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Army Secretary forces West Point to rescind appointment given to Easterly The United States Military Academy abruptly ended the appointment of Jen Easterly to a high-profile academic position in West Point’s Department of Social Sciences, according to a memorandum issued We...

The fact that this was triggered by a far right nutjob who simply posted on X with faux rage says a lot about America's political race to the bottom.
cyberscoop.com/jen-easterly...

Good-bye to Pencil Factory And to the version of Greenpoint that made it possible in the first place.

@charlottetklein.bsky.social on the closing down of Pencil Facrory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This poignant piece makes oddly wistful for post 9/11, pre pandemic NYC, a place we can never return to. www.grubstreet.com/article/penc...

YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway Inside Iran’s Fragile Regime — with Karim Sadjadpour | Prof G Conversations

Very sobering pod with @profgalloway.com &
@ksadjadpour.bsky.social where the latter breaks down the moribund "marg bar Amrika, marg bar Israel" ("death to America, death to Israel") organizing ideology of a doddering Khamenei in #iran youtu.be/6qN2ANdWpd0?...

YouTube video by BBC News Iran launches missiles at US bases in Qatar and Iraq, state media reports | BBC News

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc23...

Testa del Robot Primitivo (primitive robot head), Italian marble at a gallery in Queens, NYC

I don't think Tehran, or Qom for that matter, made a grave "miscalculation" per se but was acting pragmatically re the Oman talks and didn't imagine Bibi would backstab Trump both now and at this scale.

If only this were all one prolonged Gurbansoltan Fool's Day joke we could all collectively laugh about and snap back into normality.

Sometimes it takes starting a war in order to prevent a war.

Guantanamo was never closed as once fleetingly promised leading tp it metastasizing and being repurposed.

Which will have the overnight effect of skyrocketing global oil prices, something Trump does not want for his vote bank.

You have to just love that otherwise unprovoked offensive in the wee hours is somehow termed a defensive measure by some twist of the most basic logic.

My question re: Jordan's "subsidize biased media" bit is what would someone like himself qualify as unbiased media then? Presumably Fox and Newsmax judging by where he often appears. Not sure he's qualified to suss out endemic bias.

Curious whether this will soon be attributed to the Iranians exposing their communications networks in Syria over a prolonged period of time in the same manner as Hezbollah.

Israel's Mossad activated exploding drones smuggled into Iran long before Friday's strikes ***

According to @haaretzcom.bsky.social #Israel had set up a secret drone base inside #Iran borders well ahead of yesterday's offensive. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This Platform Was Supposed to Replace Twitter. It’s Not Going So Well. It has more users than ever. So why does it feel so empty?

Interesting @slate piece by @alexkirshner.com & ‪@nitishpahwa.com‬ re how the adoption of this platform has slowed after the X-odus. Question: why don't major sites like Slate have a Bluesky share button? To share stuff on here is all manual copy & paste (far as I can tell) slate.com/technology/2...

Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference.

But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

Aside from taking out the Supreme Leader, this is a colossal blow to the regime.

Red Scare Revisited with Clay Risen (May Day Special) | The Moynihan Report YouTube video by The Moynihan Report

This convo between @risenc.bsky.social and Michael Moynihan on Risen's book Red Scare is so worth your time for anyone who feels compelled to revisit niche Cold War topics. www.youtube.com/live/sN7bQNn...

Certainly not a proud moment for Erdogan and the TSK in terms of a visual counter narrative.

Interesting to describe those at al-Hol as IDPs rather than detainees but guessing that means families of captured salafi-jihadis in this context.

"mostly obeying traffic signals"? The protestors flying thru Williamsburg en route to the city didn't stop at a single red light or stop sign from what I observed. "healthy"? E-bikes have to be charged via a fossil fuel powered electric grid with a heavy carbon footprint.

Rosenberg: What a new Stalin statue says about Russia's attempt to reshape history A brand new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow.

@bbcstever.bsky.social on the rehabilitation of not only Stalin but of the failed Soviet empire project as whole. Like an aging movie studio out of fresh ideas trying to bank on a tired formulaic franchise: bbc.com/news/videos/...

Why Bruce Springsteen will never stop performing 75-year-old Bruce Springsteen explains why he has no plans to stop touring.

This @thegnshow.bsky.social clip of @brucespringsteen.net is so great www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...

I cannot wait for my next roadtrip to listen to the new @ricksteves.bsky.social audio book about his travels during the tail end of the hippie trail (IE 1978). www.amazon.com/arya/webplay...

This speaks to KH's deep relationship to both Hezbollah proper and the Iranian state.

That's a fair question but I would suggest a no. It's physical distance from northern Europe and proximity to North America I think would exclude it from remaining in the Nordics.

A Nepali friend recently informed me that Sherpas are a distinct Himalayan ethnic group who speak a Tibetic language despite being largely concentrated in Nepal. My whole life I thought the word sherpa was simply a local term in that part of the world for skilled mountaineering guide.

That's my kind of black swan event.

Not even the inmates are running the asylum. It is now as if nobody is.

Though this internecine could be decried as a distraction precisely when the left should be doubling down on unity in the face of rightist tyranny, some sort of major reckoning+ reform needs to happen either way.