
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How is U.S. military killing these 11 people keeping drugs (fentanyl) out of the United States?
USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
Scoop by @natashabertrand.bsky.social
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USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
Scoop by @natashabertrand.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
How is U.S. military killing these 11 people keeping drugs (fentanyl) out of the United States?
USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
Scoop by @natashabertrand.bsky.social
🧵 1/
USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
Scoop by @natashabertrand.bsky.social
🧵 1/
Voting Republican makes America stupid.
Wow. Tracy Beth Høeg, the FDA's new acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) just put this slide up during her presentation to ACIP.
We have left reality.
We have left reality.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Voting Republican makes America stupid.
Reposted by Tankbag
First Jamaica, then Taiwan.
"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
First Jamaica, then Taiwan.
"You don’t have to be smart to be rich, just greedy."
It's 0.3%. Which I guess makes Karp ... technically illiterate.
Also, he's right that there aren't thousands of articles. It's literally over a million. So again: technically illiterate.
And these are our smartest-guy-in-the-room oligarchs? Sigh.
Also, he's right that there aren't thousands of articles. It's literally over a million. So again: technically illiterate.
And these are our smartest-guy-in-the-room oligarchs? Sigh.
December 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"You don’t have to be smart to be rich, just greedy."
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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Voting Republican makes America stupid.
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Voting Republican makes America stupid.
Back in the early 80s I wanted to call my band American Terrorists but I was outvoted.
We have to retire the term "terrorist." It has simply become a term for anybody the United States wants to attack and has, therefore, lost any coherent meaning.
C.f., "narco-terrorist"
C.f., "narco-terrorist"
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Back in the early 80s I wanted to call my band American Terrorists but I was outvoted.