I think in one sense I agree, but I think it's probably worth noting that paramilitary sub-state violence has a tendency to tilt toward escalatory non-discriminatory violence as people seek to eliminate any potential security rivals. So I think it's fair enough to call for cooler heads to prevail.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think today's liberals in the US are used to a social environment where pogroms are rare and don't realize the role armed self defense plays in that state of affairs www.history.com/articles/red...

Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. “Democrats cannot just ‘win the midterms’ and go back to life before Donald Trump and his army of tech bros upended our way of life,” writes @tressiemcphd.bsky.social gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

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No charges ever filed. Word of caution to all of those demanding accountability after the mid-terms: it’s mostly the same party that failed to hold him accountable last time. Manage your expectations.

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2d ago

A BIG disclosure in a lawsuit brought by Trump against Capital One reveals the bank closed more than 300 of Trump’s accounts in 2021 after a months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience. I explain the details here: youtu.be/YDTqowVWjfc?...

WATCH: ProPublica & @drilledmedia.bsky.social found that oil and gas companies have been funding climate research at prestigious US universities for 30+ years. This research fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels: propub.li/3TTgAGp

Morocco’s Interior Ministry has confirmed that the entry of at least 50,000 people into Ceuta was not spontaneous. It was orchestrated through an online mobilisation & disinformation campaign, which they say was largely driven from outside Morocco. At least 72 have been confirmed dead.

Saving 1 acre of legacy forest on the Olympic Peninsula at a time! gofund.me/dc591b18e

Donate to Save Twin Rivers Legacy Forests (“Doc Holliday” Timber Sale), organized by Elwha Legacy Forest Coalition

Elwha Legacy Forests Coalition (ELF) is a local and volunteer… Elwha Legacy Forest Coalition needs your support for Save Twin Rivers Legacy Forests (“Doc Holliday” Timber Sale)

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Housing.

When read in the context of the book of Isaiah, this is what we used to call, blasphemy.

TT@tathompsonks.bsky.social · 4d ago

Make. It. Stop.

Dubik is always worth reading. His latest takes on Huntington’s objective control rightly places continued adherence to that particular civ-mil model as detrimental to translating military action into strategic success. www.ausa.org/articles/tim...

Time to Reexamine ‘Gospel’ For Civil-Military Relations

In The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-­Military Relations, Samuel Huntington presents his “objective control” mod

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Social media platforms playing their role in the weaponisation of poverty and desparation. This is only going to get worse as AI expands the ability to fake information.

Conflict Research@conflictwatch.bsky.social · 4d ago

Ceuta crisis sparks online speculation over Israel’s role in pressuring Spain. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260731-ceu...

Gift.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trump's illegal war is extremely good business for people who aren't you.

Carl Sagan: Earth as a “pale blue dot.” *That became the…title of his bestselling book… in which he wrote that “everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives” on this “mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”*

Maria Popova@mariapopova.bsky.social · 6d ago

"When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world That is when, and only when We come to it." Maya Angelou's stunning poem that flew to space to remind us who we are www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/09/a...

LG has an awesome new refrigerator! It's free! [*collects data on what U eat and U have to feed it a quarter every time U open the door.]

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · 7d ago

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

First, they buy up and destroy all the paper books. Next, a huge solar flare wipes all the databases not protected by Faraday Cages.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 7d ago

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

We (white Americans) are lied to and so heavily propagandized that we don't know our own history. I get a LOT of pushback/skepticism when I try to tell my fellow whites about shit like this. Especially from privileged white liberals.

✪ A Somber Birthday Gray in Late August ✪@jongraywb.blacksky.app · last wk.

Having to look up pictures of actual lynching picnics for what is admittedly a very dark project and… Jesus… if ever you wanted the quickest, easiest way to despise White American “humanity” this may actually be it

“Moscow plants false premises in seemingly innocuous language, and these enter public debate through either careless repetition or deliberate amplification…Ukraine's refusal to be massacred morphs into an obstacle to peace.” kyivindependent.com/when-righteo...

When righteous calls to end the war become warmongering

Russia's war on Ukraine has yet to end because Russia keeps waging it. It is shocking, though regrettably unsurprising, that in the fifth summer since the 2022 escalation by the aggressor, and 12 yea...

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Adam Mockler@adammockler.com · last wk.

Andrew Tate explains exactly how he trapped women

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

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Gift.

Mike@half-witt.bsky.social · last wk.

The Fed’s New Chairman Faces His Biggest Test Yet www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/b...

Gift.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · last wk.

An entire article about the ways #ClimateChange is decimating the Bourdeux wine region of France — that never mentions the words “climate change.” This is journalistic malpractice. Not even high-school papers leave out such necessary context. #EndClimateSilence www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...

If you are quote-posting a story you don’t like from an outlet that constantly provokes you…you are executing their marketing strategy.

“WE” didn’t get into this. One dude, who is legendarily susceptible to suggestion, did.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Kennedy: "I don't think we ought to just cut and run. If we can stand the pain of the rising cost of energy, we need to stay the course at least for a few more months."

An important read. It helps, but isn’t problem-free, to have water owned and disseminated by a public true public agency staffed by water professionals.

BKinDetroit@bkindetroit.bsky.social · last wk.

Paper mill needs water so residents are asked to conserve This will become very common when AI data centers become abundant I've said it before The Water Wars have begun but no one is noticing

Who is WE bitch? Cause motherfuckers like you notoriously don’t serve in wars or send your families off to fight them while saying ignorant shit like this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Kennedy: "I don't think we ought to just cut and run. If we can stand the pain of the rising cost of energy, we need to stay the course at least for a few more months."

Essential read. Recognize this?

John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹@lippoenen.bsky.social · last wk.

RIP friend @arcticvelocipedist.bsky.social Thank you for all the encouragement over the years and the fantastic images of Alaska you shared.

Musk insinuated she should be murdered b/c she’s a “race traitor”. As you may be aware “race” is a late 19th Century bullshit construct created to justify colonialist oppression.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last wk.

Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions

Interesting thread.

Jack’s House Radio Free NAFO 🇺🇦@houseofjack1.bsky.social · 2w ago

1) You know how you can tell when something catastrophic is spiraling out of control? When a market for specialized equipment to deal with it opens up. I noticed this when the market for school gunshot trauma kits and body armor for kids opened up. So let’s take a look at new era fire vehicles⬇️