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@mattyglesias @EliLake @CoreyWriting I think the best talking point for the Israel haters is that Israel keeps shooting 5 year olds in the head with sniper rifles based on US doctors testimony, and no one has even gone to trial for it.

@EliLake @CoreyWriting I think far-sighted supporters of Israel can see that actually addressing the Israel-haters' best talking point is a good idea.

There are a lot of problems with Rahm 2028 but he is the guy most clearly attempting the Yglesias-endorsed "go left on Israel and moderate on everything else" strategy. slowboring.com/p/the-obama-of…

Episode 537: Cost Assessment Liz returns to talk through the economic costs of the current Situation.

@PeterSweden7 ”Yttringsfrihet”

Hej 🇸🇪 Jag postar normalt inte så mycket på Svenska, men här kommer lite grann om mig: ▪️Anti-woke ▪️Självständig journalist ▪️Inte rädd för att säga sanningen ▪️Stöttar yttringsfrihet ▪️Vill bevara Svensk kultur Är du med? Följ mig om detta låter intressant💪

bryon noem walking in on kristi and corey lewandowski

@RishiJoeSanu @nominalthoughts Guy who doesn’t know anything: “here’s what wisdom I’ve gathered”

@nominalthoughts The wisdom I gathered from Swedes is that social democrats became very degrowth and NIMBY during the counterculture era of 1960s. Europe had a socdem wave after WW2.

Social democrats and neoliberals should be mortal enemies.

@EU_Propaganda This type of complacency and resting on your laurels is why social democrats are in decline and fascism is on the rise across Europe.

"Collapsing" > Polling first in Sweden by over 10%. > Polling first in Finland. > Shockingly won Norwegian election. > Still came first in Denmark. > Did well in recent municipal elections in France. > Won election in Iceland. > Won presidency in Portugal. > Defeated Meloni's referendum. > Momentum in Netherlands. Has POLITICO run out of ideas or something?

@TrueAnonPod So happy to see Liz back

“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs". -Margaret Thatcher

“The fact is, with every friendship you make and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world.” —Michelle Obama

@joeroganhq Brace Belden

Name a left-winger you'd like to see on Joe Rogan.

@BenJNissim Baby needs a sweet treat after 15 minutes of having to walk anywhere

Been in the EU for less than 15 minutes and I’m already annoyed at the portion sizes

Bosättarvåldet stöds till 100 % av Carl-Oscar Bohlin, svensk minister och framträdande representant för Moderaternas fascistfalang 🥶

“I revere the Confederacy, I’m a proud supporter of the Confederacy. The problem is Jefferson Davis’s government.”

@alicemedce Varför sätter Israel sina militära högkvarter mitt i Tel Avivs tätbefolkade stadskärna? Gömmer de sig bakom civila?

Detta är alltså attacker riktade mot civila i strid med folkrätten.

This story made me think this Saxon kid was no older than 10. He’s 20 years old.

inside you there are two bob dylans

How did the right transition so seamlessly—so submissively—from "no new wars" to total global warfare? The answer is simple: they are deeply, truly soy, all the way down to the bone marrow. Now, their pathetic insecurities are wrecking the global economy. ettingermentum.news/p/the-soy-righ…

Spend a turn to look for weakness? In this action economy?

Stavros Halkias has joined the cast of Glen Powell’s upcoming country music comedy: • He will play Powell’s character’s agent • Directed by Judd Apatow, the film is set to premiere Feb. 5, 2027 via Universal Pictures variety.com/2026/film/news…

This is probably the most important article of the month: an op-ed by Oman's Foreign Minister, who mediated the talks between the U.S. and Iran, in which he writes that the U.S. "has lost control of its foreign policy" to Israel. He repeats that a deal was possible as an outcome of the talks (something confirmed by the UK's National Security Advisor, who also attended: x.com/i/status/20341…) and that the military strike by the U.S. and Israel was "a shock." Interestingly, given he is one of Iran's neighbors and given that Oman has been struck multiple times by Iran since the war began (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran…), he writes that "Iran’s retaliation against what it claims are American targets on the territory of its neighbours was an inevitable result" of the U.S.-Israeli attack. He describes it as "probably the only rational option available to the Iranian leadership." He says the war "endangers" the region's entire "economic model in which global sport, tourism, aviation and technology were to play an important role." He adds that "if this had not been anticipated by the architects of this war, that was surely a grave miscalculation." But, he adds, the "greatest miscalculation" of all for the U.S. "was allowing itself to be drawn into this war in the first place." In his view this was the doing of "Israel’s leadership" who "persuaded America that Iran had been so weakened by sanctions, internal divisions and the American-Israeli bombings of its nuclear sites last June, that an unconditional surrender would swiftly follow the initial assault and the assassination of the supreme leader." Obviously, this proved completely wrong, and the U.S. is now in a quagmire. He says that, given this, "America’s friends have a responsibility to tell the truth," which is that "there are two parties to this war who have nothing to gain from it," namely "Iran and America." He says that all of the U.S. interests in the region (end to nuclear proliferation, secure energy supply chains, investment opportunities) are "best achieved with Iran at peace." As he writes, "this is an uncomfortable truth to tell, because it involves indicating the extent to which America has lost control of its own foreign policy. But it must be told." He then proposes a couple of paths to get back to the negotiating table, although he recognizes how difficult it would be for Iran "to return to dialogue with an administration that twice switched abruptly from talks to bombing and assassination." That's perhaps the most profound damage Trump did during this entire episode: the complete discrediting of diplomacy. If Iran was taught anything, it is: don't negotiate with the U.S., it's a trap that will literally kill you. The great irony of the man who sold himself as a dealmaker is that he taught the world one thing: don't make deals with my country. Link to the article: economist.com/by-invitation/…

Irish Zionism