1. The CIA director unexpectedly flies to Moscow to deliver a message to Putin: Article 5 is ironclad, don’t even think about attacking NATO countries in Europe.
2. Literally two days later, the U.S. deputy secretary of defense comes to NATO headquarters in Brussels and, in softened Machiavellian language, publicly says the following: "Atlantic unity no longer means anything to us. We are leaving, just as we withdrew support for Ukraine. There will be no support or protection in the event of a Russian attack, defend yourselves however you can. Diplomatically, we will call this "Europe taking responsibility for its own conventional defense."
So what conclusion about his plans should Putin draw when he sees this?
“Last December, one of our drones captured nine Russian soldiers at once, with no Ukrainian soldier anywhere near the site.
It gave commands over a megaphone, they surrendered, and the drone led them to our position” — Ukraine’s military target verification analyst, Andrii. 1/
Feminists DO NOT represent the majority of Women.
They are now one of the biggest DANGERS to Girls & Women.
Their suicidal empathy is getting Girls & Women harmed & killed.
It’s time for rational Women to SPEAK UP & fight for common sense.
#antifeminist
China, Russia, and Iran have divided Americans using bots on social media for years.
This won’t stop until social media companies face consequences for allowing the bots to exist. They could get rid of them today but they don’t want to devalue their companies. It’s time to hold them accountable.
China is secretly fueling America's data center rage Per Axios
~200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media
@mattyglesias People dont https://t.co/U931TfWS14 governance. Kinda just destroys the middle class. But the middle class vote gop. So the dsa wants them gone. The poor vote dem.
The other day I was cooking up the take “people are sleeping on Tennessee” but actually a ton of people are moving to Tennessee — more than to Arizona or Florida — nobody is sleeping.
This is deeply disturbing: Retired General and former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn just shared a long-debunked, AI-generated fake video about a crying forced conscript in Ukraine. Flynn attended RT's 10th anniversary dinner in 2015, sitting close to Vladimir Putin. 🧵
That didn't take long. Nine days ago I posted about how we might start seeing Jason Arday's name (like George Floyd's name) appearing in the titles and abstracts of articles indexed in PubMed. Well, here is the first one. From it, you can see that academia has learned mostly nothing. Page 1 of 2:
When Muslims tell you who they are believe them. Hijab is NOT and has never been a choice. It’s not empowering to treat women as sex objects from birth. It’s not a feminist to accept the dehumanization and subjugation of women in Islam through hijab. It’s not liberating to swap rape culture with modesty culture. Words have consequences and women carry the consequences in Islam. We get harassed, assaulted, raped, lashed, imprisoned, acid attacked and murdered for refusing to wear hijab. Hijab is and forever will be a tool of oppression and I will forever say No To Hijab!
An Australian man was playing a beautiful piano piece for the public in Sydney when a strange foreign man pulled up behind him, grabbed the piano, then threatened to bash him for no reason.
Really beautiful metaphor for Australia in 2026.