Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

"Even if one imagines that the Putin regime can tell itself unpleasant truths, there is zero chance that his army—that any army—could transform itself so rapidly, on the necessary scale, and with such a dearth of resources." https://www.thebulwark.com/keep-the-new-russian-offensive-in-perspective/

I saw this little guy yesterday and I can't stop thinking about him. So round. So pink. #borbs #borb

Marc Elias, election attorney and founder of Democracy Docket, talks with Alex Wagner about why election deniers are misunderstood to be a temporary aberration, and the measures necessary to secure democracy against Republican subversion.

Watch: https://on.msnbc.com/3YDLP5N

And, if you can stand another, one more new technique I learned.

Unsurprisingly, here's one Oxfam report that hasn't been plastered over our headlines:

https://www.marxist.com/largest-increase-in-global-poverty-since-ww2-capitalists-profit-while-the-rest-of-us-suffer.htm

"Since 2020, the profits of billionaires have increased by $2.7 billion a day.

If you break down those figures, you find that for every new dollar of wealth earned by someone in the bottom 90 percent of society, a billionaire has earned $1.7 million."

#Marxism #Socialism #AntiCapitalism #AntiFascism #GlobalPoverty

cat starts with c

It's like Bill Gates's inner-psyche is trying to become sentient.

Bing's AI meltdowns make Portal's cranky GLaDOS look well adjusted | PC Gamer
https://www.pcgamer.com/bings-ai-meltdowns-make-portals-cranky-glados-look-well-adjusted/

"True literature can exist only when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics."

Yevgeny Zemyatin

Queen size

16 Feb 2023 ⬇️

Another Top Russian Official Found Dead After Apparent Plunge From High-Rise Apartment

Marina #Yankina, 58, was the head of finance and procurement of the #Russian Defense Ministry’s Western Military District.

#RussianWorld

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-senior-official-fall-from-apartment-building/32274330.html

Some of you lot need to sharpen up your cheddar

@Gartenberg unfortunately between step 3 and step 7 a lot of people WILL lose their jobs while the market engages in its usual frothy bullshit hypewave

Everyone wants to know which politician said the N-word or wore Blackface. No one wants to know who shut down mental health facilities (Reagan), or started the war on drugs (Nixon), or made college tuition unaffordable for Black folk (Nixon), or broke the tax code (Reagan).

This hurts white folk too. Today a white woman that's $80K in student loan debt and has no health insurance is standing on a subway platform, scared that a white homeless man with untreated mental illness might attack her. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Twitter is becoming full of AI bros, enlarging the massive NFT and crypto bros presence there.
My god.

What a haven of peace this place is in comparison.

Special counsel Jack Smith is locked in at least 8 secret court battles in Trump investigations | CNN Politics

Two of tRump's attorneys have been compelled to testify already.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/politics/secret-grand-jury-special-counsel-trump/index.html

What Nikki said
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RT @nikkidolson
Absolutely the fuck not
https://twitter.com/nikkidolson/status/1626234117284331520

Could it be?!? Did the most recent Firefox release fix the awful window resizing/moving bug that was really turning me off to using my favorite browser?

⚡️🇪🇺EP supports proposal to expel Russia from UNSC (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3670926-ep-supports-proposal-to-expel-russia-from-unsc.html #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

This is dreadfully sad but also proof that actual badass courageous journalism still lives in the harshest places:

"Had I committed a real crime then it would be possible to ask for leniency, but again, due to my moral and ethical qualities, I would not do this. ... No totalitarian regime has ever been as strong as before its collapse."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64647267