Siegfried Martens🇺🇦
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These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
TIL we have secret lightning bolt cannons😳
![A paste of the Wikipedia article on plasma guns. Highlighted is a section that says “The weapon was able to produce doughnut-shaped rings of plasma and balls of lightning that exploded with devastating effects when hitting their target.[75] The project's initial success led to it becoming classified, and only a few references to MARAUDER appeared after 1993”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x3k5swnitawj4wp3tkana5p6/bafkreid72rrmsxdjs53rrxa2pcxxmlemcx3tmburm2pbdt3jk6bvoq5dse@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
TIL we have secret lightning bolt cannons😳
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.
Rubio on Russia-Ukraine: "It's not our war. It's a war on another continent."
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It IS our war. We made a deal with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes, we’d protect them from Russia.
Pretty lame, DNC🤨
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Pretty lame, DNC🤨
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More deadly US boat strikes. Like the others, unambiguously illegal, immoral, and bad strategy.
The US government says these strikes were in the Pacific. Venezuela, as you can clearly see on the map, doesn't touch the Pacific Ocean. So whatever this is, it's not about Maduro and Venezuela.
The US government says these strikes were in the Pacific. Venezuela, as you can clearly see on the map, doesn't touch the Pacific Ocean. So whatever this is, it's not about Maduro and Venezuela.
December 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
More deadly US boat strikes. Like the others, unambiguously illegal, immoral, and bad strategy.
The US government says these strikes were in the Pacific. Venezuela, as you can clearly see on the map, doesn't touch the Pacific Ocean. So whatever this is, it's not about Maduro and Venezuela.
The US government says these strikes were in the Pacific. Venezuela, as you can clearly see on the map, doesn't touch the Pacific Ocean. So whatever this is, it's not about Maduro and Venezuela.
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JD Vance deserves this
Trump on Tim Walz: "I think the man is a grossly incompetent man. I thought that from the day I watched JD destroy him in the debate. I was saying, 'Who's more incompetent, that man or my man?' I had a man and he had a man. They were both incompetent."
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
JD Vance deserves this
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Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
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More of this. All the time. Every time they appear. Constantly. Fuck ICE.
October 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
More of this. All the time. Every time they appear. Constantly. Fuck ICE.
After a redesign, it will make a fine shelter for immigrants in a few years🇺🇸✊
October 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
After a redesign, it will make a fine shelter for immigrants in a few years🇺🇸✊
Personally I just listened to Elizabeth warren give a hell of a rallying call on the Boston common - we’re happy with our leaders in Boston ✊✊
This is correct. Participation was great, engagement and bringing in new people and teaching them about movements is great, and organizers literally telling people at the end to literally go home and have brunch is… the worst. So we just have to use the good parts as raw materials.
Yes it’s an absolute truism of these protests that the protests are good and the attendees are good and the leaders are bad. Just ignore the speeches! The people know why they’re here, even if too many of the organizers often don’t really seem to regard Trump as any kind of distinct evil
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Personally I just listened to Elizabeth warren give a hell of a rallying call on the Boston common - we’re happy with our leaders in Boston ✊✊
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Great stuff here from @gregsargent.bsky.social
This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.
This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.
newrepublic.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Great stuff here from @gregsargent.bsky.social
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ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
blockclubchicago.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
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I’m not generally the sort of person to say “hahaha fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you” BUT
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
October 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I’m not generally the sort of person to say “hahaha fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you” BUT
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
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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.
October 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
Scary and accurate comparison
You’re Comparing Trump to the Wrong Fascist Dictator
The “Is Trump Hitler?” debate misses his sinister parallels to another 20th-century European tyrant.
slate.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Scary and accurate comparison
Here is how a democracy handles a criminal president
Sarkozy Sentenced to 5 Years in Libyan Campaign-Funding Case
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Here is how a democracy handles a criminal president
I have nothing but praise for Ed Markey, but imho, 86 is just too old to run for reelection to the senate! On the other hand, anyone but Seth Moulton, please! Does Ayanna Pressley have a shot statewide? Any chance Deval would get back into politics? #edmarkey #sethmoulton #masenate
Moulton Readies Primary Challenge Against Markey in Massachusetts
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I have nothing but praise for Ed Markey, but imho, 86 is just too old to run for reelection to the senate! On the other hand, anyone but Seth Moulton, please! Does Ayanna Pressley have a shot statewide? Any chance Deval would get back into politics? #edmarkey #sethmoulton #masenate
So Europe finally decides to start its own rare earth refining, since China has 99% of this key market, and where do they put the factory? In Narva, Estonia a few feet from the Russian border. Interesting location for a strategic asset – are they insane?
The Race Is on to Make Rare Earth Magnets Outside China
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
So Europe finally decides to start its own rare earth refining, since China has 99% of this key market, and where do they put the factory? In Narva, Estonia a few feet from the Russian border. Interesting location for a strategic asset – are they insane?
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Did u guys see the Tesla robot video? I think it's dying
September 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Did u guys see the Tesla robot video? I think it's dying
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"Week after week, month after month, they embarrass themselves, undermine their colleagues and demoralize their voters. Theirs is a record of cowardice and capitulation."
"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better."
I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan
This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Week after week, month after month, they embarrass themselves, undermine their colleagues and demoralize their voters. Theirs is a record of cowardice and capitulation."
Chuck Schumer needs to lose his next primary. What are the odds he doesn't run for reelection?
Chuck Schumer going door to door at the nursing home trying to recruit more elderly politicians to die in office
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Chuck Schumer needs to lose his next primary. What are the odds he doesn't run for reelection?
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Trump REALLY, REALLY, REALLY doesn't want the Epstein files released.
September 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Trump REALLY, REALLY, REALLY doesn't want the Epstein files released.
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14/ For Halimi and his family, those actions would have far-reaching consequences.
Read the full story by @chrisbing.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro:
Read the full story by @chrisbing.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro:
DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...
www.propublica.org
August 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
14/ For Halimi and his family, those actions would have far-reaching consequences.
Read the full story by @chrisbing.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro:
Read the full story by @chrisbing.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro: