emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026You did hear? Ukraine hit their bot nerve center with a drone strike. All will be quiet on the Eastern front. At least for a day. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Who will verify every step of the proofs? The early-career mathematicians? 0210
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026She is likely as rattled by the damming pro publica investigation as the fact her re-election is no longer assured. 021
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Protecting our rights? Which “our” and which rights? The progeny of white slavers to exercise their agency over Black/Brown, female & transgender bodies? Never mind transforming govt’s three branches into a mighty river flanked by two weak tributaries. Never mind too the court now accepts gifts. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026True enough. Makes me wonder at their predilection for courting disaster - be it prefabricated & manipulated (eg vaccine fears, ignoring climate change or mass-deporting essential immigrants) or not. And then the AI bogeyman shows up. FEMA stops responding. Oil is cut off. And what have you. 010
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026While kind of in accord, dare I mention the big scare word - neoliberalism? How about austerity & disaster capitalism? We got here through deregulation, the buying off of Congress abetting the mass transfer of wealth from bottom to top. Voters have next to no voice. Discontented? 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Oops. Did Iran out-maneuver us with a low-investment half-gambit, no less? Send a couple of guys, no real arms or bomb-making materials. No igniters. Ouch!nytimes.comU.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New ThreatsThe withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yo La Tengo’s Hot Chicken… youtu.be/Jp1MDdMDCno?...youtu.beReturn to Hot ChickenYouTube video by Yo La Tengo - Topic 140
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You do mean a normal nose, yes? (I grew up in a land of surgical ski slopes. Am reminded of the relief I felt when I finally moved to Manhattan.) 🤣 110
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So what is the latest word on our making noises about invading Cuba? A prelude to declaring the lot of us who favor European-style social democracy fifth columnists? www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-gro...cbsnews.comU.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around CubaSome units would "possibly [be] needed in 90-120 days," according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News. 020
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yup. The whole line up even. Like the kinds of creeps parents warn their kids off of. 020
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not possibly legal. As there exists such a thing as a contract and payment for services. 130
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026All well and good - but alas did it also carry contagion? 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Yet Peter Thiel is all about neo-feudalism, no? And Crusades were all about pillaging & genocide, yes? And serfdom was akin to slavery. Also lots of plague. But guilds & cities emerged + enough average wealth that pilgrimages were the rage. All that grand Romanesque & Gothic archit. Ok, celebrate. 100
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Few here get belonging to a people that survived repeated attempted genocides for 2k years. In the Christian world. Anti-semitism isn’t just name calling but justifying mass murder. It is tragic that Palestinians are now subject to the same fate. Those who care call for peace, not zero-sum games. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What is curious is the targeting of children for death & disability. The de-investment in youth & future is a trend & we must ask why. In society life’s start & end are the most costly, the middle most productive. Why are we backloading & not frontloading our resources? A bit like Carthage of yore? 001
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A long ago teacher had worked with an aid group in Appalachia, US. One day a woman explained to her that nothing was more galling than do-gooders telling people how to be poor. I’m reminded because again outsiders decide the most efficient way to deliver support—without asking the poor. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Yes, confusing! The EPA is legally obliged to uphold the Clean Air Act. And while the White House can “interpret” the Act, it has no authority to override it. 040
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026What now? This might have ignited a war. But for the fact Russia and US are over-extended and the US is no longer a reliable NATO partner?theguardian.com‘We are not scared,’ says top EU diplomat after Russian strike on passenger trainKaja Kallas calls drone attack that narrowly missed Boris Johnson and David Petraeus ‘a message to the western world’ 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026But could it be a useful way for Canada et al. to pressure US — and if the WH is unresponsive, there are others in Congress & industry with vested interests. (Think of our frmr ally arresting Huawei CFO on US behalf .. they might e.g. want to impress whoever was behind that.) 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026On 9/11 Cheney didn’t pivot from we’ll go after Osama bin Laden to let’s also throw in Saddam Hussein. No it’s the other way round—even though he knew “UBL” was to blame. Does this suggest he was waiting for an al Qaeda attack to start war against Iraq—with no real connection between the two needed? 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It is an opportunity, not least of which is possibly lessening climate change’s devastating impacts. But, viz. realpolitik, big oil has influenced the unjust distribution of power & wealth—helping to produce mass migration. It has also backed some of the worst wars & atrocities (Sudan et al.). 001
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026People of all faiths (and no faiths) died that day. The city that grieved and pulled together — Rudy had nothing to do with that. He’d been mongering hate afterall for a long time. And when it came down to the wire? Some could have been rescued by helicopter before the towers fell. Where was he? 0222
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Yes, and it goes without saying that a good portion of those commodities were the laborers themselves. It is interesting (if horrifying) to consider how fantasy and megalomania are used to explain away individual rights. 040
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Funny — don’t kidnappers make their victims pose for pictures with newspapers to prove they are still alive? Really, what is going on? 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I thought “far right” didn’t go far enough. If AfD and friends lack Neo-Nazi insignias, they still qualify as nationalists or even fascists. There is too the global aspect as they receive funding and guidance from a cohort of outside billionaire-backed strategists (Bannon et al) as well as Russia. 130
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Kudos for the purchase, but may I suggest considering alternative sources? Google is also buying rare books by the truckloads, pulling them apart to scan—and promptly shredding them. Thus asserting private domain over a key part of humanity’s legacy. Never mind the instability of digital media. 010
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It is also a serious & exacting practice that generally requires training & most certainly talent. Wisdom is recognizing the critical junctures when expertise is worth the investment (and the equivalent of bad mimeos won’t do). That said, one can be multi-gifted. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A 2nd way to look at this: the mediocre toads will be left behind — ie imagine Hitler firing the Junker generals just as he launched WWII. If there is a putsch, the greater war talent may end up on democracy’s side. Sadly Thiel will have the drones & our data. But other world powers will factor in 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It is a felony to steal, destroy or in any way interfere with mail delivery (excepting explosives & illicit drugs). It is unlawful “under color of law” to sabotage elections. Too bad the last isn’t a capital crime punishable by death. Or a far worse fate by ancient Greek standards (permanent exile!) 010
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Mr. Postman should be arrested and tried for conspiring to commit felony interference in the delivery of the mail, along with that little crime of sedition.nytimes.comWhistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by MailA report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Oops — I did just delete their phone maps. But the problem with monopolies is that we are all so imbricated in their systems of control. 010
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Do note that those pushing the division narrative are in bed with billionaires (hello NYT) .. one has to presume they would prefer a Trump redux than a progressive any day. 070
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Does US hegemony end with a whimper? (While the worst violence is within families & between close trading partners, having wasted our missiles on a no-objective war that weakened our global standing, it’s hard to imagine we’d attack Canada. Still, this regime is capable of all kinds of inanity.) 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Trump behaves like a playground bully or small-time street thug trying to push into new territory. 010
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The answer lies with the host who offered up the penthouse & facilitated the meeting, on behalf of his pals—the members of the billionaire oligarchy. Because they as a rule care little about the spiked red herrings focused on culture & identity that are fed to the public. They care about lucre. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The framers & lawmakers defined treason & sedition too myopically (say I—no legal scholar). Had our terms & consequences been more considered, more confederate leaders would have swung & post-reconstruction Jim Crow would not have taken hold for another century—only to resurface in force now. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Everyone should be paid a living wage—and better than that when the work is back breaking. But it is discrimination, is it not, to pay some workers less for the exact same job, merely because of their identity—whether associated with race, gender, religion .. or nation of origin? 020
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I’m sorry .. Greece exerts its own pure version of vicious xenophobia. Need reminding how they treated Syrians fleeing the worst of war? Sending refugees at sea to their deaths? Nobody’s satellite. But a nice history of Nazi collaboration too. Thessaloniki? Collaborating with Bibi is not much better 121
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I couldn’t wish for better. Meanwhile Amazon workers put in hideous amounts of hours with every maneuver timed but no bathroom breaks let alone sick leave, live in parking-lot cars, rely on federal (that’s us!) subsidies because of the forced impoverishment, forget mention of healthcare. 040
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Australian strips off shirt, smashes glass & chokes café mgr who translates for him at police HQ - a “striking illustration of the paradox of today’s Vietnam, which has eagerly welcomed foreigners..but remains a communist state that prioritizes social order and control.” Uh NYT, so does Switzerland.nytimes.comWhen Misbehaving Foreigners Meet Communist PolicingVietnam is grappling with a surge in visitors, testing its Soviet-style criminal justice system as it tries to supercharge its economy through tourism. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Only those cut off from working people living real lives. Still it was predictable that their lot would worsen — and hope and patience with it? We will see. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The US is to-the-core racist, misogynistic, homophobic, Anti-Semitic/Muslim. Few would say all here are immoral. There are growing Israeli-Palestinian peace movements. Many Jews support full Palestinian rights & statehood. To paint a one-sided tale implies that one side ought to be expunged. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I have to wonder what leverage is used that gets them to abandon so readily every shred of moral decency? I suspect it is more stick than carrot. But then again perhaps it is the overwhelming force of the cult. Or the purse. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026That sounds like a crazy attempt to legalize child molestation. And also to permanently traumatize and thereby subjugate girls. 000
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026It is no different than assuming the feet and hands are more productive than the head, heart and lungs. 020
emduwel.bsky.social @emduwel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Oh the NYT are practically the only ones left who can afford to pay for deep-diving investigative journalism .. but the I’d-sell-my-children’s-soul-for-an-upscale-dinner-invite editorial board? And what passes for “news analysis”? 050