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@joeava

Bearded dad and AP Euro / World History teacher. MA student - Transatlanticism, Political Ecology, Empire. New Jersey gavone. COYG.

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There was grumbling about rationing and strike waves during World War II! The only way you get through this is through persuasion based on values.

11.03.2026 15:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Beyond the fact that they’ve been extremely lazy in selling the American people on this war that’s also not a war — this is just not a winning message. Americans have hated this since the Jefferson administration.

11.03.2026 15:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

THIS IS INSANE

10.03.2026 01:38 👍 526 🔁 57 💬 55 📌 56

So sorry but there’s no unfucking this chicken.

10.03.2026 02:05 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"iran is going to keep trying to close the strait [which will drive insurance costs to unsustainable levels]" versus "no they aren't"

09.03.2026 20:05 👍 587 🔁 40 💬 7 📌 3
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As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

09.03.2026 21:12 👍 10041 🔁 2433 💬 169 📌 107
Dr. Manhattan on Mars in the comic

Dr. Manhattan on Mars in the comic

It is February 2022. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.

It is February 2026. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.

07.03.2026 04:25 👍 844 🔁 150 💬 8 📌 2

Shutting an oil well isn’t like turning off a faucet.

It’s a huge engineering risk, difficult to reverse — and an indicator the Kuwaitis don’t see choke points improving anytime soon.

07.03.2026 16:22 👍 3271 🔁 982 💬 73 📌 27

What's making me lose my mind is that Hegseth made a career out of defending American soldiers who committed war crimes, now is openly ordering war crimes and bragging about it, yet our media does not have headlines screaming "Sec Def is Ordering War Crimes."

07.03.2026 03:12 👍 105 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 0

I’ve seen many objectively better hype up videos at college basketball and MLS games.

07.03.2026 02:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Looking past the symbol salad this is just the lamest shit I’ve ever seen.

07.03.2026 02:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Looking past the symbol salad this is just the lamest shit I’ve ever seen.

07.03.2026 02:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ditzkrieg send skeet

07.03.2026 00:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We’re going down, baby.

06.03.2026 19:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can only ignore the unsustainable for so long.

06.03.2026 16:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Does anyone else start thinking about the Titan submersible implosion when reading the news?

06.03.2026 16:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

What if 2006 but also 1973?

05.03.2026 17:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It is known.

05.03.2026 17:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every day the war’s projected end point seems to be the sum of the two previous projections. It’s a beautiful thing to witness the Fibonacci Sequence in nature.

05.03.2026 17:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

mark teixeira once tried to get bees to stop swarming at a spring training game by bringing a plastic bear honey bottle out of the clubhouse, he will be the republican party’s top scientific mind in congress

04.03.2026 04:52 👍 513 🔁 84 💬 4 📌 7

“I wish Obama could run again.” - multiple students in multiple blocks. Is this a TikTok meme or something?

04.03.2026 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Was talking to my kids about current events today, some of whom are already of age to vote, and it’s pretty clear to me that the children yearn for Woke 2.

04.03.2026 17:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

2026 has a very 2006 "everybody fucking hates republicans but national media/pundits will be reeaaaaaaaaaaallllllly slow to properly understand that because of their priors about the two parties" feel to it

04.03.2026 03:58 👍 1955 🔁 256 💬 17 📌 10

Do those “side jobs” not actually qualify as another job? Do you know what level of effort goes into a teaching job on a day-to-day basis?

03.03.2026 16:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Onion point/counterpoint from 2003 which reads Share on Bluesky
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

The Onion point/counterpoint from 2003 which reads Share on Bluesky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Share on SMS Email this Page Point/Counterpoint This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Real hits stay relevant.

02.03.2026 16:22 👍 237 🔁 40 💬 11 📌 0

This ain’t it.

02.03.2026 00:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son

02.03.2026 00:09 👍 3347 🔁 616 💬 68 📌 30

The whole Trump administration is just rooting around in complicated systems - regional balances of power, state legitimacy, funding for global health - and ripping wires out, and they've frankly been lucky that they've ripped out so many wires without electrocuting themselves. Won't last forever.

01.03.2026 23:38 👍 573 🔁 100 💬 13 📌 3

Americans:

01.03.2026 22:46 👍 154 🔁 31 💬 6 📌 3