“.. of Eastern European history. So the transatlantic alliance for peace, freedom & prosperity’ is revealed to be a sham. Putin and Lukashenko appear at a ceremonial event where it declares the ‘return’ of Narva to the Russian Federation. Xi thinks that ‘Chinese world domination is within reach.’4/4
“.. but Southern European countries are reluctant to fight. Without the US, some Nato states argue, they can’t defend themselves from Russia’s ballistic missiles. Public opinion is against another war w/ Russia. To make it worse, ‘high-ranking Western pols’ keep pointing out the complexity..”3/4
“Meanwhile, a Russian nuclear-armed submarine surfaces in the strait between Greenland and Canada. The US president – unnamed, but presumably Trump in his final year – is happy to let the Russians have their way. Poland, the UK and the Baltics are gung-ho about pushing Russia out of Estonia ..” 2/4
If Russia Wins: A Scenario by Carlo Masala, Atlantic £9.99 “Nato faces a big decision: should it bring forces to repel the attack? And if so, who will die for Narva? A Russian diplomat visits the White House to argue that Washington surely can’t care all that much about a small Estonian town.”1/4
Zelenskyy might be saving our democracy. The mad genius is bombing Russian data centers linked to FAKE NEWS bot farms. Without them, Putin’s midterm influence will accidentally fall from a 30th floor window. I 💙 Ukraine 🇺🇦
The rest of the world is 💯% correct! He’s simply a despicable human being!
this was the conclusion of the Castillan crown while he was literally still fucking alive
fundamentally the kotsko piece on social media remains as correct as always: fundamentally the modes of thought that Xitter (and to a lesser extent, Bluesky) shape are just outright bad for anyone involved in center-left/left-wing politics
Between Natalie Harp and now Zacharia, Trump is surrounding himself with women who believe some very strange things. If a friend told you Democrats are a bunch of “sick pedo cannibals,” you’ve back away slowly and seek professional help for her
A Howard High School student was reportedly hospitalized after an alleged locker room assault. The school has suspended its JV football program, but this could have ended far worse. Strong supervision and safeguards are needed to keep students SAFE and prevent this from happening again.
For profit prisons have always been a criminal enterprise. This isn't new. They always practice on Black Americans first
Was that the deforestation on which a judge ruled he needed permission to cut down more than 80 trees — a ruling months ago? Or was that another deforestation?
“If your first response to hearing of her death is to recall that she once worked for the CIA and at a later date refused to straightforwardly regret that involvement, I have to say that you really need to know more about the CIA and other Cold War intelligence agencies.”4/4
“People who imagine struggle as a thorough process of burning away the full sociality and humanity of our time and place are cultists, not activists.”3/4
“That’s a sub-basement below the most vulgar of vulgar Marxist thinking. Whatever might be valid in that, it either belongs as a point in a much vaster, subtle critique of postwar American liberal-left thinking and activism or as a complex (Ken) of tension around all activism, all left ideology.”2/4
PULLS NO PUNCHES
“If your first response to hearing of her death was to say (or endorse others saying) that Steinem’s major legacy was to distract from proper class analysis, just bench yourself now and save everyone else the effort to ignore you.”1/4
CREDITS: Most of these points were earlier posted on Reddit by someone else: www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...
I see a lot of people sharing this because it's obviously a fun claim to gloat over, but it seems to be pretty clearly untrue.
