Great. Just great. www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

Trump Says North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Replied to Call for Talks

President Donald Trump said North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un had responded to requests for the two leaders to have a conversation, as Trump moved to cut back military drills with South Korea, a traditional US ally.

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This is roughly the policy move desired by the official US communist party and the PSL (US Marxist Leninist party). Do with that what you will.

6/6 The fastest route to ending the war is not waiting for Russia to exhaust itself. It is giving Ukraine enough combat power that Russia cannot win the war at a price it can survive.

1/6 At its current pace, Russia would need more than a century to seize the remaining 80% of Ukraine. Sustaining today’s casualty rate for that long would mean roughly 36 million Russian casualties—more than the country’s entire current population of military-age men.

The evidence is starting to suggest Iran fears Ukraine far more than the United States. And Ukraine helping the US is something it does not owe us through any treaty or agreement.

I knew some of Anthony Fauci’s family. They were kind in a way that you swear it can't be real and only through time do you realize it is. That's how he is too.

Google is creating an epistemological crisis.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3w ago

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

Imagine Wikipedia adding a “generate a plausible-looking citation for any claim you type’” button. Now imagine it comes with a photo to match.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3w ago

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

Sure wish Congress would divert the energy it has for Fauci to the Epstein Files

It’s like a parody. And now from former Russian state media employee who frequently uncritically interviews members of internationally recognized FTOs with the zeal of a valley girl getting a smoothie, we bring to you the story of censorship— 🤯

Charles Я. Davis@charliearchy.bsky.social · 3w ago

In 2018, Khalek was working for an outlet called Redfish, which purported to be a grassroots activist collective. In fact, it was Russian state media. Surely there are others with credibility who could discuss this matter? www.thedailybeast.com/grassroots-m...

In 2018, Khalek was working for an outlet called Redfish, which purported to be a grassroots activist collective. In fact, it was Russian state media. Surely there are others with credibility who could discuss this matter? www.thedailybeast.com/grassroots-m...

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 3w ago

“Everybody who cares about a free press and cares about free speech should be alarmed about an attack like this," says BreakThrough News journalist Rania Khalek.

1/4 Even if Fauci emerges unscathed, several of his friends told me they despair at the disruption this saga is causing to his life. (Although the death threats against his three daughters have mostly subsided, he and his wife have continued to receive them.) www.theatlantic.com/health/2026...

The Unmaking of Anthony Fauci

He built an empire. It did not last.

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Enemies of the US have always hated USAID— Russia, China, Iran have loathed it for decades. Why? It was a force for good and that made people like the US. Reagan revered it. Bush leveraged it to save millions of lives. Rubio demanded Biden fund it.

For every $1 the government claimed to save by cutting foreign aid, it added about $380 to the federal deficit elsewhere in the budget. That's without factoring in the increased cost of armed conflicts we won't prevent, deaths we can't stop, and allies we won't have the next time we need them.

I'm getting ads for counter UAV systems on Instagram and I'm mad that they know me so well. There's no privacy in this world.

I like my tea in the harbor.

I see our government learned the lesson of the Revolutionary War: infectious diseases are bad for military readiness.

What Year Is It? - Iconic Movie Quote

ALT: What Year Is It? - Iconic Movie Quote

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PSL: protesting data centers as tools of authoritarianism Also PSL: aggressively surveilling members with AI to ensure compliance with right think Also, also PSL: PSL regime telling people how great communism is

Lord Farquaad: Some Of You May Die

ALT: Lord Farquaad: Some Of You May Die

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Considering that USAID has been destroyed and that millions are dying as a result, you don’t fucking get to pretend your “USAID was a foul tool of American imperialism” take is merely hypothetical. Stop being a sniveling little weasel and own it: you think the deaths of all those kids is worth it.

Whenever I hear someone claiming that USAID was evil from a leftist perspective, I hear someone saying “yes, millions ARE dying because Musk and Trump killed USAID, but at least they’ll die free of American imperialism.” Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.

If anyone is seriously arguing it’s not GLP-1s lol, that’s some hopium. RFK Jr. has been a disaster for everyone except the agrochemicals industry and natural food dye companies. The trouble with insane people is that they don’t won’t recognize they're a problem, but Congress sure should have.

The UFC attack plotters seem to have pulled their targets from “TrackAIPAC,” which makes it even more damning that TrackAIPAC has been caught fabricating the numbers.

Putin is a crazy old man dragging his country into the grave with him. I’m just curious if FSB are waiting for complete destruction before they get rid of him.

Yo-Yo Ma Finally Works Up Courage To Tell Parents He Quitting Cello https://theonion.com/yo-yo-ma-finally-works-up-courage-to-tell-parents-he-quitting-cello/

As someone from the rad trad Catholic community, I worry a lot about how little people take this threat seriously. Now, even if someone does, they will be afraid to say it.

Khashoggi's Ghost@urocklive1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The FBI has fired at least five analysts who were involved in the creation of a withdrawn internal 2023 intelligence memo on "Radical Traditionalist Catholic" ideology that drew the ire of President Trump's allies. (Including SCOTUS, no doubt.) www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-fir...

What. No. Who could have foreseen this.

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...

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Well, if his warrior ethos is as masculine as his grapevine, I think we know what happened in Iran.

Big Tobacco comes out on top after the US FDA shake-up. www.reuters.com/legal/litig...