Lionel
@crm114enjoyer.bsky.social
speak truth to power.
graduate student. intelligence, risk, geopolitics, history, video games, and warhammer 40k.
all views are my own, except those of others I have internalized.
graduate student. intelligence, risk, geopolitics, history, video games, and warhammer 40k.
all views are my own, except those of others I have internalized.
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As folks think about the way news will need to be organized going forward as the legacy institutions pass out of relevance, nonprofit community trusts or worker co ops seem a good way to go. Ad revenue and clicks can’t be the model.
In 2016, the Philadelphia Inquirer, emerging from a messy bankruptcy, was acquired by Lenfest and donated to a nonprofit community trust. The Graham family, meanwhile, sold the Post to the richest man in the world.
Today, Will Bunch has a job at the Inky, and Karen Attiah was fired from the Post.
Today, Will Bunch has a job at the Inky, and Karen Attiah was fired from the Post.
The Washington Post is worth more to Jeff Bezos dead than alive
February 4, 2026 at 6:32 PM
As folks think about the way news will need to be organized going forward as the legacy institutions pass out of relevance, nonprofit community trusts or worker co ops seem a good way to go. Ad revenue and clicks can’t be the model.
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Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
January 31, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
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Everyone super impressed when AI does something they can't personally do. It's why non writers and non artists love it. You don't know what you're looking at so you think it is good.
January 21, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Everyone super impressed when AI does something they can't personally do. It's why non writers and non artists love it. You don't know what you're looking at so you think it is good.
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Nintendo inspired lol. You mean AI ripped off the original work of brilliant designers and artists and engineers who built this whole world and brought it to life. Fucking pathetic
Google’s new world AI model tool let me generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one featuring Link with a paraglider! Gift link: www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
January 29, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Nintendo inspired lol. You mean AI ripped off the original work of brilliant designers and artists and engineers who built this whole world and brought it to life. Fucking pathetic
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The "Board of Peace" logo is almost a perfect embodiment of the aesthetics of Trump II: bland, ugly, excessive use of gold, and, to top it off, obvious AI slop. Really sums up the lack of authenticity, the lack of interest, and the grift. Someone spent 10 minutes on this and called it a day's work.
January 29, 2026 at 11:02 AM
The "Board of Peace" logo is almost a perfect embodiment of the aesthetics of Trump II: bland, ugly, excessive use of gold, and, to top it off, obvious AI slop. Really sums up the lack of authenticity, the lack of interest, and the grift. Someone spent 10 minutes on this and called it a day's work.
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
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As shocking as the terms of US exit from the international community have been, the terms on which the US will re-enter the system (someday) will be even more shocking to a leadership class accustomed to being the leaders of the world
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 AM
As shocking as the terms of US exit from the international community have been, the terms on which the US will re-enter the system (someday) will be even more shocking to a leadership class accustomed to being the leaders of the world
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Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime
January 22, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime
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i think i’m fully in on “the white house is run by thirtysomething chuds who think grand strategy games are real life”
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
i think i’m fully in on “the white house is run by thirtysomething chuds who think grand strategy games are real life”
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Optimistically: Zero.
Pessimistically: Zero.
Pessimistically: Zero.
January 12, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Optimistically: Zero.
Pessimistically: Zero.
Pessimistically: Zero.
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I regret to inform you that they’re coming out with a new version of white that doesn’t include you
June 1, 2024 at 11:46 AM
I regret to inform you that they’re coming out with a new version of white that doesn’t include you
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Sorry to sound partisan but this administration is objectively satanic
January 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Sorry to sound partisan but this administration is objectively satanic
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I can't be this furious all the time, but I didn't know it was possible to be this furious even some of the time.
January 8, 2026 at 5:31 AM
I can't be this furious all the time, but I didn't know it was possible to be this furious even some of the time.
The world never dared to ask “what if Chamberlain acted like Hitler”
January 7, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The world never dared to ask “what if Chamberlain acted like Hitler”
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The entire Nobel committee should be pantsed publicly every day by passerby until they resign in shame and give it to a bunch of people who don't have GIANT RUBE WITH NO SPINE taped to their back 24/7
in what world did you think this 'compromise' award to Machado was going to age well, folks, cmon
in what world did you think this 'compromise' award to Machado was going to age well, folks, cmon
Hannity: Did you at any point offered to give him the Nobel peace prize?
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
January 6, 2026 at 4:23 AM
The entire Nobel committee should be pantsed publicly every day by passerby until they resign in shame and give it to a bunch of people who don't have GIANT RUBE WITH NO SPINE taped to their back 24/7
in what world did you think this 'compromise' award to Machado was going to age well, folks, cmon
in what world did you think this 'compromise' award to Machado was going to age well, folks, cmon
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All of this is nauseating and profoundly embarrassing. Americans who can watch this without feeling shame and horror are inhabiting an alien moral universe I do not understand.
NBC News: “How soon will elections be held in Venezuela? Within 30 days?”
Rubio: “Elections? I think it is premature at this point.”
The US is going to be there for the long haul.
Rubio: “Elections? I think it is premature at this point.”
The US is going to be there for the long haul.
January 4, 2026 at 9:40 PM
All of this is nauseating and profoundly embarrassing. Americans who can watch this without feeling shame and horror are inhabiting an alien moral universe I do not understand.
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I hope everyone understands that CBS becoming state TV matters. Musk owning Twitter matters. Fox News has always mattered. WaPo going right wing matters.
That's not meant a statement of doom. I think we're going to win the midterms and again in 2028, which is why I think it's important to say this.
That's not meant a statement of doom. I think we're going to win the midterms and again in 2028, which is why I think it's important to say this.
January 4, 2026 at 2:26 AM
I hope everyone understands that CBS becoming state TV matters. Musk owning Twitter matters. Fox News has always mattered. WaPo going right wing matters.
That's not meant a statement of doom. I think we're going to win the midterms and again in 2028, which is why I think it's important to say this.
That's not meant a statement of doom. I think we're going to win the midterms and again in 2028, which is why I think it's important to say this.
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
Pretty hard to argue that anyone at the Pentagon should keep their jobs after this blatantly illegal, unconstitutional stunt. Party’s over, gang.
The pretext that the US military will not follow illegal orders is gone and that should terrify every single person on the planet.
The pretext that the US military will not follow illegal orders is gone and that should terrify every single person on the planet.
January 3, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Pretty hard to argue that anyone at the Pentagon should keep their jobs after this blatantly illegal, unconstitutional stunt. Party’s over, gang.
The pretext that the US military will not follow illegal orders is gone and that should terrify every single person on the planet.
The pretext that the US military will not follow illegal orders is gone and that should terrify every single person on the planet.
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lmao avg natsec bsky thread:
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January 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
lmao avg natsec bsky thread:
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Triumphantly mediocre, Moron-VP-Who-Wants-To-Be-POTUS: the largest city of a swing state is Mogadishu, actually
Fate: lol
These people are so insipidly, goddamn stupid.
Fate: lol
These people are so insipidly, goddamn stupid.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Triumphantly mediocre, Moron-VP-Who-Wants-To-Be-POTUS: the largest city of a swing state is Mogadishu, actually
Fate: lol
These people are so insipidly, goddamn stupid.
Fate: lol
These people are so insipidly, goddamn stupid.
This is correct, and generally speaking, nothing is ever a “false flag” or some grand conspiracy. No, that fact is not mutually exclusive with people using events described this way for their own benefit, including intelligence services, terrorist groups, etc.
I wonder if any of the "this is probably a false flag mass shooting" ppl on this app today are capable of understand the sort of monstrous company they are putting themselves in by engaging in such ugly conspiracies
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is correct, and generally speaking, nothing is ever a “false flag” or some grand conspiracy. No, that fact is not mutually exclusive with people using events described this way for their own benefit, including intelligence services, terrorist groups, etc.
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ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
December 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
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Honestly, they're arguing for the US to fight like Russia in 2022 insofar as "abandon the doctrine you've trained and equipped for so you can LARP as some other military"
December 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Honestly, they're arguing for the US to fight like Russia in 2022 insofar as "abandon the doctrine you've trained and equipped for so you can LARP as some other military"
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bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok