Newsom is not now, and never has been, your friend. He’s in the oligarch class. He’s doing the populist bit now out of political convenience, nothing more.

No war but class war.

I’m more than a little suspicious the “grassroots protests” were potentially rooted in a Russian influence op - this sort of thing is their bread and butter. And I’m frustrated that the Ukrainian government may be caving - though I understand why, given the public momentum (regardless of its actual origins ) - on a matter of military leadership with very direct implications on strategy and tactics being used in the active defensive war they’re engaged in.

With respect to the Ukrainian citizenry: military leadership should be appointed based on skill and expertise, not elected, and definitely not subject to the whims of the populace (who are generally uninformed about not only the vagaries of strategic military command, but also, you know, classified details ongoing but classified strategic and tactical matters).

Tbh a lot of the coverage I’ve seen, regardless of the angle or bias, seems extremely reductive, and more interested in stimulating some sort of emotional response than an expression of any actual, material grievance. I could be wrong here, but this whole protest movement around the recent shake-up has smelt a bit like agitprop to me from the get go.

sanctuary cities

Cities that strongly oppose the draconian US immigration policies and punitive measures. Typically, “blue” cities in “blue” states. The municipalities in question have enacted (often with some level of state government support) measures to prohibit local law enforcement from collaborating or cooperating with federal immigration enforcement personnel from any agency.

immigrant bussing to sanctuary cities

This was 100% a political optics thing run by “red” states and “red” politicians. It consists of sweeping up unhoused people in a “red” city, or somewhere in a “red” state (most typically, FL and TX, as the governors there are extremely supportive of draconian immigration policies for political reasons - despite the fact that said hostile policies are actually actively harmful to their regional economies), sticking them onto Greyhound buses to major “blue” cities, waiting for the unhoused population of those recipient cities to explode, and then pointing at the completely synthetic situation as evidence of gross mismanagement by “blue” city/state politicians. It’s not being done as aggressively right now because it’s simply not the currently biggest political hot button in the US right now.

Charlie Kirk was an “activist” in the same way that Horst Wessel was an “activist” - which is to say that the regime picked him up as a mascot after he got ganked, so the regime could get some blood on their flag and say “look what they did to my boy 😭”.

Man, legacy media sure is doing some incredible gymnastics to avoid using the terms “concentration camp” and “ethnic cleansing”.

It’s so exhausting when the big investment banks suddenly start coming to the same fucking conclusion a bunch of us already reached and have been calling out since a couple years ago

Well that’s a nice big HIPAA lawsuit right there

hmmm

Damn, Johnson, don’t threaten me with a good time

Joke’s on you - I’m medicated and still do all that

Hell, an attorney that gets caught submitting vibed/fabricated references should be straight up disbarred.

5th CCA, of course - that’s the notoriously partisan and (given the current political landscape) fascist-enabling appellate district.

Feels like Taiwan should also be working on churning these things out

Filings like that should be grounds for dismissal with prejudice (read: judge deems that “you fucked this up so bad I’m declaring your entire argument nonsense and you are not allowed to amend or re-file the case”)

Stfu clanker

Make me, shitfuck.

From what I’ve gleaned online so far (and I am not claiming this is a holistic overview, just the broadest scope that I’ve been able to gather up to this point):

• Fedorov was a key player in the recent aggressive modernization and drone-forward strategy and tactics the UAF are now using
• Fedorov’s background isn’t military - it’s business and politics
• Fedorov had been having conflicts with both military and political leadership, including but not limited to Zelenskyy and the UAF general staff
• some have raised potential corruption charges/issues against Fedorov (the veracity of which is currently unclear)
• there have been some procurement issues in some important areas (e.g. artillery ammunition) that it seems Fedorov has failed/been unable to address.

Frankly, I’m adopting a “wait and see” approach - there’s clearly a lot more going on behind the scenes than laypersons are aware of.

The media circus around this seems, to me, to be just that: the media latching onto a (high-level) personnel change and sensationalizing it without getting the entire story and all the details. And I doubt all the details are going to be revealed quickly, since, you know, some of the details are strategic in nature, and Ukraine is still actively fighting a war, and they don’t want to just broadcast to Russia (amongst others) about where exactly their logistics issues and bottlenecks and failures are.

Greece is blocking it because there’s a Greek shipping company that specializes in transporting Russian LNG and evidently they’re looking for some sort of exception/carveout. Which, imo, is categorical bullshit, and the company should have diversified and shifted towards different suppliers at some point in the last four fucking years.

Time to dig into the political donations that relevant Greek politicians have received, I guess.