Martin Pánek

Jaipur, India (November 2025) #cycling #cyclingempire

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

yup.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

The thing about Milei is that he's a posturing hack, but he's a genuinely smart posturing hack who at least correctly diagnosed many of the issues facing Argentina, which is more than anyone running against him did. The bar is underground here, of course.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Yeah, this man should not be allowed to practice law, and any failure to take away his ability to practice law after all of this would be a part of the end of the rule of law in America.

Something that's not being said. The REASON why Blanche and Bill Essayli are so defiantly violating the Constitution is bc John Roberts said they can't be prosecuted so long as they're following Trump's illegal orders. Blanche's criminality arises DIRECTLY out of Trump v. US.

Europe breathes freer of Russian influence tonight.

what level failson would it be if you lose the election you only got nominated for because your dad is legally barred from running

The complete madness: www.wsj.com/opinion/vikt...

(This actually isn't good, and Brazil has already had some extremely illiberal laws applying to Internet platforms. But there are probably some institutional judicial reforms that could help.)

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

Oh noes not again. Ppl, plz remember to inflate your floof or this will happen

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

I’m not sure the Panopticon is still a relevant metaphor. The point there was that a concealed machinery of surveillance could make everyone behave AS IF surveilled, even though the watchers could only observe a few people at once. We seem to have effectively superceded that technical limitation.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

I really wish more of Silicon Valley would wake up to the fact that the backlash to this is going to be massive and the blast radius will impact many other companies as well.

Frank agrees

"big guys, great asses, tears in their eyes "sir...sir" they pleaded "please take this cognitive test again sir" and what am i going to do refuse have u seen their asses"

Ještěd (1 012 m), Czechia (July 2026) #cesko #czechia #czechiamia

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The White House official accounts are posting Down Syndrome slurs to attack journalists. These people are disgusting and morally depraved.

The school year is at full speed, and so is our Czech team's project Liberty to Schools. 😎 Just this past two weeks, the team hosted five talks in high schools around the country, introducing liberalism and basic economics, and having discussions with students about politics.

Every time Donald Trump says “pretend like I’m on the ballot,” a Republican loses their seat in Congress fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

Gotta say, claiming that "there was no way" for you to anticipate the thing that literally everyone else absolutely knew was going to happen is not exactly a compelling argument. It seems like an argument that you shouldn't be a Senator.

Mayon volcano, the Philippines (January 2025) #cycling #cyclingempire

Oh lawd he browsing

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

Well, this is a new one

“Donald Trump’s treachery was predictable and predicted. Even so, watching him throwing a financial lifeline to Putin as the monstrous mob boss murders Ukrainians is sick-making stuff. The president’s “October Suprise” was a stab in the back.” charliesykes.substack.com/p/russia-rus...

Every Morning is a Good Morning…

I consider myself a fairly compassionate & empathetic person, but the more I read about people in this particular demographic -- wealthy Gen X white men radicalized by social media & group chats -- the more I loathe them. I understand them *too well* to sympathize. They are contemptible & weak.

elon hates it when people overstate claims about their product

Were we primed to believe Elizabeth Holmes because we all had a crush on Gadget in 1989?