Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸

@South_Gradient

US foreign policy analysis grounded in critical political economy and geography. Credits: @newrepublic, @RStatecraft, @NACLA, and @asiatimesonline

Minneapolis, MN Beigetreten Mart 2026

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·17h

This week the US: >Put out a statement in defense of Panamanian “sovereignty” after forcing them to kick out Chinese port operators >Confirmed a new multilateral initiative to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after unilaterally blockading it Maritime norms for me but not for thee

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·4h

@BenjaminNorton Silicon Valley knows it can’t compete with China’s energy efficient AI models and already has tens of billions in sunk costs. So they stoke fear and create a pretense to go after Chinese capital via lawfare. Same strategy as with the Panama Canal.

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Ben Norton@BenjaminNorton·5h

Silicon Valley Big Tech billionaire oligarchs are funding a dark-money group that pays social media influencers to spread anti-China propaganda, brainwashing people into loving US AI corporations. wired.com/story/super-pa…

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·5h

@DropSiteNews Silicon Valley knows it can’t compete with China’s energy efficient AI models and already has tens of billions in sunk costs. So they create a pretense to go after Chinese capital via lawfare. Same strategy as the Panama Canal.

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Drop Site@DropSiteNews·5h

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Dark-Money Group Pays Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a National Threat A dark-money nonprofit called Build American AI, linked to a super PAC backed by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is paying lifestyle influencers up to $5,000 per video to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China’s technological rise, WIRED reports. Influencers received sample scripts warning that Chinese AI dominance could expose Americans’ personal data and eliminate U.S. jobs. Most labeled posts as ads but did not disclose the funding source. “This is literally propaganda,” Queens College media studies professor Jamie Cohen told WIRED. “They’re not disclosing the agenda underneath it.” Story is linked below 👇

Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz

SCOOP: A pro-AI dark money group backed by a powerful super PAC funded by execs tied to Palantir and OpenAI, has been secretly paying influencers to push pro-AI, anti-China propaganda on TikTok and IG. wired.com/story/super-pa…

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·5h

@lebanesesami Trump’s going full late Spanish Empire.

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🇱🇧@lebanesesami·5h

This guy is on a rampage

The Spectator Index@spectatorindex

Trump says that the US will be taking over Cuba 'almost immediately'.

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Van Jackson@RealVanJackson·6h

We’ve gone from empires claiming to defend open sea lanes to empires enclosing and commodifying sea lanes. Primitive accumulation

Acyn@Acyn

Trump on US Navy Seizing Ships: It’s a very profitable business. We’re like pirates.

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·5h

@RealVanJackson In Panama, the US dispossessed Chinese port infrastructure and is now pressuring Peru to do the same. Feeling like there’s a strategy here to permanently redirect shipping lanes.

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·6h

@TheRealJChubby So in the same week the Trump administration put out a statement against Chinese economic “aggression” towards Panamanian shops and bullied allies into joining a “maritime freedom construct” to unblock Hormuz, they also admitted that they are pirates.

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Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine@TheRealJChubby·6h

At least he's honest I guess.

Acyn@Acyn

Trump on US Navy Seizing Ships: It’s a very profitable business. We’re like pirates.

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·6h

In the same week, the Trump administration: >put out a statement in defense of Panamanian “sovereignty” against Chinese economic “aggression” >attempted to browbeat allies into joining a “Maritime Freedom Construct” to unblock the Strait of Hormuz >admitted they are pirates

Acyn@Acyn

Trump on US Navy Seizing Ships: It’s a very profitable business. We’re like pirates.

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·6h

In other words, there is no evidence and the U.S. attempting to extradite a sitting governor is a transparent attempt at political interference and/or an attempt to extract further concessions at the upcoming USMCA negotiations.

Voice of Mexico@VOMexico

🇲🇽🇺🇸BREAKING: The Attorney General's Office (FGR) asserts that it has no grounds or reasons to execute a provisional arrest order against the Governor of Sinaloa and other public officials accused by the US of links to drug trafficking; demands more evidences.

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Trita Parsi@tparsi·9h

Hiring a FDD staffer onto your team strongly suggests that reaching a diplomatic deal is not Trump's objective...

Alex Marquardt@MarquardtA

NEW: Amid deadlocked Iran talks, Trump admin adds to negotiating team. Nick Stewart @nick_jstewart from @FDDAction has joined Witkoff's @SEPeaceMissions office. atmarquardt.substack.com/p/trump-admini…

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·9h

@DropSiteNews Meanwhile, there are no less than eight palace factions within the Trump administration—including one that openly leaks information about how concerned they are about the war.

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Drop Site@DropSiteNews·9h

President Trump said he’s not sure who the leaders in Iran are. Earlier today, he added: “There’s tremendous discord… they’re having a tremendous problem getting along with each other… The leadership is very disjointed, it’s got two to three groups, maybe four… With that being said, they all want to make a deal.”

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·10h

So… less than what the war has cost us.

*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone

U.S. BLOCKADE HAS COST IRAN $4.8 BILLION -AXIOS

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·10h

@atrupar A lot of retirees are going to be learning about the phenomenon of a blow-off top soon.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar·10h

Trump: "We just the highest price in the history of the stock market"

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·10h

@esjesjesj Trump gets credit for ending a new war each time he ends the War in Iran. He’s ended dozens of wars now with more on the way soon!

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evan loves worf@esjesjesj·10h

Finally the war is over for the 63rd time

NewsWire@NewsWire_US

WHITE HOUSE TELLS CONGRESS IRAN HOSTILITIES HAVE ENDED

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Andrés Bernal 🇨🇴🇺🇸@andresintheory·10h

Most people sense society is increasingly becoming a detached alienating nightmare driven by sociopaths. Yet we still trust mainstream economists whose entire project hinges on a world modeled after instrumental agents acting like sociopaths, to tell us what we can and can’t do

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·11h

Did the President just give us permission to stop paying taxes?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar

Trump endorses stiffing workers: "I don't believe in paying people that do a bad job. Turn the mic up please!"

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·11h

@atrupar Yeah, if you’re over 65 it is.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar·11h

Trump: "This is the golden age of America"

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·11h

@atrupar God, I wish this were a bit—it would be so funny.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar·11h

Trump speaking in The Villages: "I don't happen to be a senior. I'm much younger than you. I'm a much younger man than you. Look at you old guys. Wouldn't you like to by my age? Young, vital, vibrant."

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·11h

This is the perfect hype up song for the generation that stole everything from Millennials and Zoomers.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar

Trump is blasting "Live and Let Die" before he takes the stage to deliver a speech to seniors

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·11h

@andresintheory UChicago’s econ department is in the old divinity school, which is pretty on the nose as far as metaphors go, but illustrates this phenomenon pretty well.

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Andrés Bernal 🇨🇴🇺🇸@andresintheory·11h

Many economists treat the value of ideas like exclusive membership in a country club for douchebags. It’s well known how toxic the discipline is. But behind this attitude is a deep insecurity driving this fixation on “credentials” because they are cosplaying as physicists

Total NIMBY Death@BarneyFlames

No offense but I saw some leftist adjacent globes being like "actually the unlearning econ guy has a great academic background". This was much worse than I expected.

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Logan McMillen 🌹🕊️🌎 🇱🇧 🇵🇸@South_Gradient·11h

Neither way, the little head inside its mouth would wear a hat.

jame@jamefaqs

how would a xenomorph wear a hat

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