Voting EO or Venezuela
Personal account of a recovering Afghan vet, gamer and gadabout. Asst. Editor of a peer-reviewed military journal in my spare time, which I may mention here once in a while Previously on Twitter as Flit_BruceR, and a blogger of little consequence long ago
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Voting EO or Venezuela
They can only hide him and take blurry pictures from afar for so long. I just know they’re busy as hell trying to plan how to transition this to the JD Vance era, aka technofascist oligarchy. Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel are licking their chops after working towards this for years and years.
Ok, I laughed at that one :)
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Absolutely nuts. Had to see if this was real. Came from the DoD. Pics are from 8/7, posted 8/26. Ask yourself what the fuck the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) is going to mortar.
Tried that in Scandinavia. Doesn’t really work. Mostly seems to be that giving people choice means fewer choose.
Perfection.
The number of deaths averted globally due to vaccination is absolutely staggering.
Children did not understand what was happening. The government moved late at night, over a holiday weekend, deliberately making it harder for these children to reach their attorneys or the courts. This is all on purpose. Full statement ▶️ firrp.org/florence-pro...
This is how to cover this. NPR did a spot on the award and said nothing about 2020 and Giuliani’s lies.
Important, factual thread
Feminists have been screaming this for literally decades but they are coming after birth control and they will use any bullshit excuse to do it. It's the last defense for women to prevent unwanted pregnancy and if they want us back in the kitchen barefoot they gotta take out bc.
For no reason in particular the NDP and Greens need to make ending foreign ownership of newspapers and news media a top 5 policy point. Tap into the anti-American sentiment and just go with it.
This is, I swear to Christ, the lead story at the Atlantic Monthly right now
"I'm chucking missiles willy nilly at US territory and US citizens, but if you so much as look askance at the facilities I'm launching this entire war from I'm ending the world" cmon man there's no way the CCP believes that, they might be high on their own supply in other ways but they aren't morons
I'm going on record. You don't cover up dead. He's not dead. However, he's sick as shit. That you can cover up for a bit. But just a bit. Mostly I hope he feels like absolute shit and is very scared of death. That I can work with.
"To pretend that her death deserves the same recognition as that young soldier at the gate is obscene. It is a betrayal of the oath she once swore and a desecration of the sacrifice made by so many who kept faith with theirs."
Nor are they expensive to manufacture. Feminizing HRT is birth control and a basic blood pressure medication, masculinizing HRT is a basic steroid hormone. Austeritizing yourself into thinking birth control is hideously expensive...
“nobody would need HRT if we didn’t have stereotypes” is just
a bug the size of your thumb is putting in more work than 99% of men on dating apps roflmaooo
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
It DOES seem very AI-ish.
"there is always an ideal solution that convieniently asks nothing of me and I will get angry if you suggest otherwise" has really been a driving ideological force in our politics since 2020.
Teacher here. School closures were NEVER primarily about the health of children. They were about the health of middle aged staff and preventing schools from becoming a vector for community spread. Sure, re-open your schools with no adult staff and see how well that works.
Also, policymakers have to act under conditions of uncertainty and imperfect information. The fact that you can imagine a more optimal set of policies, later when we have better information, does not automatically give you cause to be angry at the policymakers.
Without “blueskyism” I wouldn't be able to reward independent journalists who are not afraid to call Tom Homan a bitch
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
It does seem a little one-sided to not also mention that rejection of health advice was also being promoted and politicized early, I.e. scofflaw unmasked events by Trump that we now know killed Carson & could have killed him & Christie. There was a lot of "rules for thee" on both sides even early on
With respect I think it's an error on your part here to assign this much valence and intent given the atmosphere of uncertainty and the uneven jurisdictional enforcement. In April 2020 many of those authorities were still obsessed with what we now know to be pointless "deep cleaning" too.
Sports seasons weren't nixed just cause you couldn't use outdoor stands, was said at the time was cause you couldn't put players in locker rooms (or staff in enclosed ticket booths, or open public restrooms) with no risk. But yes, other 100% outdoor stuff (ice rinks) was banned for stupid reasons.
Dude, there was already an instance of multiple infections from a single singer in a church choir, plus churches are INDOORS.
Almost all Gazans live in urban areas. It's one of the most densely populated places in the world. So clearing out the "urban areas" is ethnic cleansing.
Doing regime change on a country, then refusing to do “boots on the ground” or really anything at all to stabilize the situation or prevent some other, even worse force from taking over surely will work out just fine.
This ongoing "we're mad at India for buying oil from Russia, our strategic adversary who we are neutral-to-positive about" routine is also ridiclous. India is nowhere near the only buyer of Russian oil, nor is it even the biggest!
My inexpert opinion is still that, on balance, this figure is likely too high by a large degree. That’s because the analysis relies on a presumption that immigrant survey response rates haven’t changed, and I’d bet dollars to donuts they have.
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
All these posts are easily AI-generated by the way.
Kind of insane that so many modern politicians need to re-learn that “the narrative” is something you can shape, rather than carved on stone tablets by the hand of God and delivered to your doorstep by the press. You believe in things, and then you say them, and then people’s opinions change. Magic!
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
it's very funny that JD Vance felt the need to crosspost Trump's India post onto his Twitter account for some reason
Summer 2025 was warmest on record - and repeat is now 70 times more likely, Met Office says
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
I understand (though I do not accept) the government's case for remaining on X. What is totally indefensible is the *exclusive* presence of many MPs & departments on that site. They are handing a monopoly of key government communications to a site that's increasingly run by & for the radical right
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
** illegal immigrant His brother openly admits that the two of them were illegal immigrants, though Elon tries to wave it off. He legally came to the US on an edu visa, finished his undergrad degree, was supposed to go to grad school, but instead started his company & wasn't regularized for years.
Honestly, I am morbidly curious if Canadian intelligence’s threat assessment changed when they saw the US military invading LA and DC. Just in terms of “would they say ‘yessir,’ if he told them to Do It,”
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
This was incredible, important lawyering from National Immigration Law Center (@nilc.org) over the past 24 hours. Here's their case page: www.nilc.org/litigation/l... Here was the statement from Efrén Olivares, NILC VP of litigation, from earlier today regarding the TRO:
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GvjPcr/ How in the HELL does any government lawfully deport 600 unaccompanied minors? Who does that? Who the fuck are we? What are we? What have we become?
When u believe the government has magical powers and politicians just aren't saying the right words to unlock permanent leftist utopia, you do tend to have mysteriously broken understandings of administrative realities.
Some context: The USPP restricted vehicular pursuits after two officers chased, shot and killed a driver named Bijan Gisar in 2017. The government settled with Gisar's family for $5 million, but neither officer was charged nor lost his job. (www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...)
Getting so tired of these royal degrees that have absolutely no legal effect.
Think about all those people in the West, in liberal political and media circles, on this hellsite, who insisted repeatedly for months that Hamas was the obstacle to a ceasefire deal. Have nothing but contempt for them and never listen to them ever again.
Not just yearn for it, but feel entitled to it. These men believe they are owed a seamless transition from babying by their mom to babying by their wife. The fact that they are not in fact guaranteed that free domestic and emotional labor (delivered by women, of course) is experienced as robbery
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
YES!! Thank You!! Had we really all completely forgotten this Oscar-winning film (for a couple future stars) except me?!
They normalized calling for the death of innocent Black men. They normalized the fact that they can’t stop sexually abusing children. They normalized a traitorous violent assault on the capitol of the United States. And these motherfuckers want to pretend *word choice* is the issue? Please.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
*chef's kiss*
Amazing thread. Right to the end
This might be a hot take, but at this point I’ve come to the conclusion that Schumer and Jeffries failure to serve as effective opposition party leaders is basically a skill issue. They are genuinely incapable of creatively or strategically responding to MAGA’s political revolution.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Apparently the article does mention that he's a paid Russian asset too, but the fact that little detail couldn't make the headline here is the problem with the NYT summed up in one tight little factoid.
When QAnon emerged publicly in August 2018, the media was totally blindsided. Most had either no knowledge, or had actively ignored it. There's no excuse now. The president is sharing insane prophecy cult memes, and it needs to be covered. It's not normal.
Clearly something needs to be done about the Eagle Scouts menace.
Amazing, can't wait for the next installment now. Totally hooked
To state the obvious, petty street crime would likely be very rare in a totalitarian state where the military could execute you on suspicion of shoplifting; doesn’t mean this should be seriously discussed as an anti-crime stately. “Lowering crime” is not the only prerogative in a civilized society
Replacing reason with superstition is a feature of religion and totalitarianism. Thank you for coming to my TED talk on the madness of RFK, Jr. and MAHA.
And yes, putting troops from friendly states permanently in DC is absolutely part of this coup de main plan.
Duffel Blog still knows how to land a round www.duffelblog.com/pentagon-fin...
For anyone whose bigger concern is the looming global war, not the civil one, Trump losing India as an ally is the biggest mistake of his career. If I didn’t know, for a fact, that Trump was dramatically intellectually challenged, I’d almost think he was trying to end America.
"Conway...boiled it down to what he called the president-elect’s malignant narcissism, which means he is 'inherently destructive.' "'People like Trump, malignant narcissists, actually do, subconsciously or consciously, seek to destroy,' said Conway, a longtime critic of the incoming POTUS. ...
They will literally say **ANYTHING**.
And who even has a kitchen table. Many of us now live in tiny boxes with what used to be called "efficiency kitchens" that barely have room to stand in
Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
This, 100%
my main problem with the attitude of "butlerian jihad" or "killing the computer" is that it assigns blame to inanimate objects instead of the real people who very much can be held accountable who designed the computer to be this way
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
The links between his work and Dawntrail are really interesting! One of his most famous collection of essays is "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" is all about how the Gulf War wasn't a war, but an atrocity that we just called a war which is exactly how Alexandria operated with collecting souls
Referring to a mediocre breakfast restaurant as your culture and heritage is one of the whitest things I've ever read.
Snoop went from Gin & Juice to whining about a lesbian kiss in a Pixar movie. Imagine surviving decades of censorship, police harassment, and being labeled a “threat to society”… only to turn around and fear visibility for others who’ve been marginalized just like you.
The content creators on ffxiv will work tirelessly to frame everything about this game as a negative until they’ve turned everyone off from it.
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
In addition to being morally abhorrent, this plan relies on trendy magical technology. It’s one step away from relocating Gazans to the blockchain. Gift link: wapo.st/4g2eATo
My point below, put better than I could.
Will this plan fail, and fail easily, if enough people were to get brave and just not cave? Yes! But you still have to describe the move you think is being made in order to oppose it.