Reposted by Gary CoadyRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974. 2251170186013 17K
Reposted by Gary CoadyGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life. 19265111873 6.5K
Reposted by Gary CoadyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans" 555286159494 28.6K
Reposted by Gary Coadymean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Old enough to recognize this as a data center 975259503479 26K
Reposted by Gary CoadyEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Last week the House of Lords spent three hours debating threats to democracy. What was striking to me about it wasn't any single speech, it was that half the room was describing one half of the problem, the other half was describing the other half, and almost nobody connected the two. 🧵hansard.parliament.ukDemocratic Institutions: Threats - Hansard - UK ParliamentHansard record of the item : 'Democratic Institutions: Threats' on Thursday 25 June 2026. 624394 243
Reposted by Gary Coadydell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.wired.comLeak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ SocietyMore than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking. 26661742666 6.2K
Reposted by Gary CoadyPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism 1045410678 5.4K
Reposted by Gary CoadySimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This article in The Journal remains the best piece telling this story by just setting out the numbers. www.thejournal.ie/snapshot-of-... 27761 77
Reposted by Gary CoadyDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 07/03/2026So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right 530122954793 12.3K
Reposted by Gary CoadyDave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 04/03/2026Even the European Parliament, now under a new right-wing majority, won't stand up for Europe in the face of American threats. An attempt to table a debate about the 🇺🇸embargo on Spain was killed by VDL/Merz's EPP, who teamed with Meloni's ECR, Orban's PfE & Weidel's ESN.euronews.com 75437 54
Reposted by Gary CoadySimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/02/2026The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...simonwillison.netSpotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond FarewellSomewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they … 17359892152 6K
Reposted by Gary CoadyChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list. 1488168616976 16.9K
Reposted by Gary CoadyThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/01/2026Going beyond the surface in the Karst plateau: exploring the new cross-border geopark in Italy and Sloveniatheguardian.comGoing beyond the surface in the Karst plateau: exploring the new cross-border geopark in Italy and SloveniaGeoKarst is a new EU-funded project highlighting a unique landscape of caves, gorges and medieval villages near Trieste 15412 54
Reposted by Gary CoadyThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/01/2026It is even worse than it looksopen.substack.comThe Old World Order is DeadUnipolarity was given, not taken 491032303 1K
Reposted by Gary CoadyGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 20/01/2026“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.” As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...paulwells.substack.comThe Carney doctrineOpen comment thread on the PM's Davos speech 12516153 516
Reposted by Gary CoadyDave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 20/01/2026🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6) 24378551825 7.9K
Reposted by Gary CoadyTom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Gorgeous winter light in Edinburgh yesterday #bruntsfield #edinburgh #architecture 161872142 1.9K
Reposted by Gary CoadyJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/11/2025You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before 29668191218 6.8K
Reposted by Gary CoadyChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2025NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.” 12333168315541 31.7K
Reposted by Gary CoadyKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... 53460581910 6.1K
Reposted by Gary CoadyK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Elon's AI is now actively recommending a second Holocaust 12336941138 3.7K
Reposted by Gary CoadyKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/07/2025I know there's almost not even any point anymore to trying to convince people not to keep doing free labour for Elon Musk, but I will never stop being astonished that so so so so so many people (particularly lefties) just cannot convince themselves to even slightly stop helping the guy 514938 149
Reposted by Gary CoadyDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/07/2025It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right. Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ... 1564830844 4.8K
Reposted by Gary CoadyMaybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025She doesn't hint at immigrants. She "hints" at Latinos. We are not all immigrants. Many of us have arrived recently and many of us have been here since before the country was founded. 1113 11
Reposted by Gary CoadyMike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/07/2025And people told me I was overreacting in comparing the concentration camp to Auschwitz. They're not being subtle about what they want to do 6171221825 7.1K
Reposted by Gary CoadyMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer: 9356552670 5.7K
Reposted by Gary CoadyNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 10653253030 5.3K
Reposted by Gary Coadyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025i think the mamdani campaign also vindicates @polphilpod.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1953...newrepublic.comWhy the Democratic Tea Party Failed (and How It Could Succeed)For the left to win, it must blame fascism on the actual fascists. 241770163 1.8K
Reposted by Gary CoadyJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/06/2025'Mission Accomplished' redux—less than 72 hours after the preening "completely obliterated" announcement. Who could possibly have foreseen this? /s 2942884 428
Reposted by Gary CoadyJordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15/06/2025Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated. 10294384415962 43.8K
Reposted by Gary CoadyPascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025So many alarm bells being rung in the Baltics and still people in Western Europe confidently proclaim that Russia wouldn't ever expand its war (the same war they said wouldn't happen in the first place) 27421 74
Reposted by Gary CoadyBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/06/2025"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now. 34984502220 8.5K
Reposted by Gary CoadyMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 10/06/2025two rivians at school drop off this morning - and the only thing I could think of was that it represents the embodied carbon equivalent of more than one electric cargo bike for *every* family at our school electric SUVs ain't green, folks 159910 99
Reposted by Gary CoadyRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/06/2025a woman just trying to get home gets shot 1217144817413 14.5K
Reposted by Gary Coadyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2025my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comCurtis Yarvin’s Plot Against AmericaThe reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee. 440147104037 14.7K
Reposted by Gary CoadyMick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2025The World According to Xi, from my Lowy Institute colleague Richard McGregor. @lowyinstitute.bsky.social interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/wor...interactives.lowyinstitute.orgThe World According to Xi Jinping - Lowy Institute 14715 47
Reposted by Gary CoadyEdwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 25/05/2025The Telegraph has disappeared this from their website, possibly out of mortal shame. You know what to do... (Link is to archive copy. The internet never forgets.) archive.is/2025.05.25-1... 46741360 741
Reposted by Gary CoadyLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/05/2025‘There is no shared narrative of the German Peasants’ War. East and West are further apart than ever, just as the social differences between them, according to some sociologists, are greater now than they were at unification.’ Lyndal Roper on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...lrb.co.ukLyndal Roper | How is the German Peasants’ War remembered?Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series of... 192 9
Reposted by Gary CoadyNick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 11/05/2025just learned about strudel.cc/workshop/get... and I’m going to be unavailable for a whilestrudel.ccGetting Started 🚀 StrudelStrudel is a music live coding editor that brings TidalCycles to the browser. 2353 35
Reposted by Gary CoadyAnil Dash @anildash.com · 03/05/2025grew up with the media depiction where they rip out a guy’s still-beating heart and eat monkey brains and we still managed to win all the spelling bees m, I think the white boys can survive the message of “don’t be a rapist”media.tenor.coma man with a red mohawk and a necklace of teeth is looking at something .Alt: in the Temple of Doom, shortly before the rip out somebody’s heart 473075439 3.1K
Reposted by Gary CoadyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Incredibly telling moment. Trump is completely sure he is right here. We have a president that is pickled in his information bubble, high on his own supply, can't tell his administration's propaganda from reality. Next the White House will insist Trump is right! 831248273 1.2K
Reposted by Gary CoadyParker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Just incredible 1393280828982 28.1K
Reposted by Gary CoadyMike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/04/2025Wrote about how, for all of the "fears" about LLMs "hallucinating," the Trump administration (and Trump specifically) is way worse in hallucinating answers every single time. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/t...techdirt.comThe Hallucinating ChatGPT PresidencyWe generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something t… 1221269 212
Reposted by Gary CoadyJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/04/2025all right, let’s go through this nonsense. first of all, this is just a police state. that’s what he’s describing. I don’t have anything clever to say. he wants cops to control your life, and aggressively and with “high impact”. 222242851 2.2K
Reposted by Gary Coadysouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2025A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen... 791217799984 21.8K