Jim Aldrich🌱

Fake federal government stages fake riot to terrorize a community

The Gen Z revolution flag will wave

I always wondered what Nazis eat to bulk up like that, and now I know

Ah, the environmental magic of AI

I hear King Trump uses a poop camera when he is flying over American cities

Illegally detained for four months!

Corrupt top to bottom, through and through

NO KINGS, NO ICE!

Your usual reminder that the "War on Drugs" has been running for over half a century, has cost directly over a trillion dollars, and as a result illegal narcotics are more easily available in the USA and every other major economy than they ever were before.

A few points on Trump and Hegseth and everyone else who murdered Colombian fishermen on a Colombian boat in Colombian territorial waters:

1. Colombia has jurisdiction.
2. There is no statute of limitations for murder.
3. Colombia has an extradition treaty with the US.

Is Greenland next?

The anti-vax, anti-public health dark money group, The Brownstone Institute, is on BlueSky as of yesterday.

It joined up the same day Politico revealed that its founders had allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior at their workplace: the American Institute for Economic Research.

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia joins growing DOGE team under Elon Musk Joe Gebbia is the latest tech guru to join Elon Musk's growing team of staffers within DOGE.

This is how capital consolidates state power all while getting tax breaks, the return on investment

Sequoia figures like Maguire & Gebbia blur lines between private wealth & public governance allowing the admin to normalize hate speech through appointments.

Gebbia is also a Tesla board member. 8/

Tweet from powerful Silicon Valley VC exec. fuels anti-Muslim hate in NYC mayoral election Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, posted on X about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani saying "Mamdani comes from a culture that lies about everything. It's literally a virtue to lie...

Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire donated $300,000 to Donald Trump and has spread Islamophobic rhetoric online including a tweet about NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani claiming he “comes from a culture that lies about everything.” 5/

Open The Hague and get it ready for some trials

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

Shouting match. Cursing.

And this ⤵️

Trump "adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own statements about Russia’s weaknesses..

"Trump told Zelenskyy that Putin had told him the conflict was a 'special operation, not even a war.'”

www.ft.com/content/7960...

How To Dismantle A Dictatorship by Heather Marsh What does it take to fight against a much greater power? To overthrow the untouchable without destroying everything you live for? It takes deliberate and unfaltering action and a calculated strateg…

How To Dismantle A Dictatorship by Heather Marsh

Again, it all should have been stopped the instant he started openly monetizing his hotel blocks from the White House & sending his children to represent the United States Of America at international meetings. But we decided none of the laws, rules, or norms apply this One Special Boy 🤷‍♂️

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

any prosecutor or agent will tell you,reneging on a deal with informants is a disaster for ongoing cases, plus incredibly shabby.

“The deal is a deep betrayal of U.S. law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members.”

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In Illinois, a Private Prison Company’s Long Trail of Deaths and High-Dollar Contracts This year, Illinois again picked Wexford Health Services for prison health care despite longstanding claims of neglect. A judge has since extended court monitoring of prisons.

Michael Broadway died from an asthma attack on a scorching day inside an Illinois prison. Witnesses said a nurse didn't want to climb the stairs to his cell.

A friend in a nearby cell put it plainly: “staff in these prisons DO NOT see us as human beings.”

Israel and Hamas, both exhausted from 2 years of heavy warfare with few breaks, decided they’d like to shift their fighting to something less intense, with Hamas shooting at Palestinians more, and Israel doing military occupation and airstrikes.

That is the glorious peace we’ve been told to praise.

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

Good reading here

One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....

The perfect life doesn't exi...

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

So the Dallas ICE shooter was an unemployed, online, loner, gamer dude with no friends who was politically unaligned with any particular ideology except the white male internet brain rot.

Working on the script for a Better Offline special episode going out Monday with the newsletter, and having a lot of fun in it. It's a truly different podcast about the newsletter story, and my feelings about the state of the AI bubble.

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