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John W. Farrell retweeted
"The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms to protect little girls [are] smearing an actual child rape survivor," writes @crampell.
It sums up "the broader Trump agenda: professing support for the vulnerable while shielding their abusers." thebulwark.com/p/trump-cruel…
John W. Farrell retweeted
Maybe the real voter fraud was the voter fraud we committed along the way.
Another grotesque display of Republican hypocrisy, exposed by @BrendanHartnett in @BulwarkOnline. thebulwark.com/p/gop-operati…
John W. Farrell retweeted
The statement from the White House came as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops distanced itself from the gathering, emphasizing that the meeting was neither organized by nor affiliated with the conference...
ncronline.org/node/342536 via @NCRonline
John W. Farrell retweeted
I’m sure Pope Leo will be grateful to have the list of names.
Breaking: White House names 12 bishops who prayed with Trump, defends president's record ncronline.org/node/342536 via @NCRonline
John W. Farrell retweeted
Christopher Wren was by no means the first person to seriously map the moon
thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/03…
Did you know Christopher Wren was one of the first people to map the moon? 🌙📜
Explore the 'Wren 300' lecture series, which reveals his extraordinary life as a polymath: an architect, mathematician, astronomer, anatomist and courtier.
Watch: gres.hm/wren-300
@StJohnsOx
John W. Farrell retweeted
🎯 Russia is a failed nation, a terror state, a mafia pretending to be a country, a people infected with an imperial virus, a gas station with nukes that barely has any gas left, a Chinese vassal that needs perpetual war to stay intact. It should be quarantined, not elevated.
This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China.
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John W. Farrell retweeted
“Not only a riveting coming of age story but also a clear-eyed examination of the often fraught road to recovery.” Loved @berndandooling's @publibonline Q&A w/ BLACK DOG author Erica Kent in which she said “The basic thing in a library is the possibility.” bit.ly/4BhvF5V
John W. Farrell retweeted
Washington has discovered a brilliant financial strategy. Cut benefits for people who need them, cut taxes for people who don't, and borrow the difference from people who aren't old enough to vote.
John W. Farrell retweeted
This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China.
wsj.com/world/russia/putin-f…
John W. Farrell retweeted
One reason Putin was bold enough to invade Ukraine, then launch an all-out war, was that Europe was too dependent on Russian energy to fight back. Now that Europe is weaning itself off that catastrophic situation, the White House says they should buy Russian gas, for peace? 🤡
Идеи, которые возникают в Вашингтоне в последние недели, одна другой краше. После того как Дональд Трамп подписал указ, приостанавливающий действие ряда ограничений, предусмотренных «законом Грэма», стало известно о еще одной «прорывной» инициативе, которая якобы должна приблизить мир в Европе.
Одним из ключевых элементов «мирного плана» администрации Трампа стало предложение Европе возобновить закупки российского газа в больших объемах. Эмиссары Трампа поднимали эту тему в беседах с украинскими и европейскими чиновниками, в том числе с Владимиром Зеленским.
Американцы утверждали, что ради «стимулирования России к прекращению войны» Украине следует рассмотреть возможность возобновления работы газопроводов, проходящих по ее территории. Впрочем, как пишет NYT, европейцы отреагировали на эту идею резко отрицательно, хотя бы потому, что ее реализация свела бы на нет многолетние усилия Евросоюза по избавлению от зависимости от российского газа.
Но в администрации Трампа рассматривают экспорт российского газа как потенциальную составляющую мирного соглашения. При этом американцы учитывают возможные доходы Украины от транзита, а также то, что европейские избиратели, по их мнению, неизбежно захотят более дешевых энергоносителей.
Эти так называемые «компромиссные идеи» — уже даже не предложения о частичной капитуляции Украины. Это фактически предложение сдаться Путину всем континентом, вернув ему в руки любимый рычаг — возможность коррумпировать целые страны или развязывать «газовые войны» в случае неподчинения
John W. Farrell retweeted
Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
John W. Farrell retweeted
The biggest, most persistent lie here on X is that I am always wrong. I literally get attacked like (sample) below multiple times a day—but never with any concrete data.
At most these accounts (some may be bots) point to one or two predictions that were wrong. And, you know what, some actually were, including one about the timing of the genAI bubble, another, though still arguable, about math) out of the hundreds I have made.
Whereas @aipredictionx actually did the analysis – and found me to be the “the most accurate big name we track: 11 resolved AI predictions, 11 scored correct, including the million dollar bet that AI would not be smarter than any single human by the end of 2025”
Either people like the guy below are lying about me, or they are really bad at data analysis. (Or both.)
Ask yourself why so many people are motivated to lie about me.
John W. Farrell retweeted
Israeli settlers are out of control, because the Israeli government allows them to be. And while attacks on diplomats or journalists command attention, as they should, this happens unnoticed to Palestinian farmers all the time.
#Breaking: European diplomats, including French and Polish representatives, who went to the West Bank to observe the olive harvest, have been violently assaulted by Israeli settlers.
John W. Farrell retweeted
Elon is trying to buy the midterms in broad daylight: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
John W. Farrell retweeted
"If there is to be any hope that the democracies, and especially what was once the greatest of them all, will retain or regain their moral compass, we must all keep shouting from the rooftops: “This is a lie!”; “That is a lie!”; “The leader of the United States is lying!”
Max Hastings on fire. "The US has fallen into the hands of the most dishonest and venal leader in its history."
thetimes.com/comment/columni…
John W. Farrell retweeted
Did you think that because you're a citizen, you'd be safe from Trump's deportation machine?
If they don't like your religion, your accent, your ancestry, your politics, or your color, they will come for you.
Vote out the Trump party while you still can. wsj.com/politics/policy/ilha…
John W. Farrell retweeted
Einstein’s general relativity equations: explained in plain English
The Einstein field equations are incredibly complex and general.
Even the best physicists can only solve them for a few special cases.
In plain English, here's what they mean.
bigthink.com/starts-with-a-b…
John W. Farrell retweeted
Trump is lying again. Putin started the war and has repeatedly refused to negotiate to end it. The US spent nothing like $350 billion. Half the money is not missing. Washington and Moscow are both significantly more corrupt than Kyiv. Putin, not Zelensky, is a dictator who openly steals elections.
