A few months ago, early March, CNN wrote.

The US government for decades shied away from targeting foreign leaders after embarrassing failures and unintended consequences from covert activities by the CIA.

The targeting and killing of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which opened an undeclared war with Iran, is the first time in modern history the US — in this case working with Israel — openly killed the leader of a foreign country, according to CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali.

I struggled with some demons; they were middle-class and tame…

A li’l frustrated with the lopsided goose:gander ratio on this stuff. It’s like he doesn’t even see other people as real people.

Arguably the initial strike could be seen as liberating; going after a dictator that less than a third of the population voted for and has approval ratings well under 40% and who has wrested direct control over national security and armed forces, been unbound by institutional norms, banned and bypassed journalists and congress in lieu of personal propaganda edicts, and ruled via a group of hand-picked loyalists overriding elected officials. But all that applied to Khameini too and that feeling of being liberated didn’t last long:

Then today, the US president said.

“1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME!,” he said in a Truth Social post.

“Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran.”

What this doesn’t explain is how the executive branch could do this. Not that scientific fact should be “up for the vote” by any branch of government, but it’s just extra weird that these folks oct like they’re the ones laying out the law.

Interesting blog post on how capitulation doesn’t work against fascism. And especially not against Trump in particular. Resisting against Trump will make you (and all of us) stronger in the end.

Sixteen counts and counting of the executive flagrantry disobeying court order. Make MAGA Go Away!

Eighty-eight conspiracy theories (and counting). That’s almost four seasons of X-Files all by one spooky fascist.

Ewww! But okay, Posteo then. They still support WKD (and, unlike Proton, Autocrypt). It’s just a bit of a schlep to set up. Or like me, run mail server software on a VPS. That has been a difficult journey.

Ewww! But okay, Posteo then. They still support WKD (and, unlike Proton, Autocrypt). It’s just a bit of a schlep to set up. Or like me, run mail server software on a VPS. That has been a difficult journey.

The Climate Brink writes, in an overall hopeful piece.

These SSPs included a equitable, sustainability-focused world of SSP1, a current-trends-continue SSP2 world, a world of high inequality (SSP4), and a world of rapid growth drawing heavily on fossil fuels (SSP5). But the world with the worst damages from climate change combined high inequality, high emissions, and low economic growth. It was called SSP3, and in many ways it reflects a current strain of populist isolationist politics that is ascendent today.

Contrairement aux apparences, Trump n’est pas complètement débile, ou en tout cas son plan ne l’est pas.

SVT tappar bort tre nollor.

Dom skriver 49000000000 men det är egentligen 49000000000000 alltså tusen gånger mer. Tusen. (Dom gör rätt i att översätta en amerikansk “trillion” till en miljon miljoner, det är mindre förvirrande än det svenska namnet för den mängden, “biljon”, men sen glömde dom att göra den korrigeringen innan dom omvandlade till SEK.)

Stop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.

Deep dive how the “minerals deals” is fossil fuels.

Only weird part was how it uses a strained passive verb phrasal construction to elide how Ukraine blew up Nord Stream but that’s such a tiny part of the article otherwise both widely and deeply exposing drillmania.

Why 1984 will be exactly like 1984.

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