Wendell Albright
@wendella.bsky.social
Diplomatic dude. I know a little about international economics. I once explained the electoral college on Mongolian TV. Climate change believes in you. Vaccines are good, actually.
"I could smell the mustard and onions."
"I could smell the mustard and onions."
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Wendell Albright
@wendella.bsky.social
· Jun 10
It's like Asimov's "Nightfall" except instead of the stars driving us insane, it's social media...
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Many years ago, the late Haitian President René Préval told us this would happen if nothing was done to stop American weapons streaming into Haiti.
He was right.
He was right.
Additional U.S. Marines being sent to Haiti to defend the embassy from gang attacks face a grim reality: They're increasingly being targeted by American-made, military-grade firearms.
Gangs wielding American guns await US Marines heading to Haiti
www.stripes.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Many years ago, the late Haitian President René Préval told us this would happen if nothing was done to stop American weapons streaming into Haiti.
He was right.
He was right.
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But my trolls are upset Ukraine attacked an oil tanker that helps fund this.
Rodynske in Donetsk region today looks like a post-apocalyptic world.
November 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
But my trolls are upset Ukraine attacked an oil tanker that helps fund this.
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"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
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I admit the announcement that Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead didn't really hit me that hard, but the news that Tom Stoppard has passed is sad indeed. Rest In Peace.
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I admit the announcement that Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead didn't really hit me that hard, but the news that Tom Stoppard has passed is sad indeed. Rest In Peace.
and he wrote the screenplay for Terry Gilliam's "Brazil", an all-time banger
RIP
RIP
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
and he wrote the screenplay for Terry Gilliam's "Brazil", an all-time banger
RIP
RIP
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Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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My general sense is that my students, like Thoreau, feel overwhelmed by the challenge of just knowing how to be a decent human and to flourish in a world suffused with injustice and indifference. Society is telling them that new technologies will solve all the problems, but the youths are skeptical.
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My general sense is that my students, like Thoreau, feel overwhelmed by the challenge of just knowing how to be a decent human and to flourish in a world suffused with injustice and indifference. Society is telling them that new technologies will solve all the problems, but the youths are skeptical.
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It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
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Black Friday is when the media whips people into a frenzy, then does stories where they scold these horrible frenzied people.
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Black Friday is when the media whips people into a frenzy, then does stories where they scold these horrible frenzied people.
This is a hell of a lede.
"As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to grab all they can, while they can."
"As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to grab all they can, while they can."
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is a hell of a lede.
"As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to grab all they can, while they can."
"As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to grab all they can, while they can."
"The Trump administration’s recent 28-point plan, roundly denounced .. as a “capitulation” to Moscow, actually offered Kyiv a remarkable strategic outcome."
The 'remarkable outcome' is surrendering territory in exchange for no sure help and a future Russian invasion.
This 'analysis' is shitty.
The 'remarkable outcome' is surrendering territory in exchange for no sure help and a future Russian invasion.
This 'analysis' is shitty.
The Russia-Ukraine peace deal is not a loss. Nor is it a victory | Stephen Wertheim
The Russia-Ukraine peace deal is not a loss. Nor is it a victory | Stephen Wertheim
The conflict is neither a clear-cut defeat nor a feel-good victory, but an in-between outcome that contains profound elements of each
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"The Trump administration’s recent 28-point plan, roundly denounced .. as a “capitulation” to Moscow, actually offered Kyiv a remarkable strategic outcome."
The 'remarkable outcome' is surrendering territory in exchange for no sure help and a future Russian invasion.
This 'analysis' is shitty.
The 'remarkable outcome' is surrendering territory in exchange for no sure help and a future Russian invasion.
This 'analysis' is shitty.
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
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The Trump administration’s decision to apply pressure to the most amoral cowardly members of American society, big law firm partners and college administrators, is paying big dividends.
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Trump administration’s decision to apply pressure to the most amoral cowardly members of American society, big law firm partners and college administrators, is paying big dividends.
Siri, show me an industry that does not exist in a sane place
The entrepreneurs who are part of the booming school safety industry face a cruel irony: they are dependent on the uniquely American epidemic of school shootings.
Inside the $4 billion industry built on America's school shooting epidemic
Filmmakers Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari examine a troubling new market.
www.motherjones.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Siri, show me an industry that does not exist in a sane place
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1/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the main focus of the US-Russia peace talks is to get commercial advantage for American companies, and personal benefits for individuals linked to the Trump Administration. European officials are said to be shocked by the plans. ⬇️
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
1/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the main focus of the US-Russia peace talks is to get commercial advantage for American companies, and personal benefits for individuals linked to the Trump Administration. European officials are said to be shocked by the plans. ⬇️
Great piece.
"Reports of patriarchy’s death have always been greatly exaggerated. But so, too, have reports of feminism’s.
...
Because while the misogyny is hard to banish, so is the resistance to it."
www.thecut.com/article/why-...
"Reports of patriarchy’s death have always been greatly exaggerated. But so, too, have reports of feminism’s.
...
Because while the misogyny is hard to banish, so is the resistance to it."
www.thecut.com/article/why-...
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
www.thecut.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Great piece.
"Reports of patriarchy’s death have always been greatly exaggerated. But so, too, have reports of feminism’s.
...
Because while the misogyny is hard to banish, so is the resistance to it."
www.thecut.com/article/why-...
"Reports of patriarchy’s death have always been greatly exaggerated. But so, too, have reports of feminism’s.
...
Because while the misogyny is hard to banish, so is the resistance to it."
www.thecut.com/article/why-...
I wonder how many of those 'damns' were when support something with a 'damn straight'? (And I think it failed to catch 'dafuq', which is understandable)
Still fewer than 8% of my posts have dirty words, that's not fucking bad I'd say.
Still fewer than 8% of my posts have dirty words, that's not fucking bad I'd say.
@wendella.bsky.social has swears! They've used 703 profanities in their last 8,997 posts.
🥇 "fucking" (115 times)
🥈 "hell" (94 times)
🥉 "damn" (87 times)
🥇 "fucking" (115 times)
🥈 "hell" (94 times)
🥉 "damn" (87 times)
November 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wonder how many of those 'damns' were when support something with a 'damn straight'? (And I think it failed to catch 'dafuq', which is understandable)
Still fewer than 8% of my posts have dirty words, that's not fucking bad I'd say.
Still fewer than 8% of my posts have dirty words, that's not fucking bad I'd say.
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Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith:
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith:
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
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EVERY naval officer in EVERY navy learns about this case.
Exactly 80 years ago tomorrow (Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth should be very worried. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
EVERY naval officer in EVERY navy learns about this case.
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Social media influencers are convincing women to forgo prenatal care and give birth with zero access to any medical professional. This is bad.
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Freebirth Influencers are Killing Babies
Transcript: I don’t have children. Human children, that is. I do not want human children, and at this age, I will certainly never give birth to a human child. Because of this, I do not have particu…
skepchick.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Social media influencers are convincing women to forgo prenatal care and give birth with zero access to any medical professional. This is bad.
skepchick.org/2025/11/free...
skepchick.org/2025/11/free...
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
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Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.