All of our wars seem to be about supporting Russian oil exports. See my essay “Oligarchic Corridor” for thoughts

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We are starting with one 12-month fellowship; applications are open through April 20.

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#GNOME #OpenSource

Spread this dear ones:

"Bernie Sanders is suggesting the Epstein files be read during the filibuster on the SAVE Act this week.

Let's get this to TREND!

Answered that for you

apnews.com/article/russ...

Zelensky is entirely justified in speaking bluntly like this to Europeans. Too many seem willing to see Ukrainians suffer to provide Europe greater time and security, without acknowledging that Ukraine’s fight is their own.

If Europe found a way for him to save face and move on, great. But Carney's speech was still spoken and was still true. The bell has rung.

Murphy: "As their agenda becomes more unpopular, they then become more dependent on trying to rig out democracy and rig the next election, bc nobody is gonna vote these guys back in ... You gotta connect the dots here. What they are trying to do is rationalize violence."

Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota.
This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.

😂
Reverse Cramer in the house!

Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

Well, if we study Russia as a guide to how this is going to go, the $40 billion dollar ICE budget should net out at about $4 billion after all the stealing along the chain of command, so there is that...

Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’ Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

German businesses heard a similar pitch in 1940.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.

“Mommy, no. Mommy.”

Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.

The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Spot the American. Is it someone who speaks his mind and does the work to get citizenship? Or is it someone born into citizenship who covers his face while abducting people in a Черный ворон?

Ice deports Venezuelan teen despite reportedly knowing he was not a target Merwil Gutiérrez sent from New York to El Salvador prison although family says he has no criminal history or gang ties

no criminal record
no gang ties
no tattoos

active pending asylum case

**19 years old**

sent by trump to prison (forever?) in el salvador

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Armored Ambulances for Ukrainian Medics Please join in to help!

People write to ask how they can help Ukraine. The country's soldiers face renewed attacks from Russia. There is a simple way to make sure that more Ukrainian soldiers survive, and to send a message that we support them: by funding armored evacuation vehicles.
snyder.substack.com/p/armored-am...

A Third World War? Let's help those who are holding it back

How Trump’s Ukraine policy makes a world war more likely (reposting from November).
snyder.substack.com/p/a-third-wo...

I don’t think you are grateful enough. Have you said thank you?

About a thousand times.

Well, I don’t think you have. Or not enough

That’s how low we have gone in less than 2 months

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

“We cannot be made to be afraid of these f**king people. I know these people. They are cowards" - Tim Miller

February 3, 2025 I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Musk is attempting to destroy the federal government from the inside while admitting that he is doing so. Typically excellent summary from Heather Cox Richardson.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-3...

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Photo of snowdrops in the middle of winter :/

Seeing snowdrops at the beginning of February… not so great.

app icon sketch: serial console

app icon sketch: serial console

app icon sketch: serial console

various symbolic icon sketches. non branded attempt to signify ollama - a local, non cloud reliant way to run llms.

Friday sketches!

#procreate #sketch #gnome #app #icon

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.

#MosaicMonday