@AtlantidaFtom @CNLiberalism Jake Sullivan is the main reason why Ukraine hasn't won yet
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thoradycus
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Keep anyone associated with this group as far away from the next admin as possible
Alex Thompson@AlexThomp
Scoop: Nat Sec Action—the foreign policy hub for the left co-founded by Jake Sullivan and Ben Rhodes—is rebooting ahead of the 2028 Dem primary with a new director, and more. Nat Sec Action became a key source for staffing the Biden admin. axios.com/2026/05/03/dem…
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A literal Bourbon Democrat took down the tariffs? What hack is writing this shit?
New York Magazine@NYMag
As a small-business owner, wine importer Victor O. Schwartz has plenty of reasons to dislike the president’s policies. For almost 40 years, Schwartz has owned and operated VOS Selections, an importer and distributor of fine wines from 16 countries. Tariffs on wine have frustrated his industry since 2018, making the already heavily taxed business of sourcing from small farms and importing bottles from abroad more expensive. When Trump’s second-term tariffs were first announced last April, it looked like an even worse disaster for American wine importers than the first term. But the tariffs were also when he realized, unlike so many frustrated by Trump, he had an opportunity to do something. The weekend after the announcement of the tax on imports, a relative mentioned that their law professor, Ilya Somin, had put out a call for plaintiffs to challenge the tariffs. Somin a ragtag crew of small businesses who wanted to file a case against the administration: a tackle store on Lake Erie in Pennsylvania, a pipe manufacturer in Utah, a women’s cycling brand in Vermont, the maker of a banana-shaped synth in Virginia, and, eventually, Victor Schwartz and his wine-importing business. Within a few days, Somin, together with attorneys from the Liberty Justice Center, asked Schwartz to be the lead plaintiff. Read more from Matt Stieb’s conversation with Schwartz about how he and his fellow plaintiffs overturned Trump’s tariffs and earned a $166 billion refund: nymag.visitlink.me/tfzyVs
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@JamesRaxz Something's got to give right? Iran would probably rather risk war than face an undefinite blockade
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Unmitigated catastrophe. A complete strategic failure. Also ties down substantial US naval forces to the Arabian Sea indefinitely (read: his successor to clean up).
Trump just gave a huge gift to China.
Faytuks Network@FaytuksNetwork
US officials say the conflict with Iran is unlikely to end with a nuclear deal, and a resumption of the war is unlikely. Trump is comfortable with an indefinite blockade - WSJ
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@bigseb31213 Greece's military is also no joke and highly underrated imo.
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Learning more about the Finnish military. Crazy that a nation of 5.6M people genuinely has one of the top tier NATO military forces. Behind the UK, France, Germany, and Poland (no order) who is ahead of them?
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@nobodyknows2322 Reading Lincoln's bio you get the impression that the Radical abolitionists hated Lincoln more than the Confederacy lol
They were also the biggest critics of the Emancipation Proclamation, saying it "doesn't do anything" and is poorly worded
History is truly a flat circle
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And Abe Lincoln would've been downvoted into oblivion on that shitass website
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@nobodyknows2322 A future Democratic NY governor will pardon him unfortunately
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Mangione will spend the rest of his life in prison
And he won't look so hawt after a couple decades of prison life !
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@AliceFromQueens @NickRiccardi @souljagoyteller In hindsight S2/3 had a few interestinf episodes here and there but was mindnumbingly slow.
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@NickRiccardi @souljagoyteller Here's the problem with Breaking Bad
1. Walt tells Jesse not to do something
2. Jesse does it anyway
3. Trouble ensues
4. Walt gets Jesse out of trouble but swears it's the last time
5. It's not the last time
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@SnowGhostExodus @jmlc1983 @agraybee There is a fundamental distrust of the government. Why should they support this when California has spent 100b on HSR?
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We know how, it's the same way the rest of the first world does it: very high taxes on everyone. What you're looking for is a way to make 3 trillion dollars a year without upsetting anyone.
The Hill@thehill
Walz: ‘Next Democratic president better figure out a way to get universal health care’ thehill.com/homenews/campa…
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@bigseb31213 @cszabla Took like 2 months for the market to panic from the first covid lockdown fwiw
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@cszabla I feel like I'm going insane when I look at the markets. A third of the globe's energy has just not gone out and the markets have not budged
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people warning about this stuff have probably started to sound even more like chicken littles as time has gone on without more significant disruption, but more disruption is still coming
Sky News Australia@SkyNewsAust
Australia is on the brink of entering the next stage of the government's emergency fuel plan, an expert has warned, which could include widespread calls for Australians to work from home. skynews.com.au/australia-news…
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@nobodyknows2322 Maybe if they tried really hard. But the costs would be very high and the war would be extremely unpopular at home.
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They could’ve defeated the Union in the Civil War too
You can’t say we’d win in an existential conflict against them until the 1880s really
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The American Revolution happened just in time
Victorian Britain, the one of coal iron and steam, would’ve crushed us like a bug.
Bird on Fire 🔥@nobodyknows2322
@CoKeynesian @HookArron76532 I just finished the section on the Napoleonic Wars. Very true there. The ‘British Fiscal-Military State’ (as the author puts it) was the only one of its kind yet in existence It’s why you won despite being smaller in population and more resource-poor than France was!
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@HungaryBased So what happens now?
Infinity Immigration from the Third-World?
Why does White Europe hate itself so much, as to dilute itself with ALL THIS SHIT???
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With a Supermajority Tisza will be capable of Constitutional Change.
Meaning there will never again appear a Hungarian Sovereignist Party. This loss is great, people will remember these elections for decades.
But unlike other times in history, we elected ourselves into a client state status.
The EU will make brutal changes in Hungary so another sovereignist and nationalist will not rise again.
Repression will be made on levels not seen since Trianon or post 1848-1849 War of Independence.
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@KuyavianR4p1st Imagine thinking he is gonna keep this promise LMAO
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@nobodyknows2322 Though ironically the South was pro France and anti British during the early 19th century
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That the Midwest was so pro-Neutrality both times while the South was in favor intervention can largely be summed up by ‘The British settled the South, the Germans settled the Midwest’
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It is also why the Midwest was so isolationist during our Neutrality Period in both of the world wars
zajako@zajako_
There is a large contingent on this app that truly believes there is a grand conspiracy to overreport German-American ancestry Even though reality is actually the opposite. German ancestry is, if anything, underreported due to the suppression of German identity during Word War I and World War II These types believe that Midwesterners and Pennsylvanians are too stupid to know their own family history (because if they were smarter, of course they would understand that their ancestors were actually majority-British) What evidence do they have to back this? Vibes I suppose. And a lot of them aren’t even American. I’ve seen British accounts pushing this pseudo-historical slop
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@bigseb31213 The movement of ground forces will be key. I bet the war restarts next weekend.
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Really unbelievable. We'll see if this is just a ploy to hold down fuel prices until ground forces arrive in the region, but all the details we've gotten are suggesting that trump is capitulating. Iran is going to be very confident going into talks
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@Proxy_Tank @neontaster @varadmehta Terrible strategy as the election is 7 months away. What do they expect the consumers to do, revolt?
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@neontaster @varadmehta They don’t need to beat the US military they just need to beat the US consumer.
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@dashw_ @michaeldweiss Gavin Newsom will be appearing on his podcast and AOC and Bernie Sanders were on it last year. Take a look at some of the young Democrat X accounts. A lot of them love him.
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@thoradycus @michaeldweiss And give him even more clout? That's exactly what he wants, it's like opening a bag of fleas with these guys. And what serious Democrat would even want his supporters? They are DSA and don't vote for Dems anyway, not even to defeat trump as the last elections proved.
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Democrats spent a decade characterising Trump and the Republican Party as the lickspittles of Vladimir Putin. Evidently they’re now terribly divided over whether this idiot ought to be the arbiter of their new youth-centric politics. Удачи.
Kareem Rifai 🌐@KareemRifai
Hasan: "What do you call Crimea? I call it a part of Russian territory, bitch. That's what I call Crimea. I call it cry me a river. A Russian river."
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@dashw_ @michaeldweiss If noone actually dares to criticize him and disown him publicly, they are scared of him and want his supporters.
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@michaeldweiss No Democrat says this. Hasan is no Democrat. The Democratic Socialists (DSA) are Democrats in name only, they don't vote for Democrats and luckily, they mostly don't even win their primaries. They're a third party operation just like Jill Stein. Stop falling for DSA gaslighting.
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@MostlyMod r/neoliberal is a bunch of commies
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why is everyone on twitter a progressive
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
I would vote for El-Sayed in a safe state and McMorrow in a swing state, simple as. He’s never won a competitive election before and she crushed hers
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So, how'd America react to 9/11? Does that align with your thesis?
onion person@CantEverDie
i think that once americans go boots on the ground and once iranians start posting videos like this on american soldiers it’s going to traumatize the nation in a way war has never before
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>be Tokyo mayor, 1912
>gift USA 3k Sakura trees for friendship
>Tokyo Fire Bomb campaigns of 1940s
>Japan loses 90% of tree population
>War over
>tree near extinct
>US Harvests 12,000 branches & seeds
>”You were my rival, not my enemy”
>10 year effort
> tree restored in Japan by 1950
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