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Ezra Klein tonight "Benjamin Netanyahu is practicing Palestinian genocide the right way.

EVERYONE who disagrees is antisemitic"

You can’t trust anyone with the Hitlerjugend haircut

The splitscreen between "I think they should use the strait" and pictures of the Mayuree Naree Bangkok burning in the strait on the same day is absurdly on point.

Trump has, at last, it seems, found a problem that lying and marketing cannot solve.

you cannot post yourself into the opposing force not existing

the enemy gets a vote

US exports used to be stuff like movies and food products (lobster, soy, steak) and now its tariffs and geopolitical conflicts

we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'

it really is unfortunately this simple - we elected the stupidest narcissists absolutely convinced that they could just go and "assert warfighter dominance" or whatever, those pussy liberals didn't wanna FIGHT!!!, and are just now shocked that the enemy gets a vote too

also like: it is not just oil production that is affected by this - air transport and even agriculture is going to be negatively shaped by the strait of hormuz being closed

Jabba the Hutt saying "Han, what if everyone who smuggled for me dropped their oil when LLoyd's of London declared the Straits high risk?"

The Biden Admin directed hundreds of billions to clean energy/manufacturing.

Did these investments shift public opinion?

We find that these projects are visible but not traceable: People notice nearby investments, but connect them to Governors, not Biden.

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

National statistics are in crisis around the world — and the impacts will be severe Some researchers are sounding the alarm over the official data sets that track crucial aspects of life in the United States, Argentina, the United Kingdom and India.

Researchers are sounding the alarm over the official data sets that track crucial aspects of life

go.nature.com/4liLWzO

Dawg we're gonna need to make the American equivalent of Estonian e-citizenship cards after this, because *everyone* is going to have their SSN permanently compromised.

Need to start over from almost scratch. The SSN's already overdue to be reduced from password to unique semi-public alias.

Italy beats the USA 8-6

At a certain point it becomes a deliberate choice to keep on living in ignorance and most of the USian people make this choice every day

...any of the thousands of US Navy members current and former who have transited the Strait of Hormuz while Iran trolled the ship for shits and giggles can describe for you at least 3 ways they can close the Strait without attending any briefing.

Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com

Everyone, there is no need to panic about mines.

The Navy has kept four mine countermeasure vessels in the Persian Gulf for the past 35 years.

WAIT...what is that?

The minesweepers just arrived in the US to be decommissioned, but we have 3 Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) that took their place.

like, yeah, it's The Year Of Our Decline 2026 and i probably *am* in fact more qualified than most of the White House, but so is my drunk cousin still trying to be cool with a mohawk and a Harley in his late 30s

nobody gets to call themselves failures with these bozos in charge of the US government

are you interested in other places for their own sake, not just as an extension of America? congratulations, you are already ahead of the majority of DC think tanks.

È bellissimo ma non me parlare di calcio …

My cat has more theory of mind then your average fascist

Yeah. I think they genuinely lack the theory of mind required to guess someone might be upset if you killed their family for content.

Don’t give him any ideas

parody mr beast title card: "surviving hormuz challenge! who makes it through wins big! $1,000,000 prize!"

chat sends

I believe in stove touching and that's why oil should be 440 dollars

They trained it on DFW drivers

i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly

this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone"

they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.

Inshallah