Remind me, what happens after everyone finds out the emperor has no clothes?
Mlada Bukovansky
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Hopelessly academic slow scholar and outdoor enthusiast.
“If it ain’t broke, break it” seems like an apt motto for the current administration.
The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It
Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.
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The new normal: Eric Trump joins Beijing trip as family-linked group chases China deal
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
What’s not to love about Albanian immunity? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/n...
Eric Adams, Citizen of the World, Becomes an Actual Citizen of Albania
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Trump: Cave or we kill you all. Iran: no Trump: Ok what if we give you everything you want and stop bombing you Iran: um ok Israel: shit, we better bomb Lebanon Lebanon: wtf Iran: wtf Vance: nobody mentioned you Pakistan: they were literally in the text Trump: … I totally won Iran: u ok?
It’s like being on a runaway train, heading for a disastrous collision, and being unable to get to the locomotive. And there are armed guards preventing anyone from trying to stop the wreck.
john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown (not my pic, Peter Toto, x)
Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.
FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/SVLeLoM
A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.
State's current directions for Americans stranded in Trump's illegal war of choice, compared to the current FlightRadar map. emptywheel.net/the-catastro...
My favorite headline of the week. Are ski jumpers enhancing their penises to fly further? WADA is ready to investigate www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...
Are ski jumpers enhancing their penises to fly further? WADA is ready to investigate
World sport's anti-doping body has vowed to look into the lurid claims that first surfaced in a German newspaper in January.
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🚨 Declassified FBI memo reveals Trump “compromised by Israel” and that Kushner was running a parallel State Department. Epstein and Dershowitz likely co-opted Mossad agents. Plus more Russian interference and sketchy ties www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
After today’s shooting, Minneapolis is filing a declaration to push for an immediate ruling on our temporary restraining order. We need swift action to protect our city.
And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall. Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 7mo agoEQUATORIAL GUINEA AND TOGO. This is very likely the SECOND load of migrants ICE sent to a torture prison in Equatorial Guinea, for a payment of $10 million from State Dept. humanitarian funds.
It dawned on me today that what ICE is doing in MN is just a drawn out January 6th but the insurrectionists are handed a gun and paycheck by the executive this time
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The absurdity of the non-ideological university - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Evan Mandery’s long piece about UATX, Bari Weiss’s right-wing grift masquerading as some sort of new “non-ideological” university, is fascinating on several levels. Mandery is a professor at the John ...
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