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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

Tired: the cia is an agent of covert regime change abroad and that’s bad

Wired: the cia is an agent of covert regime change abroad and that’s not only good but essential to democracy

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

we have to be willing to just fuck with foreign governments in order to promote pro-democracy forces and harm pro-authoritarian forces in those countries

*that's* our actual interest, not whatever faff natsec heads preach about "the rules based order"

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 43m

Even committed conservative Republicans tend to baulk when shown quite a few of the down-ballot candidates Republicans have put up in the last decade or so? Tarring Trump and the people likely to staff his administration with the same brush should have been a priority?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2h

My belief is that Kamala would have won last year if they’d let Tim Walz keep calling Vance and Trump “weird.” But the professional Dem consultant class closed off the one attack that actually resonated with voters.

Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 2h

Endlessly attacking Trump as depraved and support for him as a form of moral failure actually made people stop supporting him. Shame and disgust are very powerful weapons.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 4h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 47m

Turned up at Confucius Institutes at his University dressed in Hazmat suits for a stunt, kind of thing.

Otherwise known for being downright weird in a vaguely predatory way, and trying desperately to suck up to the cool kids.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 2h

“dressing up as animals is insulting, this is war” is kind of a particularly bad complaint for Portland because they’ve been doing black bloc streetfighting shit for like, years at this point and the feds clearly aren’t scared to come back. might as well give “embarrass them” a shot.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2h

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 2h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Aide: Sir the protesters have started dressing up as kid rock. ICE doesn’t know what to do.
Boss: I was afraid of this.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 54m

Suharto's former son-in-law, too.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1h

Subianto is the original stop the steal guy lol, he refused to accept he lost in both 2014 and 2019.

Also did war crimes during the genocidal Indonesian occupation of East Timor and in the suppression of anti-Suharto protests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1h

Lmao

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12h

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

the thing that annoys me about the 'elections won't save us' shit is that it's just a permission structure to wait for a powerful national social movement, and in their want a violent one, that *will never fucking exist*.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12h

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1h

What really also annoys me is there’s also a variant of this that seem to think that there’s some magic secret trick the national movement will play that will solve politics, possibly forever, that somehow isn’t also mass violence.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

the thing that annoys me about the 'elections won't save us' shit is that it's just a permission structure to wait for a powerful national social movement, and in their want a violent one, that *will never fucking exist*.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 9h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o....

It'll be fun to see how radio and TV reporters report on the protests in Madagascar, particularly considering just how very long the names of a lot of their politicians seem to be.

Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit

Elite Capsat unit that played a major role in Andry Rajoelina’s rise to presidency joined gen Z protests against corruption

www.theguardian.com

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 9h

Full Deepak Chopra?

Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 9h

Is he wearing a television?

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 9h

Manchester United Zdravkov-Levidzhov

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 9h

There's a Nixon-in-China element with Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Qatar, and the West Bank as the Bangladeshs/East Pakistans?

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 9h

I think my anti-Trump cred is pretty firm, but this is not consonant with the facts. I can both credit his team for this one thing and still insist he has to be stopped as a threat to democracy.

Jim Fleming @cinemajim.bsky.social · 10h

I'll never give him credit for anything. This is about Gaza-Lago. He couldn't negotiate his way out of a shallow bath.

Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 9h

Some are a bit too Horthy for that? Sorry, haughty?

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

the foreign policy of the united states during the gaza war should have been to cause the collapse of netanyahu's government by any means which were expedient

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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Rhys Needham @rhysneedham.bsky.social · 9h

War While On Drugs?

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not exactly sure Elon is the guy I'd want to take advice from regarding "the war on drugs" in San Francisco.

On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

I really can’t imagine a more ideal scenario for anti-Trump politicians than MAGA spending a week explicitly turning the size of the 10/18 protests into a referendum on MAGA and Trump, while simultaneously making the protests the center of media attention. They are setting themselves up for disaster

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

they’re scared fucking shitless of this weekend, or, at the least, are scared fucking shitless of trump seeing it on the television

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social · 10h

What’s going on with the Trump handshakes at this meeting? It’s like he is weirdly jerking other world leaders closer to him. One after another.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10h

Trump to delegate from UAE: They got a lot of cash, unlimited cash

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