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China has in no way hollowed out the US defense industrial base. The US did that all on its own, by allowing for military manufacturing monopolies, by not regulating industries, and by not thinking ahead in terms of mining supply chains. By the 2000s there were only 5 US military manufacturers.

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Me and my kid stand with Ms. Rachel.

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Others have tried to capture the economic effects of the tariff bomb. Here’s another: Trump has destroyed US diplomacy. Forget the liberal international order. US diplomacy as we knew it is over. Thread: 1/

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

as @benehrenreich.bsky.social wrote today in @thenation.com, you can’t have credible antifascist politics if you’re backing a fascist genocide www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Here's a question: will China be annoyed by the steep new tariffs on Taiwan, because by imposing tariffs on the latter the US is effectively confirming it is a sovereign nation with trade interests separate from the mainland. Does this impact the One China orthodoxy?

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“Israel is preparing to forcibly displace the entire population of Gaza — through a combination of evacuation orders and intense bombardment — into an enclosed and possibly fenced-off area. Anyone caught outside its boundaries would be killed…” www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I guess Trump isn’t the restraint president some in DC thought he would be?

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“willful ignorance is the only explanation for why he seems to have read no Palestinian history, talked to no Palestinian activists or intellectuals” or considered Palestinian wellbeing. @davidklion.bsky.social sums up @schumer.senate.gov as a leader and thinker. thebaffler.com/latest/schum...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Where are the guns that Haitian gangs use to terrorize the country coming from? Florida. "South Florida, including the ports of Miami and Fort Lauderdale, was the point of origin for 90 percent of Caribbean-bound shipments of illicit firearms" (2016-2023). www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

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This is a great survey of the grand sweep of 20th century economic transformations that led to the neoliberal consensus, and then the 21st century populist revolt, both left and right, against that consensus. It doesn't offer anything startlingly new so much as make all the moving parts accessible.

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"But Yemen is, as you know, is one of the more inaccessible places for Western journalists."

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Hot take: between not passing any legislation, doing a hatchet job on US institutions that his constituents depend on, unemployment, inflation, and tariffs, Trump might break the GOP. In the long-run could benefit this might democrats. If they ever get a clue.

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Can anyone explain what any of this accomplished? They killed a bunch of people. Is the world safer? Are the Houthis now made chaste? Are shipping lanes clear? No. But at least we’re sure they’re buffoons who don’t understand security protocols. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The Israeli center is pointless & the left is moribund. @shaiagmon.bsky.social But the two-state solution, in Rabin’s framing, was devised to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. So who cares Yair Golan has a party committed to this farce? www.bostonreview.net/articles/isr...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

An apt summary of the Democratic Party.

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Watching the hearings about Signal-gate, some thoughts: 1. Why are democrats not asking about Trump strategy? What purpose did the attack serve? 2. Why attack a group the chat admits few Americans are familiar with? 3. Where are the democrats or even republicans that care about “forever wars?”

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This is virtue signaling and nothing else. How about questions regarding the utility of bombing Yemen? To what end? Was this even legal? What would democrats do different? Just not leak?

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Lost in the spectacle about the Goldberg Signal experience is how the democrats have handled it. No democrat has taken issue with bombing the Houthis, re. logic, utility, or legality. The democrats’ critique seems to be but we wouldn’t have kept this secret. Which isn’t much of a critique.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Trump makes this possible. But the Biden administration’s laissez fair approach to ending the genocide last year (or in 2023) is ultimately what makes this crime against humanity possible.

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“these officials were sharing information about an active military operation, they could have been moving around in public. Had they lost their phones, or had they been stolen, the potential risk to national security would have been severe.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The issue that Alon Pinkas elides in this @haaretzcom.bsky.social piece is apartheid. Any state driven by settler colonialism isn’t a democracy. And these democratic“guardrails” never existed. Netanyahu is the inevitable outcome. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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I worked in South Sudan for 2 years, evaluating foreign aid programs a cross the country. This @nickkristof.bsky.social piece reminds me of the best parts of working in humanitarian aid. And Elon Musk is a clown who never faced hardship or read any Mark Twain. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

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I wonder what Trump & Hegseth are doing to address this, or it it too DEI? China builds more aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, than the US (of comparable quality), in about half the time. And China outproduces the US in munitions. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Trump and his team know that making people they dislike or disagree with stateless deprives them of any legal protections. Hannah Arendt wrote about the necessity of making people you seek to eliminate from a society stateless in the Banality of Evil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Bill Burr savaging Elon Musk at every possible opportunity is really the best thing happening right now.

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New statement from CIP's @dylanwilliams.bsky.social on Israel’s abrogation of the Gaza Ceasefire

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Trump is destroying jobs for many in the GOP base. And no one cares. No one is paying attention. Of course a recession is coming because the Trump team is driving mass unemployment while doing nothing about inflation. This is the absolute dumbest version of capitalism run amok.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This is day 529 of Israel being at “war.” War in this context meaning, of course, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians (in Gaza and the West Bank) for Benjamin Netanyahu’s pyrrhic domestic political interests.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

The question of how US companies can maintain technological competitiveness against their Chinese counterparts is a really tough one, especially in clean energy where the US faces different constraints. That’s why the current admin is doing nothing about it and torching our intangible advantages.

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Democrats' (by which I Mean Schumer and Dem Leadership), essential failure "was a lack of strategy. There was no indication that Democrats in the two houses of Congress had unified around a goal they hoped to achieve as a result of the CR fight. That is, frankly, both stupefying and unforgivable."

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

There was nothing inevitable about the collapse of the Gaza ceasefire. This is a choice.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Trump’s diplomacy with Putin is too “sensitive” for Elbridge Colby to say Putin invaded Ukraine in his Senate confirmation for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He’s a 2020 election result denier/mild Jan 6 apologist. But he’s got a plan for fighting China? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

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I wonder what the ADL will say about this? Paging Bari Weiss for some Insane defense. www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

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