@msdobalina.bsky.social
Biding my time 'til I unplug Peter Thiel's cryochamber.
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If I am any country in the world right now (except Russia), I am looking at the US like a box that fell out of a truck driving in front of me that is marked "TNT."
Pulitzer worthy:
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Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones.
The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.
The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.
December 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones.
The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.
The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.
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Reposting this thread in response to a mass shooting at my Alma mater, a shooting that took place in a building where I used to write papers in the computer lab back in the 80s.
Duke has an amazing repository of the nation's historical gun laws...hundreds of laws which, if today's 2nd Amendment fundamentalists are to be believed, were 100% unconstitutional...and yet, no one seemed to notice that until the last 50 years or so. firearmslaw.duke.edu/repository-o...
Repository of Historical Gun Laws | Duke Center for Firearms Law
firearmslaw.duke.edu
December 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Reposting this thread in response to a mass shooting at my Alma mater, a shooting that took place in a building where I used to write papers in the computer lab back in the 80s.
What a vomitous American achievement:
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
What a vomitous American achievement:
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so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
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📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne.
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
December 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne.
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
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wow a guy found a way to be a war profiteer that DC *won't* approve.
Appears the allegations were true
December 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
wow a guy found a way to be a war profiteer that DC *won't* approve.
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It is not lost on anybody that Hungary’s anti-LGBT laws were made under the pretense of “protecting children,” meanwhile horrific evidence is coming out about the Orbán regime covering up actual child abuse.
💥Hungary’s probably most scenic anti-Orbán protest is underway under the banner “Let’s defend our children,” after new details emerged about sexual and physical abuse in the child care system — plus ignorance or cover-ups by authorities. Orbán rival Péter Magyar leads the march of tens of thousands.
December 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It is not lost on anybody that Hungary’s anti-LGBT laws were made under the pretense of “protecting children,” meanwhile horrific evidence is coming out about the Orbán regime covering up actual child abuse.
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I secured funding to build the Skagit County Flood Wall back in 2006.
Even during the catastrophic flooding we saw this week, that same flood wall protected downtown Mount Vernon.
Investments like this save lives and property. We need more, not less.
Even during the catastrophic flooding we saw this week, that same flood wall protected downtown Mount Vernon.
Investments like this save lives and property. We need more, not less.
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I secured funding to build the Skagit County Flood Wall back in 2006.
Even during the catastrophic flooding we saw this week, that same flood wall protected downtown Mount Vernon.
Investments like this save lives and property. We need more, not less.
Even during the catastrophic flooding we saw this week, that same flood wall protected downtown Mount Vernon.
Investments like this save lives and property. We need more, not less.
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“This is an agency that demonizes immigrants who have committed no crimes yet it fails to police its own ranks. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, & the threat to public safety is clear.”
This ⤵️ is who is behind the mask, grabbing people off the street.
www.citybeat.com/news/cincinn...
This ⤵️ is who is behind the mask, grabbing people off the street.
www.citybeat.com/news/cincinn...
Cincinnati ICE Leader Accused of Strangling Woman Held on $400k Bond
Prosecutors say the award-winning ICE agent has a history of domestic violence reports as DHS places him on suspension.
www.citybeat.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“This is an agency that demonizes immigrants who have committed no crimes yet it fails to police its own ranks. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, & the threat to public safety is clear.”
This ⤵️ is who is behind the mask, grabbing people off the street.
www.citybeat.com/news/cincinn...
This ⤵️ is who is behind the mask, grabbing people off the street.
www.citybeat.com/news/cincinn...
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No cherry-picking. No party filter. Just receipts.
And a lot of powerful men are terrified right now.
KASIE HUNT: “Do you have pictures of people engaged in sexual acts as part of this?”
REP. SUBRAMANYAM: “Yes, there are people engaged in sexual acts.”
@repsuhas.bsky.social
And a lot of powerful men are terrified right now.
KASIE HUNT: “Do you have pictures of people engaged in sexual acts as part of this?”
REP. SUBRAMANYAM: “Yes, there are people engaged in sexual acts.”
@repsuhas.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
No cherry-picking. No party filter. Just receipts.
And a lot of powerful men are terrified right now.
KASIE HUNT: “Do you have pictures of people engaged in sexual acts as part of this?”
REP. SUBRAMANYAM: “Yes, there are people engaged in sexual acts.”
@repsuhas.bsky.social
And a lot of powerful men are terrified right now.
KASIE HUNT: “Do you have pictures of people engaged in sexual acts as part of this?”
REP. SUBRAMANYAM: “Yes, there are people engaged in sexual acts.”
@repsuhas.bsky.social
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Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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Bloody hell, the SEC’s Caroline Crenshaw is not leaving the organisation quietly.
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Bloody hell, the SEC’s Caroline Crenshaw is not leaving the organisation quietly.
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...
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To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
Every generation of conservative women have to learn this anew. They could save themselves some heartache & betrayal by reading books written by authors who aren't conservative handmaidens.
December 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Every generation of conservative women have to learn this anew. They could save themselves some heartache & betrayal by reading books written by authors who aren't conservative handmaidens.
Someone deeply corrupt and confident they'll be welcomed as a Trump™️ OIigarch
News headline: ‘Trump Gold Card’ launches, offering expedited immigration pathway with a US$1 million fee
Why would anyone pay that amount of money to immigrate to a dysfunctional country like the United States?
Why would anyone pay that amount of money to immigrate to a dysfunctional country like the United States?
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Someone deeply corrupt and confident they'll be welcomed as a Trump™️ OIigarch
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404 Media zine has apparently outsold American Canto. Help continue that trend here:
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Presale: ICE Surveillance Zine
**THIS ITEM WILL SHIP IN MID JANUARY** We are making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology. It is 16 pages and printed on a risogra...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
404 Media zine has apparently outsold American Canto. Help continue that trend here:
404media.myshopify.com/products/pre...
www.404media.co/behind-the-b...
404media.myshopify.com/products/pre...
www.404media.co/behind-the-b...
This provides an excellent vantage point for [sweeping gesture]
"But I’m trying to give a sense of the mix of insider trading and profiteering that was involved and the bizarre ways that sovereignty and private companies were mixing together."
"But I’m trying to give a sense of the mix of insider trading and profiteering that was involved and the bizarre ways that sovereignty and private companies were mixing together."
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators
I got a fascinating array of responses to my Tuesday post about...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This provides an excellent vantage point for [sweeping gesture]
"But I’m trying to give a sense of the mix of insider trading and profiteering that was involved and the bizarre ways that sovereignty and private companies were mixing together."
"But I’m trying to give a sense of the mix of insider trading and profiteering that was involved and the bizarre ways that sovereignty and private companies were mixing together."
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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This piece by @erohealthcomms.com from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social shares a personal story of the catastrophe arising from Congress refusing to acknowledge the true impact of ignoring the enormous problem of expiring ACA subsidies.
The Business of Health Insurance in America | Defend Public Health
Because the Congress has not acted to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, millions of Americans are about to be hit with massive increases in health insurance premiums -- unless Congress shifts cour...
www.defendpublichealth.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This piece by @erohealthcomms.com from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social shares a personal story of the catastrophe arising from Congress refusing to acknowledge the true impact of ignoring the enormous problem of expiring ACA subsidies.
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1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
Why isn't our Navy commandeering these vessels?
An investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List found that Saudi Arabia joined the countries importing grain directly from a sanctioned port in occupied Crimea. Meanwhile Russia attempts to secure recognition of the Ukrainian territory via a US-led peace plan. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
Russia’s Smuggled Grain Finds New Market in Saudi Arabia - bellingcat
New grain route identified from sanctioned Crimean port that Russia is eyeing in latest peace deal.
www.bellingcat.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Why isn't our Navy commandeering these vessels?
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NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions.
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions.
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
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Thank you to the 18 Senate Democrats who voted against advancing the National Defense Authorization Act, with its bloated, unchecked military spending, lack of safeguards against Trump's warmongering, and harmful anti-trans policy riders.
December 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Thank you to the 18 Senate Democrats who voted against advancing the National Defense Authorization Act, with its bloated, unchecked military spending, lack of safeguards against Trump's warmongering, and harmful anti-trans policy riders.