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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 9h

If we cut off military aid to israel, israel would conjure up Mk84 2000lb bombs from a Stargate dimensional portal and continue to drop them. Because Israel has access to psionic dimensional mages, we must sell them regular bombs made in Garland, Texas instead

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 10h

Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.

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tove lovesitwhen @meghanclare.bsky.social · 7h

these “traditions” are passed down from alums, class to class the “funny stories” are retold in adoration and passed down year to year these acts are the social glue of fraternities

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tove lovesitwhen @meghanclare.bsky.social · 8h

Yup it will prevent the year over year inculcation of these insecure young men into a house-specific rape culture A frat at my school had a pledge challenge of collecting tampons from the bodies of women they hooked up with. The guy who collected the most in one night won

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 9h

it's also an incredibly, unreasonably charitable alternative to burning down the university.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 9h

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

Not even tools of war, we are protecting them from the consequences of their actions You wanna go treat the region as a free fire zone, go hog wild but I don't see why US interceptors should engage the inbounds when people shoot back at you over it

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 5h

I also wrote here about "humanitarian airdrops" as a form of aidwashing done by governments unwilling to exert any real leverage over Israel, but who still wanted to look like they were helping.

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Humanitarian Airdrops: Legal but Rare

Why their use in Gaza is a cruel joke, and an example of when they're used right

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 5h

I wrote more about the crimes of GHF and the humanitarian situation in Gaza, with the help of two former colleagues, after we were all terminated illegally by Trump's DOGE.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 6h

I know because I was "in the room" in a very literal sense.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 6h

That trend continued until of course Trump got bored of being "peacemaker" and decided to let Israel resume the genocide at full force, and of course the criminal GHF conspiracy. I'm no Trump defender. But lets not rewrite history.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 6h

The day before Trumps inauguration, iirc something like 3 trucks entered Gaza. Day of, over 900.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 6h

Of course, IPC Level 4 (catastrophic) hunger conditions had existed in North Gaza since early '24 and were creeping south.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 6h

Notably, USAID's FEWS-NET identified IPC Level 5 (famine) conditions in North Gaza in Oct/Nov 2024. This report was suppressed and then killed by BHA-chief Sonali Korde and Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, no. The months prior to Trumps inauguration featured record-low truck entry into Gaza and the frequent effective closure of Kerem Shalom crossing due to violent looting if aid trucks by the IDF-backed Yasser Abu Shabaab gang. I'm talking like 2-6 trucks per day, vs the 500 minimum needed.

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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 9h

I have to say, it shocks me to my core how much People genuinely believe Israel's behavior would not change at all without American money and defense lol.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

A problem I have is that a portion of people who defend Biden's policy vis a vis Israel-Palestine insist that they're not pro Israel but then go radio silent when asked what they think, if anything, the next Dem president should do differently. Sorry but I think there's an obvious conclusion here?

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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 3h

In another case of press repression, Egyptian police arrested two editors from the Matsda2sh platform, Mohamed Ashraf and Abdullah Qadri, on September 28 after raiding their homes and confiscating their phones and laptops. 🧵

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

In addition to the support of apartheid Israel, US bipartisan support for the Egyptian junta is disgusting

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Kandorkovich @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 11h

Everybody else is just being a jerkoff trying to get VC money by threatening SkyNet, Thiel believes that literal demons live in the data centers

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Kandorkovich @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 11h

I do think Peter Thiel is one of the only guys who actually believes in a non-negligible P(doom) value, because this what holding that belief sincerely would look like

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11h

seeing their names next to trump’s like they run sovereign states is a real cyberpunk moment

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16h

If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h

FT has independently corroborated Kimberly Guilfoyle’s statement that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government of PM Bolojan over its refusal to buy US gas at above market prices: "We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here too." www.ft.com/content/7af7...

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Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania

Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall

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Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · 11h

X questiona ordem de Mendonça e pede análise individual de posts sobre Nossa Senhora antes de remoção oglobo.globo.com/politica/ele...

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X questiona ordem de Mendonça e pede análise individual de posts sobre Nossa Senhora antes de remoção

Plataforma diz que lista inclui notícias, críticas, opiniões e perguntas sobre padroeira

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 11h

Look all of these are dumb but Pappas is weird because he…owns a cat?

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 17h

speaking of closing tax loopholes, if the IRS was able to collect all taxes owed since 2000 it could mean today's national debt would be $8 trillion lighter some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 14h

i should be a little more explicit that i'm judging the impact by its proponents stated goals (i.e. the elimination of billionaires or inflation adjusted equivalent as a category of person) rich people obv get less rich if we tax them more, but the goal here is not just "less rich"

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 14h

"is that there's no historical evidence of wealth taxes lowering wealth inequality to any meaningful degree at any point in time anywhere in the world" I'm sure this is true, but also the theoretical mechanism is pretty straightforward, right?

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 15h

you can pencil out the math on what it would take to tax Elon's wealth down to mere billionaire status by the end of his lifetime and the numbers just don't work without handwaving away some eye-watering double-digit rates

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 15h

the tool doesn't do what you think it does, and even if we imagine a tool that did what you want it to do the consequences would almost certainly not be worth it

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 15h

i had to cut it for length, but the main argument against "we need wealth taxes to lower wealth inequality" is that there's no historical evidence of wealth taxes lowering wealth inequality to any meaningful degree at any point in time anywhere in the world it's just kind of begging the question

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Revista Fórum @revistaforum.com.br · 11h

Ele movimentou R$ 13 bilhões em apostas de bets e é o melhor amigo de Flávio Bolsonaro…: Um escândalo. Uma bomba. Uma coisa absolutamente absurda e até difícil de entender. Mas vou tentar explicar. Willer Tomaz, o “amigão” de Flávio Bolsonaro — aquele com quem o candidato voou de… #revistafórum

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Ele movimentou R$ 13 bilhões em apostas de bets e é o melhor amigo de Flávio Bolsonaro…

Um escândalo. Uma bomba. Uma coisa absolutamente absurda e até difícil de entender. Mas vou tentar explicar. Willer Tomaz, o “amigão” de Flávio Bolsonaro — aquele com quem o candidato voou de jatinho, no jatinho de Vorcaro, que Flávio dizia não ser de Vorcaro, mas sim do amigão Willer —, acaba de entrar com um […]

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 11h

Amazing video of Republican Senator Katie Britt as the Hawks/Hawkeyes mistake is revealed. This should be viewed with Curb Your Enthusiasm music. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator...

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MAGA Senator Caught on Camera Watching Colleague Self-Combust

No one appeared more mortified by Sen. Eric Schmitt’s humiliating blunder than Katie Britt.

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412th Man @unlox.bsky.social · 11h

Vance/Schmitt ticket would kick so much ass. Like if the “average Blake Masters enjoyer” tweet was sentient

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18h

Per Reuters, Anthropic has $252 billion in non-cancelable compute obligations across Microsoft, Google and Amazon, and $161.2 billion in Broadcom TPU lease obligations that are "largely non-cancelable". Truly insane. $413 billion in non-cancelable contracts. www.reuters.com/business/ant...

The company said it plans to spend at least $111.1 billion with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google, $110 billion with Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab and $31.4 billion with Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab under long-term infrastructure service obligations over the next seven to 10 years "regardless of ⁠usage."
Anthropic is separately carrying about $161.2 billion of Broadcom (AVGO.O), opens new tab-related equipment lease obligations that are largely non-cancelable, according to the prospectus. Anthropic filed for an IPO confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June but its paperwork has not been publicly disclosed.

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the filing.
The company said it committed to pay Google between April 2026 and July 2033 and Amazon between May 2026 and April 2036.
"If our actual spend falls short, we must pay Google the difference," the company said, adding that similar terms apply to its Amazon agreement.
It added its commitment with Microsoft of $31.4 billion between November 2026 and May 2033 "is non-cancelable except in the event of Microsoft's uncured material breach."

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 13h

Feel like we don't talk enough about the 50,000 North Koreans fighting in Ukraine.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h

And we get to finally leave the goddamn Middle East much faster, because the green energy transition makes it easy for us to let them sort it out themselves.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway, the Iran conflict is probably one of the less destructive ways Trump could detonate his political power. Albeit still hugely destructive. But at least we're getting a forced green energy transition and electrification (much stronger than any politically viable federal incentive).

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h

Or DOGE could have broken the federal payments system and caused govt employees and pensioners and federal contractors (including hospitals) to all go unpaid for weeks on end. Or Trump could have tripled down on tariffs and embargoes until the markets actually crashed properly.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h

Venezuela, not so much. An attempted military attack on Greenland or Canada, though? That could totally have happened. So could have an invasion of Cuba, resulting very possibly in the insta-collapse of the entire society and massive flows of refugees whom Miller would be trying to machinegun.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h

Trump had *lots* of other options for making himself colossally unpopular, and repeatedly TACOed right up to the edge of a disaster he couldn't back out of, each time concluding that he was untouchable because nothing too bad happened. He finally did it properly with Iran, and here we are.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h

FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.

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eliza hamilton @eliza.vg · 13h

hot take i think anyone with a ☭ and also a paid blue checkmark on twitter is immediately in my mind either an op or someone who i never want to hear words out of the mouth of ever.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 13h

Stole this meme in 2022

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15h

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12h

Unlike many other longtime critics of liberalism, Philip Pettit doesn't take its contemporary crisis as an opportunity to kick in when it's down or to try to make common cause with the forces of autocracy. iai.tv/articles/dem...

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Democracy without liberalism is not democracy

<p><em>Chinese philosopher Tongdong Bai recently argued in IAI News that democracy and liberalism are fundamentally at odds. Electoral majorities often support illiberal policies, and this, he thinks,...

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 18h

what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service

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