i hate the "what are we a bunch of asians" meme so much i am in fact not thinking about their ethnicity at all when i make a comparison to the politics of North Korea, but it's good to know what your mind focuses on when you think about the subject!

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 6h ago

Sorry but no, it is in fact notable that the US is doing something only very extremist regimes do. To willingly abandon “this isn’t who we are” as a response is to throw away a very powerful rhetorical weapon.

My kids have measles, I can’t afford diesel, I lost my job, and my country just lost a war to Iran. But at least now I can watch firing squad executions on TV.

Last week I stumbled across a once-classified report from 1971 that listed the actual times for SLBM attacks and warning systems. What hooked me from the onset was that all the times are listed in *seconds*. This week for DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I try to unpack all that a bit...

The speed of war

The short times of nuclear warning and attack (1971)

doomsdaymachines.net

I just have a hard time imagining a more straightforward violation of the Equal Protection Clause

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h ago

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

You gotta watch The Bit

Dem Senate Candidate Drops Wizard of Oz Closer at Debate 😳 #Kansas #Shorts

YouTube video by Lamont Tyson

youtube.com

the Vice President of the United States was in groupchats with teenagers when he was a sitting US Senator and the political media has completely ignored this

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 2d ago

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

every clip of this debate it's so fascinating to watch a candidate with a regional working class accent debate another candidate with a regional aristocratic accent this is what politics in the gilded age must have sounded like

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

phoenixnewtimes.com

feels spiritually linked to the rise of the prosperity gospel too

legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.

People wrote for literally 6000 years without copyright. Most books written today are not profitable. The fraction of artists, musicians and writers who actually make a living from their work is a minority. AI didn't cause that, and copyright hasn't fixed it.

Upstater@upstate.pub · 4d ago

As someone who isnt as anti-IP as most tech people, i think the counterargument is like: the money is not meant as a “gate” to information but is instead the thing that gives the author the ability to create and disseminate knowledge in the first place, so if it were free it wouldnt exist at all

Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

If I were more of a long-form writer I'd write a substack about this or something, but: I don't think meritocracy as people understand it is possible, and what "meritocracy" mostly does is paper over nepotism and/or reward people who are disinclined to question the system as a whole.

three key problem with HOI: 1.) Germany is the country that gets to do stuff. It’s the de facto “protagonist country” 2.) In order for it to reliably do stuff, it has to be cracked or the game ends in 1940 3.) Refusal to grasp with Nazi atrocities makes it implicitly endorse a clean Wehrmacht myth

Calm

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 6d ago

The NYT dropped 5 major Senate polls this morning — and they tell you exactly why the GOP is freaking out about the Senate. Alaska: Peltola up 50/43 Texas: Talarico up 51/45 Ohio: Brown up 49/46 Kansas: a 45/45 tie Iowa: Hinson up 48/47.

Tucker Carlson is a sick Nazi fuck. Prove me wrong.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d ago

Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔

America fearful of connections with the world like North Korea or Hoxa's Albania. What a message of weakness.

Among other things your man is radically misunderstanding his place in this particular social interaction

Parkscope Joe@parkscopejoe.bsky.social · last wk.

This is insane.

hmmm, wonder what's going on over at the other place? Oh. Oh my.

Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

time.com

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last wk.

When the US State Department is doing such great work to project a friendly American face to the world, it’s a total mystery why fewer people are choosing to visit.

Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."

Doesnt say "no drunks". Wonder why.

It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

Computers have always been so dumb as to be funny, but I've noticed a definite uptick in "new kinds of stupid" since vibecoding came in.

Years ago, some Twitter lib (belittling, affectionate) in my replies said he stands like a centaur missing the back half of the horse and it's stuck in my mind ever since because, by gum, it's true.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

Scare Smith 💀@evilgalprods.bsky.social · last wk.

FATALITY