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Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is said to have shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.

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A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections". Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x) #CivMilSky

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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 229 comments

The idea of a U.S. trade war with China ignores one very important fact. The Chinese population can accept (be forced to accept) a lot worse financial hardships than the American people. Let’s not forget that they literally welded people inside buildings during COVID.

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Pundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior. But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this: The psychology of dominance. 🧵(1/5)

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NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

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Dear American friends. We agree that status quo in the Artcic is not an option. So let’s talk about how we can fix it - together. Lars Løkke Rasmussen Danish Foreign Minister

submitted 28 days ago • 79 comments

A friend sends:

submitted 29 days ago • 307 comments

Thank you for confirming that there are other Signal groups Waltz

submitted 30 days ago • 71 comments

All military aid from the U.S. to Ukraine from 2014-2024 has cost the U.S. tax payer $19.94 per person per year. In return they got to destroy Russia’s entire Soviet equipment inheritance and still complain it is a bad deal

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Military aid to 🇺🇦: 🇺🇸: $64.13 billion 🇩🇰: $7.54 billion Pop: 🇺🇸: 347 million 🇩🇰: 6 million Aid per person: 🇺🇸: $184 🇩🇰: $1256 The U.S. was paying the equivalent of 3 large pizzas per person per year to destroy the Russian military & someone convinced them it was a bad deal

submitted 48 days ago • 32 comments

Elon Musk went from being the “Henry Ford of our time” to being the “Henry Ford of our time”.

submitted 51 days ago • 9 comments

So much winning

submitted 52 days ago • 558 comments

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

submitted 52 days ago • 660 comments

Hero!

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The complete meltdown in the Oval Office was absurd, but not entirely surprising. Trump tried to hoist the white flag on behalf of Ukraine and was rebuffed by Zelensky. Regardless of all the rhetoric in between, Trump always ends up on Putin’s side of the fence 1/3 @tv2news.bsky.social

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

The best part of a Trump presidency is watching his fans be forced to do constant 180s on fundamental political beliefs in order to continue to agree with a man who changes his mind every 45 seconds.

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 60 days ago • 2150 comments

The Art of the Deal - a big fat MAGA wank. youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag?...

submitted 63 days ago • 128 comments

Can a "f**king moron" like Trump still be Putin's useful idiot? Jordan Klepper and John Bolton discuss

submitted 64 days ago • 72 comments

Yep, DOGE is as incompetent as everyone thought. An $8 million "saving" has been listed as an $8 BILLION saving. That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.

submitted 66 days ago • 268 comments

Russia is at a point now where they use donkeys for logistics and attack on electric scooters. Europe can absolutely afford to fund a war in Ukraine against that. But don't give the Russians an operational pause to rebuild firepower.

submitted 71 days ago • 31 comments

DRs 'Grønlands Hvide Guld' minder om TV2s dokumentar om HPV vaccinen i 2015. Manipulerende følelsesporno med et sensationelt budskab, der understøttes af tvivlsomme 'eksperter'. Det kan føre til irrationelle beslutninger med irreversibel konsekvenser. #dkmedier

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Picking a fight with Canada has America looking like Jake Paul

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Well said, Pete Buttigieg

submitted 85 days ago • 964 comments

This is absolutely chilling. He truly is a sociopath.

submitted 92 days ago • 1061 comments

On the value of Twitter, btw - We had similar traffic from Bluesky, where the FT has 300 thousand followers, to what came from Twitter, where we supposedly have 6 million.

submitted 92 days ago • 62 comments

Russia is much weaker now than a year ago. I hope President Trump will use this leverage to achieve a better outcome for Ukraine and for our own strategic interests, including deterrence of China.

submitted 94 days ago • 39 comments

Searching #liberal or #democrat on Instagram now returns "We've hidden these results", #Republican has no such problem. Seems bad.

submitted 94 days ago • 220 comments

Under Trump vil USA ødelægge Nato og gå til angreb på gamle venner og naboer for at udvide sit territorium. Vi må tale om, hvad vi skal stille op. - LEDER i Ekstra Bladet. ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/lede...

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H/t George Conway — it’s perfect 🤣 from Olivia Julianna:

submitted 95 days ago • 718 comments

Just your casual Nazi salute from Elon.

submitted 95 days ago • 46 comments

This morning, my colleagues and I published a trio of articles. One talks about the very real threat of polio. Even though we think of it as nearly eradicated, it is still circulating in some parts of the world, including in Europe. (1/3) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/h...

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on.ft.com/4hbKSdN Russia's economy, as @prune602.bsky.social has been showing already for some time here, is shaky. (gift article)

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