Gluten-free Seitan
@davidjohansen.bsky.social
In the southern USA. He/him Interested in world events, US politics, science, music
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
Bolts@boltsmag.org · 16h agoMany states require that mail ballots be postmarked by a specific day. But due to a USPS rule announced late last year, voters may need to put their ballot in a mailbox days in advance.
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
projects.propublica.org
all the "RESPECT THE TROOPS HONOR THE TROOPS STAND FOR THEM AND SUPPORT THE TROOPS" stuff the media pushed since 9/11 was a joke. A laugh to them. Every time it collided with whatever it was that Republicans want to do, the troops lose. Trump goes to soldiers' graves and laughs at them!
Russ@pappyparki.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump & Hegseth not only left our troops stationed in Gulf region exposed to Iranian attacks in response to Trump's illegal war. Those troops did not recieve needed immediate medical care, diagnosis or adequate if any treatment. Hegseth still denies their injuries www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-u...
Europe should be running influence ops here so we can run influence ops against Bolsonaro in Brazil so Brazil can run influence ops against Le Pen in France
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
projects.propublica.org
now is a good time to remember how some military observers, including an academic at a british university, kept telling us that we were underestimating us military power due to negative polarization and iran was going to collapse from bombing and subversion
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · yesterdayit is patently obvious that this war was declared on a whim and, as reporting lately suggests, the military was forbidden to do anything more than a modicum of contingency planning
The administration hates and punishes those that would sacrifice themselves for others.
It is crazy how quickly they’ve shifted from arguing about the purported cultural pathologies of black people to arguing that those exact same alleged pathologies are virtues in white peolle
River_Tam@rivertam.bsky.social · 2d agoI fully believe that this is Wayne's culture, because it's recognizably lower class white culture of the kind that JD Vance correctly excoriated in Hillbilly Elegy. However, it's not American culture or even PMC white culture. It's just hick culture.
My mistake: the couchfucker says it's merely Abundance of Caution! at the Airbase Or it could be pretextual, I guess, if they wanted to withdraw from Europe anyway
Gluten-free Seitan@davidjohansen.bsky.social · 3d agoPanic! In the Pentagon Article is good, I didn't know that news was allowed to recap recent relevant info www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president
Panic! In the Pentagon Article is good, I didn't know that news was allowed to recap recent relevant info www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
US withdraws all B-1 bombers from British military base RAF Fairford
The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday that all US B-1 bombers deployed to Britain’s RAF Fairford had returned home following a security incident that prompted nearby evacuations. Police found no explosives...
france24.com
Gluten-free Seitan@davidjohansen.bsky.social · 7d agoUpdate: British PM says Iran was involved in "what happened". What did happen, Andy? One of the lads called the cops on himself & associates They had one barrel of petrol plus empty barrels
one of the exhausting things about modern antisemitism is antisemites insisting that perfectly normal behavior like diaspora nationalism is a sinister conspiracy, and then diaspora nationalists insisting that describing the same perfectly normal behvior is blood libel
But it was all right, everything was all right, the alignment was finished. He had won the victory over himself. Claude loved Humanity.
One factor in the world refinery bottleneck. China's refiners were losing money on every barrel, due to price controls, so they reduced production. In 2025, China exported 58 million tons of refined fuels. During the Iran war, they've restricted fuel exports foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/02/c...
How China Managed the Oil Shock
Beijing concentrated the impact on refiners, not the public.
foreignpolicy.com
At first this seems to be about how local cops in rural West Virginia are getting big money for just a few arrests, but they're making very white areas even whiter (and older, and poorer) www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
Exclusive | How Local Police Get Paid Big Money for Just a Few Immigration Arrests
The Department of Homeland Security gives local agencies as much as $2 million for each arrest in a nationwide task force.
wsj.com
"Competitive Authoritarianism In America" --> "The new regime is unlikely to consolidate"-->"If the United States re-democratizes in 2029, it will likely remain an unconsolidated democracy." I'm always saying this (but not as a poli sci paper with footnotes and figures) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
The carrier now deploying to the Middle East is the same one that had a major Covid outbreak in 2020, BTW (USS Roosevelt)
TLDR: the dictator would need fewer henchmen, but that smaller group might find it easier to coordinate a coup
Seva@seva.bsky.social · 6d agonew piece in Foreign Affairs with @schneier.com on how autocrats are using AI to deal with scheming viziers. free access t.co/4Acu9eQwSE
Fundie hate-preacher says Trump is channeling govt $$$$ to fundie churches, so vote GOP www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Lance Wallnau Offers A Trillion Reasons For Christians To Vote In The Midterms
MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau says that Christians must vote in the midterms because the Trump administration is poised to funnel billions of dollars of government funding to Christian organizations.
peoplefor.org
This is why the Catholic Church opposed translating the Bible into the vulgar tongues www.smbc-comics.com/comic/script...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scripture
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scripture
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Pygmy raccoons on Cozumel make balls out of paper trash, imitate that behavior, play with coatis, get drunk on margarita (with photos) "Preliminary Evidence of Material Culture in the Critically Endangered Pygmy Raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus)" www.mdpi.com/3042-4526/3/...
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(Arnold voice) “September 30 2026. Elon Musk assumes directorate of future of warfare at the pentagon. In less than 2 months he is Secretary of War after Hegseth resigns to run for president. Two months later, SkyX becomes self-aware and blows up on a launchpad”
