So let me get this straight ...
1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil
Coup tactics
It is impossible for anyone younger the 50 to understand how grotesque and unoriginal this is. It’s always the small group of advisors or tactical team.
"What has changed compared to previous oil crises and oil price scares - even the 2021-22 one - is how affordable the clean energy solutions needed to replace oil and gas imports are."
This is the KEY point made by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
There are Alternatives now.
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Venezuela.
Greenland.
Iran.
Now Cuba is “next.”
This isn’t foreign policy, it’s a dangerous pattern of escalation and imperialism. Americans didn’t vote for a President who treats the world like a list of countries to conquer.
AFTER Putin reportedly shared U.S. weapons positions with Iran? How….odd.
Bessent says the Trump admin may now lift sanctions on even more Russian oil to try and reduce oil prices during Trump’s war. This would provide a massive injection of cash to fund Putin’s war machine.
Calling on my fellow white scicomm'ers to do some work here. How many times have you offered career advice to a friend of a friend who's interested in #SciComm? How many of those FoaF's have been privileged in some way?
Consider this my FoaF mentor request: tinyurl.com/vs-mentors
On Fourth Amendment issues, some conservative justices are persuadable, enough to count at least to 5 at least some of the time. Advocates should not abdicate their clients to despair. Tools like this law review article can help.
Some Supreme Court Justices think that viewing the Fourth Amendment as a right to "privacy" is an illegitimate 1960s Warren Court policy invention. But it's not: That language goes back to the beginning, as I showed in this 2022 article. scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...
I’m not an expert, but it seems *very* bad that this tornado is so far north this early in the year and is as strong as it looks in the video 😬
A tornado was confirmed by the National Weather Service in south Michigan (Union City)
Source: www.facebook.com/share/v/188U...
Dominic republic team including Juan Soto, Julio Rodriguez, and Manny Machado
Calling all bluesky baseball sickos!! The WBC is here! (All times PT)
*Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 v Colombia 🇨🇴 3 PM on FS1
*Nicaragua 🇳🇮 v Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 at 4 PM on FS2
*USA 🇺🇸 v. Brazil 🇧🇷 at 5 pm on Fox and Fox Deportes
*Taiwan 🇹🇼 v. Czechia🇨🇿 ar 7 pm on FS2
Come chat! open.substack.com/chat/posts/8...
this whole thing is incredibly insulting to everyone's intelligence, but i'll say, from experience, that if you get a tattoo which might have even the slightest hint of a hidden meaning, every rando who thinks they know anything about tattoos is going to mention something to you about it
I believe it was @golikehellmachine.com who first observed here that if he ever had his shirt off in front of a tattooist while getting his other work done, they would have noticed his Nazi tattoo & engaged him forcefully on the question of why he had it, & whether he wanted to be rid of it
The average voter is not as hyper-informed of every Graham Platner development as people are On Here. In Maine, they go to his rallies, get motivated and love his no-nonsense regular guy shtick.
Many will be surprised when Susan Collins and her Super PACs vaporize him with Nazi ads this summer.
It does terrible fucking things to your mind if you stop getting feedback like "dude what the fuck are you talking about?"
Just look at how literally any billionaire speaks.
In the absence of this feedback which a human would provide, anchoring them in consensus reality, they spin off into the deep end.
And you get people talking like heavily concussed oracles.
These people stop getting the very most basic feedback on whether they are successfully communicating.
"Wait, what the fuck are you talking about? What the hell are you even trying to express here? You're using that word really weird, what the hell do you think it means?"
Have you noticed that people who spend too long chatting with chatbots, stop making any fucking kind of sense?
The reason why is that the bot will never, ever, go "what the fuck are you talking about? What are you even trying to communicate here?"
Page from a late 1970s IBM training manual that says: A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
Tapping the 1970s IBM training manual’s warning again:
I grew up in a blue collar house, had ballet lessons for a while, and knew opera singers. Working people make art!
It's okay if you yourself don't like ballet or opera. My primary concern for both art forms is that they need funding and the artists need support.
It takes many hours to build the artists these arts can show through. We also need to feed the young and developing artists ballets and operas!
Poor lad's in for it and
I am here for it.
I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below
The Vapors were so close back in 1980.
Ships in Gulf declare themselves Chinese to dodge attack
This “becoming Chinese” trend is getting out of hand
If you don't want to give CBS News the clicks, here's the ABC News coverage of Rev. Jesse Jackson's memorial service (Homegoing in the Black church tradition).
www.youtube.com/live/LZQ2CD6...
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This scathing article in New Lines is a pretty good summation of McGurk and his rotten legacy. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”
