Jón Frímann

Pro-war bloggers welcome arrest of Sergey Shoigu’s top deputy as Russia’s Defense Ministry purge continues — Meduza The dismissal of Russia’s longtime Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu in May 2024 was followed by an unprecedented purge of his deputies. Several high-ranking Russian military officials were arrested…

Russia has arrested Ruslan Tsalikov, the fourth deputy of ex-Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu to face corruption charges. Pro-war bloggers are thrilled. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil

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Lebanese parliament extends term by 2 years as Israel intensifies attacks on Lebanon On Monday, lawmakers approved the move after fighting displaced more than half a million people in Lebanon.

Human Rights Watch has accused Israeli forces of using white phosphorus incendiary shells in strikes on residential areas in a Lebanese village in violation of international law. https://to.pbs.org/46RZQDf

A idiot gets advice from idiots.

Europe rallies around Cyprus after Iranian drone hits island French President Emmanuel Macron has visited Cyprus to show support, days after a drone strike hit a British base on the island.

"When Cyprus is attacked, it is Europe that is attacked," French President Emmanuel Macron said after talks with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. "We are bound to one another by strategic partnerships." https://to.pbs.org/4sjUCZL

Really appreciate this from CAJ:

Royal Canadian Air Force Major Discovered on White Supremacist Dating Site The Canadian Anti-Hate Network has identified over 190 Canadian users of a white supremacist dating website, including a Royal Canadian Air Force Major.

Late last year, a white supremacist dating platform was hacked and its users leaked. One of those users is Royal Canadian Air Force Major Tristan Armstrong, who CAHN has linked to thousands of posts made on far-right forums between 2019 and 2024.

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I'm not posting videos for a couple more days.

Things have been a bit worse than I've shared publicly (I'm ok!) so I'm trying to give myself time. I'm also chipping away at a reaction piece that I'll likely publish in a few days.

I'll still be doing my usual livestream tomorrow. :)

Thanks all!!

Attacks on journalists are attacks on democracy.

the thing about the Iranian nomenklatura is they are also extremely corrupt

While senior Trump aides had anticipated some brief surge in oil prices in the first days of the war with Iran, the size and sustainability of the market reaction caught them off guard, people familiar with the internal discussions told CNN. https://cnn.it/4s8p60I

BREAKING: Judge Brann has ejected the new leaders of the NJ U.S. attorney's office, once again finding the Trump administration is illegally attempting to circumvent Senate confirmation.

He says this could result in dismissals of indictments.

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International law is not dead The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order

A very good piece on why the left can't jettison the concept of international law altogether, despite its limitations and structural arrangement which at times has repeatedly legitmized colonialism and might-makes-right.

One of the reasons I keep saying: don’t fund ICE or CPB is the Democrats have to get out of the business of enabling the Republican’s disastrous mistakes. We have this insane agency because George W. Bush ignored a quite evident terrorist attack.

For reference, without AXIS, the earliest that a high-resolution X-ray imaging mission can launch -- the successor to the Chandra X-ray Observatory -- is 2050s or 2060s. 🔭

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural MINNEAPOLIS—Bleeding profusely as he radioed for backup against the uncooperative crowd, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Ken Fischer was reportedly injured Tuesday after making repeated atte...

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural

This is an apartment building in Kharkiv, destroyed by a russian strike on March 7.

​If you zoom in, you can still see the remaining fragments of people's homes and lives: a kitchen stove, a chair, a washing machine... just normal homes. In a single moment, russia stole the lives of 10 people.

We exist in a meme stock economy in case some of you haven’t realized that yet.

Death threats, dangerous packages mailed to me, strangers at my door, everyone in my life was scared. It was humiliating and horrifying and drove me to the darkest place I've ever been in my life. If it wasn't for hours and hours of therapy and personal connection, I wouldn't be here right now.

Stephen Miller, American psycho The Minnesota bloodbath was all his idea. For now, he’s safely in the White House – but one day he could make a very useful scapegoat

In my latest for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social I profile Stephen Miller, the ghoul behind most of the worst cruelties of the trump administration

YouTube video by Karolina Żebrowska We Need To Stop With The "Women Didn't Work" Myth

We Need To Stop With The "Women Didn't Work" Myth youtu.be/4NWL98OiFQc?...

I can't compete with this.

kinda weak reporting by Wired in terms of bsky "positioning itself as a progressive twitter replacement" since the staff on here have been incredibly clear that that's not what they wanted to do and never wanted to do

This is an escalation by DHS.

Six US Citizens and permanent residents are now home after being held over 30 hours at O’Hare, transferred to Broadview, and moved across state lines.

Community pressure got them home. So many more do not have that support.

Team Trump says (and does) all the wrong things as Russia helps Iran during the U.S. war As Russia provides intelligence that could put Americans at risk, the White House responds by easing Russian oil sanctions.

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Whenever VC takes over, the countdown to the thing being ruined begins.

If a Democrat anywhere says something even marginally controversial, Republicans solidify to categorize it as the position of the Democratic Party as a whole, publicize it, and so on.

I sincerely have no idea why Democrats don't do the same about bigotry and religious intolerance by Republicans

Orkuverð til stórfyrirtækja er samkvæmt markaðsverði í Evrópu samkvæmt fréttum.

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Are people sicker now than in 2019?

Civil servants in England are.
Sickness absence rates have *risen by between 12% to 23% across the age groups*.

Are things getting worse?
It certainly looks like it.

This is exactly what we predicted repeat covid infection would do.