iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

No. Pneumonic plague is easily treatable if people get medical care within 24 hours of symptoms appearing.

Because to many people abroad, Trump polls low because he just reads as “weird dumb American who’s stirring up trouble”. The ideological connections to them are vague.

050

Reposted by MBR

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 15h

Fascism isn’t only about a failure to hold leaders and elites accountable — that’s a big part of it, don’t get me wrong! — but also what regular people can be led to believe and where they place blame for life’s inevitable tribulations. Or, as William H. Gass put it, the fascism of the heart.

0101

Reposted by MBR

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

11477883645

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 15h

0101

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 15h

Ahh yes. Tad Devine who worked with Manafort for Yanukovych. He’s pure as the driven snow.

050

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, doesn’t it feel sweaty because they are sweaty?

000

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 18h

I saw this kind of magical thinking many times in 2024 when I traveled to PA to canvass. People are very easily led astray by opportunists.

000

Reposted by MBR

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21h

The truly insane part is, Trump wasn't "something different" in 2024. He was the guy who promised Covid would "go away" and it didn't, then tried to overturn the 2020 election by violence and trickery.

39014

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 18h

If you read The Fifth Modernization by Wei Jingsheng, you can see its key assumption is that the U.S. and other developed countries would condition their economic relations with China upon its political democratization. That’s a sad joke now.

010

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 19h

Google spent 45 billion dollars on its AI in the second quarter (the last for which there’s data available). That’s over 400 million dollars a day. And this is what it has produced - a machine that thinks it is two days ago when you search for the weather:

Screencap from Google taken on October 4 saying that it is October 2

010

Reposted by MBR

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h

When you read him assenting to this kind of stuff, it's plain as day that Hitler salute was no accident or misinterpretation. This is straight-out fascist ubermensch ideology.

511518

Reposted by MBR

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

nytimes.com

U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

601588807

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m not sure why this is coming up now since she wrote this in her 2011 book. The thing is, Jacobsen has written semi-decent stuff before. But obviously it’s simply impossible to take the claims - which she made in many places and on which she claimed to have good sourcing - at all seriously.

011

Reposted by MBR

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.

592227577

Reposted by MBR

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

27783303

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There hasn’t really been any question of that for a while. I would also add in that he’s a total opportunist and so he’s bewildered why people might be willing to fight and sacrifice for something despite the risk of personal harm.

040

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Because they’ve all convinced themselves that AI is a million times smarter than those experts with their “experience” and “education”.

000

Reposted by MBR

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The disheartening part is that if gas was $2, for whatever reason, they'd all be fine with fascism.

1531548

Reposted by MBR

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

UKMTO WARNING 149-26

26224

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He didn’t sign a “Thank you for the bribe” note and append it to a contract. Therefore, there’s nothing wrong with this. -The Supreme Court, eventually

020

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But that would violate the Republican principle of “Government exists only for me to get rich.”

000

Reposted by MBR

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This kind of logic is just dressed up racism and, quite frankly, cowardice. "I'm too afraid to live next door to someone who looks or thinks differently than I do" is a sign of a weak society, not a strong one.

37920

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The peak coincides pretty well with Musk’s purchase of Twitter and the introduction of Chat GPT 3.

030

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Herman Melville subreddit I’m in is all over this story.

000

Reposted by MBR

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations to Elon Musk, who successfully made it to Mars by 2026.

835443

Reposted by MBR

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

UKMTO WARNING 147-26

18131

Reposted by MBR

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt. .. The paper losses for the investment-grade notes alone topped $100 million, according to an analysis late Thursday ..” @bloomberg.com $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

34571162

Reposted by MBR

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

so the state fucked around for 32 years after a fucked up 18-year old did a terrible thing and then tortured her for hours but was unable to kill her.

1028438

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What was it? (It shows as deleted for me.)

120

Reposted by MBR

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 01/10/2026

Even their own ridiculous AI bot understands why a copper-nickel mine doesn’t belong near the Boundary Waters

118435

Reposted by MBR

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trump is expressing one of the core beliefs of white supremacy: that people of color don't feel pain to the same extent as white people. Hispanic falls off roof? nbd Notoriously gruesome example: gynecological surgery conducted on enslaved Black women, sans anesthesia. www.aaihs.org/black-subjec...

aaihs.org

Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology - AAIHS

In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes the experimental work of early American gynecologists, in...

1216073

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

God I hope so… I really hope so. We’ve done such an awful job at holding them accountable so far.

000

Reposted by MBR

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The fact that you are living abroad does not make you any less of a US citizen. In fact, you're often the face of America abroad.

45024

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

💯 The process that ended the Roman Republic was very complex and took several generations.

010

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, obviously. This is referencing the idea - popular in some tech circles - that they don’t need additional laws or regulations but could just be sued (“a lawsuit”), which would cost them money but not send anyone to jail.

000

Reposted by MBR

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The context of the screenshot is pretty bad. This is the first part of the question

1131

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And this is the latter part of the answer

2132

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The context of the screenshot is pretty bad. This is the first part of the question

1131

MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, and also that they want you to send them nasty+anxious emails.

020

Reposted by MBR

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

303188679

Reposted by MBR

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

835196266183

Reposted by MBR

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

854308470

Reposted by MBR

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir

241483201