Brian Dickert

Isn't everyone in the Mainstream Media an enemy of Trump and thus a target from his radical followers?

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

(🧵) I have been working through the latest Epstein Files release, and there are some things I would like to remind people of as a general rule in working with this material.

Harold Ramis didn't intend "Groundhog Day" to be Buddhist, but it's a dharma classic Harold Ramis created an underground Buddhist classic with Groundhog Day. After a chance meeting, Perry Garfinkel ventures to find out what makes him tick.

Harold Ramis didn’t intend “Groundhog Day” to be Buddhist, but it’s a dharma classic
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

MI6 chief: Tech giants are closer to running the world than politicians In first public speech on threats to UK, top spy warns of dangerous power shift amid surge in disinformation

Reupping this: The UK intelligence assessment is that the tech bros are close to their aspiration of running the entire world, and there is little we can do about it. Indeed, the situation does resemble an Ian Fleming novel. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

YouTube video by The Clarks - Topic Dear Prudence

When I was 15 I thought Dear Prudence was an original song by the Pittsburgh band The Clarks #xpncountdown
I was born after The Beatles disbanded.
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The Aurora came to New Mexico again last night.

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New cartoon about (gestures vaguely)

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The Opportunity in Crisis: Charlie Kirk's Assassination and Accelerationism We're standing at a crossroads and we must recognize that means the moment is rife for anything

I can’t tell you what happened with the murder of Charlie Kirk, but there’s a larger issue not being discussed.

In moments of authoritarian crisis, the environment is ripe for accelerationists to inflame tensions for their own purposes.

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The ZIP drive seemed so amazing at the time.

This is what a digital coup looks like “We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “bro...

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Must watch.

YouTube video by Singletrack The Finisher: Jasmin Paris and the Barkley Marathons (Full Documentary)

Watch "The Finisher" here:

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#BM100 #BarkleyMarathons

YouTube video by WIRED History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Terrific, timely explainer from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social via @wired.com

The UN’s World Meteorological Organization announced today that 2024 was the hottest on record and that over the year we faced 151 unprecedented extreme weather events across the globe. We recently shared a guide into visualizing climate data to help clarify the impact of future climate hazards.

YouTube video by Epic Tales The Edge of Possible: A Barkley Marathons Tale (Full Documentary)

While we wait, there is a very enjoyable documentary about last year’s #BM100. It includes that moment between Jared, Gary and Jasmine. Still brings a tear to my eye. youtu.be/uyX4GRm7NeY?...

A tweet from Konstantin Kisin discussing a passage from Alexander Dugin's 1997 book, The Foundations of Geopolitics. The excerpt claims that Russia should create geopolitical disorder in the U.S. by encouraging separatism, ethnic and racial conflicts, and supporting extremist groups to destabilize internal politics while promoting isolationist tendencies in American policy.

All roads lead to Russia.

One Word Describes Trump A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

Perhaps the best way to describe Trump is Patrimonialism. Posted by @petersagal.bsky.social

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YouTube video by NBC News Watch Zelenskyy's Full Address To Congress

Watch the President address Congress.
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How to Understand America's Failure To understand how we got here, a holistic view of world history is required.

📄 NEW: "How to Understand America's Failure"
As the world is left reeling trying to make sense of Friday's disastrous Oval Office ambush, we offer thirteen different lenses that answer the question, "How did we get here?" My latest.
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Wow, the daily ski report for Sugarbush VT, where a certain member of the WH planned to take their family.

The War Trump Chooses That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason

The War Trump Chooses
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America's Darkest Turn The humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office is the logical conclusion of the KGB's strategy to capture and converge with the United States.

📄 NEW: Yesterday's Oval Office ambush of Volodymyr Zelenskyy shocked the world, but it was predictable if you understand Trump as an agent of long-term KGB influence in the name of "peace." A quick summary of how we got here. More to follow.
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Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵

YouTube video by Kyiv Independent US author explains Donald Trump’s Russia, KGB connections

Craig Unger is an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Donald Trump’s connections to Russia’s security services and the Russian mafia stretching all the way back to the 1980s.

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The Logic of Destruction
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Canada Is Taking Trump Seriously and Personally Sometimes sporting events really are bigger than the game itself.

Some good words from Ken Dryden, Canadian hero
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Humans Losing Humanitarianism. What is at stake when we lose soft power in our relationships with the world? Our own Humanity.

Humans Losing Humanitarianism. open.substack.com/pub/kimfoste...

"Recoup the costs" The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine

Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony.
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Appeasement at Munich World Wars, Past and Possible

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
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