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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 2h
Hannah Arendt’s imperial boomerang at work: as the U.S. retreats from global hegemony, it turns its military power inward, building a domestic occupation force, ICE, Border Patrol, their violence gamified to recruit the next generation of oppressors
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 2d
First instance I’ve seen of CBP paramilitaries inserting for one of these urban operations by helicopter (fast-roped from Black Hawks, presumably CBP AMO ones).

Hard to imagine a plausible tactical rationale, but easy to guess another one: this is *great* content for CBP’s aggro recruiting videos.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d
CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...
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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 2d
"The philosopher Simone Weil (1909–1943) crisply explained why what we have come to call a “free market of ideas” must fail: facts cost labor, fictions do not" Timothy Snyder www.nybooks.com/online/2019/...
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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 2d
Why Trump and all the other liars lie

Jonathan Swift :
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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 2d
Greta Thunberg al llegar al aeropuerto de Atenas. Enorme.
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Michael de Jong @sprakeloos.bsky.social · 2d
Greta Thunberg after being released #FreedomFlotilla
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Robert J. Sawyer @robertjsawyer.com · 2d
Happy FlashForward Day!
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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 5d
administration’s spin on this is deliberately deceptive. And I mean that. We’re not talking about just a difference of opinion about medical or scientific issues. The document issued by the Trump White House literally double-counts studies to make it look as if there is more evidence in their favor
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 5d
New post. The whole acetaminophen/autism story is a disgusting little scale model of how the entire Trump administration works:
Acetaminophen and Autism: The Trump Administration Style
www.science.org
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 5d
New post. The whole acetaminophen/autism story is a disgusting little scale model of how the entire Trump administration works:
Acetaminophen and Autism: The Trump Administration Style
www.science.org
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 6d
Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.
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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 6d
da quello che ho visto nelle news negli ultimi anni, i fiumi pieni di merda in Uk non è metaforico e si capisce perchè
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 6d
UK privatises water, lets financiers turn it into an asset class, extract billions, pollute our rivers and now Labour government
may let them pollute for another 15 (!!!) years instead of nationalising Thames Water?

incredible.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d
In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI.

Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?
An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo driving a train. An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo working on the outside of a building. An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
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History Today @historytoday.com · 9d
The lifelong rivalry of two #earlymodern Neapolitan printers was a battle of books, power, and, ultimately, fire.

🔓 Laura Incollingo’s new History Matters is free for 7 days

www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
The Race to Write a History of Naples
www.historytoday.com
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 10d
I know mocking peoples' appearance is an ass move, but Larry Ellison's meatsack is clearly a decade past its use-by date and he *really* needs to go back to hell for a refit: his Beelzebub is showing.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 10d
added some sound
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 15d
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · Jul 28
In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance.

In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 16d
Can these folks slow it down just a titch? I'm trying to write a book about End Times Fascism with @astra.bsky.social!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16d
@jentaub.bsky.social is this why you texted me about the Rapture? LOL

www.forbes.com/sites/danidi...
‘RaptureTok’—Why TikTok Predicts The End Of The World On Tuesday
Faithful TikTokers are confidently predicting that the end of the world will arrive on Tuesday, but why? Here’s the belief behind RaptureTok, explained.
www.forbes.com
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 15d
infographic on the deadliest war for journalists, witnesses to genocide, slaughtered as never before
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Fadah Jassem / فداء جاسم @fadahjassem.bsky.social · 15d
New report from me and @isaacarroyov.bsky.social taking a closer look at the circumstances behind Israel's killings of journalists in Gaza.

Read here @TheNationalNews
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 18d
This is wild. It's as if human females could mate with chimpanzees and give birth to either humans OR selectively to cloned male chimps. (The ant species are that far apart.)
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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 18d
These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species

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Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males
The Math of Climate Change Tipping Points | Quanta Magazine
Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17d
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...
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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 19d
all heil the supreme leader Donald Steelie Trump and his druid Roberto Lisenkoys Kennedy
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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 19d
Comrade Charlie Kirk Is the new Lenin
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19d
They are f*cking lunatics
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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 21d
What is a plutocracy? Exhibit A: the follies of mad emperors brought catastrophe to their empires.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21d
"Britain must burn more fossil fuels and bills must rise in order to power the robot that'll fire everyone. How else will I afford my next private island?"
Nvidia says Britain will have to burn gas to power technology revolution
The company chief executive Jensen Huang says the UK’s costly electricity means new data centres will rely on fossil fuel as well as renewable energy
www.thetimes.com
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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 21d
terrorism in the UK
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21d
MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 21d
When a dictator talks about "freedom of speech" he really means that you do have freedom of speech.

He doesn't mean that you really have freedom after speech.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 21d
The late-night show has been pulled 'indefinitely' over comments its host made about the man accused of killing the conservative activist on.ft.com/4mpJxSN
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