You have to fight fire with fire. With VA, NY and Calif on our side we’ll probably get 20-30 extra seats. And don’t forget, this was a magat idea!

Um, guys? Remember what happened to the south africans? Only the Israelis could do the job or the US marines.

More on #Lumumba ‘s tooth:
Past time to test the damn thing.

Next US president has to expand the court, or nothing he or she does will last.

America wakes up to AI’s dangerous power After Mythos, a laissez-faire approach is no longer politically tenable or strategically wise

Oh great. Now we have to worry about HAL. www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

One we are not keeping right now

I lost my faith in the hills of eastern Congo.

Canada had a little fascism scare in the 1930s, maybe. Very strange thing to put at top of your list.

Dozens such

But for months the Atlantic led the charge that dark days were ahead

When was it fascist in Canada?

First Canada
Then Australia
Then South Korea

Now Hungary

Next — America

Fascism is failing - democracy is winning

Not sure about this Hornsby history of kenya

This idea that the entirety of World News is whatever idiocies trump is muttering that day plus every single military development in the Middle East (and almost nothing else) is such an impoverished understanding of the world and has caused me to withdraw from most of the usual big media sources.

Wtf isnt this on the front page mr. @declanwalsh.bsky.social ?

Not since jeff gettleman has a prize been so richly deserved

Essay | Jews Begin to Wonder: Is Anywhere Safe? “It feels like the 1930s again.” Hostility against Jews surges in Western countries where they felt safe in recent decades.

Oh bull fucking shit. Check my name asswipes. You just want to kill every last palestinian. A final solution, as it were. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Til then, it’s goodbye from this half-century long reader (and episodic contributor).

Because in fact the world has gotten netter for 90% of the world—Americans are nearly 3 X richer than then, the Chinese and Indians are immeasurably better off, all sorts of diseases have been cured, unimagined technologies become routine. Perhaps a little more attention could be paid.

Meanwhile a new paradigm of news has emerged, from folks like @sambentley.bsky.social, Emily Coxhead and David Byrne, who focus on the largely ignored positive developments of our time, which may provide a truer chronicle of our world than the “if it (is white) and bleeds it leads” paradigm.

It’s coverage of how climate change will affect the worst off—those living in the poorer, equatorial parts of the world—has also been desultory.

Meanwhile a deafening silence on the places where the melanin-enhanced are dying (I’m looking at you @declanwalsh.bsky.social , it wasnt like this in @hofrench.bsky.social days) despite millions of deaths in congo—a country whose plight is largely the result of disastrous US policies.

I started reading the Intl Herald Tribune when i was 13 in Abidjan. Safire and Buchwald dueling on left and right side of the op-ed page.
These days the @nytimes.com is all trump all the time. Every wart on the guy. And the Middle East, which will go on for another 100 years at least. (1/3)

Colonialism maybe, but didn’t his ancestors sell his neighbors to the slavers?
And who should pay? Those first gen Somali refugees eating all those domesticated animals?

Oh look, another huge story the @nytimes.com has splashed all over the front page

U know who won’t find this remotely plausible? Mr. Reich @rbreich.bsky.social

Well thats not great. Operative word “was”?

Not the junior senator. The re-elected president

Honest to god id vote for this guy over all my previous heartthrobs: Buttigieg, Warren, Sanders, AOC

Oh quelle surprise. It did