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I'm genuinely embarrassed to use a MacBook Pro today. This is a terrible response from a “leader”. All I read is capitulation and a naive urge to tell folks to maintain a status quo that died a long time ago.
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/27/tim-c…

Apple CEO Tim Cook Responds After ICE Shootings in Minneapolis
Apple CEO Tim Cook has responded to events in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after two people were shot and killed by U.S. federal immigration agents this...

🐬 Climate engineering would alter the oceans, reshaping marine life. Our new study examines each method's risks
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-climate-oceans-reshaping-marine-life.html

Climate engineering would alter the oceans, reshaping marine life. Our new study examines each method's risks
Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels and transforming the oceans. Even if countries meet their pledges to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change, global warming will exceed what many ecosystems can safely handle.

How NATO military doctrine failed Ukraine on the battlefield | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/coalition-of-the-willing-ukraine/ (jun 2025)
Door @frietema.bsky.social uit z'n archief omhooggehaald, maar nog steeds heel belangrijk om een Achilles hiel van het Westen te zien.
Waarom?
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Real conspiracies tend to come out, but some of them take a while. Information on the Iran/Contra scandal broke out about 5 years after the conspiracy started. That would have taken several hundred people to carry out, so it was somewhat hard to hide. Even so, they largely got away with it.
The moon landing conspiracy theory would have taken thousands of people, so it would have come out more quickly. Since we have an example of a real secret program of a similar scale as what would be required to fake a moon landing (that is, the Manhattan project), we know that the fake moon landing conspiracy theory is not true. (There's also the literally tons of evidence in the form of rocks and other samples, and all kinds of other ways to debunk the claim.)
Could Kash Patel's FBI have been trying really hard to entrap people into carrying out terrorist attacks in order to justify #Trump's occupation of DC? Could they have helped a guy plan an attack then just failed to arrest him? There are reasonable scenarios that fall in between malice and incompetence while still indicating some level of false flag.
Could someone have just snapped and ambushed some guardsmen without any involvement from the FBI? Yeah, totally. The US is a country full of guns with a completely non-functional mental health system. Someone coming from a country that the US destroyed, twice, could have a lot of untreated trauma. Might they see the national guard as a threat (even if that wasn't totally true)? Yeah, they were deployed to threaten people (even when they were just picking up trash). The point was to incite this kind of response. It's completely reasonable to believe that the FBI would not need to be involved at all, that this would just be the stochastic response they were looking for.
So the point here is that everything is on the table, nothing is really known, nothing should be surprising, and no matter what it's Trump's fault. This is exactly the escalation he was looking for. If he didn't get it naturally, he would also have had ways of making it happen.
He will use this in exactly the same way as the Reichstag fire, to drive a wedge between liberals and radicals. Don't fall for it.
Edit:
There are plausible reasons to not believe the official narrative at all right now, or maybe ever. The official narrative is also plausible, but there are plausible reasons to disagree with the response even if the official story is true. It is unnecessary to resort to conspiracy thinking in order to account for what happened and to disagree with the response. But it is also understandable why someone might jump immediately to a conspiracy given the circumstances.

Gun rights groups blast Trump over Minnesota response (Andrew Howard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/gun-rights-groups-blast-trump-over-minnesota-response-00748217
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p4#a260127p4

Tony Romo responds to the haters who think CBS should move him off No. 1 NFL team https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/tony-romo-responds-haters-think-cbs-should-move-1-nfl-team/e144ef1bd…

Stefanski deflects Mayfield's post: 'Ton of respect' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47745334/falcons-stefanski-takes-high-road-response-mayfield

"A woman was watching from her porch. Someone ran up and addressed her: “Ma’am, we’re out here defending the neighborhood against ICE. We need barricade materials. Is there anything in your yard you wouldn’t mind parting with?” She nodded urgently and showed them to her backyard, offering a flower bed, an old couch, and a lawn chair. Three people helped to carry these out and add them to the barricades."

Minneapolis Responds to the Murder of Alex Pretti
On Saturday, January 24, an ICE agent murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. In response, people drove ICE and Minneapolis police out of the neighborhood.

"AI Tools Are Changing Academic Publishing. How Can We Adopt Them Responsibly?" @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2026/ai-tools-are-changing-publishing-adopt-them-respons…

Rick Scott, Florida Republican,
oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in history.
His company, Columbia/HCA, defrauded recipients and military families while making Scott the wealthiest U.S. senator.
The investigation resulted in $1.7 billion in fines.
Had that happened today,
Trump would pardon him.

Johnny 🫧 Cowlick (@jefferycowlick.bsky.social)
Rick Scott, Florida Republican, oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in history. His company, Columbia/HCA, defrauded recipients and military families while making Scott the wealthiest U.S. senator. The investigation resulted in $1.7 billion in fines. Had that happened today, Trump would pardon him.