Rikard Uddenberg
@rikarduddenberg.bsky.social
Watching empires fall
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vance is a genuine lunatic
JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
December 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
vance is a genuine lunatic
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Seems to me this is a pathetic exhortation but an air-tight confession of guilt
Steve Bannon: "If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included."
December 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Seems to me this is a pathetic exhortation but an air-tight confession of guilt
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When a leader becomes so weak & unstable, lies need to be amplified even more. Without them his cult of personality weakens. This might be insane but it needs to be understood historically. Fascism is more than ever the main ideological precedent for Trump's lies.
December 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
When a leader becomes so weak & unstable, lies need to be amplified even more. Without them his cult of personality weakens. This might be insane but it needs to be understood historically. Fascism is more than ever the main ideological precedent for Trump's lies.
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Epstein survivor Marijke Chartouni reacts to Donald Trump's latest post about Jeffrey Epstein: "Every accusation is a confession. Cheers. 🥂"
December 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Epstein survivor Marijke Chartouni reacts to Donald Trump's latest post about Jeffrey Epstein: "Every accusation is a confession. Cheers. 🥂"
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tech bros trying to convince everyone epstein is cool is so telling and interesting
December 26, 2025 at 6:36 AM
tech bros trying to convince everyone epstein is cool is so telling and interesting
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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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I want to ask the flipside question: what will it take for wealthy progressives to fund the infrastructure and entities needed to identify, support, and sustain emerging voices on *our* side of the aisle?
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I want to ask the flipside question: what will it take for wealthy progressives to fund the infrastructure and entities needed to identify, support, and sustain emerging voices on *our* side of the aisle?
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The federal government has replaced governance with the manufacture of sadistic content for a droopy boomer cable news addict and suburban dipshits who've been driven insane by their phones. Not what you want, but it is kind of funny that they're so bad at it. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
We read thousands of internal ICE chats. They show how officials make raids go viral
Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The federal government has replaced governance with the manufacture of sadistic content for a droopy boomer cable news addict and suburban dipshits who've been driven insane by their phones. Not what you want, but it is kind of funny that they're so bad at it. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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"The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back." @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Triumph of Free-Speech Hypocrisy
What the 60 Minutes scandal reveals
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back." @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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TikTok just randomly gave me a popup advertising a swastika necklace. Then on the TikTok shop homepage, that and an Iron Cross necklace are the top two recommended item 🫠
December 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
TikTok just randomly gave me a popup advertising a swastika necklace. Then on the TikTok shop homepage, that and an Iron Cross necklace are the top two recommended item 🫠
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US issues visa sanctions against five European figures, with demands that boil down to Europeans can’t enforce their own laws and must give special treatment to Trump-favored tech oligarchs.
The sensible response from Europe would be a hard no, and deeper regulation enforcement. Are they up for it?
The sensible response from Europe would be a hard no, and deeper regulation enforcement. Are they up for it?
The US has issued visa sanctions against 5 people Marco Rubio called “leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex.”
To get a flavor of what kind of war the Trump administration is waging here, you can just read the State Dept’s own descriptions of a few of the sanctioned people 👇
To get a flavor of what kind of war the Trump administration is waging here, you can just read the State Dept’s own descriptions of a few of the sanctioned people 👇
December 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
US issues visa sanctions against five European figures, with demands that boil down to Europeans can’t enforce their own laws and must give special treatment to Trump-favored tech oligarchs.
The sensible response from Europe would be a hard no, and deeper regulation enforcement. Are they up for it?
The sensible response from Europe would be a hard no, and deeper regulation enforcement. Are they up for it?
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The AI bubble* and the fascist Trump regime are deeply intertwined, fueling each other.
If the bubble pops, it'll make the regime easier to deal with.
If the regime falls, the bubble likely goes with it.
*Bubble doesn't mean nothing of value. It means severely overinflated value and exuberance.
If the bubble pops, it'll make the regime easier to deal with.
If the regime falls, the bubble likely goes with it.
*Bubble doesn't mean nothing of value. It means severely overinflated value and exuberance.
Chasing an Economic Boom, White House Dismisses Risks of A.I.
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The AI bubble* and the fascist Trump regime are deeply intertwined, fueling each other.
If the bubble pops, it'll make the regime easier to deal with.
If the regime falls, the bubble likely goes with it.
*Bubble doesn't mean nothing of value. It means severely overinflated value and exuberance.
If the bubble pops, it'll make the regime easier to deal with.
If the regime falls, the bubble likely goes with it.
*Bubble doesn't mean nothing of value. It means severely overinflated value and exuberance.
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just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
February 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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The American government is banning regulators from other countries at the request of the richest man in the world, in a display that confirms they will punish any country not willing to sell their digital sovereignty as cheaply as the US has
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The American government is banning regulators from other countries at the request of the richest man in the world, in a display that confirms they will punish any country not willing to sell their digital sovereignty as cheaply as the US has
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
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The government official who sent migrants to gulags is now urging the the firing of the journalists who reported the story and objected to it being killed. bsky.app/profile/thet...
Stephen Miller wants everyone at 60 Minutes who “engaged in this revolt” (aka told the truth) fired
December 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The government official who sent migrants to gulags is now urging the the firing of the journalists who reported the story and objected to it being killed. bsky.app/profile/thet...
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White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller has spent years weaponizing hatred to become the mastermind of Trump’s crackdown on marginalized groups.
Zeteo traces his most hateful, strange, and downright cringey moments along the way.
Zeteo traces his most hateful, strange, and downright cringey moments along the way.
December 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller has spent years weaponizing hatred to become the mastermind of Trump’s crackdown on marginalized groups.
Zeteo traces his most hateful, strange, and downright cringey moments along the way.
Zeteo traces his most hateful, strange, and downright cringey moments along the way.
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literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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Along with the bogus redactions, it seems pretty clear they're releasing a bunch of hoaxes and spurious tips and such, of which there are plenty as you'd expect, deliberately disconnected from investigative assessments of their credibility in order to create confusion and cast doubt on all of it.
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Along with the bogus redactions, it seems pretty clear they're releasing a bunch of hoaxes and spurious tips and such, of which there are plenty as you'd expect, deliberately disconnected from investigative assessments of their credibility in order to create confusion and cast doubt on all of it.
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i think donald trump might be a pedophile
December 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
i think donald trump might be a pedophile
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It is. You can actually search visible text on the redacted documents and the completely UNredacted document appears in the results 😭
December 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
It is. You can actually search visible text on the redacted documents and the completely UNredacted document appears in the results 😭