Russia's plan for the United States • desk russie The goal of the Kremlin, along with that of the high-tech oligarchs, is to create an irreversible situation in the United States by making it ungovernable.

A must‑read: the essay uncovers decades of collusion between Russian intelligence and U.S. techno‑libertarians to spread disinformation that fractures society, paralyzes governance, and undermines NATO—a Moscow strategy to weaken the U.S. from within.

The 73.1% waning gibbous just before midnight.

‘For America's Survival, His Supporters Must Be Ostracized’

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RAND PAUL: “.. When McKinley most famously put tariffs on in 1890, [the GOP] lost 50 percent of their seats in the next election. When [Smoot and Hawley] put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years.”

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love this @rokhanna.bsky.social

We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos

Please share off line as well !!!

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Knowledge is power…

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

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Morning!

I’ve been seeing posts about the emotional and productivity benefits of a social media “fast”, with a minimum recommendation of four days.

I’m thinking that a week, beginning on Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday next Monday is an auspicious day to start that..

Hegseth is losing his temper at Tim Kaine asking him about his Fox colleagues saying he showed up drunk at work, chanted "kill all muslims!" and took co-workers to a strip club.

But at the end of the day, they made their billionaire owner happy. And isn't that what journalism is all about?

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🚨BREAKING: North Carolina trial court DENIES Republican Party motion to throw out 60,000 votes cast in the November 2024. www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...

I understand there’s been a surge in Russian bot activity on Bluesky. A telltale sign of Russian bots is that they ignore the punchline of joke posts and write an earnest response to the joke setup. Please block anyone you see doing this on sight

So true.

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.

See what changes are in store for your county.

By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

I think I prefer this to "Gulf of America"

In the end Trump got away with everything (except the crimes and civil violations he committed in New York). And I don't blame Jack Smith. He did his job. I 100 percent blame Merrick Garland, who frittered away two full years and let Trump walk for stealing classified documents and fomenting a coup.

I fear there is deep truth here.

Why do I fuckeeeng sit here?

Trolls. Ignore them.

TikTok, a private entity, is not bound by the First Amendment. The US government banning TikTok is government abridgment of the First Amendment. The right to free speech can only be abridged by a government entity.

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The events in New Orleans and the Cybertruck explosion strike me as possibly being our nation’s Reichstag event, and used as a justification for some truly unconstitutional activity - elimination of civil rights, habeas corpus, voting rights - could be anything.