IF YOU’RE IN LINE TO GET CONTROL OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, STAY IN LINE

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When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

pope tweets good

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

One thing that I'm thinking about as a ponder how Todd Blanche put someone whose wife was investigated for foreign influence peddling on this case is that before Blanche was Trump's lawyer be was Boris Epshteyn's lawyer and before he was Epshteyn's lawyer he was Paul Manafort's lawyer.

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the only good news is that DeLorenz will be quickly outlawyered by Brennan's team.

If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.

When the Bush administration tried to monkeywrench the 4th Amendment in the name of national security, the FBI director, Bob Mueller, told Bush he'd quit in protest. Trump's Justice Department shouldn't get away with this.

Anthropic's Nuclear Bomb A few hours before Anthropic announced the launch of its newest model, Claude Mythos Preview, on April 7, I had just completed a six-month analysis of

Businesses and critical infrastructure across the world may soon face a reality where offensive cyber capability is widely available. What comes next?

"....Your letter, better than anything I have seen during my time as Principal Chief, illustrates the great challenges for tribes engaging with the [State of Oklahoma]

Brutal Economy Fulfills Mom’s Dream Of Having All Her Kids Back Home Extra Family Time A Perk As Children Face Financial Ruin

Brutal Economy Fulfills Mom’s Dream Of Having All Her Kids Back Home theonion.com/brutal-economy-fulfills-...

A federal judge sided with Oregon Right to Life, finding that a 2017 state law that mandates health benefit plans cover abortion and contraception violates the U.S. Constitution.

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

they want them ready for 2028

These are adjudged terrorists.

New campaign slogan: we've decided to tax your treasonous club

Professor Banned From Teaching Plato Excerpt to Leave Texas A&M: ‘It’s Getting Worse’ Martin Peterson tells us why he’s not staying to fight.

What’s the point of having an expert…in the classroom if that expert doesn’t get to decide what to say and not to say…? If the board or the university wants to micromanage, censor, tell us what to say and what not to say, the very idea of a university collapses. www.chronicle.com/article/prof...

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“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.”

@heathmayo.bsky.social

Hungary's prime minister elect announcing that Orbán was funding CPAC and other Trump-related political activities (also Heritage Foundation's Project 2025), and this will now end.

Yes, to get the votes for de- institutionalization efforts. Yet, he never funded them at the levels needed and the GOP has aggressively cut services for 40+ years.

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Its good b/c [they] call Steve Witkoff: Dim Philby

Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.

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The polls have closed in Hungary - and it appears that turnout will approach 80%, a post-communist record.

A street corner, with a sign reading "Play Area & Cholera Burial Ground".

Saving for "State your mood in one image" threads.

A very stable genius™️

The History of Psychiatric Hospitalization at Home in the US A story of institutional amnesia

The History of Psychiatric Hospitalization at Home in the US

A story of institutional amnesia

Guest post by David Heath

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-histor...