Hikari Sasaki
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiMarimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE. They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon. They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times. He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”. A 🧵 of ICE abuse
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiTillis is spot on. The Senate can't confirm a Trump toady to succeed Powell at the Fed. The rest of the game is now out in the open, and it doesn't end well.
- An interesting chat I had with Claude that seems appropriate for the moment, especially the bit about cyclical credibility crashes.
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiNo way to run a government, or any organization. This mismanagement is going to have long standing effects on organizational culture as well as the ability of governments to recruit in the long run
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiThe entire history of modern warfare shows that logistics and mass production are key to winning. Centuries of warfare show that armies based on who is the manliest buffest guys lose out to tactics, strategy, and technology. The shallowest conception of strength is a recipe for national weakness.
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- Reposted by Hikari SasakiSaturn’s rings at around 600 meters per pixel. Not close enough to see individual ring particles but close enough to discern the textures and patterns drawn out by fast-moving clumps and straws. Images via Cassini in January 2017.
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- Reposted by Hikari SasakiThe speed with which these people are publicly repudiating principles they spent their entire careers pretending to care about is remarkable. Trump has been a revelatory force in politics—no single individual has exposed the abject hollowness of GOP personalities more than he has.
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiThe Fear Is the Point open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiPublic praise for a killer is an escalation of a troubling trend: bloodlust for destruction & retribution. Americans are rejecting leaders who propose solutions for problems, in favor of antiheroes who just want to burn everything down—figuratively or literally www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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- "Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in"
- Accounts with names or descriptions suggesting they share natural world photography but primarily post AI-generated images aren't worth following.
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiAnyone got eyes on Kristi Noem
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiAn underrated aspect of the "China Shock" is that the Bush administration tried to protect steel jobs in a way that raised the price of metal for American manufacturers of things made out of metal, thus undermining their competitiveness. www.cesifo.org/en/publicati....
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiTo be fair she does look like a chicken.
- If the observable universe were scaled to fit within the sphere defined by Neptune's orbit, the Earth would have a diameter of ~0.13 microns, orbiting a Sun with a diameter of ~0.014 millimeters at a distance of 1.5 millimeters. The solar system out to Neptune would fit in a gumball. #space
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiA Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people. It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1886...
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiMeanwhile…
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiRikers banned mail to inmates because of alleged fentanyl smuggling. But there was no fentanyl smuggling through the mail. They were using drug field tests with an 85 percent false positive rate. (*Illicit drugs are primarily smuggled into correctional facilities by staff.)
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiHow the Andromeda galaxy would look from Earth if it were brighter
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiGood piece on how media should cover Trump Term II, with advice that boils down to focus more on what they do than what they say, don't feed the trolls, and remember that your job is informing the public, not reality TV-like drama.
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiIdiots. Trump is been an economically illiterate protectionist his entire life. fortune.com/2024/11/17/t...
- Reposted by Hikari Sasaki“Russian bots and propagandists promote conspiracy theories, vaccine skepticism, anti-feminism, anti-L.G.B.T. sentiment and anti-immigrant rhetoric on social media. The aim is to deepen the polarization of American society and, eventually, break it apart.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...
- Reposted by Hikari SasakiThis is like when Homelander made The Deep eat Timothy
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- Russia’s economy is paying the price of Putin's war. www.express.co.uk/news/world/1...
