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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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Woke up this morning wondering which of the Washington-based foreign journalists here will end up being their generation’s William Shirer 😬😵‍💫

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Re-upping this piece since its author is now traveling on a major international trip with our secretary of defense www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/o...

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There's a lot more to fatherhood than randomly flinging semen in every direction and opening a tab wherever it happens to land.

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Bureaucracy, famously not important in war

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They’ve DerryLondonDerried the Gulf of Mexico

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“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.” - Benito Mussolini

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"The United States is in a constitutional crisis" Agree: 54% Disagree: 27% Unsure: 19% YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106

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Great point here:

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“The idea of a mass transfer of the Palestinian people living in Gaza is not merely against international law. It is a moral abomination. It is a scenario that Israel and Jews around the world ought to reject unequivocally.” Rabbi Donniel Hartmann, Times of Israel www.hartman.org.il/trumps-dysto...

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Sigh. We fucking warned you.

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

OTD in 2018 the Battle of Khasham took place in Syria. US military killed & wounded 300 Russian Wagner fighters who attacked them. And we did fuck all. Not that it might be clue that we bluff. All the time.

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Toddlers For Rottweilers has renamed itself to Toddlers For Please Please Cujo Put Kyle Down He’s Already Dead

submitted 18 days ago • 37 comments

If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off. I can’t say it any more plainly than that.

submitted 19 days ago • 154 comments

just saw someone in the FT comments section referring to Tesla as the swasticar

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Advocates of a “multipolar international order” see the world as a giant school playground with one bully in it. Their solution to this problem is: “what if there were three bullies instead?”

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A lesson you can take from the replies to a version of this post on Twitter is that there seem to be many on the British and Canadian Far Right who would happily sell out their own countries to an expansionist American government as long as it is "anti-woke"

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

Feels like we are living in the first third of a Star Wars opening crawl

submitted 22 days ago • 94 comments

Forces News reported on my comments to the Defence Select Committee about the impact of climate change on defence. When asked about threats, I always say Russia, China, climate change. We underestimate the impact climate change has on our ability to project power. www.forcesnews.com/services/tri...

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They’re not coming for Jews first this time. But yeah, these things do always get around to Jews eventually.

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Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

submitted 25 days ago • 575 comments

As a free market conservative, I want the federal government run like a business. A shitty, money-losing social media business plagued by hate speech and spam bots.

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An underrated aspect of the whole Colombia trade-war affair is that we're now doing foreign policy by tweet. Heads of State are making serious decisions about their economies via shitposting at each other. We didn't even have any official WH communications—they just copied Trump's post.

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German Greens election programmes 2021: “The NATO 2% target, which is not based on skills& capabilities, does not provide an answer to this and we therefore reject it” 2025: “This requires a defense budget… that permanently invests significantly more than 2%/GDP in our security&defense capability”

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Among the things I did not expect from the internet is that on Instagram I am repeatedly (presumably alphabetically) added to porn group chats with the official accounts for Narendra Modi and NASA. No one has written absurdist SF this remarkable.

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A little anecdote: several months ago I attended a lecture by Mike Pompeo, where he told us grumpy Europeans (including the Brits) that we were too negative about Trump and that we probably only didn’t like him because we watch too much CNN. Well. More seriously, this decision is a disgrace.

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What Prince Harry’s settlement means for him and for Britain’s royal family.

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Trump attorneys’ call into question U.S. citizenship for Native people. They state because Indians “owe ‘immediate allegiance’ to their tribes, they are not ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are not constitutionally entitled to Citizenship.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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My mistake. That should be American History 𝕏.

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This afternoon, CDU Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz gave a keynote speech on foreign and EU policy at @koerberip.bsky.social. A thread on his main points on the EU and Germany's role in it:

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This is perfect explanation

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