Reposted by a new topographyMachu Pikacchu @judet.bsky.social · 15/03/2024The day both Mexico and Ireland declared war on Boston. 61632194
Reposted by a new topographyElla Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 17/03/2024Ford, Netflix, and Tesla paid more to their CEOs between 2018 and 2022 than they paid in taxes.alternet.orgExposed: 35 corporations that pay their execs more than they pay in taxesTop executives at dozens of major, profitable U.S. businesses received more in total compensation in recent years than their companies paid in federal taxes, underscoring the twin outrages of skyrocke... 6561227
Reposted by a new topographyRobert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 17/03/2024Texas school district confirms that a former school board trustee let an Evangelical film crew into a local high school without district permission or parental consent to film and interview students for an upcoming documentary: “God, Jesus, Trump” and the “WOKE agenda” in US schoolswfaa.comWFAA obtains emails and texts surrounding film crew's controversial visit to Keller ISD schoolA parent in the district who has raised concern about the issue said the findings of the open records request weren't surprising. 56027
Reposted by a new topographyMichael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 17/03/2024In July NBC found only 4 high level Trump officials who would endorse him. One of them, Mark Meadows, was up to his ears in the J6 failed coup, and another, Richard Grenell, endorsed German neoNazis while serving as ambassador in Germany. By contrast former defense officials are especially scathing.nbcnews.comDozens served in Trump’s Cabinet. Four say he should be re-elected.Several of Trump's former Cabinet members are coy about whether they support his bid to return to the White House. Others outright oppose it. 115352
Reposted by a new topographyDennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 16/03/2024Alleline after getting Smiley and Control fired 37820
Reposted by a new topographyThe Slides @theslides.bsky.social · 16/03/2024"AFSC 35mm presentation slides," slide 5 of 24 [gallery] 011
Reposted by a new topographyZito @zeets.bsky.social · 15/03/2024We have such an invented idea that cruelty is something done begrudgingly, in spite of someone’s true intentions. I think it works to preserve a kind of innocence for humanity. But it’s really not the reality of power and domination. 1346
Reposted by a new topographyHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Michael Yon accompanied multiple GOP House members on a trip to Latin America and helped Arizona's Rep. Andy Biggs with a doc on the border. He also was at the Capitol on J6, wrote about white genocide, and referred to immigrants as "apes" and "cannibals." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-g... 312446
Reposted by a new topographyRichard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 15/03/2024The internet still holds all human knowledge, it just increasingly also holds all human entropy and there's a lot more of that. 095
Reposted by a new topographyDave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Extraordinary to think that we might already have lived through the internet’s useful lifespan.wheresyoured.atAre We Watching The Internet Die?Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected t... 5186
Reposted by a new topographyEchoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social · 15/03/2024“At the Controls of an Aircraft of the Future”, from Popular Mechanics, May 1932” (books.google.co.uk/books?id=5uE...) 184
Reposted by a new topographyBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 15/03/2024Join us later today as we discuss verification strategies and how the role of a fact checker influences newsroom output. Link to join our live audience is below 👇 0328
Reposted by a new topographyFour Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 15/03/2024The airports are not empty. Told the US borders would close Sunday night, thousands of travelers overwhelm the airports, where some are screened but most not. 214941
Reposted by a new topographyAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Of course RFK Jr. is hyping Aaron Rodgers as a potential, uh, running mate. His campaign is a grift whose primary marks are young, insecure men who turn to conspiracy theories to soothe their fragile egos. An analysis. www.salon.com/2024/03/15/r...salon.comRFK Jr. and Aaron Rodgers illustrate how con artists exploit male insecurityVoting for muscle-bound conspiracy theorists will not quell the nagging fear of mediocrity 715534
Reposted by a new topographyKayin @kayin.moe · 15/03/2024that crop, while necessary, misses an important detail that is often still relevant lol 315157
Reposted by a new topographyBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Here’s What Donald Trump’s America Was Actually Like Four Years Ago www.vanityfair.com/news/donald-... 04121
Reposted by a new topographyJo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 19/10/2023Did you think hermit crabs always live in snail shells? 🧪🦀 Some deep sea hermit species live symbiotically with anemones that DISSOLVE the shell and SECRETE a new one ("carcinoecium") made of chitin! The carcinoecium has evolved at least 3 times! Photo credits in alt text. @megdaly.bsky.social 17331111
Reposted by a new topographyHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14/03/2024I wish I had the champagne franchise for the DNC today. www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/... 28517
Reposted by a new topographySeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/03/2024So the Smirnov guy whose lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden was the basis of the Biden impeachment push had been paid by a company with close ties to Trump? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...theguardian.comUS firm that paid indicted FBI informant tied to Trump associates, records revealAlexander Smirnov was paid $600,000 in 2020 – the same year he allegedly began lying to FBI about Bidens’ role in Ukraine business 19414160
Reposted by a new topographyVan Wendigo @vanweezer.myatproto.social · 08/03/2024Conspiracy theory of the day: There wouldn't be so many conspiracy theories if we didn't have GPS. Not having to remember how to get places has freed up too much space in our brains 26016
Reposted by a new topographyPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 13/03/2024Trump claimed that the videos shown during the Hur hearing were "AI" — not because they were but because the advent of AI allows him to engage in his long-standing practice of muddying the truth.washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Trump demonstrates why ‘A.I.’ will be so useful to himIn a social media post, Trump claims that a compilation of clips of him making verbal mistakes was computer-generated. 1123669
Reposted by a new topographyRetro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 11/03/2024Panasonic concept telephone (1996) 28018
Reposted by a new topographyGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/03/2024Literally just the presence of a trans person at a Space Camp in Alabama has invited statements from three federal office holders www.al.com/news/2024/03... 621141306
Reposted by a new topographyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2024New, from me: The American far-right is fascinated with Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of a third-rate power with a declining population. Why? Because Orban offers a model of Christian nationalist authoritarianism that Trumpists plan to emulate. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/make-ameri...donmoynihan.substack.comMake America Hungary AgainMAGA's obsession with Orban reveals they want authoritarianism, not greatness 24517188
Reposted by a new topographyEngineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 13/03/2024macOS Sonoma 14.4 is causing some USB hubs to stop working, including hubs built into displays & USB-C multiport adaptors that worked perfectly up to 14.3.1. Gather logs, file feedback. appleinsider.com/articles/24/... #macOS #Sonomaappleinsider.commacOS Sonoma 14.4 update breaking USB monitor hubsAccording to some scattered user reports, updating macOS to Sonoma 14.4 is causing some USB hubs embedded in monitors to stop working and there doesn't seem to be a clear fix. 022
Reposted by a new topographyryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/03/2024surely another one of Biden's silly exaggerations ... well I'll be goddamned 37965154
Reposted by a new topography🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 12/03/2024this is the most joe biden paragraph ever written. 311093182
Reposted by a new topographyNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/03/2024“We did not find evidence of a crime we could prove in court” James Comey: 😒 Bill Barr: 😁 John Durham: 🤪 Robert Hur: 😡 0305
Reposted by a new topographyKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11/03/2024"The move from settler colonialism to the current model can be measured, Immerwahr argues, not in the content of American imperial ambitions, but in the transformation of the tissue connecting the empire to its outposts." From 5 years ago. Holds up. fellowtravelersblog.com/2019/03/11/e...fellowtravelersblog.comEmpire of Ignorance, Ignorance of EmpireA review of Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019). By Kelsey D. Atherton It is impossible to unmake an empire without descr... 1126
Reposted by a new topographyMicah @rincewind.run · 09/03/2024weird realization of the morning: because we barely use the phone and her number is obviously saved as a contact, the reason I know my wife’s cell phone number by heart is probably because I regularly have to enter it at the grocery store for discounts 4150620
Reposted by a new topographyGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 11/03/2024"united states nuclear programs" 46716
Reposted by a new topographyJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 09/03/2024It's incredible how many stories like this can keep popping up, years later 16416104
Reposted by a new topographyBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 09/03/2024Dont be fooled, it's just the Tanton network again. They have dozens if not hundreds of these "secret societies" to offer the illusion of broad and popular appeal where none existstalkingpointsmemo.comInside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the... 915040
Reposted by a new topographyThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 09/03/2024One of the key challenges since the start of the Trump era has been to communicate effectively to the American public that something other than “politics as usual” is going on, that the threat of authoritarianism – that is embodied, but not caused by Trump – is real. 4/ 2181
Reposted by a new topographyThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 09/03/2024There is an element of volkish ideology underneath the way the institutions treat Trump, an assumption that Trump channels “real America,” the Volk, and therefore is to be given wide latitude, as the will of the true people must not be impeded. 23212
Reposted by a new topographyKurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 08/03/2024THIS. "Boycotting" an election doesn't send the message that you're unhappy, because it doesn't lose them money like it would for a business. You're not the nation's customer. Refusing to vote sends the message that you're fine with whatever result you get, that other people can decide for you. 7732211230
Reposted by a new topographySteve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 07/03/2024To felons in jail and those who have been pardoned, the renewed questions swirling around Donald Trump's indictments resonated in deeply personal ways. We spoke to these criminals about their thoughts on crime and the presidency. 20825219
Reposted by a new topographySlippery Jim diGriz ⚖️ @jimdigriz.bsky.social · 08/03/2024ALERT: John Cena is wearing an ALF “G.O.A.T.” tshirt and that tells me JOHN CENA IS ON BLUESKY UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME. It could be anyway. Keep your eyes peeled, people. 2215
Reposted by a new topographyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/03/2024Priceless Biden double take when he sees MTG 2129140
Reposted by a new topographyStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 08/03/2024And the winner is ... Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona. Have a quiet evening, Mr. Secretary, wherever you are. #DesignatedSurvior 3348
Reposted by a new topographyLissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 06/03/2024this happened and more people should be aware 183
Reposted by a new topographyThe Slides @theslides.bsky.social · 06/03/2024"NORAD 35mm presentation slides," slide 9 of 41 [gallery] 042
Reposted by a new topographyThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/03/2024Exactly! All this “let the people decide” talk is remarkably backwards. The people decided in November 2020: Trump lost, and attempted an auto-coup in response. That is the sole reason why the insurrection clause came into play at all: January 6 was the anti-democratic part. 1/ 8537151
Reposted by a new topographyTeddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 05/03/2024Hey, y'all! I could use your support... If you appreciate my research and reporting, please consider supporting my work by becoming a paid subscriber to my newsletter. Gain access to exclusive content for only $5 per month or $50 per year:radicalreports.substack.comSubscribe to Radical ReportsResearch, Analysis, and Intelligence on the Radical Right. Click to read Radical Reports, by Teddy Wilson, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers. 022
Reposted by a new topographyAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 05/03/2024Propaganda works. The mainstream right in this country understands this way more profoundly than the mainstream left 1327168