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  • April 22, 2025 7:02am

    It’s good, that Comedians in the US are still able to write and take down other figures trying to normalize the regime.

    Looking at you Bill Maher.

    Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf

    www.nytimes.com/2025/04/2…

  • April 16, 2025 4:53pm

    Une pépite de la musique électronique de la scène Bruxelloise : Avelyne

    Interview à écouter ici : www.mixcloud.com/VIBRATION…

  • April 14, 2025 8:13am

    The rise of end times Fascism Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor A businessman’s fist striking the Earth like a meteor, scattering debris.

    The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

  • April 5, 2025 9:13pm

    D’où vient réellement la politique des tarifs du régime élu de Donald #Trump ?

    Vous allez pas en croire vos oreilles et pourtant, si, c’est aussi bête, Ignorant et stupide que ça : youtu.be/MJbZCbBLq…

  • April 5, 2025 8:19pm

    Interactive Map #handsoff2025

    What to know about Saturday’s nationwide “Hands Off!” anti-Trump protests

  • April 5, 2025 6:24pm

    Fun read on #ableton #daftpunk

    thoughts-and-things.ghost.io/recreatin…

  • April 4, 2025 10:35pm

    The key point is this: Without this abuse of power, Trump could not be unleashing such havoc. In short, Trump’s lawlessness and his economic destruction are the same story: The former doesn’t just enable the latter; the two are inextricably entangled with each other.

  • April 2, 2025 10:04pm

    Une de mes scènes de Friends préférées 😅 #LeftPhalange

  • April 2, 2025 1:42am

    Cory Brooker breaking the #filibuster record and still going strong, while millions of people have been watching. THIS is what Democrats must do more, urgently more. Unite the country on the back of the Trump regime. Win the Midterms Impeach Trump. Abundance

  • Four Roads to Ruin: The Future of American Democracy Under Trump 2.0

    March 31, 2025 10:18pm

    In the aftermath of the “Signalgate” scandal and economic freefall, President Donald J. Trump’s administration teeters on the edge of authoritarian ambition. With the Wisconsin Supreme Court election just days away and Project 2025 serving as the ideological and operational blueprint, the regime accelerates its grip on power. This four-part fiction explores four possible futures unfolding between now and 2029, each rooted in real legislative, economic, and political dynamics at play today. Continue reading →

  • Amerika : diving into oblivion while convincing itself otherwise

    March 31, 2025 12:46pm

    In 2022, one of Peter Thiel’s favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO” who was not Trump and laid out a playbook for how it might work. Elon Musk is following it. Read the article about this here What would be the name of such system? First some definitions : Technocratic Authoritarianism A system where unelected elites or CEOs are placed in charge of government on the grounds of efficiency or managerial competence, often sidelining democratic institutions. Continue reading →

  • March 31, 2025 12:09pm

    The Atlantic kicks off opening night at the NOLA Book Festival with a dynamic conversation reflecting on the Signal breach and weighing its national-security implications.

  • March 30, 2025 11:09pm

    👀 Transform Your Code into AI-Optimized Prompts in Seconds

    code2prompt.dev

  • March 30, 2025 11:08pm

    code2prompt.dev

  • March 30, 2025 11:06pm

    Holy crap : Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform.

  • March 30, 2025 11:04pm

    gist.github.com/hackermon…

  • March 30, 2025 10:58pm

    Fascinating article by NYT on the history of the Russian invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦.

  • March 30, 2025 10:29pm

    Et hop dans ma todo : Lire Lolita à Téhéran - Azar Nafisi www.babelio.com/livres/Na…

    Et dans ma liste de filme à voir :

    Lire Lolita à Téhéran (2024) - IMDb m.imdb.com/fr/title/…

  • March 30, 2025 7:41pm

    Fixed: Several elections on Tuesday will be a crucial test of the popularity of the chaotic and extremist first two months of Donald Trump’s second term and the clout of his co-destroyer, Elon Musk, the world’s stupid man who has been tasked with radically killing the US federal government

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  • Book : Don't Believe Everything You Think

    March 29, 2025 11:21pm

    Your mind is not a friend it’s a tyrant. It spins stories of inadequacy, catastrophizes the future, and replays past failures like a broken record. This mental noise isn’t just distracting; it’s soul-crushing. Joseph Nguyen’s “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” isn’t another platitude-filled pep talk. It’s a scalpel, cutting through the illusion that your thoughts define reality. In a world drowning in overthinking, anxiety, and self-doubt, this book is a rebellion against the prison of the mind. Continue reading →

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