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2026-05-06 11:40:13 UTC

“…there is a strong correlation between right-wing politics and increased mortality — stronger than many of the statistical associations that guide public health policy.”
—Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-will-kill-many-americans
#usa

2026-04-02 04:32:19 UTC

“Shortly before…Trump was set to address the American people on Wednesday night, Iran declared that it would agree to end the war only if there was regime change in the United States.
“The United States is a rogue state led by an unstable ruler,” the Iranian statement read. “Such a madman must not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons.”
The…ultimatum drew…strong support from Greenland, Canada, and the rest of NATO.” (The Borowitz Report)
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/iran-agrees-to-end-war-only-if-there
#satire #trump #usa #iran

2026-03-30 04:38:51 UTC

”I veckan kom ännu en FN-rapport som visar att koncentrationen av koldioxid i atmosfären nu är högre än den har varit på två miljoner år. Jordens alla viktiga klimatindikatorer lyser rött. Det är klaustrofobiskt att leva i en sådan värld. Jordens djävligaste personer och makter tycks ha tagit oss som gisslan och satt oss under ockupation av omoral, idioti och fullskaligt vanvett.”
—Björn Wiman (DN 20260329)
https://www.dn.se/kultur/bjorn-wiman-det-ar-klaustrofobiskt-att-leva-under-ockupation-av-idioter/
#klimat #climate #climatecrisis

2026-03-17 03:15:00 UTC

“The current crisis is not merely a series of unfortunate events; it is the inevitable byproduct of a leadership style that is entirely transactional and woefully unstrategic. … There is a deep-seated, toxic hubris at play here.”
—Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-vs-the-world-trump-is-losing
#trump #usa

2026-03-15 16:58:28 UTC

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“Trump started a war that’s helping Putin, stranding Ukraine, closing global shipping lanes, spiking oil prices to $100 a barrel, and producing no clear exit strategy — and now he’s demanding that the allies he insulted for a year come bail him out.”
—Dean Blundell, BREAKING: Trump is Now "DEMANDING" Former Allies Help With Operation Epstein Fury In Iran
#trump #putin

2026-03-15 16:51:19 UTC

“The same administration that spent the last year calling Europe pathetic, threatening to annex Canada, tariffing allies…, pulling out of every multilateral agreement…, publicly humiliating NATO partners, and treating the rules-based international order like a suggestion box — is now demanding those same countries help escort ships through a strait that’s only closed because Trump and Netanyahu started a war nobody asked for.”
—Dean Blundell
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-is-now-demanding-former
#trump #Netanyahu

2026-03-06 17:02:02 UTC

”This is not a New World Order. This is a No World Order.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The No World Order
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-world-order
#sarahkendzior

2026-03-06 16:40:32 UTC

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”…the guy who humiliated Zelensky on live television needs him now.”
—Dean Blundell, The Guy Who Abandoned Ukraine Is Now Begging Ukraine to Save His War
#trump #iran

2026-03-06 15:59:24 UTC

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”On February 28, 2026, Trump ordered strikes on Iran. He didn’t consult Congress. He didn’t replace the munitions stockpiles that had been depleted by months of prior operations. He didn’t ask whether the United States had enough THAAD interceptors to sustain a retaliatory barrage. His own Chairman of the Joint Chiefs told him five days before the bombs dropped that the stockpile situation posed a “significant risk” to American lives.
He ordered the strikes anyway.”
—Dean Blundell
#trump #iran

2026-03-06 15:58:01 UTC

”Trump spent a year calling Zelensky a grifter, cutting off weapons, and humiliating him on live TV. Now he needs Ukrainian drone experts to clean up his Middle East mess.”
—Dean Blundell, The Guy Who Abandoned Ukraine Is Now Begging Ukraine to Save His War
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/the-guy-who-abandoned-ukraine-is
#trump #iran

2026-03-04 15:59:23 UTC

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”Here’s the context that makes this so spectacularly gross: Altman had publicly supported Anthropic’s red lines. … He named Anthropic’s two exceptions as ones OpenAI shared. He called them the industry's moral floors. Then Anthropic got blacklisted. And within hours, Altman announced a deal.”
—Dean Blundell
#altman #samaltman #openai #cancelchatgpt

2026-03-04 15:53:59 UTC

”Anthropic walked away from “several hundred million dollars in revenue”… because they refused to drop two ethical principles. … AI shouldn’t autonomously decide who dies, and AI shouldn’t be weaponized to surveil the population that built the country it’s supposedly defending. They could have done what OpenAI did. They could have taken the money, added some diplomatic language, and called it a win.”
—Dean Blundell
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/anthropic-the-ai-company-that-told
#anthropic #openai #cancelchatgpt

2026-02-17 15:06:09 UTC

The Late Show interview that CBS blocked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A
#stephencolbert #jamestalarico #cbs #censorship

2026-02-08 05:10:48 UTC

”A young woman's coded diary, buried in the DOJ's 3.5 million file release, names as many as 25 powerful men — and a haunting reference to the president”
—Zev Shakev & Ellie Leonard
https://www.narativ.org/p/decrypted-sweet-16-journal-in-epstein
#trump #epstein #epsteinfiles

2026-02-05 02:58:19 UTC

“The patterns repeat across 38,000 mentions of Trump in the files—far more than the original 5,400 estimate. Women waking up drugged… Victims who later disappeared… Threats against anyone who spoke. … Even Jeffrey Epstein, in emails from 13 years ago, described Trump as “the worst of us. There’s nothing this fucking guy is incapable of.” The question now is whether anyone will investigate.”
—Zev Shalev
https://www.narativ.org/p/buried-bodies-at-two-locations-the
#trump #epstein #epsteinfiles

2026-02-04 13:31:34 UTC

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“Mark Carney broke the Trump influence spell at Davos, and there isn’t a goddamned thing he can do about it. And everyone who matters knows it.”
—Dean Blundell
#markcarney #carney #donaldtrump #trump #davos

2026-02-04 13:30:43 UTC

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“Call it ego. Call it a decline. Call it dementia. Call it a kakistocracy of morons orbiting one dying rapist with the mental and emotional capacity of a 12-year-old.”
—Dean Blundell
#trump

2026-02-04 13:26:53 UTC

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“Here’s the part Trump absolutely did not plan for. After Canada finalized its trade positioning, China sent a blunt message: Interfere with Canada’s trade deals and we will match the pain on the United States — tariffs, retaliation, sanctions if necessary. That’s checkmate.”
—Dean Blundell
#trump #carney #usa #canada #china

2026-02-04 13:21:42 UTC

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“Here’s what actually happened while Trump was yelling. Canada executed an extreme diversification pivot — deliberately reducing exposure to U.S. political instability.”
—Dean Blundell
#trump #usa #carney #canada

2026-02-04 13:21:16 UTC

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“…if Canada thrives without U.S. bullying, Trump’s entire worldview collapses. Which it has.”
—Dean Blundell
#trump #usa #carney #canada

2026-02-04 13:15:51 UTC

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“…Trump congratulated Carney. …saying he wanted to be a “Great Man” like Carney a month ago. Then Davos happened. Suddenly: Carney is “Governor”… It’s the geriatric death rattle of an 80-year-old fascist pedophile whose name is in the Epstein files 38,000 times. … He’s a lazy, dementia riddled pupulist idiot who has ZERO leverage left against Canada other than military invasion.”
—Dean Blundell
#donaldtrump #trump #markcarney #carney #usa #canada

2026-02-04 13:06:31 UTC

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“Trump lost leverage — publicly, globally, and permanently — when Mark Carney pulled his diaper down at Davos… More importantly, it broke Trump’s spell and he knows it.”
—Dean Blundell
#donaldtrump #trump #markcarney #carney

2026-02-04 13:01:38 UTC

“When Donald Trump starts warning 42 million Canadians that China is coming to ban ice hockey while threateing 100% tarrifs on everything Canada sends into the US, you are no longer watching geopolitics. You are watching power drain out of America's moron, rapist, pedophile, felon-in-chief in real time.”
—Dean Blundell
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/trump-is-screaming-about-china-cancelling
#trump #canada

2026-02-02 04:41:30 UTC

“There are more than 5,300 mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files that I have found. Many of those mentions are allegations against the President, most of which are extremely graphic and horrific.”
—Aaron Parnas
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-update-articles-of-impeachment
#trump #epstein

2026-01-31 04:54:28 UTC

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“The…Cybertruck can now be concluded to be a total flop—one of the worst in the history of American automaking. While Musk boasted of a supposed two million preorders, Tesla sold just 39,000…in 2024, and…20,000 in 2025.”
—Ryan Cooper
#cybertruck #tesla #musk

2026-01-31 04:50:54 UTC

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Ten years ago, I would have at least considered a Tesla; now I would not drive one if you paid me to.
—Ryan Cooper
#tesla #musk

2026-01-31 04:45:02 UTC

“Sales are down, yearly revenue is down for the first time ever, and quarterly profits fell by a whopping 61 percent… That gives it a price-to-earnings ratio of 297—a ludicrous figure… The most immediate cause of Tesla’s sales problems is Musk’s political activities. …Musk’s unmasking as a Nazi salute–throwing fascist has obliterated Tesla’s futuristic green-friendly brand. … But Tesla’s problems run much deeper than that.”
—Ryan Cooper
https://prospect.org/2026/01/30/teslas-wile-e-coyote-moment-is-here/
#tesla #musk #elonmusk

2026-01-30 19:50:23 UTC

“The DOJ just abruptly removed a document from today’s Epstein Files release…”
—Ben Meiselas
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/doj-just-deleted-this-document-from
#trump #epstein

2026-01-28 08:51:05 UTC

”…what we have seen is ALL Trump’s fault. … As long as people find…ways to defend Trump personally and exonerate him from the results of his own action, the US is in real trouble. What we are living though is the result of Trump’s actions. He and no one else is ultimately responsible. That must be said loud and clear…”
—Phillips OBrien
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-whitewashing-of-trump
#DonaldTrump #PamBondi #KashPatel #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #PeteHegseth #Trump #Bondi #Patel #Noem #Miller #Hegseth #USA

2026-01-26 12:25:38 UTC

“…the "Elon factor" has transitioned from a marketing asset to a measurable liability… Musk’s…political stances…have triggered a wave of "quiet boycotts" among…European buyers. …Tesla serves as a cautionary tale of how quickly market leadership can erode…”
https://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/article/marketminute-2026-1-20-tesla-shares-stumble-as-european-sales-crater-the-crack-in-the-magnificent-7-armor
#elonmusk #musk #tesla #europe #eu

2026-01-26 07:59:40 UTC

“This morning, administration officials doubled down on their insistence that the killing had been justified. …But Americans are not buying it. They are coalescing around the idea of the American people versus an out-of-control government. …Reports out of Minnesota say that in the face of the terror inflicted on it by federal agents, the people there are even more closely linked together in community solidarity”
—Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 25, 2026
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-25-2026
#trump #minnesota #usa

2026-01-25 04:21:06 UTC

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“Courage is contagious. Carney’s words made a difference. That’s what words do. And it’s why the mass cowardice of America’s rich and entitled and powerful is the real problem America is facing right now. A cowardice that’s being normalised by the enabling actions of other world leaders.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#trump #usa #carney #davos

2026-01-25 04:18:20 UTC

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“In countries under the Iron Curtain, people felt powerless, but they weren’t, that was Havel’s message. And also, Carney’s. The job of power is to make people believe they have no power, but it’s a lie. And it’s the same in Minnesota. …the ordinary people of Minneapolis aren’t. They’re showing what it takes to stand up to power. And this killing only proves it.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#trump #havel #carney #minneapolis #minnesota #usa

2026-01-25 04:10:21 UTC

“What is happening on the streets of Minneapolis is a test. …the intention is to provoke street violence in order for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. … And that’s why…I’m going to highlight Mark Carney’s speech at Davos. …finally there was someone with authority prepared to…defend what we may one day describe as the reality-based order.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/death-squads-execute-second-dissident
#trump #ice #minneapolis #usa #carney #davos

2026-01-24 18:08:40 UTC

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“I do worry that the disregard for sovereignty will lead to a threatened invasion of Canada. If Trump does this, he’ll likely press on two weak points: 1) Alberta right-wing separatists 2) French-speaking separatists. My advice for Canada is the same as for the US: stick together! The more you are split apart, the easier it is to take you over.”
—Sarah Kendzior, A Nation on Thin Ice
#trump #usa #canada #alberta #quebec

2026-01-24 18:06:32 UTC

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“Disregard for sovereignty benefits other Trump partners like the Kremlin as they try to justify their invasion of Ukraine. The goal is an intertwined network of oligarch-run mafia fiefdoms, with, as Carney noted, no post-WWII international order to constrain it.”
—Sarah Kendzior, A Nation on Thin Ice
#trump #russia #ukraine #denmark #greenland

2026-01-24 18:03:37 UTC

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“Many of Trump’s closest advisors seek to weaken the idea of sovereignty to provide a pretext for Israel’s genocides and wars, which are their top priority: far above the welfare of the US. I’m not being speculative…”
—Sarah Kendzior, A Nation on Thin Ice
#trump #israel #usa #genocide #war

2026-01-24 17:59:54 UTC

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”It is important to note that the Greenland plot was devised by lifelong Trump partner Ron Lauder. Lauder is…deeply connected to Netanyahu and Russian/Israeli oligarchs… His brother, Leonard Lauder, was one of the men who arranged for Trump to be sent to the USSR in 1987, along with Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin and future Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin, who…was revealed in 2023 to be an Epstein associate.”
—Sarah Kendzior, A Nation on Thin Ice
#trump #lauder #netanyahu #epstein

2026-01-24 17:50:21 UTC

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”Trump operates as president the same way he did as a “businessman”: he is entrenched in organized crime. His main tactics are bribes, blackmail, and threats. His main weapons are the courts, propaganda outlets, and lawyer fixers and operatives, some of whom will privately threaten to kill you.”
—Sarah Kendzior, A Nation on Thin Ice
#trump

2026-01-24 16:03:14 UTC

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”I don’t think any of us know how we’d act when struggling for survival. There are gray areas, but keeping your moral integrity is crucial, or else your soul dies before your body”
—Sarah Kendzior, A Nation on Thin Ice
#values

2026-01-24 15:57:09 UTC

”[Q]: What did you think of Carney’s speech at Davos? …
SK: It was novel not to be lied to… I’m glad Carney dispensed with the notion of the “rules-based international order.” … My one major critique of the speech is that, while of course the US government is responsible for its actions, those actions are made possible by global oligarchs, mobsters, and plutocrats. … Overall, I found his speech encouraging.”
—Sarah Kendzior, A Nation on Thin Ice
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-nation-on-thin-ice
#carney #trump #usa #davos

2026-01-23 16:04:27 UTC

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“This isn’t over. There is no reason to believe that Trump has learned a lesson. Learning is not something he does. … But Europe has learned a lesson. Appeasing a bully doesn’t work… But standing up to him does work. The question now is whether and when enough influential people here at home will learn the same lesson.”
—Paul Krugman, Trump 0, Europe 1
#trump #usa #europe

2026-01-23 15:59:48 UTC

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“Europe’s initial response to Trump’s trade war—an attempt to appease and flatter him, hoping that it would all go away—surely reinforced Trumpian contempt. But … when Trump threatened to put tariffs on the exports of nations that have sent troops to Greenland, Europe didn’t cower in submission—it got ready to strike back at U.S. businesses. Trump then confirmed the old adage that bullies are also cowards.”
—Paul Krugman, Trump 0, Europe 1
#trump #usa #greenland #europe #eu #tariffs

2026-01-23 15:51:47 UTC

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“Europe has problems, as we all do. But when MAGA types declare that a prosperous continent that in many ways delivers a better life for its citizens than we do is a social and economic hellscape, that says more about them than it does about Europe.”
—Paul Krugman, Trump 0, Europe 1
#trump #usa #europe #maga

2026-01-23 15:48:09 UTC

“The Trump team went to Europe in a state of malign ignorance, exemplified by Trump saying during his Davos harangue that “without us, you’d all be speaking German.” Most Swiss speak … German.”
—Paul Krugman, Trump 0, Europe 1
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-0-europe-1
#trump #usa #europe #davos #worldeconomicforum

2026-01-20 20:11:05 UTC

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“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.”
—Mark Carney, speech to World Economic Forum
#markcarney #worldeconomicforum #davos

2026-01-20 20:01:15 UTC

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“Our view is the middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
—Mark Carney, speech to World Economic Forum
#markcarney #worldeconomicforum #davos

2026-01-20 19:59:29 UTC

“Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. …more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”
—Mark Carney
https://globalnews.ca/news/11620877/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript/
#markcarney #canada on #trump #usa at #worldeconomicforum #davos

2026-01-20 06:55:50 UTC

”We do not want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends. Even if there are minerals and oil under our land…we still would not sell ourselves. We know what happened to Indigenous people in Alaska and Native Americans. … We see who Trump surrounds himself with—white power people—and we are not white. We are people of color. We know our rights would likely be taken away.”
—Tillie Martinussen, Former Greenland MP
#trump #greenland

2026-01-19 23:27:47 UTC

“One thing that now even the most hopeful have to admit, is that the unctuous European tactic of flattering, praising, massaging Trump has been a catastrophic failure and made things worse.”
—Phillips O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at St. Andrews University
#trump #europe #eu

2026-01-19 17:32:42 UTC

“Under Trump, the United States has weaponized tariffs, supply chains, intelligence sharing, and defense dependencies as leverage. Canada has watched as allies were threatened, punished, or coerced—sometimes publicly, sometimes quietly. The core issue now driving Ottawa’s defense reassessment is operational sovereignty.”
—Dean Blundell
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/canada-is-walking-away-from-the-f
#trump #usa #canada #greenland #denmark #nato

2026-01-16 15:24:08 UTC

”Trump’s obsession with the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t new. … He never wanted peace and defiely didnt want to do the work required to be a Nobel Laureate. He wanted the receipt. The Medal. The Trophy. The Physical manifestation of merit he never earned. It’s who he is and who he’s always been, so it’s fitting. A bully and a fraud who leverages and cons people into handing over their achievements to him as if he’s some kind of f****** virus.”
—Dean Blundell
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/the-day-trump-took-someone-elses
#trump #machado

2026-01-16 14:12:06 UTC

”…this National Security Strategy is not really a strategy document. It is a suicide note. If the ideas within it are really used to shape policy, then U.S. influence in the world will rapidly disappear… The consequences will be economic as well as political, and they will be felt by all Americans.”
—Anne Applebaum
https://www.anneapplebaum.com/2025/12/16/the-longest-suicide-note-in-american-history/
#trump #usa #america

2026-01-12 16:19:23 UTC

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”Minnesota was chosen because it’s a stress test: progressive leadership, active civil society, strong protest culture. If repression can be normalized there, it can be normalized anywhere.”
—Dean Blundell, VIDEO: Trump Went To War Against The People Of Minnesota This Weekend — Minneapolis is America’s Kristallnacht
#trump #minneapolis #minnesota #usa

2026-01-12 16:17:08 UTC

”Kristallnacht wasn’t just broken glass. It was the moment a state normalized mob violence in uniform, framed neighbors as criminals, and taught the public to look away while “law and order” did the dirty work. Minnesota checked those boxes.”
—Dean Blundell
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/video-trump-went-to-war-against-the
#trump #minneapolis #minnesota #usa

2026-01-12 04:34:36 UTC

”We have embedded a…US military surveillance company whose founder is a close ally of…Trump into the heart of our military at a moment in which the US is threatening to invade our NATO ally, Greenland. … The level of understanding in UK politics and media about Silicon Valley’s alliance with Trump and the geopolitical and security consequences of this appears to be non-existent.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thiels-new-model-army
#trump #peterthiel #thiel #palantir #usa #unitedkingdom #uk #nato

2026-01-11 20:22:41 UTC

”A sitting U.S. president asked for invasion planning against allied territory. The military refused—on constitutional grounds That refusal may have prevented a geopolitical catastrophe. But it also exposed how close the system is running to its limits. When the most stabilizing force in American democracy is the word no spoken…by generals, the danger isn’t theoretical anymore. …it’s already here.”
—Dean Blundell
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-trumps-top-military-commanders
#trump #usa #denmark #greenland

2026-01-11 02:03:41 UTC

”Everything Trump claims he wants from Greenland could be achieved through cooperation. …and Denmark and Greenland would welcome it. There is no need for threats or invasion. The only explanation for using this approach is that Trump views the world through a lens of dominance, extraction, and conquest, not partnership or strategy.”
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/exclusive-i-just-interviewed-the
#trump #usa #denmark #greenland

2026-01-07 17:48:05 UTC

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“Americans are being pulled into something worse than war. We are being pulled into a global realignment in which our existence is inconvenient. The ruling class doesn’t want to spill my blood: they want to kill my soul and hope that I don’t notice. They want the same for you, whoever you are.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Invaders
#america #usa #oligarchy

2026-01-07 17:43:34 UTC

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“There are no limits and there are no regards. Taking for the sake of taking, abusing for the sake of abusing. Snatching everyone from a random migrant to the president of a sovereign state. Congress asks to be briefed on the illegal action next time round. Eyes wide shut, bank accounts wide open.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Invaders
#trump #usa #congress

2026-01-07 17:40:38 UTC

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“The agenda is oil, but the motive is what it always is: because they can. If no one stops them, they will do it again: to Cuba, to Iran, to Greenland, to outer space.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Invaders
#trump #usa #venezuela #cuba #iran #greenland #denmark

2026-01-07 17:31:51 UTC

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“I prefer the past to the future because I know it’s there.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Invaders

2026-01-07 17:28:24 UTC

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”The media ignored the [Epstein] victims because the media are friends with the predators. They dismissed them until 2025, when media itself crumbled and US institutions abandoned even the pretense of law. Now the predators are purchasing social media outlets, the last bastions of unfiltered inquiry, like they’re plugging leaks on their yachts.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Invaders
#epstein #media #oligarchs #usa

2026-01-07 17:26:14 UTC

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“What goes around comes around — but that’s not really true. What goes around can be destroyed and never seen again. What the oligarchs want most is no one left to tell the story, and no one left to love what once was.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Invaders
#oligarchs #oligarchy

2026-01-07 17:25:39 UTC

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“…the US government and its oligarch partners have decided to rape the land [Venezuela] the old-fashioned way: for oil.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Invaders
#usa #venezuela #oligarchs #oligarchy

2026-01-07 17:24:08 UTC

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”Political frontmen want us subservient to both the oligarchs and their technofascist tools. They will sacrifice humanity and destroy the climate to get there. The latter is not new; the former is. The net of disposability has widened to include everyone but them.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Invaders
#oligarchs #oligarchy

2026-01-07 17:22:53 UTC

”I replay the events of 2025 and how, despite my best efforts, my mind adjusted to the horror, even if my heart never could and never will. I’d rather carry this shattered reliquary in my chest than let it beat blithely to unremitting cruelty. It’s not what I asked for, but it’s what I am, and they’re not taking that away too.”
—Sarah Kendzior, The Invaders
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders
#sarahkendzior #newsletter

2026-01-06 12:29:22 UTC

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“Trump has taken on himself the right to go to war with another country in order to take its oil, and is openly working to destroy the rules-based international order that has stabilized the world since the 1940s. … It is also a profound rejection of the principles of American democracy, a system of checks and balances to channel power into a government that could deliver stability and prosperity to all the people, not just a select few.”
—Heather Cox Richardson
#trump #usa #venezuela

2026-01-06 12:17:59 UTC

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“…five years after the events of Jan…6, 2021, we are learning what it means to have a president who has demonstrated his determination to overthrow our democracy and who does not have to answer to the law. … Trump used emergency powers to ignore the Constitution… When Congress required the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files, the administration largely ignored the law. …Trump is seizing people off the streets and prosecuting his perceived enemies.”
—Heather Cox Richardson
#trump

2026-01-06 08:43:06 UTC

“Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol… The rioters wanted to take away the right at the center of American democracy—our right to determine our own destiny—in order to keep Donald J. Trump in the White House, making sure the power of elite white men could not be challenged. It was no accident that the rioters carried a Confederate battle flag.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, January 5, 2026
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-5-2026-monday
#trump #usa

2026-01-02 16:47:30 UTC

“The Wall Street Journal has dropped reporting that doesn’t just poke holes in Trump’s story—it documents an operational system inside Trump’s own business that sent young women directly into Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit. Not socially. Not accidentally. At work. At Trump’s club. Under Trump’s authority. …Trump trafficked women and young girls to Epstein and others out of Mar-A-Lago for years.”
—Dean Blundell
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/the-wsj-blew-up-trumps-epstein-lieand
#trump #epstein

2025-12-30 06:48:02 UTC

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“We know Putin doesn’t want peace; he wants more of Ukraine. He can’t settle for half a loaf now, after a million casualties, a broken economy, and pariah status for every Russian who wants to play in the villas they have on the Riviera or in condos in London… And we know Netanyahu isn’t going to let up after leveling Gaza and killing tens of thousands of civilians.”
—Lucian K. Truscott IV
#putin #netanyahu #russia #israel

2025-12-30 06:40:27 UTC

“Trump’s meeting with the Ukrainian president was preceded and followed by lengthy conversations with…Putin. … And you’ll never guess what Putin was doing over the Christmas holidays: bombing the living shit out of Kyiv, Odessa, Kharkiv, and every other major population center in Ukraine… It’s what you do when you know peace is going to be on the table… Then…tell Trump how badly you want peace.”
—L. K. Truscott IV
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/back-to-back-nothingburger-meetings
#trump #putin #zelensky #usa #russia #ukraine

2025-11-19 17:38:19 UTC

”Canada and Sweden just formalized a Strategic Partnership that basically says:
• We’re both Arctic nations.
• We’re both NATO allies.
• We care about democracy, the rule of law, and not casually invading our neighbours for content.
• And we’re going to build stuff together instead of just buying American forever.”
—Dean Blundell
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-canada-close-to-deal-with
#canada #sweden

2025-11-03 03:12:46 UTC

”When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking…”
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
#ai #coding #softwaredevelopment

2025-10-28 04:17:34 UTC

”I don’t think the problem is that philosophy is not relevant. I think it’s just that there’s a lot of bad philosophy. You know—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon—these are the intellectual architects of…the current administration in many respects.”
—Matthew David Segall
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/metaphysics-and-theology
#philosophy #peterthiel #elonmusk #stevebannon

2025-10-23 03:56:45 UTC

“Studien har granskat 3 000 AI-genererade nyhetssvar. I 45 procent av svaren fanns det någon form av problem, till exempel felaktiga sammanfattningar, inkorrekta citat och länkar till källor som inte existerar. I flera fall hittade AI-tjänsterna på källor och i ett exempel misstog tjänsten ett satirinslag…och presenterade det som om det var fakta.”
—Torbjörn Ivarsson, Fullt av fel när AI-tjänster refererar nyheter (DN 20251022)
https://www.dn.se/kultur/fullt-av-fel-nar-ai-tjanster-refererar-nyheter/
#ai #artificialintelligence

2025-10-20 17:23:06 UTC

”In yet another indication of the heavy turnout for the No Kings rallies, over 400 of Elon Musk’s children attended the protests… Trump…claimed that the estimated attendance of 7 million “is much lower when you subtract all the people who were there to show their hate for Elon.” … Calling the number of Musk children who despise their father “a sad situation, quite frankly,” he added, “So many of Elon’s kids showed up there was practically no room for Antifa.”
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/over-400-of-elon-musks-children-attended
#satire

2025-10-19 06:53:18 UTC

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“There are no fixed definitions in a mafia state. Law is a plaything… They will label your kindness as treachery and your generosity as terrorism. They will call your compassion a crime.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Inventing Antifa
#antifa #trump #usa

2025-10-19 06:49:57 UTC

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“Pro-freedom folks need an expansive political imagination, one that can anticipate the tyrant’s next move and understand its logic without obeying it.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Inventing Antifa
#antifa #freedom

2025-10-19 06:45:40 UTC

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“When you see someone arrested as “Antifa”, remember … how dictatorships invent nefarious entities to contain people they dislike. Consider how, as authoritarian regimes consolidate, they become more insular and paranoid, and their net widens. Consider how, in an age of digital surveillance, an offhand remark can lead to bracelets behind your back.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Inventing Antifa
#antifa #freedom

2025-10-19 06:40:54 UTC

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“I am not now nor have I ever been a member of “antifa”. I’m not much of a joiner and it’s awful hard to join a thing that’s not there. I’m not a Democrat and I’m not a Republican. I’m a writer and an all-purpose pain in the ass. I am the author of many articles that expose state crimes. I keep them free because I like it when things are free. I like it when people are free too.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Inventing Antifa
#antifa #freedom

2025-10-19 06:37:12 UTC

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“The name “antifa” is short for “anti-fascist”, meaning that those who oppose it are “pro-fascist”, which would seem like a self-own if the Trump administration and its lackeys were not so explicit in embracing fascist tactics and tropes.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Inventing Antifa
#trump #antifa

2025-10-19 06:29:26 UTC

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“Trump decreed he would designate “antifa” as a terrorist organization under RICO. Ironically, the RICO…Act was codified to stop organized crime: including the mobsters from whom Trump took inspiration, most notably Meyer Lansky and Trump’s mentor, mafia lawyer Roy Cohn.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#trump #lansky #cohn

2025-10-19 06:24:30 UTC

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“…Biden never used the word “antifa” to describe the protesters his administration targeted. He couldn’t: he proclaimed he was running to stop fascism in the form of Trump. In reality, he was “reaching across the aisle” to make handshake deals with fascism’s backers.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#antifa #fascism

2025-10-19 06:17:10 UTC

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“I’ve told the story of Akromiya for twenty years. I’m telling it again now, because…I am afraid that “Antifa” is the American Akromiya: a fabricated entity made by state propagandists to persecute anyone who opposes the government.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Inventing Antifa
#antifa #akromiya

2025-10-19 06:10:50 UTC

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“You’re killing your career early,” my PhD advisor wryly noted, a refrain I’d hear for the next twenty years. He wondered if I should have gone easier on Western accomplices of Uzbekistan’s propagandists: the “war on terror” think-tank crowd. I said I’d rather kill my career than do nothing when hundreds of people are killed.
—Sarah Kendzior

2025-10-18 23:36:26 UTC

“In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify a massacre of protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.”
—Sarah Kendzior
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-antifa
#uzbekistan #akromiya #usa #antifa

2025-10-11 06:01:29 UTC

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“This crisis is not our fault: it’s our burden. …we are more likely to find solutions if we are creative, and creativity requires vulnerability and honesty. … We need creative and compassionate ingenuity… Nobody gives you real power. Real power is something you take.”
—Sarah Kendzior
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions
#creativity #honesty #compassion #power

2025-10-11 05:53:21 UTC

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“An underrated strategy of surviving an authoritarian takeover is to seem like an absolute moron who can’t figure out orders well enough to follow them.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#authoritarianism

2025-10-11 05:52:50 UTC

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“Many joined the military purely for money… Shooting random Americans is not what they signed up for. But they may be hesitant to disobey orders and face repercussions.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#usa #military

2025-10-11 04:49:24 UTC

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“The US is the only country in history to allow a seditionist to run unpunished. Even Hitler went to prison in between his putsch and presidency. But “scholars” of American politics have refused to ask why this unique disaster happened here. Their silence on that topic, in itself, is worthy of study. “Scholars” have become influencers, and they shape a culture of surrender.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#usa

2025-10-11 04:46:13 UTC

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“The clearest sign of state failure is not that Trump won the presidency a second time, but that he was allowed to run in the first place. There was no meaningful prosecution for severe crimes committed in plain sight. Instead of stopping criminal elites with well-funded agendas, the Biden admin targeted regular people who showed up on 1/6.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#biden #trump #usa

2025-10-11 04:27:34 UTC

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“As for battles between elites… There are still internal battles for power, as well as mafia turf wars, but oligarch class loyalty trumps all.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#oligarchy

2025-10-11 04:22:58 UTC

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“Trump … is very skilled at propaganda and crime, and he knows which lawyers to use for corrupt bureaucratic initiatives. Their goal of a mafia state is not to serve the public. It’s to serve themselves, and for some, to create a new world order of mass surveillance and brute force. If you evaluate competency on their terms, you’ll get better at locating their weak points, which are not the same as in people who have shame.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#trump #competency

2025-10-11 04:16:18 UTC

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“The consciences of elite officials will not be changed, for they have none. …but members of the military or other institutions told to oppress fellow Americans may be influenced by what they see — which is why the Trump regime is frantically using fake images of destruction and inventing opposition groups from scratch.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#trump #usa

2025-10-11 04:12:07 UTC

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“…the end goal is a digital panopticon run by kleptocrats. What will be done to the US will be done (and is being done) to other countries…”
—Sarah Kendzior
#trump #usa

2025-10-11 04:07:02 UTC

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“I…believe a digital social credit system — which will curtail our freedom of speech and movement as well as our economic rights — is an end goal of Thiel and others. … Try to free yourself from technological dependence in advance. Use browsers instead of apps. … Stop tracking yourself with metrics that can be weaponized by corporations. … Smartphones are the biggest threat, in my view. I’m still a fan of the internet, but smartphones have made the world worse.”
—Sarah Kendzior

2025-10-11 03:59:05 UTC

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“…oligarchs operate at a level of wealth far beyond typical corporate heads and prefer robots to people. We can regain power by building things ourselves: mutual aid or community organizations or independent media or whatever you imagine.”
—Sarah Kendzior
#trump #usa

2025-10-11 03:57:46 UTC

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“There is potential in both boycotts and strikes, but folks need to be very strategic and ensure support systems for striking workers, because the government will treat them as disposable. They may well see strikes or boycotts as doing their dirty work for them…”
—Sarah Kendzior
#trump #usa