Beingsass
@beingsass.bsky.social
There is something wrong with Elon Musk.
Caveat emptor: I re-post a lot.
🚫DM's
Caveat emptor: I re-post a lot.
🚫DM's
Reposted by Beingsass
1/2 Several weeks before he came onto national scene, last summer while Biden was still in the race, I was at a tech conf where Walz gave 40-minute keynote, about the way advanced geospatial data systems were transforming all sectors in Minnesota. Gov, ag, educ, mfr, research, sustainability [cont]
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
1/2 Several weeks before he came onto national scene, last summer while Biden was still in the race, I was at a tech conf where Walz gave 40-minute keynote, about the way advanced geospatial data systems were transforming all sectors in Minnesota. Gov, ag, educ, mfr, research, sustainability [cont]
Reposted by Beingsass
Recommended
I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Recommended
Reposted by Beingsass
“violent fantasy became an obsession, according to former Trump administration officials…“Fucking kill them all,” Trump would say. “An eye for an eye.” Other times he’d snap at his staff: “You just got to kill these people…Other countries do it all the time.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“violent fantasy became an obsession, according to former Trump administration officials…“Fucking kill them all,” Trump would say. “An eye for an eye.” Other times he’d snap at his staff: “You just got to kill these people…Other countries do it all the time.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Reposted by Beingsass
Remember when we had a President that ate ice cream for fun vs THIS deranged cray cray?
Sigh…fun times
Sigh…fun times
“violent fantasy became an obsession, according to former Trump administration officials…“Fucking kill them all,” Trump would say. “An eye for an eye.” Other times he’d snap at his staff: “You just got to kill these people…Other countries do it all the time.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Remember when we had a President that ate ice cream for fun vs THIS deranged cray cray?
Sigh…fun times
Sigh…fun times
Reposted by Beingsass
Trump and a large number of others were exposed as close friends with Jeffrey Epstein and almost certainly participants in child sex trafficking. No one has yet faced any real consequences, unless you count Larry Summers getting course relief at Harvard.
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics
While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.
newrepublic.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Trump and a large number of others were exposed as close friends with Jeffrey Epstein and almost certainly participants in child sex trafficking. No one has yet faced any real consequences, unless you count Larry Summers getting course relief at Harvard.
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
newrepublic.com/article/2015...
Reposted by Beingsass
So, Hegseth illegally ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water. — This is the real reason why Trump & Hegseth absolutely freaked out about the video against illegal orders.
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
So, Hegseth illegally ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water. — This is the real reason why Trump & Hegseth absolutely freaked out about the video against illegal orders.
Reposted by Beingsass
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by Beingsass
"Hard to read" isn't what most authors want people to say about their books. But I really appreciate this. I actually scaled back KATM to make it more readable and was advised to go further but refused. I hope there is some worth to the sheer litany of horrors & the overwhelming evidence
Your book on what was done by the US in Vietnam to Vietnamese people, is still one of the most harrowing and hard to read books I’ve ever read even amongst the others I have that are on other atrocities.
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Hard to read" isn't what most authors want people to say about their books. But I really appreciate this. I actually scaled back KATM to make it more readable and was advised to go further but refused. I hope there is some worth to the sheer litany of horrors & the overwhelming evidence
🧵
The head of Ukraine's presidential office, Yermak, has resigned, following the announcement of searches into his home by anti-corruption bodies as part of Ukraine's largest corruption case.
Yermak is leading Ukraine's negotiators in the most serious peace talks to date.
Yermak is leading Ukraine's negotiators in the most serious peace talks to date.
NEWSFLASH: Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff will leave his position
One of the most influential figures in Zelenskyy’s inner circle and the man leading Ukraine’s negotiators in the peace talks, Andrii Yermak, has resigned following a corruption scandal.
www.counteroffensive.news
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
🧵
Reposted by Beingsass
AI, ‘Populism’ and the Centibillionaire Shangri-La talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ai-po...
AI, ‘Populism’ and the Centibillionaire Shangri-La
A few days ago I was looking at one of the many...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
AI, ‘Populism’ and the Centibillionaire Shangri-La talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ai-po...
Reposted by Beingsass
Melania Trump didn't qualify for an EB-1 visa and was paid for modeling in the U.S. in 1996 while on a tourist visa, which doesn't allow employment. Working on this visa is fraud and also disqualifies her. She also lied about work history on her immigration application,which is NATURALIZATION FRAUD.
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Melania Trump didn't qualify for an EB-1 visa and was paid for modeling in the U.S. in 1996 while on a tourist visa, which doesn't allow employment. Working on this visa is fraud and also disqualifies her. She also lied about work history on her immigration application,which is NATURALIZATION FRAUD.
😎
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
😎
Reposted by Beingsass
On Black Friday when many of us are saying #WeAintBuyingIt, please consider family owned & run businesses & and be intentional! 👉🏽https://intentionalist.com
Here’s where you can spend intentionally in Brooklyn. www.blackownedbrooklyn.com.
Not in Brooklyn? www.buyblack.org
Here’s where you can spend intentionally in Brooklyn. www.blackownedbrooklyn.com.
Not in Brooklyn? www.buyblack.org
Black-Owned Brooklyn
www.blackownedbrooklyn.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
On Black Friday when many of us are saying #WeAintBuyingIt, please consider family owned & run businesses & and be intentional! 👉🏽https://intentionalist.com
Here’s where you can spend intentionally in Brooklyn. www.blackownedbrooklyn.com.
Not in Brooklyn? www.buyblack.org
Here’s where you can spend intentionally in Brooklyn. www.blackownedbrooklyn.com.
Not in Brooklyn? www.buyblack.org
Reposted by Beingsass
Every word—
It’s truly incomprehensible how anyone can support this unhinged misogynistic scumbag who lashes out when he’s forced to face facts.
Yelling at a reporter and calling her stupid, not once but three times, proving once again that Trump is an insecure, thin skinned, bullying little bitch.
Yelling at a reporter and calling her stupid, not once but three times, proving once again that Trump is an insecure, thin skinned, bullying little bitch.
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Every word—
Reposted by Beingsass
Excellent essay.
Why we need to approach this with less judgment and dehumanizing language and a little more humanity.
open.substack.com/pub/kellysca...
open.substack.com/pub/kellysca...
Why we need to understand Rahmanullah Lakanwal
What if we tried to understand why Rahmanullah Lakanwal did what he did instead of dehumanizing him while trying to find someone else to blame?
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Excellent essay.
"There’s no indication that Trump himself has any idea what’s happening on his watch. But key players in Congress, within the administration, and, alas, at the Federal Reserve, are apparently determined to make a 2008 rerun possible."
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Getting Ready to Party Like It’s 2008
Trump’s cronies are undermining financial stability
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"There’s no indication that Trump himself has any idea what’s happening on his watch. But key players in Congress, within the administration, and, alas, at the Federal Reserve, are apparently determined to make a 2008 rerun possible."
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Reposted by Beingsass
Yes.. murder.
Hegseth is a monster in a human body.
Hegseth is a monster in a human body.
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Yes.. murder.
Hegseth is a monster in a human body.
Hegseth is a monster in a human body.
Reposted by Beingsass
Russia writing US policy. For discussion of the implications of this please listen to my conversation with Michael Weiss on Thinking Live:
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Russia writing US policy. For discussion of the implications of this please listen to my conversation with Michael Weiss on Thinking Live:
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
Reposted by Beingsass
'Sellout of the Century': Canada PM Carney Ripped Over Tar Sands Pipeline Deal
'Sellout of the Century': Canada PM Carney Ripped Over Tar Sands Pipeline Deal
“We will use every tool in our toolbox to ensure that this pipeline does not go ahead,” said one First Nations leader after the deal struck between PM Mark Carney and the Conservative premier of Alberta.
www.commondreams.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
'Sellout of the Century': Canada PM Carney Ripped Over Tar Sands Pipeline Deal
Reposted by Beingsass
New Gallup poll shows Trump's approval hit a new low for his second term:
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
news.gallup.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New Gallup poll shows Trump's approval hit a new low for his second term:
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Reposted by Beingsass
It’s not a bias. It’s a transaction. Tens of millions of Ukrainian lives and the remnants of American respectability in exchange for an increase in the private fortunes of a few people.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Thursday defended President Trump’s special envoy against accusations of pro-Kremlin bias.
Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias
The Russian leader called the U.S. special envoy “an intelligent man” who is properly representing his country in peace negotiations.
nyti.ms
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It’s not a bias. It’s a transaction. Tens of millions of Ukrainian lives and the remnants of American respectability in exchange for an increase in the private fortunes of a few people.
Reposted by Beingsass
Reposted by Beingsass
"We are joining Make Amazon Pay to demand the most basic rights: safety, dignity, and the chance to go home alive."
Global Black Friday Strikes Against Amazon Target 'Techno-Authoritarian' Assault on Workers
"We are joining Make Amazon Pay to demand the most basic rights: safety, dignity, and the chance to go home alive," said one Amazon worker from India.
www.commondreams.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"We are joining Make Amazon Pay to demand the most basic rights: safety, dignity, and the chance to go home alive."
Reposted by Beingsass
In four years Stalin made it all the way to Berlin. In four years Putin has made it about five miles.
Putin says it's senseless to sign documents with 'illegitimate' Ukrainian leadership - Reuters
Putin has the brass neck to call the democratically elected Ukrainian‘illegitimate”
Putin has the brass neck to call the democratically elected Ukrainian‘illegitimate”
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In four years Stalin made it all the way to Berlin. In four years Putin has made it about five miles.
Reposted by Beingsass
It’s always either incompetence or corruption. Usually both.
New at the Post, gift version: The rapid advances in hacking attacks using artificial intelligence are catching the U.S. when it has slashed cyber defense, left leadership roles vacant, and left security decisions subject to global dealmaking, current and former officials say. wapo.st/4opI4wW
The U.S. has been cutting cyber defenses as AI boosts attacks
While artificial intelligence powers the offense, defense guidance is spotty and fewer officials are in a position to help fend off hackers and spies.
wapo.st
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It’s always either incompetence or corruption. Usually both.