So it turns out that Trump sent SEAL Team 6 into North Korea and they killed some civilians and now he can’t possibly understand why Kim Jong-Un is drawing closer to China and Putin. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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So it turns out that Trump sent SEAL Team 6 into North Korea and they killed some civilians and now he can’t possibly understand why Kim Jong-Un is drawing closer to China and Putin. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Yesterday I had the privilege of visiting the Broad Street pump! Sadly, I saw that the pump handle had been removed. I worked to reinstall the pump handle so local residents would not be deprived of this vital resource. So glad to bring some of the latest American public health ingenuity to London!
NEW: Months into the Lebanese government's mandate, the momentum for reform seems to have been derailed. In a new piece, TIMEP nonresident fellow Jean Kassir unpacks some of the key domestic and foreign reasons obstructing progress. Read more: timep.org/2025/09/04/s...
Today, we met and heard the stories of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein. What they revealed is not only the trauma of hundreds of young women, but a cover-up of epic proportions involving the wealthy, the well-connected, and even our own government. We will follow every thread until there is justice.
« What happened to my free press? Sorry! That’s paywalled. » www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
She may very well be a Southerner as well. The worst jibes at Alabama do tend to come from Georgians (including my own family). And they did choose Coach Tommy over Doug Jones.
Even if sadly not outdated, it’s still genius.
There is so much else wrong with the world, but this sums up nicely some of the rot at the core of America and the West. Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Not about to be outdone by Pol Pot
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Mind you, I would prefer a world with an infinite number of languages - but the ones we have left are good enough.
This is cool. So cool. Invention of a universal language based on numbers in 1653. Pedro Bermudo, el español que inventó el lenguaje de Dios en 1653 - elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
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Les écoles de Kung-fu des philosophes Répondez à quelques questions pour savoir à quelle école de philosophie vous appartenez. 😁 www.google.com/url?q=https:...
KING EDWARD Now, messenger, what letters or what news From France? POST My sovereign liege, no letters
Switzerland as well
On avale à pleine gorgée le mensonge qui nous flatte, et l’on boit goutte à goutte une vérité qui nous est amère. Denis Diderot
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
España se ha convertido en un refugio para los norteamericanos que escapan de la deriva autoritaria de Donald Trump. Familias que, sin mirar atrás, han aterrizado con la intención de quedarse. “Queremos un lugar seguro para nuestra familia” social.elpais.com/tcs7f5
America is a reality TV production company that also has a nuclear arsenal
We are pleased to report from the new MAGA Patriotic Bureau of Labor Statistics that thanks to Leader Trump employment is up 10 million jobs for the month of August.”
Speaker Johnson doesn't mind keeping the House in session to cut healthcare for 17 million Americans, but he draws the line at exposing child predators.
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"We prefer to die by airstrike. But not to watch our families die slowly from hunger." The conclusion to The Foreign Gaze started and ended in Gaza; with hunger, malnutrition, and starvation on my mind; with famine on my mind. It's very painful to watch my fears of Israel and its allies fulfilled.
Mike Johnson Would Like You to Know About His Subservience www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...
How can anyone not love this kid??
Really badass graffiti spotted in town
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.
This is an I❤️NY piece in the grand tradition www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/n...
Wenn Dich sein ganzer toxischer Scheiss einfach nicht mehr interessiert 😄😂 Super Headline, @derstandard.at 👏👏😁
Amen
people who think the gvt controls the weather are a faction that is quickly gaining power on the right — and MTG says she's planning to introduce legislation on this soon @davidgilbert.bsky.social & i looked at how these conspiracy theories got supercharged after the tx floods this weekend:
I’m hearing lots of European colleagues and friends who are having their ESTA revoked…
Well, I’m not much of a blocker, but he just earned one big time. Thanks for calling him out .
In this case, the drug seems to work very well for children like Hope. But the clinical trial didn't meet its endpoint. Part of the problem, then, is figuring out HOW it helps and measuring that. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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This is the worst 4th of July in our lives but not in the lifetime of the Republic.
Anyway hope we survive this night love u all goodnight xx
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, I know you are still young, but you are so wise. I am grateful to you and grateful to have you fighting for my country.
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
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Albu(r!)querque is a gritty working class town which has never submitted to the fashions of east coast, Texas, or California elites, but has nevertheless (or perhaps for precisely this reason) remained the dynamo powering New Mexico’s creative and independent culture. Que vivan los burqeños!
All those little girls… spare a thought for Texans
And here we are
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NYT is relying on a racist eugenicist, Jordan Lasker, in a hit piece on Mamdani to try to drive a cultural wedge with Black voters. Annnd it won't work. Just like the "Muslim vs. Jewish" angle won't work. New Yorkers see through the bullshit.
Can you imagine that defense weapons were sitting in Poland waiting to get transferred to Ukraine and got cancelled the other day. Meanwhile, Russia launches an 8 hour attack as the U.S. betrays Ukraine. And FFS can Trump stop calling Putin? Every single time this is the result
Kyiv this morning
People who still talk about Ukraine, I hope u know how much u mean to me
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.
That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved;
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare,
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.
That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved;
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare,
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise;
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.