xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 6hIt may be safe to say that Schumer's relationship to Netanyahu et al is quite similar to that between Trump and Putin. 070 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Let's see... Melania? mmmm his buddy Elon Musk? Well, some broke the law to be here for sure. 000 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not forgetting that those North Africans were Muslim who conquered the Iberian peninsula in the early 700’s, barely a century after Muhammad. They established the Umayyad of Al Andalus which held sway until almost the time of Columbus. Maybe why Rubio always looks scared. 011 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026To describe the imperialist Spanish conquest of Cuba or anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere as "settlers" is further proof that no one in Trump's orbit has ever read a book. 1444 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialAnthony's Spinning Circles here too! @circlesspinning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026💔💔 Via Euronews: Maricarmen, symbol of Spain's housing protests, dies www.euronews.com/2026/10/07/m...euronews.comBreaking news. - Maricarmen, symbol of Spain's housing protests, diesThe 87-year-old woman had withstood four eviction attempts in the past decade. In a final message from her hospital bed, she urged protesters: "Fight!" #EuropeNews 12714 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Spotted near DC, could it be? 50914148 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialtalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The official U.S. Department of Education Twitter account posted, then deleted, a video positively comparing Trump to Hitler. Captioned “No one does it like us” with a tiger emoji, the video opens with a scene from Darkest Hour wherein Winston Churchill refers to Hitler as a tiger. 351183430 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Does it seem like trans panic got promoted to the conservative culture war top spot when pedophile panic got real awkward for them? 24895161 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialLynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15/08/202659 years ago today, August 15, 1967, Chicago's Picasso Statue was unveiled. I was there, as an embryo, capturing it on film, using the family 8mm Kodak: Richard J and Sis Daley, Seiji Ozawa and the CSO, Andy Frain ushers. 819844 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-EX...youtube.comVictory at Sea - Main ThemeYouTube video by Nathan Baker 000 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The odds of that improving integrity are nil to none. 000 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Turning corn into ethanol doesn’t seem like the best way to use this. 000 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Epstein Island is in a sea of blue. At least until it is covered in algae from who knows where. 000 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Not to be outdone, using the same picture, the @NYTimes banalizes it with travel page trivialization. 010 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialYounity @younityuk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026☀️🔬 Researchers in Germany have developed a solar-powered process that converts CO₂ into amino acids. The innovation could help create more sustainable protein supplies for livestock feed and cultivated meat, demonstrating the potential of clean energy to support solutions beyond the power sector.interestingengineering.comNew CO2-to-methanol technology produces amino acids with solar powerResearchers at TUM have created seven essential amino acids from CO2, hydrogen, and solar-powered methanol. 041 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialMarcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 24/07/2026And not to disrespect Ukrainians, but it's extra embarrassing for Moscow that it's Ukraine. We're not talking about China or the United States or European NATO or a place with endless manpower like India. The self-declared gReaT pOweR is getting hammered by a country that supposedly doesn't exist 1124 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026And DHS/ICE lockdown.systems/fragile-dhs-...lockdown.systemsFragile DHS/ICE TransparencyStarting in July 2025, we ran a project called ICEWatch that displayed data on detentions. It simply downloaded data that ICE was already publishing and rendered it on a map. Facility by facility, you... 001 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Especially when they want to cross over into the horror genre. 030 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Did Bezos show him the article so he knew what to say? 000 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026There is a new book out called Done in a Day Telex from the Fall of Saigon by Elisa Tamarkin. "A searing reflection on the last day of the Vietnam War and the beginning of the end of foreign reporting in the nation’s daily newspapers." 000 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 27/06/2026He should wear a beige suit someday to gauge Trump's (over)reaction. 030 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 27/06/2026He should wear a beige suit someday to gauge Trump's (over)reaction. 010 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Saphier is a longtime Fox News talking head in addition to knowing on which side her bread is buttered. 000 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Fidelity to the bottom line and nothing but. Not holding my breath that investors will park their wealth elsewhere. 000 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 20/04/2026www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/y...electrive.comYear-end surge: electric trucks outsell diesel for the first time in China - electrive.comIn December 2025, 45,300 fully and partially electrified heavy-duty trucks were newly registered in China—accounting for 54 percent of total heavy-duty truck 000 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Peanuts compared to www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...hatchmag.comTrump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest ServiceLate Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ... 1144 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026As long as there are shredders made in the USA 000 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialEmily @emilyyour8.bsky.social · 19/03/2026You know you're in trouble when the cover of The Economist looks like a political cartoon from The New Yorker. 21267 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Running your grift behind the back of the capo di tutti capo is not a good luck. 000 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19/03/2026This is a good time to remember that immigration judges aren’t real judges. They work for DOJ as part of the executive branch (under Bondi and Trump) and the fact that we call them judges like they’re independent arbiters would be laughable in a free and fair country. 342670942 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Credit where credit due. Adam Tooze's Chartbook referring to Semieniuk et al - Best of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comBest of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequalityThe 2022 oil and gas crisis resulted in record fossil-fuel profits globally that rehabilitated the oil and gas industry, obstructed the energy transit… 020 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 12/03/2026@greatdismal.bsky.social sfba.social/@BoredomFest...sfba.socialBoredomFestival (@BoredomFestival@sfba.social)Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months 020 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialTheodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Tragic. First the Hotel Okura, then Nakagin Capsule Tower, and now the Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium —Japan keeps destroying its Modernist architectural masterpieces for the slimiest of pretexts: property redevelopment. 210427 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The opening scene of my 2004 article 'Blind Into Baghdad' is an interview with Feith, at the Pentagon, on why it didn't make sense to plan for "the day after" in Iraq. 20+ years later, applying same 'logic' to Iran See also: fallows.substack.com/p/the-arroga... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comBlind Into BaghdadThe U.S. occupation of Iraq is a debacle not because the government did no planning but because a vast amount of expert planning was willfully ignored by the people in charge. The inside story of a hi... 15489135 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life. 15888382141 0
Reposted by @xaxat.bsky.socialHere, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Oh, don't know who needs to hear this, but the American Max Headroom series is back up on Tubi. Don't sleep on some of the best SF of the 80s (which got roundly mocked because it was so ridiculous and as I look around, nope, it got more right than wrong.) 59940 0
xaxat.bsky.social @xaxat.bsky.social · 24/02/2026As the expression goes, "they wrote a book about it" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imm...en.wikipedia.orgThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Wikipedia 030 0
