@erikisreal.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."
En dat met Duk aan tafel.
14.10.2025 20:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago. The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.
I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
By the time this is over animal costumes from overseas will have 1000 percent tariffs on them. For βnational securityβ purposes of course.
14.10.2025 15:39 β π 37 π 9 π¬ 2 π 2
John Oliver is good at his job
youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
βWHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!β exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.
12.10.2025 20:01 β π 5133 π 920 π¬ 101 π 14Itβs a special kind of myopic to invoke βthought policeβ for individuals questioning your premise when you have an administration literally erasing history & science and banning the use of βwokeβ words. There is actual ideological warfare being waged by the state. Please remove head from naval.
12.10.2025 20:25 β π 34 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
βThe ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Same energy
10.10.2025 20:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Misschien moet je niet zo melodramatisch over wat men op het internet zegt als je zelf zo uit je panty schiet van mijn opmerking.
bsky.app/profile/basp...
Hoe heeft het Kremlin hier precies last van?
Over het Kremlin gesproken. Jij bent het degene die een dissident gelijk aanvalt.
Een paar maanden geleden had je je schouders nog opgehaald over die waarschuwing van de RvS.
Even een VVD brandje blussen, Bas?
08.10.2025 11:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1Iran-Contra is extremely illuminating as a disanalogy. Iran-Contra was an attempt to do an end-run around Congress' prohibition on funding the Contras. Today, the Trump admin would just fund the Contras and dare anyone to try to enforce the law. bsky.app/profile/whst...
07.10.2025 15:26 β π 351 π 83 π¬ 6 π 3
BIG YIKES
07.10.2025 15:27 β π 845 π 330 π¬ 114 π 34OTD in 2006 journalist & activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead. Whoever is responsible for having her killed is still at large. And turns 73 today.
07.10.2025 07:22 β π 1788 π 437 π¬ 24 π 17This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.
07.10.2025 10:44 β π 6687 π 3157 π¬ 288 π 138So why do dogs canonically chase cats? Luddism. An obsolecent food production technology tries to prevent the adoption of a more sophisticated one.
Dogs vs cats isn't a primal species rivalry: it's a 10,000-year old job demarcation dispute.
If this isn't worthy of a Nobel I don't know what is. 2/2
OMG an amazing thought occurred about dogs, cats and their relationship with humans. Hear me out, hear me out:
Dogs were domesticated over 20,000 years ago to help with hunter-gathering, cats only 10,000 years ago as rodent control for grain stores after the invention of sedentary agriculture. 1/2
this is so weird
06.10.2025 17:22 β π 350 π 50 π¬ 14 π 2Wat gaat hij nat zeg.
Goed doorgevraagd!
We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.
The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.
She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.
the mere mental image of a sundowning man, with control over a nuclear arsenal, being kept in this AI-generated reverie is immensely disturbing to me on a visceral level
05.10.2025 19:54 β π 506 π 83 π¬ 8 π 7The lesson of the Trump era is to stick with your principles. Heβs coming for you anyway, whether you do or not, so you might as well stick to your principles so people donβt laugh at you afterward and you can look yourself in the mirror.
03.10.2025 23:31 β π 1824 π 501 π¬ 33 π 14Political reporters continue to cover the centre-left according to the old standards of honesty and legality while shrugging at the right: "Ah well, you know what these guys are like. What can you do?"
05.10.2025 12:20 β π 500 π 111 π¬ 18 π 2
MAGA star Jack Posobiec says voter fraud is a serious issueβyet he has voted for years in Pennsylvania, despite clearly living in Maryland. slate.com/news-and-pol...
03.10.2025 19:19 β π 1000 π 293 π¬ 51 π 18Never believe right-wing billionaires when they claim they have to silence Trump-critical voices for business reasons.
They can always find a lot of money to support their fellow travelers and advance their ideology.
Ezra Klein is tripping over his beard to record a podcast about how this is his fault for not turning down the temperature enough.
03.10.2025 15:12 β π 137 π 16 π¬ 1 π 0Bari Weiss isn't really a journalist in any meaningful way, she's just a preening troll who excels at flattering power, it's hard to see her succeed to such an extent without feeling like maybe you're the one who's losing their mind
02.10.2025 21:21 β π 437 π 27 π¬ 16 π 6Hugely important perspective from Max.
The EU may not be directly seizing the Russian assets. The link to the Russian bank deposits in Euroclear is political I think.
But the glass is still more than half full - 140 billion in Ukraine funding is as big a deal as it sounds.
Time to post the video where an ex of hers is on a C-SPAN panel with her and calls her a sadist to her face
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAIT...
