CNN is reporting that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social referred to a voter he was meeting as “my man” at a campaign event today, even though the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution has made it illegal to own human beings since 1865 and remains the law in states including New York

The U.S. Must Beware of Taiwan's Reckless Leader William Lai is lurching toward formal independence, which could trigger a catastrophic U.S.-China war, writes Lyle Goldstein.

Look out y'all, straight up CCP propaganda in Time magazine... 🥴🤦

OTD in 1980 West Germany signed what was then largest ever gas deal with USSR. We had just invaded Afghanistan. But our butchery never gets in the way of profits. A message we noted.

Imagine, Germany funding Russian war machine & dismissing warnings about it.

“.. So far this earnings season, for companies beating on EPS, they're underperforming the S&P 500 by 0.35% after reporting results ... that is the worst spread since the fourth quarter of 2020."

- Kev Gordon @dailychartbook.bsky.social

We couldn't find anyone among the 7 million+ No Kings attendees who says they were paid to protest. But X user @crypto4u1488 says each attendee was paid $750 by George Soros and bused in from other states. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US intervention Currency gains sparked by estimated $400mn of US purchases melt away ahead of crucial election for president Javier Milei

Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US intervention on.ft.com/48FKy6a

Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.

"Supremacy is an all-consuming logic on the MAGA right today. Christian supremacy, white supremacy, male supremacy, almost every corner of MAGA is marked by...supremacist logic and a desire to subjugate some other group."

@aselrod.bsky.social theorizes MAGA:
www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

don't care what anyone says, I'm glad I got to witness the unipolar order. to watch a country completely waste its hegemonic status? we will never see anything like it again

This is very, very bad

Acceptable Losses Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.

But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."

www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen

take a moment to really think about how hard Democratic leaders have had to work to somehow be losing to Trump on the issue of corruption

U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says The findings suggest U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.

U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.

www.nbcnews.com/business/con...

Unprecedented corruption

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s family has expanded its business relationship with Binance founder CZ — who spent four months in prison after pleading guilty to anti–money laundering failures and now says he’s asking Trump for a pardon.

"After the Kapp putsch in 1920 the [German] government charged 705 persons with high treason; only one, the police president of Berlin, received a sentence—five years of 'honorary confinement.'"

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 109).

An outstanding interview. Patrick Iber of Dissent Magazine has interviewed the legendary Polish political scientist Adam Przeworski about de-democratisation in the USA, and what lessons he’s gleaned from Chile, Peru & beyond.

Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.

The Ukrainian military—the toughest, most experienced, most adaptable, most successful on the modern battlefield—is beardy old men, women, artists, gamers who can’t deadlift sh*t but can fly a drone into a Russian helicopter rotor

Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory

Donald Trump waxes poetic about his redecoration of the Oval Office. Actually the ornaments are made by a company in Taiwan of polyurethane and have been spray painted gold. He's deluding himself about this, just like everything else.

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.

I just don't know what to say anymore.

Chilling. The Enlightenment was fun while it lasted.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Again, in the hearings last week, Kash claimed this attack took a lot of money and so had to have outside funding.

That's horseshit.

Tyler Robinson allegedly drove his Dodge Challenger 4 hours to Orem, shot Kirk with grand dad's gun, then drove 4 hours home.

He shot Kirk for ~$70.

The central figure in this article is co-chair of the Republican National Committee's Youth Advisory Council, a fact that's never mentioned

It gets worse. Trump is now reportedly looking to replace this career prosecutor with someone who will prosecute the "mortgage fraud" BS more "aggressively."

Translation: He's going to install someone who will bring prosecutions when the facts *don't* warrant it.

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Someone submitted all dystopian scenarios ever written into an LLM and we’re living through the product of that

We don’t talk enough about how American fascism is a blend of authoritarian capitalism, Christian Nationalism, millenarianism, a Freudian death cult, and adoration of the dumbest, cheapest shit you would find stuffed in the closet of a pack rat next to Jeff Gordon commemorative Pepsi cans.