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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office.
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x**
open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)
December 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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No one mouthes the messages of Russian influence operations more loudly or consistently than Elon Musk. And note how he refuses to talk about his regular direct talks with Vladimir Putin, which as a top secret security holder he is obligated to report to USG, but does not—ever.
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
No one mouthes the messages of Russian influence operations more loudly or consistently than Elon Musk. And note how he refuses to talk about his regular direct talks with Vladimir Putin, which as a top secret security holder he is obligated to report to USG, but does not—ever.
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In Africa, Russia plays a classic neo imperialist game that includes mercenaries, regular troops, huge amounts of violence and a stream of broken promises to local governments not yet, quite, under its control. A planned oil pipeline in Congo may not even be built—let alone benefit ordinary people
Russia’s dodgy plan for a pipeline in Congo
If it is built, it will probably benefit Russia rather than ordinary Congolese
www.economist.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
In Africa, Russia plays a classic neo imperialist game that includes mercenaries, regular troops, huge amounts of violence and a stream of broken promises to local governments not yet, quite, under its control. A planned oil pipeline in Congo may not even be built—let alone benefit ordinary people
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The Americans, an update. "Andrei Bezrukov, the Russian spy whose double life in Boston as business consultant Donald Heathfield became the inspiration for the TV show The Americans. Bezrukov now serves as the head of the Russian Association for the Export of Technological Sovereignty, an RIS front.
Former deep-cover Russian spy leads Moscow campaign to co-opt Indian tech
Russia is hoping to use India’s booming tech sector to challenge the West and China for IT supremacy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Americans, an update. "Andrei Bezrukov, the Russian spy whose double life in Boston as business consultant Donald Heathfield became the inspiration for the TV show The Americans. Bezrukov now serves as the head of the Russian Association for the Export of Technological Sovereignty, an RIS front.
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The UN has passed a resolution calling on Russia to return the thousands of Ukrainian children it has kidnapped. Putin and his closest allies voted "no."
🇷🇺 Russia
🇮🇷 Islamic Regime in Iran
🇰🇵 North Korea
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇧🇮 Burundi
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
🇳🇪 Niger
🇲🇱 Mali
🇷🇺 Russia
🇮🇷 Islamic Regime in Iran
🇰🇵 North Korea
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇧🇮 Burundi
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
🇳🇪 Niger
🇲🇱 Mali
December 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The UN has passed a resolution calling on Russia to return the thousands of Ukrainian children it has kidnapped. Putin and his closest allies voted "no."
🇷🇺 Russia
🇮🇷 Islamic Regime in Iran
🇰🇵 North Korea
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇧🇮 Burundi
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
🇳🇪 Niger
🇲🇱 Mali
🇷🇺 Russia
🇮🇷 Islamic Regime in Iran
🇰🇵 North Korea
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇧🇮 Burundi
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
🇳🇪 Niger
🇲🇱 Mali
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This is a naïvely charitable formulation from Andrew Ryvkin: “Trump sees everything as a deal, and for Putin, any deal is a revelation of weakness. Trump is a creature of the Manhattan-real-estate world; Putin grew up amid the rubble of postwar Leningrad. Those Soviet courtyards formed him”
Putin Lives by a Code Trump Doesn’t Understand
Where Trump sees a deal, Putin sees submission.
www.theatlantic.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is a naïvely charitable formulation from Andrew Ryvkin: “Trump sees everything as a deal, and for Putin, any deal is a revelation of weakness. Trump is a creature of the Manhattan-real-estate world; Putin grew up amid the rubble of postwar Leningrad. Those Soviet courtyards formed him”
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Michael de Adder, Globe and Mail
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Michael de Adder, Globe and Mail
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The CO₂ data for Nov 2025 was just released by NOAA, and the 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO₂ growth hit yet another new record high, at 7.93 ppm per 3 years. That dip in the early 1990's is due to Mt. Pinatubo.
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The CO₂ data for Nov 2025 was just released by NOAA, and the 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO₂ growth hit yet another new record high, at 7.93 ppm per 3 years. That dip in the early 1990's is due to Mt. Pinatubo.
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The editorial values of NYT are clear enough.
December 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The editorial values of NYT are clear enough.
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relationships with others. Recognizing and safeguarding what characterizes the human person and guarantees their balanced growth is essential for establishing an adequate framework to manage the consequences of artificial intelligence.
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
relationships with others. Recognizing and safeguarding what characterizes the human person and guarantees their balanced growth is essential for establishing an adequate framework to manage the consequences of artificial intelligence.
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of AI is essential to the preservation of the dignity and rights of humans. As usual, the US media has totally ignored his remarks, but the tech bros haven't. They understand that Leo is, alongside the EU regulators, their key enemy.
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
of AI is essential to the preservation of the dignity and rights of humans. As usual, the US media has totally ignored his remarks, but the tech bros haven't. They understand that Leo is, alongside the EU regulators, their key enemy.
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Pope Leo's remarks on AI delivered yesterday in Rome are remarkably well informed, nuanced, and certain to completely infuriate the tech bros. In sum, he argues that the careful regulation www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
To Participants in the Conference “Artificial Intelligence and Care for Our Common Home” (5 December 2025)
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CARE OF OUR COMMON HOME” ORGANIZED BY THE CENTESIMUS ANNUS PRO PONTIFICE FOUNDATION AND THE STRATEGI...
www.vatican.va
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Pope Leo's remarks on AI delivered yesterday in Rome are remarkably well informed, nuanced, and certain to completely infuriate the tech bros. In sum, he argues that the careful regulation www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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The waxing gibbous moon rises above Earth’s blue atmosphere in this photograph taken from the International Space Station on Oct. 3, 2025, as it orbited 263 miles above a cloudy Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Québec, Canada.
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The waxing gibbous moon rises above Earth’s blue atmosphere in this photograph taken from the International Space Station on Oct. 3, 2025, as it orbited 263 miles above a cloudy Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Québec, Canada.
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valley's floor. Schmitt is next to the lunar rover parked at the southeast rim of Shorty Crater, z location near the spot where geologist Schmitt discovered orange lunar soil. The crew returned with 110 kgs of rock and soil samples. Recent polling shows that 37% of Republicans believe this is a hoax
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
valley's floor. Schmitt is next to the lunar rover parked at the southeast rim of Shorty Crater, z location near the spot where geologist Schmitt discovered orange lunar soil. The crew returned with 110 kgs of rock and soil samples. Recent polling shows that 37% of Republicans believe this is a hoax
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Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater: Dec 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hrs on the Moon exploring the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. This snapshot from another world was taken by Cernan as he and Schmitt roamed the lunar
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater: Dec 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hrs on the Moon exploring the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. This snapshot from another world was taken by Cernan as he and Schmitt roamed the lunar
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Hegseth defiant but allegations of war crimes and blistering watchdog report increase calls for him to go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pressure grows on ‘reckless’ Hegseth as twin scandals engulf Pentagon chief
Defense secretary defiant but allegations of war crimes and blistering watchdog report increase calls for him to go
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hegseth defiant but allegations of war crimes and blistering watchdog report increase calls for him to go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump greatly expands his list of "shithole" countries to include those where a majority of the population is non-white. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump news at a glance: list of countries under US travel ban set to grow
US Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem says list will expand to more than 30 countries
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Trump greatly expands his list of "shithole" countries to include those where a majority of the population is non-white. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A former Dulwich college pupil who claims a teenage Nigel Farage told him “that’s the way back to Africa” has said he felt compelled to speak out after the Reform leader’s attempt at “denying or dismissing” the hurt of his alleged targets. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A former Dulwich college pupil who claims a teenage Nigel Farage told him “that’s the way back to Africa” has said he felt compelled to speak out after the Reform leader’s attempt at “denying or dismissing” the hurt of his alleged targets. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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When Russia heavily censors Twitter, Rubio is perfectly okay with that. When the EU levies a fine against Twitter for deceptive advertising and fraudulent content because they allow marketing by fake Twitter accounts that scam Twitter consumers, Rubio goes through the roof— who calls the shots here?
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
When Russia heavily censors Twitter, Rubio is perfectly okay with that. When the EU levies a fine against Twitter for deceptive advertising and fraudulent content because they allow marketing by fake Twitter accounts that scam Twitter consumers, Rubio goes through the roof— who calls the shots here?
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The photo of the day. Donald Trump plays Gollum in a performance for Fifa.
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The photo of the day. Donald Trump plays Gollum in a performance for Fifa.
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All across Europe, as well as in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, US allies are reading Trump's national security strategy and realizing that it was authored by people who view them as enemies while idolizing Vladimir Putin and plagiarizing from his recent speeches.
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
All across Europe, as well as in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, US allies are reading Trump's national security strategy and realizing that it was authored by people who view them as enemies while idolizing Vladimir Putin and plagiarizing from his recent speeches.
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Fifa is the most notoriously corrupt organization in the sporting world. But US media haven't got a clue about any of that, and most major US outlets never reported on the corruption scandal, because they view "soccer" as something uninteresting to Americans.
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Fifa is the most notoriously corrupt organization in the sporting world. But US media haven't got a clue about any of that, and most major US outlets never reported on the corruption scandal, because they view "soccer" as something uninteresting to Americans.
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Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen described in detail Trump's extensive and highly successful "catch and kill" operations aimed to spiking any press reporting about Melania and her ties to organized crime groups, which according to Cohen quite extensive and on two continents.
Trump Insider BLOWS THE ROOF OFF Trump's Inner Circle
YouTube video by Legal AF
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen described in detail Trump's extensive and highly successful "catch and kill" operations aimed to spiking any press reporting about Melania and her ties to organized crime groups, which according to Cohen quite extensive and on two continents.