Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_... 22253072692 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 31/10/2025"Give Donald Trump this much: He has never tried to hide his malice, his lawlessness, or his desire to inflict pain on others." - @peter-wehner.bsky.social Trump's authoritarian plans are out in the open. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comTrump’s Plan Is Now Out in the OpenIt’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots. 23374123 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialRafi @rafil.bsky.social · 28/09/2025I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation 12755383831 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/08/202580 years ago today the first atomic bomb was used against human targets. Since 1945 the power to do it again has rested in the hands of one person - who can order their use without anyone's permission and cannot be countermanded. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comThe President’s WeaponWhy does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American? 24406117 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Where Hate Hides paw.princeton.edu/article/joel...paw.princeton.edu 16011 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialDr Miah Hammond-Errey @miahhe.bsky.social · 01/07/2025In my latest piece, I examine how the collapse of a common and shared reality is threatening our ability to govern, deliberate, and make informed decisions. From AI-driven disinformation to the concentration of power in a handful of platforms, the stakes have never been higher.lowyinstitute.orgInformation overload: Can we keep our minds and our democracy?Algorithms and echo chambers are fracturing Australian society, but the democratic discourse hasn’t switched off yet. 26510 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialShellymäk @shellymak.bsky.social · 28/06/2025 "Chandos Beauty" is a hybrid tea rose known for its strong fragrance and large, classic-shaped blooms. It features a blend of light amber gold and cream, often with subtle pink tones, and has a high petal count 1967584663 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details 446197485062 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialJeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17 9028671114 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Short of nuclear strikes, Fordow is buried deep enough that it can’t be destroyed without multiple big bombs on top of each other, and possibly not even with that (ie damaged, but not destroyed). There’s virtually no way it’s totally done. And in a broader sense, this is probably far from over. 513625 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/06/2025🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed. 17683261 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialVincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 14/06/2025June was Van Gogh’s season of gold. Sunlight flooded the fields of Arles, and with it came one of the most iconic series in art history: Sunflowers. But behind the brilliance was a mind unraveling. 🧵👇 #artbots #vangogh 854482 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Dan Driscoll [answering cell phone]: Hello? Voice: Hi it’s the moon Driscoll: I told you to stop calling Voice: I going to hit your eye like a big pizza pie Driscoll: I HAVE ALERTED THE FBI TO THIS HARASSMENT Voice: I have a man in me Driscoll: THIS IS DISRESPECT TO THE MILITARY 221112105 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 11/06/2025This is a real thing being posted and circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, referring to undocumented immigrants as “foreign invaders” and urging good Americans to turn them in. (I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.) 2051755737 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 30/05/2025My reaction after reading too much about Elon Musk today: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/go-the-fk-...danieldrezner.substack.comGo the F**k To TherapyAn open letter to Elon Musk -- and everyone else who needs to hear it. 2053090 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025New, from me: The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...donmoynihan.substack.comWhat DOGE gets wrong about tech and governmentLessons learned by civic tech, forgotten by DOGE 681380495 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialTony Michaels @thetonymichaels.bsky.social · 18/05/2025 161521321 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/05/2025Trump, on the leader of Russia: "Putin is tired of this whole thing and he’s not — he’s not looking good. And he wants to look good” It's hard to imagine a more fundamental misunderstanding. No, Putin is not "tired of the whole thing" - the war is the only thing keeping his economy going 922755635 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 14/05/2025Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵 8142632032 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/05/2025Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books. 669145194838 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 07/05/20251/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️ 704127584316 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, two colour lino cut. The US artist utilised printmaking with extreme skill to explore themes of her fellow African Americans in a 20th century era of Civil Rights activism #womensart 05711818 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialBolts @boltsmag.org · 03/05/2025An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: "You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up." boltsmag.org/compuls... boltsmag.org“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 YearsAs Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of 110832 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialAlex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 02/05/2025There’s no point correcting this. There’s no reason to expect this travesty of a human to be any less ignorant on history than he is on every other fathomable topic. So as a 20th Century military historian I’ll just say that those Americans who serve in both wars would be ashamed of this. 92955220 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialJimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · 02/05/2025NEW: Russia is using social media to recruit unsuspecting Ukrainian civilians - including children - and turning them into unwitting suicide bombers. A deep dive into Moscow's disturbing new tactic with @michaeldweiss.bsky.social for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ru...newlinesmag.comRussia’s New Weapon: Child Suicide BombersMoscow’s intelligence services are recruiting unsuspecting civilians, including the young and vulnerable, for suicide missions 915679 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialDavid Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945. For Americans, the Second World War would rage for three more months, until VJ Day in August. But for Russians and those influenced by them, "Victory Day" falls in May. Trump follows the Russian practice, not the American. 37243661358 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 02/05/2025My take on Trump’s national security shuffle. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/clown-car-...danieldrezner.substack.comClown Car Administration Moves Some Clowns Around in the CarOnly 1358 more days to go! 27713 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 02/05/2025‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.cbsnews.comRFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claimsKennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself. 1471330849917 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialRichard L Pastore 📚🏳️🌈 @rlpastore.bsky.social · 29/04/2025“Hey, you inside the house, I’m here to remind you there’s yard work to be done.” 🪶📸📷 #birds #photography 29512 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialPictures of the Floating World @floatingworlds.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995) Half Moon Bridge #japanese #woodblock 117527 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialVeiko Spolitis @veikospolitis.bsky.social · 25/04/2025evidence of truth 525456 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I once wrote an entire book about how officials during Trump 1.0 worked behind the scenes to contain his malevolence and lunacy. The last chapter was a warning about how if re-elected he would work tirelessly to get rid of people and other guardrails that could contain him or had done so. 15680186 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 25/04/2025If you work for the FAA, and you were forced to sign an NDA that prohibits post-employment disclosures of anything other than classified information, please call a lawyer. NOW. 141053495 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/04/2025We are selling the tech that allow Russian and North Korean missiles to hit Kyiv. But Trump won’t give or even sell Zelens’kyi the defensive tech needed to stop them. 491708629 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Another day, another appalling security violation 1001069217 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/04/2025The Trump 'peace' plan for #Ukraine is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comTrump’s Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to RussiaHis proposal to end the war isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression. 1352329780 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Rei Kawakubo, (born 1942), Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris #WomensArt 031326 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialSimon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025So, that new give Putin all he wants "peace" plan Rubio floated this week? It appears to be illegal under a 2022 American law Rubio himself helped pass. www.politico.com/newsletters/... 12337021412 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Trump’s "peace plan" for Ukraine was always going to be to try to break the international order, give a victory to Putin, and blame Ukraine. The underlying reality is of a war Ukraine must fight because it is under continuous bloody assault. 531325356 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialThe Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 24/04/2025⚡️ After Russia's deadly attack on Kyiv, Vance reposts denunciation of Zelensky. At the time of writing, U.S. Vice President JD Vance has not condemned or commented directly on the strike.kyivindependent.comAfter Russia's deadly attack on Kyiv, Vance reposts denunciation of ZelenskyAt the time of writing, U.S. Vice President JD Vance has not condemned or commented directly on the strike. 5128086 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025small but scary story and of a piece with the whole ICE MO open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...open.substack.comThe courage to be decentThe Trump administration wants to make us too afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them. 11388132 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025You're definitely commanding a lot of respect from a country when the foreign minister openly says your head of state is a moron. 251223253 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Korean artist Soo Sunny Park creates large sculptural installations using glass, wire and light #WomensArt 01027149 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 23/04/20251/ Donald Trump has abandoned legally mandated US and international efforts to hold Russia accountable for its war crimes in Ukraine, in an apparent undisclosed favour to Vladimir Putin. ⬇️ 20713222 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23/04/2025OK, sent out this free piece on the details of the Trump "final" plan for Ukraine that has been seen by Axios. The 5 points have basically been dictated by Putin. They set up a process which would allow Russia to expand into all of its neighbors. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...open.substack.comThe Trump "Final" Proposal For UkrainePhillips’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. 50733329 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025NBC implies that Whiskey Pete Hegseth was using his PERSONAL phone for both his Friends and Family Signal chat AND the Mike Waltz chat. NYT had suggested otherwise, but this makes far more sense. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... 18967272 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialPaul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Fortune Mation, 1871 #artbots #cezanne botfrens.com/collections/43/content… 0213 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/04/2025The nutty thing abt Tim Parlatore being included in Whiskey Pete Hegseth's FAMILY Signal chat, along with the people ousted as scapegoats for leaks, is that Parlatore leaked all the time when he repped Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u... 21841221 0
Reposted by @magenta1910.bsky.socialDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 19/04/2025The stories the about the Trump administration's incompetence will continue until the economy improves. Which it won’t. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-...danieldrezner.substack.comThe Trump Administration's Recursive IncompetenceWhy are so many stories about the administration's beclowning of the executive branch surfacing now? 510425 0