Interesting News, Articles & Stuff

[florduh]

These are the actions of a nation capitulating to Russia. There is no way to argue that it is anything else.

There's a new crop of Right Wingers who believe we can make an alliance with Russia against CHYNA. I think this is stupid for a variety of reasons:

1) Putin just watched America stab an ally in the back. We've done that many times in the past but not live in 4k.

2) Putin is crazy, but he's smart. There's no way he thinks America will come out on top versus China.

3) Why would he accept junior membership in the American Empire? His Ukraine War is looking to be a sizeable victory. He gained territory and humiliated the West. He was able to weather America's sanctions. Russia also figured out how to defeat all of NATO's new drone and anti-drone technology. Secrets they've no doubt shared with China, North Korea etc.

Still wondering what the fuck Putin is holding over Trump's head.

I'll admit... today doesn't look good for RussiaGate doubters like me. But I still think there's a simpler explanation. Trump likes strong men like Putin. Eight years ago, Putin sarcastically called Trump "smart". Trump was too dumb to understand he was joking. Also, Conservatives hate Ukraine because Liberals made the war their personal cause.

They want to cut off Ukraine and focus on Iran, a Final Solution for the Palestinians, and China.

 

[JBone65]

Still wondering what the fuck Putin is holding over Trump's head. This is the only thing that makes sense to me.

Whatever it is he's willing to sell his country right down the river.

I've been wondering this same things for at least five years. Here's my take:

Trump admits being bff with Epstein from 1980 -95, and Bob Bernstein provided evidence they were still close friends as late as 2017. Here's where it turns nasty. Trump and Epstein were sued 3 times by an anonymous girl under the name Katie Johnson. You can guess what they were sued for. The first time she sued was in 1997 when she was 17, supposedly for multiple incidents 4 years earlier. She was laughed out of court because of no evidence, no one believed her crazy story. She reportedly sued three times over a 19 year period and was eventually paid off before it got to depositions. The news articles have been re-written and written over so that it's very difficult to find info that was available only 5 years ago. Consequently it's hard to believe. One of the following two articles still has some details buried way down in it. Epstein was the world's most intense blackmailer who had half a billion dollars he couldn't account for.

Search "Politico 230770" & "Vox 13501364".

It's interesting that Trump came on the scene, projecting, calling everyone else the P word. It's also interesting that the Musk brothers had interactions with Epstein as well. In fact Kimball reportedly married an Epstein girl in 2001.

Ignoring what he says, everything he does seems to hurt the US, NATO, EU, UK, allies, trading partners, neighbors, etc. Putin was on his last leg but now he has new life and an itchy trigger finger. We're all in deep shit.

edit: Trump is the Manchurian President. You can change the leadership to (techno- oligarchy) fascism but Americans might just refuse to change.

 

[cybrguy]

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

snyder.substack.com

 

[Radwin Bodnic]

One of the biggest marine fuel company in Norway :

 

[florduh]

China has the Mandate of Heaven.

China finds 'limitless' energy source that could 'power the country'

China has discovered an 'endless' energy source that could supply enough fuel to power the country for 60,000 years, geologists in Beijing have claimed.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[CANtalk]

The Trump Admin Thinks Affordable Fiber Broadband Is ‘Woke’​

The Trump Admin Thinks Affordable Fiber Broadband Is ‘Woke’

It’s understandably not going to get the same attention as the dismantling of numerous government agencies at the hands of rich unelected manbabies, but the Trump administration is also taking…

www.techdirt.com

15 Republican AGs Urge The Supreme Court To Make Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People Illegal​

15 Republican AGs Urge The Supreme Court To Make Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People Illegal

The FCC runs an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called the Universal Service Fund. The program was historically …

www.techdirt.com

German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility​

German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego-area immigrant detention facility

The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.

www.kpbs.org

Will the Supreme Court Face Down Trump or Flinch?​

Will the Supreme Court Face Down Trump or Flinch?

For John Roberts and the other non-MAGA SCOTUS conservatives, the hour of trial draws near.

www.thebulwark.com

Canadian political party polling. Guess what happened in early January 2025

How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance​

How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance

Vance snaked his way in first to the row between Trump and Zelenskyy, his second intrusion this month after Munich

www.theguardian.com

WSJ editorial board takes a shot at 'wannabe statesman' JD Vance after Zelensky 'brawl'​

WSJ editorial board takes a shot at 'wannabe statesman' JD Vance after Zelensky 'brawl'

Vice President J.D. Vance's "odd interjection" that sparked a shouting match with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump didn't earn any kudos from the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board Friday evening.Trump and Zelensky's heated argument stunned...

www.rawstory.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1j27zpb
Alliance of the Predators

Most Americans say economy is getting worse but Republican views do backflip​

Most Americans say economy is getting worse but Republican views do backflip

Harris poll finds 51% of Americans think US economy is worsening with views on Trump tariffs split on party lines

www.theguardian.com

Dying in Darkness: Jeff Bezos Turns Out the Lights in the Washington Post’s Opinion Section​

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion-00206330

There Are No More Redlines - Welcome to the Great Emboldening.​

https://web.archive.org/web/20250301011303/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/jeff-bezos-great-emboldening/681886/

 

[florduh]

When I first saw Andor, I thought, "why is the Disney corporation of all places portraying and glamorizing explicitly Leftist insurgents doing violent terrorism against a fascist empire?"

The first season of Andor's major set piece is a robbery to fund the Rebel Alliance. This story was based on young Joseph Stalin doing bank robberies to fund Lenin's Bolshevik Rebellion.

The Real Life Robbery That Inspired Andor's Big Heist Storyline - SlashFilm

You've got to fund a rebellion somehow.

www.slashfilm.com

The show's creator:


To be clear, the best Star Wars since the early 80's is explicitly the space version of Young Stalin and the Russian Revolution.

Disney is marketing Andor to a broader audience than only Star Wars fans. I just rewatched it and the show works even if you know nothing about Star Wars. It portrays a cyberpunk capitalist dystopia where the government used to be a republic but now it's gone fascist. The show answers the question: what should citizens of conscience do about it? According to this Disney+ original series, you don't resist fascism by voting. No. You do it by participating in terrorism!

I guess my question is... conditions have degraded since 2022. Is the Trump BurgerReich FCC Minister going to allow the second season to air?

 

[JBone65]

Will Americans stand by and watch as Trump gives the US to Putin? Has there ever been anything more worth fighting for? Putin is very desperate because Ukraine is slowly gaining the upper hand, so he's having Trump take immediate action to help Russia even though it exposes Trump as the Manchurian President. Dark times ahead.

 

[CANtalk]

The USA has a child marriage epidemic—it's even worse than you think​

The USA has a child marriage epidemic—it's even worse than you think

Despite more than 300,000 documented child marriages since 2000, Republicans are fighting to keep it that way

www.qasimrashid.com

Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean​

Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean

Amy Coney Barrett was not having it.

slate.com

Republican Official Orders Party to Avoid Town Halls After Protests​

Republican Official Orders Party to Avoid Town Halls After Protests

The NRCC issued a stark warning to all Republican members of Congress.

newrepublic.com

Social Security Checks Could Stop Going Out by April, Ex-Head Warns​

Social Security Checks Could Stop Going Out by April, Ex-Head Warns

The former Social Security commissioner said the system could “collapse,” causing disruptions in payments within “30 to 90 days.”

www.thedailybeast.com

From MAGA to monarchy: How tech billionaires are engineering American autocracy​

From MAGA to monarchy: How tech billionaires are engineering American autocracy

Common sense for the Trump age

www.salon.com

It’s clear that Trump is an agent of Putin. All US allies should be alarmed​

It’s clear that Trump is an agent of Putin. All US allies should be alarmed

With the US president parroting Putin talking points, America’s allies must rethink their security strategies.

www.smh.com.au

Ongoing flushing of the US reputation down the toilet

JD Vance calls UK 'some random country that hasn't fought war in 30 years'​

JD Vance calls UK 'some random country that hasn't fought war in 30 years'

US Vice President JD Vance said the only way to secure lasting peace in Ukraine is to grant the US an economic upside - and slammed the UK as 'some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 years'

www.mirror.co.uk

UK MPs condemn ‘deeply disrespectful’ JD Vance comments​

UK MPs condemn ‘deeply disrespectful’ JD Vance comments

US vice-president’s comments on proposed Anglo-French deployment to Ukraine prompt outrage

www.theguardian.com

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Insults Canadians in Bizarre Stunt at U.S. Border​

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Insults Canadians in Bizarre Border Stunt

Kristi Noem’s behavior on an official visit to the U.S.-Canada border echoes President Trump’s aggressive rhetoric.

www.thedailybeast.com

​

​

 

[cybrguy]

The USA has a child marriage epidemic—it's even worse than you think​

The USA has a child marriage epidemic—it's even worse than you think

Despite more than 300,000 documented child marriages since 2000, Republicans are fighting to keep it that way

www.qasimrashid.com

Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean​

Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean

Amy Coney Barrett was not having it.

slate.com

Republican Official Orders Party to Avoid Town Halls After Protests​

Republican Official Orders Party to Avoid Town Halls After Protests

The NRCC issued a stark warning to all Republican members of Congress.

newrepublic.com

Social Security Checks Could Stop Going Out by April, Ex-Head Warns​

Social Security Checks Could Stop Going Out by April, Ex-Head Warns

The former Social Security commissioner said the system could “collapse,” causing disruptions in payments within “30 to 90 days.”

www.thedailybeast.com

From MAGA to monarchy: How tech billionaires are engineering American autocracy​

From MAGA to monarchy: How tech billionaires are engineering American autocracy

Common sense for the Trump age

www.salon.com

It’s clear that Trump is an agent of Putin. All US allies should be alarmed​

It’s clear that Trump is an agent of Putin. All US allies should be alarmed

With the US president parroting Putin talking points, America’s allies must rethink their security strategies.

www.smh.com.au

Ongoing flushing of the US reputation down the toilet

JD Vance calls UK 'some random country that hasn't fought war in 30 years'​

JD Vance calls UK 'some random country that hasn't fought war in 30 years'

US Vice President JD Vance said the only way to secure lasting peace in Ukraine is to grant the US an economic upside - and slammed the UK as 'some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 years'

www.mirror.co.uk

UK MPs condemn ‘deeply disrespectful’ JD Vance comments​

UK MPs condemn ‘deeply disrespectful’ JD Vance comments

US vice-president’s comments on proposed Anglo-French deployment to Ukraine prompt outrage

www.theguardian.com

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Insults Canadians in Bizarre Stunt at U.S. Border​

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Insults Canadians in Bizarre Border Stunt

Kristi Noem’s behavior on an official visit to the U.S.-Canada border echoes President Trump’s aggressive rhetoric.

www.thedailybeast.com

​

​

You know, this might all be in some manner entertaining if I was watching some foolish asshole running some third world country in to the ground for shits and giggles. Unfortunately, as this is my own fucking country that I never imagined was susceptible to something like this, it is extremely difficult to feel anything but shame and disgust. And anger of course. And some level of confusion that so many are so willing to destroy so much of what we have been able to accomplish.

 

[florduh]

Elon Musk suggests we privatize Amtrack and the USPS.

Elon Musk suggests the U.S. should privatize the Postal Service and Amtrak

During a remote appearance at a technology conference in San Francisco, Musk told attendees the U.S. should privatize "as much as possible."

www.nbcnews.com

Since we're making suggestions, here's mine:

 

[macbill]

Tesla sales crater as 'embarrassed' owners unload vehicles due to Elon Musk salute: report

Tesla sales have slowed to a trickle in Australia, and owners of the electric vehicles are looking to unload them or at least make clear they're no fans of company owner Elon Musk.New vehicle sales for February, in the weeks after Musk's apparent fascist salute at a Donald Trump inauguration...

www.rawstory.com

Cybertrucks Booed At Mardi Gras Parade In New Orleans - Jalopnik

A Cybertruck Club volunteered to run their trucks in a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade on Monday night and received a less than warm welcome along the way.

www.jalopnik.com

 

[cx714]

 

[florduh]

Watching the American Empire fall in real time really is something.

Exclusive | European Parliament removes curbs on lawmaker meetings with China

Move may signal thaw in relations against backdrop of rapidly fraying alliance with Washington.

www.scmp.com

 

[CANtalk]

Elon Musk's AI chatbot says a 'Russian asset' delivered the State of the Union | Opinion​

Elon Musk's AI chatbot says a 'Russian asset' delivered the State of the Union | Opinion

The chatbot Grok scoured available public data and found a '75-85% likelihood' that Donald Trump more or less works for Vladimir Putin.

www.usatoday.com

Europe Confronts the Rise of the Brutal American​

Paywall free: https://web.archive.org/web/2025030...tered-europes-illusions-about-america/681925/

Pax Americana is over. What comes next will be worse.​

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5169117-pax-americana-is-over-and-what-comes-next-will-be-worse/

Pax Americana is over. Donald Trump killed it​

Paywall free: https://web.archive.org/web/2025030...pax-americana-is-over-donald-trump-killed-it/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1j4os2t

59% of Republicans Believe the Media Is ‘Fake News’​

59% of Republicans Believe the Media Is 'Fake News'

A majority of Republicans say they have no trust in the mainstream media -- a figure that has doubled since Trump first ran for office

www.thewrap.com

NASA just lost yet another one of its low-cost planetary missions​

NASA just lost yet another one of its low-cost planetary missions

It’s increasingly unlikely that Lunar Trailblazer will deliver quality science.

arstechnica.com

 

[anome]

Minister Joly calls it psychodrama, but PM disagrees and calls it:

 

[CANtalk]

Coming from the US
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1j4v0bf

Peter Navarro: ‘Canada has been taken over … by Mexican cartels’​

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5180208-navarro-canada-has-been-taken-over-by-mexican-cartels/

https://www.reddit.com/r/EhBuddyHoser/comments/1j53859

 

[JBone65]

Tesla sales crater as 'embarrassed' owners unload vehicles due to Elon Musk salute: report

Tesla sales have slowed to a trickle in Australia, and owners of the electric vehicles are looking to unload them or at least make clear they're no fans of company owner Elon Musk.New vehicle sales for February, in the weeks after Musk's apparent fascist salute at a Donald Trump inauguration...

www.rawstory.com

Cybertrucks Booed At Mardi Gras Parade In New Orleans - Jalopnik

A Cybertruck Club volunteered to run their trucks in a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade on Monday night and received a less than warm welcome along the way.

www.jalopnik.com

Elon started Tesla (with others) 22 years ago and it's still a great company IMO. He owns <13% but has controlled it like a private company. The cars have always been controversial, popular with tree hugging liberals like myself, lately MAGA has become anti-EV. Elon is the CEO of Tesla, so he's dragging his best company and his most loyal shareholders down with him.

I respected him before but he's gone completely off the rails. Don't see any way for him to return to being a normal CEO. I just want him to stop messing with the government and get back to making shit. He should hurry up and finish Skynet (xAI, Starlink, 1M Optimus).

Full disclosure, I'm a retired petroleum engineer. Have drilled oil and gas wells on 4 continents. Saw the obvious benefit and switched away from fossil fuels a year ago. We really like our`24 Model 3 with FSD. It's light years ahead any ICE vehicle. Just hoping no one sets it ablaze when parked somewhere. BTW this might be an opportune time to buy one. An old one with 100k miles will ride rough but it'll easily go another 10-15 years at 2-3¢/mile (based on home charging in Ok) with almost no maintenance. Just keep it outta sight until the dust settles.

 

[Grass Yes]

Elon started Tesla (with others) 22 years ago

Famously Elon claims to have founded Tesla but actually joined later and ousted the two founders, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.

 

[JBone65]

Famously Elon claims to have founded Tesla but actually joined later and ousted the two founders, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.

You're correct, of course. However the founders had accomplished almost nothing before he came along. As I understand it he's the driving force that made it happen.

I don't worship him, but it's hard to overlook companies like Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neurolink, X, Boring Company. He's supposedly a ruthless tyrant as an employer, conducting mass firings when he's not happy, kinda like he's doing with government employees.

On a side note, I'm expecting increasing public unrest, increasing demonstrations, eventually we should see riots and the insurrection act.... Not looking forward to it, just expecting it.

 

[florduh]

However the founders had accomplished almost nothing before he came along. As I understand it he's the driving force that made it happen.

To be clear, Musk built Tesla by lying to investors about having magic self driving software. That, and begging the government for billions in subsidies. Musk knows nothing about cars, or rockets, or software. His only talent is convincing marks he's a genius. It just happens some of those marks have billions of dollars to invest.

Neurolink, X, Boring Company

Ok, two out of three of those are scams. Vaporware. And "X"... you mean Twitter? It was better when the name was better. More profitable too. The fucking moron threw away the name "Twitter". One of the most recognizable business names in the 21st century. I cannot believe people fall for this guy. Actually, I can. We elected Trump twice. This country loves a good flim-flam man!

 

[JBone65]

"X"... you mean Twitter? It was better when the name was better. More profitable too.

I agree. I pointed out in other posts that he spent $44B so he could saturate us all with "free" hate speech and steal the election by harvesting private info and feeding back customized fake AI ads. Not defending him in any way. Merely saying that all of his companies are potentially disruptive in t one way or another. I guess you could call that the $44B scam that helped end democracy. No one is arguing here.

 

[florduh]

The Most Moral Apartheid State has never been less popular.

Less Than Half in U.S. Now Sympathetic Toward Israelis

More Americans express sympathy for the Israelis (46%) than the Palestinians (33%) in the Middle East situation, but the margin has shrunk to a new low.

news.gallup.com

I wonder what these numbers will look like once the rubble clears, and it turns out Biden/Bibi killed hundreds of thousands of people rather than tens of thousands.

 

[CANtalk]

Military to Remove 'Enola Gay' Photos for Violating DEI Rules​

Military to remove 'Enola Gay' photos for violating DEI rules

A photo of Army biologists was on a list of images to be purged, seemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish that included their gender.

www.newsweek.com

JD Vance's downfall is coming – and soon​

JD Vance's downfall is coming – and soon

Sooner or later a transactional guy like Trump finds an ideologue like Vance just too much

inews.co.uk

Interesting dive into JD Vance's history & how its evolved along with the upbringing that shaping him.

 

[florduh]

Interesting dive into JD Vance's history & how its evolved along with the upbringing that shaping him.

My favorite thing about JD Vance is that we're all supposed to believe his story that during Trump's first term, when he was going on MSNBC and calling Trump "Hitler", he was tricked by the Lame Stream Media. They groomed him, at the tender young age of 35, into believing Trump was a bad guy.

A truly odious figure. A grotesque. He got famous because he wrote a book about how all the hillbillies he "grew up with" in Appalachia are poor because they're lazy. Not because NAFTA and the Sackler family dropped a nuclear bomb on their community. Meanwhile, he grew up in the suburbs with his grandparents. JD spent like one summer in the Holler. The rest of the time he had a nice middle class life because his grandpa had one of the few remaining union jobs in the area. The jobs JD's Silicon Valley friends want to destroy.

That guy's a fucking snake