@lwdan.bsky.social
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We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
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Quid pro peace prize.
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Quid pro peace prize.
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Yours truly and @meganpiont.bsky.social are quoted waxing poetic about zines, lol. What's new? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Gen-Zine: DIY publications find new life as form of resistance against Trump
Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Yours truly and @meganpiont.bsky.social are quoted waxing poetic about zines, lol. What's new? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Considering developments in Michigan as a case study, Nathan Kim and Ira Anwar say current state incentives for data centers reflect a false binary between new jobs and detrimental community impacts.
Michigan Offers Handouts for Data Centers Promising Jobs. Will Those Jobs Come? | TechPolicy.Press
Nathan Kim and Ira Anwar say current state incentives for data centers reflect a false binary between new jobs and detrimental community impacts.
www.techpolicy.press
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Considering developments in Michigan as a case study, Nathan Kim and Ira Anwar say current state incentives for data centers reflect a false binary between new jobs and detrimental community impacts.
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Hey America, I hear you hate Europe now and love Russia.
But you’ve forgotten about the Epstein Files?
But you’ve forgotten about the Epstein Files?
December 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Hey America, I hear you hate Europe now and love Russia.
But you’ve forgotten about the Epstein Files?
But you’ve forgotten about the Epstein Files?
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How Journalists Created Sympathy for a Rapist. This superb piece by @sherelemoody.bsky.social is essential reading. Australia has a sexist & misogynistic custom: defending & excusing horrific acts by men against women & children. #DV #VAW #journalism australianfemicidewatch.org/2025/12/06/h...
HOW JOURNALISTS CREATED SYMPATHY FOR A RAPIST - The RED HEART Campaign
When a man murders a woman, journalists ctrl f on their electronic thesaurus to dredge up every negative word available to slut shame, victim blame, erase,
australianfemicidewatch.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
How Journalists Created Sympathy for a Rapist. This superb piece by @sherelemoody.bsky.social is essential reading. Australia has a sexist & misogynistic custom: defending & excusing horrific acts by men against women & children. #DV #VAW #journalism australianfemicidewatch.org/2025/12/06/h...
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Fcuk FIFA.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Fcuk FIFA.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Donald Trump
Is a convicted Felon
Is an adjudicated Rapist
He defames people
He breaks the Law
Often
He is using the Navy
To murder people in boats
He breaks the Law
And EVERYONE knows it
Is a convicted Felon
Is an adjudicated Rapist
He defames people
He breaks the Law
Often
He is using the Navy
To murder people in boats
He breaks the Law
And EVERYONE knows it
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Donald Trump
Is a convicted Felon
Is an adjudicated Rapist
He defames people
He breaks the Law
Often
He is using the Navy
To murder people in boats
He breaks the Law
And EVERYONE knows it
Is a convicted Felon
Is an adjudicated Rapist
He defames people
He breaks the Law
Often
He is using the Navy
To murder people in boats
He breaks the Law
And EVERYONE knows it
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As far back as 2017, former Queensland Nats Premier Rob Borbidge has told the Qld LNP repeatedly that any association with One Nation is toxic. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11...
LNP 'must accept any association with One Nation is toxic'
As Labor looks likely to win the Queensland election, some former conservative MPs are blaming in part the merger of Queensland's Liberal and National parties, and their favourable preferencing of One...
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
As far back as 2017, former Queensland Nats Premier Rob Borbidge has told the Qld LNP repeatedly that any association with One Nation is toxic. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11...
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If Toyota put half the effort into electrification they did into lobbying they might not be having their milkshake drunk in Southeast Asia by Chinese EVs
🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy.
We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...
We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...
Victory! We’ve won major legal battle exposing car industry lobbying
After two years we can finally reveal “backdoor channels where corporate money hijacks our democracy.”
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
If Toyota put half the effort into electrification they did into lobbying they might not be having their milkshake drunk in Southeast Asia by Chinese EVs
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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If you haven't already read @yessfun.com's amazing @atmosmag.bsky.social piece from earlier this year, please go do it
atmos.earth/political-la...
atmos.earth/political-la...
Fossil Fuel Billionaires Are Bankrolling the Anti-Trans Movement | Atmos
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
atmos.earth
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If you haven't already read @yessfun.com's amazing @atmosmag.bsky.social piece from earlier this year, please go do it
atmos.earth/political-la...
atmos.earth/political-la...
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It is also notable that so much of right-wing media being a grift with transnational participants and funding posing as Americans ought to tell us the presence, volume, and claims, etc of right wing media (esp social media) are not actually indicative of American political beliefs and preferences
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It is also notable that so much of right-wing media being a grift with transnational participants and funding posing as Americans ought to tell us the presence, volume, and claims, etc of right wing media (esp social media) are not actually indicative of American political beliefs and preferences
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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Unbelievable, uncouth, unconscionable, beyond all reason that Trump purposely denied the murder of an American citizen while the murderer MBS sat in our WH as Trump praised him! And then he denigrated the ABC journalist. THIS DISGUSTING DISGRACE OF A PRESIDENT MUST BE IMPEACHED AND REMOVED.
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Unbelievable, uncouth, unconscionable, beyond all reason that Trump purposely denied the murder of an American citizen while the murderer MBS sat in our WH as Trump praised him! And then he denigrated the ABC journalist. THIS DISGUSTING DISGRACE OF A PRESIDENT MUST BE IMPEACHED AND REMOVED.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. 'Eugenics is back on the menu, boys'
Eugenics is back on the menu, boys - The Shot
The new name for the ideology, human biodiversity (HBD), is handy: it’s not just race science that this marketing of biological determinism promotes. It allows for the idea that class, like Murray arg...
theshot.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. 'Eugenics is back on the menu, boys'
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Great @jasonkoebler.bsky.social piece here on Meta's generative advertising systems - to me, a really REALLY stark illustration of how GenAI enables *massive* volumes of content - all of which will come at a phenomenal, eye-watering energy cost (particularly video)
www.404media.co/the-future-o...
www.404media.co/the-future-o...
The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You
"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Great @jasonkoebler.bsky.social piece here on Meta's generative advertising systems - to me, a really REALLY stark illustration of how GenAI enables *massive* volumes of content - all of which will come at a phenomenal, eye-watering energy cost (particularly video)
www.404media.co/the-future-o...
www.404media.co/the-future-o...
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Source: Charitie Ropati, Intersectional Environmentalist, and Feminist reporting on Typhoon Halong ravaging western Alaska
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Source: Charitie Ropati, Intersectional Environmentalist, and Feminist reporting on Typhoon Halong ravaging western Alaska
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Watch reporter John Lyons’ story Chasing Trump’s Billions, on #4Corners ABC TV tonight 8.30 AEST & support public interest #journalism. Via YouTube for international viewers. This story famously led Donald #Trump to threaten John’s questions were “hurting Australia”.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
As Trump's wealth skyrockets, accusations of conflicts of interest mount
Donald Trump's wealth has skyrocketed since his return to the White House nine months ago, leading to accusations that he is profiting from the presidency.
www.abc.net.au
October 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Watch reporter John Lyons’ story Chasing Trump’s Billions, on #4Corners ABC TV tonight 8.30 AEST & support public interest #journalism. Via YouTube for international viewers. This story famously led Donald #Trump to threaten John’s questions were “hurting Australia”.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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