@mikejason.bsky.social
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Live your life so you don't make an Epstein Strategy Dinner guest list.
06.08.2025 11:39 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Amen.
Summarized here. By me.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This doesn't sell cars, kids.
06.08.2025 10:35 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0But also make sure we drive through the hardest route, because we also need to top off CLIII on the way at the enemy's depot.
06.08.2025 10:33 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
05.08.2025 22:54 β π 17863 π 6714 π¬ 554 π 286Weβve been fumbling the bag for years now.
I donβt remember the exact circumstances, but Apple Photos tells me I made this meme on Demceber 16, 2021.
Sadly it holds up.
Cool cool, we got 4% of DHS' new budget back.
05.08.2025 16:47 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What used to be The Onion headlines are now just normal headlines.
Via @bencollins.bsky.social
Disingenuous and he knows it.
Every society has idiots.
All of them, save ours, make sure they don't have access to weapons of war.
Paintball man still out there grifting.
29.07.2025 07:05 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Would argue US LE does not have the most altruistic orders origin stories and thus might be a logical
Conclusion of their arc.
Their lieutenant was one of my closest friends. Former U.S. army, we grew up together. He led the counterattack to take the building back. And is still angry.
27.07.2025 14:31 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The whole point of the thin blue line hero worship bullshit, is you are actually supposed to throw yourself in danger to serve and protect us.
We all know from the first day of LE training with grifters like Grossman, that this is a lie, and it's all about self preservation first and foremost.
No cheating, show your lock screen
Always the travels.
New favorite artist.
It's never too late.
Whole thread.
22.07.2025 13:08 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I'm loose a year of my life each time I get behind the wheel of my car.
22.07.2025 10:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Maybe. π€ live in Rome which is 100% chaos in comparison. This is downright spacious and orderly.
22.07.2025 10:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Right. Southern law enforcement can be traced to slave catchers. Northern to private security to protect warehouses and shipping. Cynically, it has always been about 'property' first then people, maybe.
22.07.2025 10:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Am becoming obsessed with urban planning in Barcelona.
Basically they abolished many roads and streets to make either mix-use transit areas or amazing public spaces. It's quiet. Shaded. And safe.
I remember reading at some point how the planter class invented slave catching as a way to employ poor whites to support the slave economy they could never afford the partecipate in. Ensuring poor uneducated whites would never find common cause with enslaved people. Still relevant.
21.07.2025 10:09 β π 69 π 11 π¬ 2 π 0ICE pays up to $120K with no education required. Teachers start at $46K, nurses at $68K... and both of these need degrees, licenses, and ongoing training. Doesn't seem fair.
21.07.2025 06:25 β π 156 π 46 π¬ 14 π 1This stuff is radicalizing me.
20.07.2025 11:29 β π 24 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Math.
There is enough wealth to help everyone live with dignity, globally, many times over.
Yeah. That was really meant for the wealthiest part. I agree.
19.07.2025 15:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Call Interpol. This is a murder.
19.07.2025 13:39 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0So not really an AAR at all.
19.07.2025 13:35 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Cities with these bus lanes should fit those Wild West cow plows on the front, and bus drivers should be paid bonuses for how many illegally parked cars they wreck.
19.07.2025 10:51 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Probably so. They was a 37 year old Division commander. Super young and tactically minded. Which sort of worked for the 82nd which would jump and largely fight small squad fights. Can't attest to his operation acumen as they didn't fight like that.
19.07.2025 10:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0