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YWA on Cold War Santa with Sarah

Cold War Santa with Sarah Archer This is a very timely episode of You're Wrong About. I typically re-read The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum this time of year because looking at the hum

AP on Trump to pardon Hernandez

Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Or

Washington Post on Caribbean boat strikes

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Some current and former U.S. officials and law-of-war experts have said that the Pentagon’s lethal campaign — which has

The Guardian on Many prominent Maga

Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals Many of the most influential personalities in the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X are based outside o

pbump.net on So, we’re just moving on?

So, we’re just moving on from the sedition-execution thing? The problem is that we’re so used to this pattern that its effects are muted. This is the president of the United States suggesting tha

LA Review of Books on Giant Platforms of Shit

Giant Platforms of Shit As Doctorow observes, these products and apps are often created with good intentions—or, at the least, designed to deliver something of value both to users and to business

Doomsday Scenario on Trump, Border Patrol Retreat

Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago We may never fully know the cost of MIDWAY BLITZ, which lasted just about two months, but it was surely tens of millions of dollars — probably

The Guardian on US against anti-fascism

US designates four European anti-fascist groups as terrorist threats The US state department has announced that it will designate four European self-described anti-fascist groups as Foreign Terro

tbray.org on Kendzior Case-Study

Kendzior Case-Study I do know quite a bit about Mastodon’s trust-and-safety mechanisms, having been a moderator on CoSocial.ca for a couple of years now. So I’m going to walk through how the same