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Kentucky's holdings in Israeli bonds (around $103.1 million as of the FY2022-2023 data) appear to have accumulated gradually over a number of years through state treasury and/or public pension investments, rather than from one single high-profile launch.
Key context on timing no exact public "start date" announcement for Kentucky shows up in available records. Unlike Ohio (which has publicized purchases since at least 1993, with every treasurer since then continuing the practice), Kentucky's involvement is quieter and less frequently highlighted in press releases.
The Development Corporation for Israel / Israel Bonds program itself dates back to 1951, when Israel began issuing bonds to raise capital (initially aimed at diaspora investors, later expanding to institutions and governments). U.S. state and local governments became bigger buyers in later decades as a way to diversify fixed-income portfolios while expressing support.
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Portugal giving up its empire after a revolution suggests a different answer here. The empires were given up mostly because the people didn't want them (though Germany was beaten, and arguably France too in the Fall of France).
The UK agreed to give it up for help against Germany (more or less). Suggests that it wasn't a big priority, for whatever reason.
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Western European countries gave up empire when they were defeated, if Russia is defeated they too might give up empire, but Sweden, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, UK etc didn't give up empire cus of a change of heart they were just beaten.
Luxa🌹🇩🇰🔆@SocDane
It's painful how historically illiterate some people are simply due to the fact that Russia being an aggressor in Ukraine has blinded them to everything else.
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No babe I love your stated preferences the revealed ones scare me
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@LinkofSunshine Anti-populist hawks win GOP primaries all the time!
The immigration thing would cut him pretty hard, though
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There is genuinely a 0% chance Reagan could win a GOP primary today
He would get pretty relentlessly hammered for being a Hawk, for being pro-immigration, and for being anti-populist
𝓝𝓲𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓜𝓬𝓒𝓾𝓼𝓴𝓮𝓻 😏@elcalicelt
@LondonRiverSFW Hogan could win the a general, it is just the primary he can't get through. But think about it, if he ran today, could Ronald Reagan win a GOP primary.
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@LiamSota @dimenpsyonal I think the extra votes in those numbers come from including the Senedd and Holyrood elections where Reform beat Labour, no? Those aren’t “local council” elections, so you guys are measuring two different things
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Surprisingly, Reform did not come out ahead in the popular vote for UK's Local Council elections; it was Labour (23.40%), then Reform (22.00%), then Green (18.54%), then Conservative (17.84%), then Liberal Democrats (12.04%)
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People are in agreement that we're in a short-timeline slow-takeoff world now, right? AI is clearly at the level where we'd expect FOOM to start, but it has not
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@eigenrobot Aged and possibly demented Boomer who refused to campaign crushed one of the champions of the mongrel right without trying after Trump endorsed him
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republican civil war night is moderately interesting to watch from the outside. hope everyone has fun and no one gets hurt
which guy was the mischling right candidate and which one was mongrel right? or did it not go down like that
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@SithDubh @RichardHanania It has grown by a third since the start of the war because of a surge in private foreign investment from all over the world.
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@RichardHanania Their economy will dry up and die the day after we take them off welfare. Nobody likes people who constantly steal other people's land.
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Israel has gained 1,000 square kilometers of territory since October 7, 5% of what it had in 1949.
It has emerged from this tragedy stronger than ever.
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@bosworthavenger @ourfoxsopwrfl @ChazNuttycombe Well, OP suggested a repolarization of politics along Israel v. Palestine lines. I think this doesn’t work because the second group is too small, but if it happened then, yeah, presumably Cuomo > Mamdani people would vote R.
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@AGLabBear @ourfoxsopwrfl @ChazNuttycombe If the general election Cuomo coalition starts voting Republican, that could make it Lean R. I do not see that happening. The primary election Cuomo coalition is simply not going to vote Lean R, as you say.
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I think I said in 2024 that Israel/Palestine has largely been, in DW-NOMINATE terms, a second-dimensional issues, meaning that there's been minor dissent in both parties against Israel.
But this is going to become first-dimensional: it will be a strictly party line issue a couple cycles from now. 2026 is the turning point in Democrats being the pro-Palestine party and Republicans being the pro-Israel party in actual federal governance.
Adam Carlson@admcrlsn
Per NYT/Siena: Just 24% of Dems support providing additional economic & military support to Israel. 68% oppose it We don’t yet know how important this will be to 2028 primary voters relative to other issues But this kind of spread screams litmus test for presidential aspirants
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@bosworthavenger @ourfoxsopwrfl @ChazNuttycombe I mean, if the Cuomo coalition starts voting GOP, then New York State is maybe Leans R. (But I think there were some black/Dominican voters who were Cuomo > Mamdani but wouldn’t vote GOP, in practice).
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@ourfoxsopwrfl @ChazNuttycombe Over 40% of the state lives in New York City. That's not flippable.
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@Peter_Nimitz @haravayin_hogh more details on this? Wikipedia thinks this is a legend
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@haravayin_hogh Nikephoros I was probably descended from Ghassanid ruling family which fled to Byzantium after Muawiya subverted their confederation.
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The Byzantine Emperor at the time of Harun al-Rashid was also an Arab. Armenians and Albanians each ruled Egypt for about a century.
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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@Empty_America @ZaidJilani This but unironically tbh, we demand rule by the nouveau riche. Give me the man who became a billionaire yesterday. Horace Alger was the true expression of the American spirit
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@ZaidJilani Both.
The "seething middle" hate both poors and generational elites.
He somehow manages to be both!
Maximum meltdown!
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Is Platner too rich or too poor to be a Senator, I’m confused now.
Lindsay Ballant@lindsayballant
Knowing that certain New York Times op-ed editors read this guy and suggest to their colleagues that they read him
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@theoceanblooms yes but I was in Europe. i have never eaten a blackcurrant in America
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you jest but they literally do not have blackcurrants in america, that’s why purple is grape flavoured to them
⊹ ˚. Percy 💫 | #mjtwt@mjflowerrrs
I just learned that they don’t have apples in America???
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@SergiSanz05 @butleriano Well, "everyone" is an exaggeration (FTM not everyone always said "England" meaning "Britain"), but it was common. I was thinking of the poetry of A.K. Tolstoy in the 1800s, which is in Russian but likes to do this: ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1…
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Because everyone outside of Scotland and Wales used “England” and “Britain” synonymously until 1997.
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@AGLabBear @butleriano Do you have any evidence of the former?
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I haven't gotten around to reading this yet, but I just found myself thinking there should be a book called "Software Architectures Very Different From Ours" that takes something like standard CRUD SaaS or ecommerce or w/e and explores the more unusual ways you could build them
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@eigenrobot This coming week I am likely to take a job as a product manager after having done software engineering for 4 years (context: I have a JD, was an attorney, primarily lawtech) — smart or no? All I know is different kinds of writing and that’s what the AI can do 😭
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but of course to the extent agents hollow out these functions and displace human labor its hard to imagine firm structures remaining as they exist, designed for human operations
so this probably gets me another year or two max, if i'm working in tech proper
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AI is not currently good enough to cause me to lose my job but i expect ive got maybe a year to figure out how to move up several abstraction layers some of which may not even exist yet
this is going to get weird because idk how people starting careers will even begin
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