Give all US Territories Statehood. 🇺🇦🇹🇼

“May hosts of heroes cluster
That scorn to wear a chain.
And blast the venal sycophants
Who dare our rights betray;
Assert yourselves, yourselves, yourselves
For brave America,”

Oooh oooh I just got a meme for this

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Well played

The @cancivlib.bsky.social, @openmedia.org, and other privacy advocates are speaking out on the dangers of Bill C-22, which invites backdoors to encryption. If you’re Canadian, the Senate needs to hear from you now.

I also think it might be worth House Dems time to look into how Trump judges just kept happening to get assigned a lot of those cases as they worked their way up on appeal.

I mean, it’s not capitalism at all, not just “not exactly capitalism.” It’s the exact opposite of capitalism. Textbook capitalism, for all its flaws, would smash this form of rentierism like a bug.

The thing about capitalism is it’s just a system for allocating resources. We assign a number to a resource and that’s how we decide whether steel should be a car or a coffeemaker. Everything people hate about capitalism exists in communism as well.

When I think about the thirty years war

yes you should let the far-right be an international community of shared ideas and not do any of that yourself. i am very smart politics man. you should look at the scale of the enemy and decide to be smaller in response. please give me another million dollars for my expert consulting advice

And so it seems reasonable to me, if you are someone trying to fend off populist authoritarians in your own country, to want to see them defeated in other countries, even if you are mostly kind of indifferent to the policies of those other countries.

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Did all the people calling for heads to roll read the article or just the headline

This undersells how hard the Judiciary Dems are swinging here

🚨BREAKING: Judiciary Democrats’ report details mounting evidence linking Trump to Epstein’s criminal activities and DOJ’s cover-up; specific accounts involving 11 women provide more evidence of potential sex crimes. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

this hurts you, Shepard

search engines that added AI generated search summaries using shit models that run on page load instead of increasing the model size and having it run on demand instead actively made public perception of AI capabilities more inaccurate

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

If you hate liquid glass, you don't deserve security. IOS security updates are reserved for people with good taste.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

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this is why disclosure is not a selling point, if you're curious

To your point, I think this is advantage of US parties being a coalition rather than a party in the parliamentary sense. There’s no discipline to impose, so attempting maneuvers like abandoning part of the coalition are protracted battles, which are unappealing.

Bluesky should just pin "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." to the top of everyone's feed until people stop fantasizing about nationalization.

Ukrainian students: peace is something we have to fight for Dutch students: peace is something we’re entitled to

If you read the prompt the AI is specifically told to make a treatment plan and do testing so yeah no shit

Fundamentally, Liberalism is the only political philosophy where bodily autonomy is both a core tenet and actually defended; Anarchism/Libertarianism falls down completely on the second point, and the collectivist philosophies (Left and Right) fail on the first.

Why the constant "enshitification" meme won't die is cuz it's in defiance of a fact that the answer to this question is usually "most things"

correct like I've said for days now there are contractual hooks in the current contract (much less what could be renegotiated) that could very easily bring elon to heel on this, without any "nationalize (don't ask me about the legal mechanism)" legal food fight the admin doesn't want to, simple as

Another one among us servicmen post D day that my Grandpa was fond of was how unfortunate it was that all those soldiers had to die on the beaches when the Vichy regime and occupation were clearly days away from collapse, if only they had known that every single Frenchman was in the resistance.

Guy who pled a felony down to a misdemeanor and now sits on the boards of multiple defense technology companies wants you to believe is being honest when he says the U.S. military needs to rapidly buy technology from which he will benefit financially.

"Tanks are worthless in Ukraine!" >Ukraine keeps asking for more armor and using it when they can >Russia is experimenting with APS and add-on armor that can withstand drone waves so they can resume maneuver warfare No one has learned anything from this war, have they?

when you say you're "committed to the bit", do you mean 1 or 0?

I think it’s time to post The Flag again

"Black Hundred publishing house" This is like showing your PhD in applied Nazism