Random country facts

North Vietnam (to '76) 158,750 km²
Cambodia 181,040 km²
Vietnam (since '76) 331,690 km²
Iraq 434,128 km²
Germany (until 1936)~470,000km²
France (mainland) 555,800 km²
Ukraine 603,628 km²
Afghanistan 652,864 km²
Venezuela 912,050 km²

The more you know!

The 1135 US billionaires increased their wealth in 2024 every month by

$83,000,000,000

$ 8,358,333,333

Was the monthly federal expenses for SNAP in the same year. Some of those dollars flows to grocery stores, truck drivers, farmers, and all their employees. (1/2)

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

"No one beyond America fears Trump as such. He can generate fear only in his capacity as neighborhood arsonist, as someone who destroys what others have created. America’s friends are afraid not of him but of what we all have to lose."

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

Wer die liberale Demokratie verteidigen will, kommt an einem AfD-Verbot nicht vorbei.

Wer die liberale Demokratie verteidigen will, kommt an einer Zerschlagung der Tech-Milliardären und ihren Plattformen nicht vorbei.

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#zucked

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

Chickenshit traitors. This whole jingoist maneuver is obviously a stupid distraction from the real issues, but maps are one of of my special interests. Google maps has turned comments off, but you can still comment on search results. (1/3)

When you read sources from the eighteenth century you'll find them filled with rants about the calcified structures of the political system. About how France just is in dire need of reform, or how the Holy Roman Empire is failing its subjects, or a little later in the nineteenth century how

(1/5)

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.