Genuinely upsetting
international relations/democracy/Ukraine - formerly worked in the political risk field. Tufts MALD grad, current MBA student.
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Genuinely upsetting
Rudd Everlasting
Ethnic cleansing.
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
We're trying to bully Japan into taking our LNG, but ... "Fossil fuels generated a record low share of Japan's utility-scale electricity supplies over the first half of 2025, marking an important milestone in the energy transition momentum of one of the world's largest fossil fuel consumers."
“The facility’s director, Connie Schmaljohn, has also been placed on administrative leave, according to the email…. She has more than 200 research publications, and her work has led to several clinical trials of first-of-their-kind vaccines.” www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
Huge
I love this for them
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Speaks volumes about Trump, Kushner & Witkoff Inc's relationship with Netanyahu and Israel, and their intentions regarding the West Bank (Gaza 2.0)
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
👀 👀 👀 Steve Witkoff doesn't read his email, doesn't read intelligence briefings and "isn’t consistently engaged. He will pop in for a visit to Vladimir Putin, say a bunch of stuff, not tell anyone what really happened and then just fuck off to his life again." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this
I’m Graham Platner and I approve this message.
There will be no self reflection or anger at Trump, it will fall on Democrats.
Even if climate crisis did not exist, air pollution deaths, spiking & unpredictable costs, and national security would EACH ON THEIR OWN be sufficient reasons to quit fossil fuels ASAP Yet our media, champion of status quo profiteers, tells the public that it’s clean energy that’s risky
They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.
people love bringing up japan when it comes to deporting immigrants/ creating a homogenous society, but if you bring up japan's anti-gun laws it's "woah woah woah"
Ukraine has currently disrupted 17% of Russia’s oil refining production. If they can get the level to 30%, domestic demand would far exceed supply. That’s when things start to fall apart. (Data by Rochan Consulting)
Of course, the same portion of the US code that bans federal employees from striking bans basically the entire Trump admin from working for the government too. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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It’s 13 days since the Trump-Putin summit and 15 days since Trump vowed “severe consequences” if Putin wasn’t serious about ending the war.
this is another of those stories you need to get on FB in front of your aunts and uncles & things because normal people will get angry about this
Sean Duffy, USDOT secretary, literally quoted here saying that Trump will fix Penn Station the same way that he ended the war in Ukraine. To say that I expect very little good to happen is an understatment.
This is the correct take about the US in late summer, early fall 2025:
This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
not everyone has a clear record, but kennedy did, and every politician/pundit who did this put themselves on a list of people who should be shunned and mocked (because that is all us shitposters can do)
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
"I'm a fearless AMERICAN alpha male and people side-eyeing me at expensive restaurants makes me run for my life."
This is sick freak shit to say and it's alright to point that out
Personally I think wind farms are lovely. Magnificent giants standing against climate change symbols of ingenuity and progress
The Trump administration is running Russian-style active measures…in Greenland www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ugh, this makes me so angry. What a disgrace.
When Denmark, despite holding the rotating EU Presidency, wasn't included in the White House meeting last week, I briefly wondered whether it was because of Greenland, and then thought "No, that would be mad". It comes to something when Putin gets the red carpet & the Danes get US subversion.
RFK Jr. just posted this on his official HHS Instagram account. This is explicitly & unequivocally a proposal for death. Uncountable numbers of people would be harmed by this. All to salve the ego of a tiny man with tiny ideas who overcompensates his shortcomings with vanity.
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
it's certainly easy to think that we could "never" fundamentally alter our electoral systems in this manner, but also change can happen very quickly. (look around you). i hope if we *do* get to rebuild America post-2028 that proportional representation finds its way into the conversation.
NEW Aug. Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats up 8 pts on the U.S. House generic ballot (49-41), Trump at 41% approval (-15). Most voters say gerrymandering is a problem, and support natl law for redistricting commissions and proportional rep'n.🧵 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...
I know US media finds it inappropriate, but "we haven't even discussed the specifics" of security guarantees gives the game away. Supposedly pursuing peace for 8 months, and haven't even talked about a key feature? Either total incompetence, or not really after peace, and should be covered as such.
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
Welker to Lavrov: "Here are the facts. Close to 50,000 civilians have either been killed or injured in this war. Russia has hit maternity wards, churches, schools, hospitals, a kindergarten just this week. So either the Russian military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?"
Detaining a permanent resident - a mother of 4 US citizens- over "a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today" is a "kitchen table" issue - yes? @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social l @schumer.senate.gov / cc @warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov
Yes. Great @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social take. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...
After Putin kills himself in a bunker, negotiate with the stragglers.
The ICETrump Korean Hunters continue their courageous crackdown on immigrant classical musicians, engineers and researchers who are threatening the American way of life by existing and breathing
Thoroughly terrifying story about how the US Justice Department under Trump has fired or demoted more than two dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors, even as the rioters they sent to prison walk free. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...
They ended in unconditional surrender. This would be a $200 question on the jeopardy board.
The Trump admin's attack on renewable energy is economic and environmental self sabotage. www.huffpost.com/entry/climat...
To be fair, I don’t know the relationship between all governors and police, but based on the one between the NYC mayor and the NYPD, this is not one where the mayor seems to have true control.
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
Cops are all MAGA in blue states.
Blood boiling shit
I'm honestly not sure what to do about the media consensus that Democratic politicians are responsible for everything ever said at an obscure academic conference but Republicans are not responsible for the rhetoric of Republican presidents
It's the Gestapo like we said, folks. Trump's mini army. This is what happens in dictatorships.
Okay, 3 days later, an incomplete list of Trump admin policy with direct connections to making electricity more expensive. 1. Passage of the OBBB, which stripped tax credits from wind and solar (wind, solar, batteries are now ~90% of the interconnection queue) www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
I hate everything
Seems like a problem that most every smart liberal and left wing writer, researcher, analyst, and NGO worker I know is unemployed, grossly underpaid, or in a super unstable job, while a bunch of 20 year old Nazis with the talent and expertise of ass hair are getting paid $300K to post on Twitter.
This is America. Where MAGA has more in common with an ISIS mass murderer than fellow LGBTQ+ Americans.
This is a popular message across the political spectrum, and will likely be for the rest of our lives and to our great shame. It’s a collective moral and political failure, top to bottom, that it is
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
Trump's attacks on mail-in voting are less about literally eradicating the practice by next fall than they are about constructing an alternative reality in which aggrieved Republicans attribute every loss to voter fraud, thus justifying their efforts to stamp it out by any means necessary
Tucker Carlson agrees with a guest on his show who says, “It turns out I think the story we got about World War II is all wrong… one can make the argument that we should have sided with Hitler.” Not even trying to hide it.
this is 100% Bezos picked up the phone and said 'I like gerrymandering fucking boost it'
This isn’t ironic or lacking self-awareness. It’s just a vocabulary mistake. She says “immigrants” where she means to say “Pakis.”
There was brief attention during the Iraq War to this problem, but I think I we still don’t know what it looks like to try to have a rules governed international order when the superpower right in the middle of it is a rogue state.
Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened: www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...
Omg, JD Vance getting heckled by people yelling ‘COUCH F*CKER’ as he visits Union Station to survey Trump’s militarization of D.C.
these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...
By electing Trump twice, Americans have "signaled to the world that the US is not reliable," says @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social, "making the world a less stable place." On the pod Nick is great on Trump's sabotaging of the western alliance and on WH lies about it: newrepublic.com/article/1993...
There is always deflection to “they all do it.” I don’t know how you get past the “they are all corrupt,” narrative that is pervasive in American political discourse.
A big problem in fixing this behavior or having public accountability outside of massive settlements (which matter), is that so so many people refuse to believe/acknowledge that Fox News (right wing media in general) acts differently than other other news networks.
Bluesky can tell itself Newsom isn’t getting momentum but he is. That’s a problem that will need to be solved by more than saying “no he isn’t.” He’s showing at least in a comms way how to take on the regime, steal from him just like how we should steal from McConnell and Fox.
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
Some excellent stuff in @politico.eu this morning on what comes after the DC Summit on Ukraine. First up: what on earth do security guarantees actually look like outside NATO format and how practical are they? www.politico.eu/article/ukra...
Grim stuff
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Somehow, as the American university system is reduced to rubble for supposedly harboring antisemitism, our cowed political media has never felt it necessary to raise the point that the VP himself follows some of the most virulent neo-Nazis on the internet and clearly draws inspiration from them.
Top story in NYT—“Zelensky and seven European leaders rushed to Washington for one reason,” said R. Nicholas Burns, a former American ambassador to NATO & China. “They don’t trust Trump’s commitment to a free & independent Ukraine or his mystifying infatuation with Putin & his authoritarian persona”
Good news for the MTA and NYC DOT.
They're trying to convince everyone that building a Dyson Sphere around the solar system is more realistic than increasing the capital gains tax
How are US security guarantees a serious solution? I don’t understand how anyone sees that as enforceable here or the U.S. and Russia as trustworthy enough. This would be a deal done out of desperation by Ukraine.
Not sure Zelenskyy should commit to paying $100bn to the US for security garauntees until he's shopped around and seen if protection is being offered at a more affordable price by other players in the space such as the Cosa Nostra, the Crips or the Triads.
here's clips of Elise Stefanik getting brutally booed at an event today in her district
Whoa, the Queen of Access Journalism has an epiphany at the Trump-Zelenskyy-Euro Leaders presser!
It's not the most important thing at the moment, but I'm so embarrassed for America. To have world leaders concern themselves with symbols of placation for an overgrown manchild. To have the leader of a country fighting for its life thinking about what he wears to the White House.
Pathetic.
This makes me ill
Another big congrats to the New York Times and most of America's professional media for proclaiming Trump's "turn," "changed tone," "shift," "reversal," etc. on the Ukraine war, due to his "frustration with Putin." That's some real inform-the-public, hold-power-accountable journalism you're doing.
So, apparently a new Ukrainian cruise missile has entered the chat. 3,000+ km range, 1,000 kg payload capacity. That's the long-range, heavy-hitter Ukraine has been waiting for. The fact that this leaked today is unlikely to be a coincidence.
It’s just YET ONE MORE example of a standard that applies ONLY to Democrats these days, but the press used to absolutely DEMAND that the president play the role of Mourner in Chief following tragedies and attacks of this nature. But it’s now OK for Trump to pretend they’re not even tragedies.
Whitmer should send the MI National Guard to Columbus.
This behavior is indistinguishable from the worst secret polices of fascist regimes of the 20th century.
No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE. And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.
Politicization of the agencies. I saw another video where the officer said they liked the Proud Boys.
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n... Good thing no one in this Signal-using, bathroom-storing, hotel-printer-using administration would do anything that truly compromised information security like using a private email server.
I have been avoiding news all evening because this was inevitable. Instead, I watched The Foundation on Apple and it makes me look forward to the day we can also create our own blackhole weapon to annihilate ourselves.