I wish BBC would expand worldwide. They ain’t perfect, but compared to the alternatives…well… BBC reports from site of Minneapolis shooting as residents gather ▶ Community members have rallied at a makeshift memorial for Renee Good…

BBC reports from site of Minneapolis shooting as residents gather

Community members have rallied at a makeshift memorial for Renee Good, a day after she was fatally shot by a US immigration agent.

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Didn’t she just look like every domestic terrorist you’ve ever seen? https://stzl.ink/bj59jt

It takes a Canadian pundit to nail it down this well: Occam’s kazoo: When it comes to Trump’s behavior, the most plausible explanation is the stupidest.”

The Globe and Mail

Opinion: When it comes to Trump’s behaviour, the most plausible explanation is the stupidest

Say goodbye to ‘Occam’s razor,’ and say hello to ‘Occam’s kazoo’

Dear young folks: In 1914, an empire sneezed in Sarajevo and the world caught a global case of trench warfare. Keep this firmly in mind in the coming weeks: “U.S. launches operation to seize Russian-flagged oil tanker linked to Venezuela.”

NBC News

U.S. seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker linked to Venezuela after weekslong pursuit

The White House said the crew on the Marinera, which had been re-flagged as a Russian vessel, "will be brought to the United States for such prosec...

Why does Trump want Greenland? Here’s what to know. ⏵Denmark’s leader warned that any use of force by Washington to seize Greenland, as Trump officials have suggested, would render the post-war NATO alliance defunct. https://archive.ph/al9Bl

I’ve now been asked about a dozen times “what was the Monroe Doctrine actually about?” Apparently the media isn’t interested in explaining this to anyone. What a shock. It’s history, but it’s not complicated.

Everything that is happening to America and the much of the world was foreseen by some prescient thinkers. If you didn’t read them back then, please read them now. It’s important to be aware that all this was done to us by design.

Carl Sagan called it over 30 years ago. And the saddest thing is that too many under 30 don’t even know what the fuck he was talking about. For the very reasons he was talking about. #WASF

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Airbag Moments is mad at them 🇺🇦 (@airbagmoments.bsky.social)

Reminiscent of Carl Sagan's prescient fear/warning.

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Shoq (@shoq.bsky.social)

She's in love. And it's only been 10 minutes. I'm hoping she'll only have eyes for it, and not the new couch to her left.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State | The New Republic ▶ He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State | The New Republic

This is Wikipedia’s Trump page. I cannot imagine how his sycophants let him think this was flattering or powerful. It makes him look precisely as mean as he actually is. I can’t wait to piss on this monster’s grave. I’ll drive a thousand miles to do it

Democrats should hold a shadow hearing and have Jack Smith testify in public to questions similar to what he was asked in closed session, so the American people can hear the details of his squelched case against Trump.

It continually amazes me that people can’t figure out how we got here. There is one and only one answer: “Rupert Fucking Murdoch.” His media empires have literally destroyed the civilized world and no one wants to confront that reality because it’s just too easy an answer for people who want to think it must be more complicated. But it’s not. Take he and his demon spawn, Roger Aisles, out of the last 30 years, and we’d be a very different world today. 1/2

You may think this is the dumbest thing anyone has ever Tweeted, but that just tells me you’ve never seen the rest of this nitwit’s timeline. @RealSpitfire is the perfect example of just how wretchedly stupid and mean spirited these MAGA woman can be. Of course, that assume she’s not 19 year old Russian kid named Ivan jerking off in a Kremlin basement, which given her name, makes me think she probably is. There is this small army of these “patriotic blonde) women on X spewing out the same type …

At the risk of being dragged as an apologist for criminals by people who enjoy lashing out on social media at any target of opportunity, it’s worth saying this plainly: we should not go full Salem witch trials over the latest Epstein photos. That would be illiberal, reckless, un-American, and just flat-out wrong. As Hannah Arendt warned, “Guilt by association is not a legal concept but a political weapon.” And that’s exactly what’s being wielded here. …

Remember all the media bullshit going back to 2016 about how all of this was economic anxiety blah blah blah. No, it wasn’t really ever that. It was millions of TV-educated white nationalist shit bags finally becoming who they really wanted to be and finding a perfect pretext for their hatreds.

I look for the symbols of wealth inequality in places others don’t. Who the fuck spends $824 on a minimalist bathroom sink faucet, except private equity douche nozzles trying to impress their friends with how much money they can burn on things nobody needs.

Thanks for being the first one to comment. I was actually going to propose 4 months ago in a document I wrote that we should start referring to MAGA this way and start taking the word away from them. No one likes to be called “gullible”. Repeat no one,

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In Plain Sight. (@gemarr.bsky.social)

Love this: "Manipulating All Gullible Americans."

For literally my entire life, American conservatives have been demonstrably, if not empirically wrong about almost every single thing they ever advocated for. Meanwhile, American liberals have been obscenely incompetent at finding ways to make the public understand that.