Raven Onthill
@ravenonthill.bsky.social
Just a dilettante amateur political science bird who lives in the US Pacific Northwest. If you want to know what I think, try my blogs at adviceunasked.blogspot.com and shinycroak.blogspot.com.
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We have made a war criminal Secretary of Defense.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
We have made a war criminal Secretary of Defense.
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Journalists need new norms for verbal abuse during pressers. The standard advice is not to respond, and I can say from personal experience, that's usually a good idea. But it's different when it's the president routinely degrading the press on national TV, it degrades the whole profession.
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Journalists need new norms for verbal abuse during pressers. The standard advice is not to respond, and I can say from personal experience, that's usually a good idea. But it's different when it's the president routinely degrading the press on national TV, it degrades the whole profession.
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But just because the President, or the SecDef with authority delegated by the President, approves a strike, it DOES NOT MAKE THAT STRIKE LAWFUL!!!!!! 18 & end/
November 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
But just because the President, or the SecDef with authority delegated by the President, approves a strike, it DOES NOT MAKE THAT STRIKE LAWFUL!!!!!! 18 & end/
Congress and the Supreme Court are complicit. I don't expect Trump to repent. I don't expect Stephen Miller to repent. But Republican Congress members are not all sociopaths; do they really expect there will be no accounting? What do the Six on the Supreme Court say to their confessors?
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Congress and the Supreme Court are complicit. I don't expect Trump to repent. I don't expect Stephen Miller to repent. But Republican Congress members are not all sociopaths; do they really expect there will be no accounting? What do the Six on the Supreme Court say to their confessors?
Holy shit!
Also, if the BBC is right about the timeline of Lakanwal's life, then the CIA used him as a child soldier.
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Holy shit!
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AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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his own viziers mostly studiously ignore him while trying to stab each other in the back these days
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
his own viziers mostly studiously ignore him while trying to stab each other in the back these days
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Of course Witkoff doesn’t buy the Kremlin narrative. He sells it.
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 8:21 PM
Of course Witkoff doesn’t buy the Kremlin narrative. He sells it.
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Apologies. Didn't alt-text it. Here we go.
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Apologies. Didn't alt-text it. Here we go.
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To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
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an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake
They will get around to exiling native-born citizens, you know. Naturalized citizens are only a step on the way.
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
They will get around to exiling native-born citizens, you know. Naturalized citizens are only a step on the way.
Well we certainly can't assimilate Stephen Miller.
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Well we certainly can't assimilate Stephen Miller.
How does one account for slavery as an externality in economics? Or just really hideous labor conditions? If your externality is pollution at least you can measure that but I don't know a metric for human bondage. Or do we instead treat it as a mathematical singularity, an infinite negative, and
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
How does one account for slavery as an externality in economics? Or just really hideous labor conditions? If your externality is pollution at least you can measure that but I don't know a metric for human bondage. Or do we instead treat it as a mathematical singularity, an infinite negative, and
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I want to make an important point here: assessing strategic, operational, and tactical success in a campaign is both easy and exceedingly hard at the same time. It's easy because one is basically counting things. 1/
Putin told reporters that the fighting will end when Ukrainian forces withdraw from the territories they currently hold.
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I want to make an important point here: assessing strategic, operational, and tactical success in a campaign is both easy and exceedingly hard at the same time. It's easy because one is basically counting things. 1/
Make Asthma Great Again.
After Hochul’s administration agreed, a federal judge finalized a deal last week that will likely suspend New York’s all-electric building law for at least a year.
Just a few weeks earlier, the state argued that delaying the gas ban would cause “irreparable harm."
Just a few weeks earlier, the state argued that delaying the gas ban would cause “irreparable harm."
Why Did Hochul Back Down on New York's Gas Ban?
Just last month, the state argued in court that it couldn’t halt the all-electric buildings law even if it wanted to. Then it abruptly changed course.
nysfocus.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Make Asthma Great Again.
"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress!"—John Adams in the play *1776* (The historical Adams never said it)
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever ratcheted up his objections to the European Commission’s plan to use some €140 billion of frozen Russian assets held in Brussels to bolster Ukraine — dashing EU hopes of a breakthrough on mobilizing the assets.
Belgium’s Bart De Wever dials up opposition to Russian frozen assets deal
The prime minister’s strongly worded intervention dashes EU hopes that a breakthrough on sending assets held in Belgium to Ukraine could be imminent.
www.politico.eu
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress!"—John Adams in the play *1776* (The historical Adams never said it)
Why are all the Congressional Republicans so spineless? Do they truly not understand that they are complicit in crimes against humanity as well as crimes against US law?
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Why are all the Congressional Republicans so spineless? Do they truly not understand that they are complicit in crimes against humanity as well as crimes against US law?
How did this slip through the editorial process?
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
How did this slip through the editorial process?
OMG. US troops on the ground?
“Land action” 🧐🤷♂️🤦♂️
President Donald Trump suggested that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes on land will be starting "very soon." https://cnn.it/487SPPL
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM
OMG. US troops on the ground?
The First Amendment is a local ordinance.
The lengths the British government will go to please the Israeli government.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Sally Rooney books may be pulled from UK, court told
Normal People author Sally Rooney's books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to "uncertainty" caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the British High ...
www.rte.ie
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The First Amendment is a local ordinance.
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slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
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This is too much Gender I don't think we can handle this rn
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is too much Gender I don't think we can handle this rn
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To brethren from US, land of my birth: Happy Thanksgiving.
Give thanks. And pray for your compatriots, especially those w no home to go to tonight. My sibling is one of those.
Why, how, doesn’t matter today.
Despite all, you can choose a better, kinder, more just future for all.
Do it. FFS.
Give thanks. And pray for your compatriots, especially those w no home to go to tonight. My sibling is one of those.
Why, how, doesn’t matter today.
Despite all, you can choose a better, kinder, more just future for all.
Do it. FFS.
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
To brethren from US, land of my birth: Happy Thanksgiving.
Give thanks. And pray for your compatriots, especially those w no home to go to tonight. My sibling is one of those.
Why, how, doesn’t matter today.
Despite all, you can choose a better, kinder, more just future for all.
Do it. FFS.
Give thanks. And pray for your compatriots, especially those w no home to go to tonight. My sibling is one of those.
Why, how, doesn’t matter today.
Despite all, you can choose a better, kinder, more just future for all.
Do it. FFS.