@adamtooze.bsky.social Re China2.0 (Chartbook462): Significant missing element in your analysis is how telecom equipment is the missing link between 1.0 and 2.0. Huawei (much more than ZTE) was already causing big problems for legacy Western telecom equipment providers in 2004, and ...
Perhaps this will help, Trish. I built this 13 years ago for the Orange County Register.
Olha Krivohub from Kharkiv region has baptized her newborn baby Kateryna. On Feb 10, she lost her husband and 3 minor kids in a russian drone strike at their new home. 35w pregnant, she survived attack despite being thrown onto the roof of another house. We don't hate russia enough. 📸: Suspilne
I guess this was inevitable, China is building a nuclear-powered battleship like America’s Trump Class. Except probably more real than the Trump Class? #OSINT www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
New Super-Battleship Under Construction In China - Naval News
As the U.S. Navy debates the future of ‘Trump Class’ battleships, other navies are advancing their own visions of ultra-large surface combatants. New evidence reveals that China is constructing an eve...
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The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6mo ago🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
The EU's Kaja Kallas calls for increased military support for Ukraine.
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Even those unfamiliar with the Wirecard scandal would find this investigation compelling, it’s worth the read.
@christogrozev.bsky.social · 11mo agoMore than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
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Lastly, consider watching some of his films this week. My favorites include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Sting, Jeremiah Johnson, and All Is Lost. Rest in peace to a man who has given us much.
Seems like a good day to repost when my chalking went viral- Jan 26, 2024. $83.3 million. Even funnier today. Keep talking, loser.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 11mo agoNEWS: A federal appeals court has upheld the $83.3M judgment against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, rejecting his immunity claim and noting he acted with “reckless disregard for the truth.”
Not just the UK, basically all democratic countries. We are collectively under grey zone attack, all the time.
Elisabeth Braw@elisabethbraw.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe UK (and other countries) should do like Sweden, which has just begun teaching national security (total defence, to be precise) in secondary schools. Investing in defence equipment is good. But teenagers' minds have even more potential. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... Me @thetimes.com
Freedom has a price. Ukrainians are paying it for all of Europe. Happy Independence Day, thank you, and godspeed to all who defend Ukraine, in and out of uniform.
#ProudBlue Every word that Scott Galloway said 👏👏👏👏👏👏 I feel it all to my core. I’ve been screaming this since Trump came down the escalator. Why are we excusing their abhorrent behavior? Musk & Trump are morally bankrupt. Kevin O’Leary doesn’t even know what to do with his face.
A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin
Darren Beattie, who alarmed the State Department with his pro-Moscow views, is married to a woman whose uncle has ties to Vladimir Putin
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Kremlin wants the world to remain ignorant about the many horrors inflicted by Moscow on those it colonized. Collective ignorance translates into collective indifference. The cancer of Russian imperial revanchism can only grow if we remain indifferent. Spread the word. #Asharshylyk
On this 80th Anniversary of VE Day, we remember all those who won the war against Nazis and remember the countless sacrifices they made to deliver it. The Greatest Generation stood up to evil to protect peace and freedom for generations. Now it’s our turn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pNl...
VE Day
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Incredibly moving. 1000s of Lithuanians lined the streets of the capital Vilnius yesterday to honor the four US soldiers killed on their soil. As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course. (📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)
Uh oh the Trump administration accidentally added us to their group chat
Back in November I drafted this memo warning about the specifics of the economic shock events that were likely to unfold in the first half of 2025. We are just getting started, and the worst is likely yet to come. docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Managing Financial Instability In 2025
MANAGING FINANCIAL INSTABILITY IN 2025 By David Troy, Publisher + Editor, America 2.0 Published November 7, 2024; Last Updated March 10, 2025 The Trump/Vance administration has the potential to unlea...
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@davetroy.com I particularly like your comparison of bitcoin to Wildcat Banking...
I am so saddened by my governments betrayal of Ukraine right now. It will be recorded by historians as one of our most shameful moments. At the same time, I have no doubt that Ukraine will survive and prosper as a strong, independent, democratic country. #SlavaUkraïni !
NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.
Once again, overlapping circles covering DOGE, Musk’s goons, his Haldeman mother’s side, Technocracy movement, and Russian state interests. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/who-...
Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes?
At 49, Branden Spikes isn't just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X...
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Morning chalking. Chef’s Kiss to the person who coined the phrase. Moscow Agent Governing America.
