From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Trump TS post featuring an illustration of himself as a Christian faith healer

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

position from Wei Yi-Pragg, move 16, Black to move

r2 thoughts: a quiet day in the open, with only Pragg missing a real chance, although in fairness, it's not that easy to appreciate in-game just how good your position is here because white hasn't done anything criminal. still, black is better after c4 with the intention of pushing on the qside.

The Ellisons are as dangerous and extreme as Elon Musk. Beware. Be very concerned.

The thing about dementia? A total lack of filter will keep manifesting.

A re-enactment of English Longbowmen at the Battle of Agincourt, with the words "All I Want For Christmas Is Yew" at the bottom of the picture. You see, my dear alt-text readers, Yew wood was the preferred wood for longbows, prized for its strength and flexibility. So it would make sense that the bowmen might want yew for Christmas. This is a pun, a terrible Christmas pun, playing off that Mariah Carey song, you know the once, yes you do. I'm a bad person for making this pun. I am so sorry.

It's a longshot people will get this joke

Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery Nathan Gill, 52, is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes while an MEP.

Denne har gått under raderen for mange. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Den store løgnen bak Trumps båtangrep Bare ved å avsløre de store løgnerne og fortelle de små sannhetene kan vi ha håp om å tøyle Trump og hans stadig mer aggressive presidentskap.

Hva ligger under USAs (ulovlige) militære aksjoner mot venezuelanske og colombianske borgere, kanskje snart også Mexico? Timothy Snyder er nådeløs i sin kritikk av Trump, og sammenlikner med Hitlers atferd fram mot WW2. Flott av Forsvarets Forum!
www.forsvaretsforum.no/donald-trump...

The image is an X post by @RealJakeBroe from 7 hours ago, featuring a two-panel comic. The top panel shows a scientist pointing to a chart with a general trend and an outlier, illustrating a rational argument. The bottom panel depicts a person labeled "ANTI VAX" pointing to a similar chart, labeling it "CONSPIRACY THEORY" with "Lies" and an outlier called "IRREFUTABLE PROOF!!!", satirizing irrational arguments. The caption reads, "It is difficult to win an argument with a smart person. It is impossible to win an argument with an idiot."

This captures much of the frustration of today.

Fact check: Was suspected assassin Boelter close with MN Gov. Walz? Boelter was appointed to an advisory board in 2019, but one member says the board does not interact with the governor on a regular basis.

Minnesota Star Tribune debunks each of the lies and conspiracies posted on social media from Mike Lee, Elon Musk, and all the other usual suspects who do this EVERY time. www.startribune.com/fact-check-d...

Selv sliter jeg med å se hvorfor man trenger denne endringen.

Klart, en skal selvfølgelig ha samtykke - og om en part er ute av stand til å si "nei" er det selvfølgelig "nei."

Jeg klarer ikke å unngå tanken at det er noen snev av å snu bevisbyrden fordi det er så vanskelig å bevise overgrep.

A buried American P-38 fighter plane has resurfaced on a Welsh beach, sixty-five years after crashing there.

Lederen i FORs ungdomsparti hyller Nord-Korea Mulonda «Maven» Rashidi, den nyvalgte lederen i ungdomspartiet til FOR, omtaler Nord-Korea som et av de frieste og mest demokratiske landene i verden.

"Konfrontert med at Nord-Korea er betegnet som et undertrykkende diktatur uten ytringsfrihet og demokrati, svarer Mulonda Rashidi følgende:
– Jeg mener at det du prater om der, er liberale verdier som USA forsøker å påføre andre land. Nord-Korea har andre verdier."

www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/lede...

Lederen i FORs ungdomsparti hyller Nord-Korea Mulonda «Maven» Rashidi, den nyvalgte lederen i ungdomspartiet til FOR, omtaler Nord-Korea som et av de frieste og mest demokratiske landene i verden.

Man skulle ikke tro det var mulig, men partiet med det misvisende navnet "Fred og rettferdighet" har blitt enda mer motbydelig.
www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/lede...

Eksperter vegrer seg for å snakke om USA Eksperter NRK kontakter for å snakke om hva som skjer i USA nå, tør ikke stå frem i frykt for konsekvensene.

Det er lett å se slike saker og bli forvirret. Nå må vi alle besinne oss og huske på hva som er den EGENTLIGE trusselen mot ytringsfriheten, nemlig woke.
www.nrk.no/norge/eksper...

Ja, men det betyr ikke at alle detaljene er OK.

En del av dem går for langt.

Trump's ugly nonsense about the "genocide" of white farmers in South Africa suggests he's tapped into an internationalized version of white genocide theory that long festered on the far right and has now become mainstream.

New piece from me digging into all this:
newrepublic.com/article/1953...

I was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. I resigned because of Trump's foreign policy. | Opinion I served in our country's foreign service for three decades. The Trump administration's Ukraine policy will make the U.S. less safe.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink said she resigned because of the Trump administration’s policy of “putting pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia”
www.freep.com/story/opinio...

Da er det jo ingen grunn til at det skal være forbudt?

Spesielt viktig er det jo ikke, men noen har jo forbudt det tidligere.

A photo of the face of a mature man in round-framed glasses. He is wearing a suit. He has bold sides of his head.

3 May 1892 | Norwegian Jew, Leopold Jaffe, was born in Oslo.

He arrived at Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was registered in the camp after the selection. He perished in Auschwitz in September 1943.

Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

the brightly lit studio with the commentary cast at the desk, looking into the camera. Nazi Paikidze on the left, Yasser Seirawan on the right, and me in the middle

gct is back. the tour starts in warsaw with the rapid and blitz, and the st louis crew is ready for it (well, as ready as one can be at 6am)

www.youtube.com/live/Kb5BIzd...

some dumb motherfuckers , even libs , act like the relative lack of conservative professors is a problem . but american conservatism is an anti intellectual movement! might as well ask why there’s a lack of vegan chefs in brazilian steakhouses

Bjarte Flem tabbe (1988) YouTube video by harrunostasj

Så ut som et ganske vanlig selvmål?

Ikke akkurat Bjarte Flem-klasse over denne.

youtu.be/OP_En84aIOM?...

Høyre-topp fikser Dagbladet-titler med ChatGPT: - Helt genialt – Dette var faktisk helt genialt, mener Sveinung Rotevatn om Lars Øy sitt hobbyprosjekt.

Fungerer denne fortsatt?

www.kode24.no/artikkel/hoy...

Debatten om «frifødsel» har sporet av Vi må tilbake til kjernen.

"Men uansett hvor mange jordmødre, fødeavdelinger og ressurser vi setter inn, er det et annet, voksende problem som må anerkjennes og bekjempes: en fremvekst av en kultur der subjektive følelser trumfer objektiv kunnskap" 🎯

Dette gjelder på de fleste områder

www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

The penguins take revenge with the help of friends 🤣

CNN’s Harry Enten: “What did Donald Trump inherit? He inherited a bull market from Joe Biden. Donald Trump is the only one to take a bull market and turn it into a bear market to such a degree that we're having a drop of 5 percent or more at this point”

Where the right’s defense of free speech ends The right’s muddled response to Trump’s student deportations expose its paper-thin commitment to the principle.

Trump's student deportations are a test for conservatives who claim to stand for free speech. They're mostly flunking it.

www.vox.com/on-the-right...