We should refer to @mashagessen's Rules for #SurvivingAutocracy daily, especially now that Trump is worse than Putin. Journalists are failing to pay attention. They downplay, buy the normality, say "we're not shocked," "someone will stop him." No one is coming to save us but us.

Let’s be frank: today, China is not a neutral country. After all, if it were, China would have already stopped selling Russia the turbojet engines used to wage terror against Ukraine. Russia has no alternative to these engines, and China knows this perfectly well.

I feel sorry for the people who believe they & their families are getting Covid & walking away unscathed. People aren’t clearing this virus. There is no funding left to study it. The long-term consequences are already appearing, & will become more obvious over time, in everyone.

Trump has invited Putin to join the G20 in Miami this December because Trump admires dictators who attack other countries and murder journalists.

Remember when all eyes were on Rafah? The Biden admin watched as it was systematically destroyed.

"Inside the White House, the mood has been grim" "Trump allies have tried to convey how bad the environment is for Republicans...but Trump has at times cut off those conversations" "Trump has expressed frustration that Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar broke with him on immigration"

Our ability to create technologies has lapped our ability to understand their consequences. We have zero idea what will happen when we begin modifying darkness itself.

Just know a person who doesn’t like hearing the truth don’t like telling it either.

The Democratic Party now has a 91% chance of winning the US House of Representatives, according to prediction market @Kalshi.

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

Thanks @RichardGrenell for drawing more attention to this important article. Gift link here: wsj.com/articles/kimberly-gu…

Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." wsj.com/articles/kimberly-gu…

Exactly this: AI-powered edtech is being sold to universities under the guise of increasing “access.” Helping disabled students is a Trojan horse that has proven extremely effective for morally blackmailing admins into buying software, and profs into allowing it in the classroom.

This. If you know an assault is happening (an assault that continues for 7 hours!) and don’t do anything about it, you’re in on the crime.

In the 1990s, Ru couldn't hold one democratic election, its constitution-writing process ended in a shootout, it leveled Chechnya, occupied parts of Moldova/Georgia, supported the aggressor in the Yugoslav wars, but some fantasize about how it could've joined the EU. Laughable.

The thing that makes men terrifying is not only the rape but the permission structure which allowed them to BOTH recruit MORE RAPISTS AND NOT BE TURNED IN BY ANYONE! Even the guys who elected not to participate did NOT CALL THE AUTHORITIES!

In occupied Oleshky, Ukrainians are beginning to eat their dogs; according to the city's military administration, the Russians have not allowed food into the city since May. The Russians intend to starve 6,000 people to death. "A few days ago, I heard for the first time that there are indeed cases where some families are eating dogs. Just a week ago, I denied such reports, but now someone from there has confirmed it to me. There is literally nothing to eat. The situation is deteriorating not just day by day, but hour by hour. And there is no prospect of rescue. People face two paths: either they starve to death, or they are killed by a drone or artillery fire. There is no third option. The likelihood of surviving there without food is zero," explained Tetiana Hasanenko, head of the Oleshky military administration, as reported by *Ukrayinska Pravda*. According to the head of the military administration, there is no disparity where some families in the city have food while others do not; everyone is starving. The last food delivery to Oleshky took place on May 26. Every subsequent attempt has been unsuccessful.

"A superpower is dying by suicide because the Republican congress is too cowardly to stand up to to the mad king. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever." Heather Cox Richardson.

I mean, as long as you lick the boots of the institution and pledge absolute loyalty to them, they’ll protect you at all costs no matter what you do. Education was never the goal. Loyalty is.

The WHOLE FRATĖRNITY got a group text “advertising” exactly what was happening. NOT ONE MAN IN THAT CORNELL FRATĖRNITY STEPPED IN TO HELP THE VICTIM OR STOP IT. NOT. A. SINGLE. ONE.

RT @catladyactivist: It takes 18–24 months for the brain to heal from post-viral inflammation, but people get reinfected yearly. The math i…