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My BIO is DEGRADABLE.. Between the Moon and Houghton Mi.

[Rachel Nichols @Rachel__Nichols]

Louder than the boos for the Spurs, louder than any boos I've heard in this building in a while.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

If you’re looking for an explanation for how Trump got elected, it’s the same mechanism that makes people think irrational shit like chatbots are conscious or SpaceX is worth $2T.

Psyops. Elon Musk is a conman who learned from Peter Thiel you can change people’s brains through social media. That’s why Musk bought Twitter and turned it into a platform for personal aggrandizement, white supremacist propaganda, and organized psychological warfare.

That’s how Trump ran the table in ‘24: Elon Musk targeted exactly the demographics he needed to—on Twitter. It’s Cambridge Analytica on steroids, applied to a captured population.

This is also why there is a literal cult of AI promoters right now. Musk is deliberately programming the population to buy into the worst bubble in the history of the world—for exit liquidity.

This is what Thiel meant when he said “technology is this great alternative to politics.” He actually meant “we can use technology to take away freewill.” Musk is now applying this process to his own personal wealth.

America is being brainwashed at scale by a small group of elites.
They must be stopped and their tentacles totally rooted out. And our system must drastically change to prevent a relapse.

This is the great challenge of our time: Can we recognize the true source of our dysfunction—organized digital lying by elites—and do something about it?

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Dan Rather's right. Every story run by CBS and Bari Weiss next fall should have an asterisk superimposed: "This story was approved by Donald Trump." When a fascist authoritarian regime's in charge of what the American people should know, the country has gone full banana republic.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1915, the sitting U.S. Secretary of State resigned in protest because he thought the President was pushing America toward war.

His name was William Jennings Bryan. Three-time Democratic presidential nominee. One of the most famous men in America. And he walked away from the most powerful cabinet position in government because he believed Woodrow Wilson was lying to the public.

The Lusitania had been sunk by a German U-boat a month earlier. 1,201 people dead, including 128 Americans. Wilson sent Germany a sharp diplomatic note demanding accountability. Bryan signed the first note reluctantly. But when Wilson drafted a second one, even harder in tone, Bryan refused.

His argument was rational: Britain was also violating American neutrality, blockading German ports and stopping U.S. ships. Wilson was protesting Germany loudly and ignoring Britain entirely. Bryan called it exactly what it was: favoritism that would drag America into the war on Britain's side.

He resigned rather than sign the note. He said he would not be complicit in what he believed was a deliberate march to war dressed up as neutral diplomacy.

He was right. America entered WWI two years later. 116,000 Americans died.

History mostly forgot Bryan and celebrated Wilson. But Bryan saw it coming, said so publicly, and paid for it with his career. Sometimes the people who resign in protest are the ones who had it figured out.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Stunning new report shows that last night, a US helicopter was shot down and its pilots were MISSING…and Trump went to the NBA Finals ANYWAY!

This is a new low…

The commander-in-chief’s disdain and disregard for the “suckers and losers” (his words) in the United States military is well-known at this point, but it is still shocking to see just how little a shit he gives.

Last night, a US Apache helicopter was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz by an Iranian drone in the latest incident in the illegal war of aggression that Donald Trump started on behalf of Israel.

Two pilots ejected and were missing for several hours. But rather than monitor the situation and show some care for the lives that he himself had put in danger, Trump decided to go to the NBA Finals game to stuff his face with fries and then take a sodium siesta.

“CENTCOM said the pilots shot down were rescued at 7:33 PM ET within 2 hours after they were shot down. Trump boarded the helicopter from Bedminster to go to the Knicks game at 6:57 PM ET. So he was on his way to the game after they were shot down and before they were rescued,” points out journalist Ron Filipkowski on Twitter.

Can you IMAGINE how Fox News would have responded if Obama did this? The hypocrisy is unbelievable!

Trump himself didn’t acknowledge the incident until just a few minutes ago, when he posted on Truth Social that:

“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

Did…they just tell him NOW?

This has another, even more terrifying implication: that the US military is withholding information from Trump because he’s too volatile and too unpredictable to be trusted to not make a stupid decision in a fit of petulant rage.

Either way, Trump is entirely unfit to lead this once great nation and needs to be removed from office immediately.

25th Amendment NOW!

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

What has happened at the #2026WorldCup over the last 48 hours:

• Swiss footballer Embolo's visa was put under review and he was only able to join his team days later.

• Iraqi national team player Aymen Hussein was held for questioning for nearly 7 hours upon entering the United States.

• The Iranian national team spent days dealing with visa procedures at the U.S. Consulate in Türkiye. The U.S. only allowed them entry on match days. Fifteen members of the delegation were denied visas.

• Omar Abdulkadir Artan, named CAF's Best African Referee of 2025, was denied a visa. Despite travelling to the U.S. with a diplomatic passport, he was refused entry and sent back. FIFA announced that he will not be able to officiate at the tournament.

• The South African national team arrived in the United States much later than planned because part of the delegation was not granted visas.

• Members of the Senegal national team staff were forced to remove their shoes and subjected to lengthy searches, sparking accusations of racism.

• The Uzbekistan national team was searched with bomb-sniffing dogs and the footage went viral in international media.

• Some Scottish supporters, despite being eligible to enter the U.S. visa-free under the ESTA programme, had their travel authorisations revoked just days before departure.

• Many supporters who had already bought tickets and booked accommodation had their visa applications rejected, resulting in financial losses.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

It's the golden age for criminals.

[@MysterySolvent @MysterySolvents]

Trump prevented everyone from celebrating near the game. He made everyone show up hours early. Women could not take in a bag. He inconvenienced the entire city. And then he fell asleep.

[Gloria Lopata-Prosperi🟧 @GloriaLopata]

@CalltoActivism

[royfe @royfe]

@jshillzzz @TommyBeer Fuck Trump

[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

First, the loyal fans who supported the Knicks for decades when the team sucked (emptying thier wallets for tickets, shirts, jerseys) get priced out of the building when New York finally reaches the Finals (by insanely wealthy patrons willing/capable of casually blowing $20k on a pair of tickets to a basketball game, many of them having just hopped on the bandwagon or purchased tix to Game 3 solely b/c MSG is “the place to be” this week).

Then those same loyal, working-class fans get a second middle finger from ownership. Due to Dolan's desire to host Trump, thousands of diehard Knicks fans are denied the chance to gather outside the Garden, watch the game on a big screen, and share a once-in-a-lifetime moment with the community that helped keep this franchise alive when nobody else cared.

Access is reserved for the powerful, rich and/or connected, not the fans who stuck with this team through 20+ years of misery.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: The boos aren’t just inside MSG, they are OUTSIDE too.

We’re getting reports that every-time Trump’s face is shown on screen New Yorkers can hear booing from residents all over the city. This is historic.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Europe Wins Again. Obviously.

Armenia went to the polls yesterday. And the results are exactly what you’d expect if you’d been paying attention for the past five years, rather than wallowing in Kremlin nostalgia like a damp sock.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on Monday, with his Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5% of the vote.  Armenia, a landlocked country the size of Belgium that Russia has spent decades treating as a vassal state, has looked at its options and made a decision that required roughly the same level of intellectual effort as choosing between a Michelin-starred restaurant and a skip fire.

They chose Europe.

This election was less a routine vote than a referendum on Pashinyan’s post-2020 course reducing dependence on Russia and moving toward an explicit European orientation. And Russia, naturally, did everything in its power to stop it. According to Reuters, citing Western intelligence officials, the election faced heavy Russian covert interference, including disinformation campaigns and a plan to transport Russian Armenians into Armenia to sway the vote. One analyst collective described it as one of the largest state-backed disinformation campaigns in modern European history. And Armenia still told them to get lost.

Putin had already warned Armenia it would face economic consequences for drifting westward, and introduced restrictions on Armenian agricultural exports in the weeks before the vote.  Threats, propaganda, economic blackmail. The full Russian toolkit. Result: irrelevant.

Now, Trump, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance would like you to believe that Russia represents some superior civilisational model. A proud, white, Christian fortress holding the line against the Muslim hordes supposedly swamping Europe. It is a compelling narrative, in the same way that flat earth theory is compelling if you ignore every single fact available to you.

Here is one such fact: between 10 and 15 percent of Russia’s own population is Muslim. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis. Millions of them. Russia is, by its own demographic reality, a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state with a larger Muslim population than most of Western Europe. But you’re not supposed to know that. It complicates the story.

Meanwhile, the Muslim share of the EU population sits at around 5 percent. But the Tucker Carlsons of the world need you frightened, so the numbers get quietly shuffled off stage.

So Armenia joins the queue. Behind Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and every Eastern European country that isn’t currently run by a Slovak who seems to have wandered in from a Moscow focus group. The pattern is not subtle. Every country that has actually experienced Russian influence in practice is sprinting in the opposite direction. The only nation currently moving toward Russia’s orbit is the United States, which managed to elect a man whose foreign policy instincts were apparently shaped by a property developer’s admiration for strongmen with good buildings.

The world watches America and hopes it finds its way back. Most people think it will. Eventually. The damage, however, is already considerable, and democracy, like a soufflé, does not always survive rough handling.

Armenia made its choice. The right one. Obviously.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

How can Trump go to a Knicks game? I was told he wasn’t safe anywhere without a ballroom.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

I've compiled a list of all the Ballroom advocates that have warned Trump it's just too dangerous to attend the MSG Knicks game in a deep blue, Trump hating murder city like New York.

1.