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Former (and hopefully future) Dem. data staffer, AZ->Chicago. Russian-American, Double Devil. Cardinals/Bears fan.

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Most normal median voter

12.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 181 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

the collapse of the Florida Democratic party has a lot of tail effects but enabling this kind of thing is certainly one of them.

12.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

It's profoundly important whatever the disagreements between diaspora communities about shit happening over there are, we have to put those aside to fight common persecution here.

12.03.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 181 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(πŸŽ₯ LCI πŸ‡«πŸ‡·)

12.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 17841 πŸ” 7075 πŸ’¬ 611 πŸ“Œ 568

The Ayatollah framemogged Pete Hegseth in the Hormuz Strait. Trump is tired of his jestermaxxing and has tapped ASU Frat Leader to be the new Secretary of War

12.03.2026 05:50 πŸ‘ 224 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0
Yeah, We're Going to Have to Tax the Middle Class
Yeah, We're Going to Have to Tax the Middle Class YouTube video by Takesβ„’ by Jamelle Bouie

down with slopulism youtu.be/MXZvHsem5OU

12.03.2026 03:18 πŸ‘ 1757 πŸ” 263 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 0

On a broader note, Al Aqsa Mosque has been closed by the Israelis since the start of the war. Laylat-al-Qadr is coming up in a few days (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...), with Eid right after. I wonder how other Muslim nations will react if it's still closed since theyre already issuing statements.

12.03.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Some Caracas-area AAA operator failing to down a Chinook (or conversely what an American like Slover did to keep his helicopter intact and operational) is going to have one hell of a butterfly effect.

12.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We proved his fears that his dad was going too soft on the Americans all too true in the most violent way possible during the middle of fucking Ramadan.

12.03.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
12.03.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 1428 πŸ” 363 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 14
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Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm

12.03.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 7789 πŸ” 1038 πŸ’¬ 157 πŸ“Œ 51

Friedman? He's in CD7. And I thought they were backing him initially before deciding his support was "too obvious".

12.03.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Sweep the Strait

sweepthestrait.com

11.03.2026 01:45 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

>the enemy gets a vote

you see, this would have never happened if we had more secure elections. this is why you can't let people mail in ballots, they get used by the iranians

11.03.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Twelver Batman

11.03.2026 04:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Uh oh

H/t @horadam.bsky.social

11.03.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 565 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 23

Would someplace like Chabahar be too small to handle any redirected exports on their end?

10.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's on them for missing a blatantly obvious mate in 2 and burning 8% of their total time on the 3rd move of the game.

(Also friend request sent)

10.03.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Exploding the deficit and making it impossible to properly fund all the important government programs liberals hold dear but progressively for no real reason

09.03.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 711 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1

Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock

If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time

09.03.2026 02:24 πŸ‘ 5221 πŸ” 1014 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 30

Now granted that's a very big if from the standpoint of letters and size. But we'll see.

09.03.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R42...

A $50/ton carbon tax is estimated to raise crude oil prices by ~$21.50 per barrel.

WTI, for comparison, is currently at ~$47 higher per barrel than it closed at on the 27th.

09.03.2026 03:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

chat is it good when the oil lines go vertical

chat come back here

chat stop screaming

08.03.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 2000 πŸ” 371 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 12

America and Israel raining down darkness on Tehran?

08.03.2026 10:17 πŸ‘ 243 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 0

christians looking for jesus in every war we start, every missile we fire, every conquering despot we crown, and never in the one place jesus promised he could be found: among the poor, the starving, the oppressed.

07.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 1250 πŸ” 316 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 9

Al-Jubail is only 200km southwest of Iran and processes 90% of Riyadh's water. Hope the Saudis have fortified it because if it goes...

08.03.2026 07:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a piece coming on this early next by Alireza and Nik, who were sounding the alarm on the water crisis before this all started.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/t...

08.03.2026 05:46 πŸ‘ 257 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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boy howdy

08.03.2026 06:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A still image from a Russian language music video of a drill sergeant-esque figure wearing an "ultramarine-colored" beret and the pinstriped "telnyashka" common in Russian military branches, at what appears to be a VDV training ground, with the caption "who else to send but the VDV!"

A still image from a Russian language music video of a drill sergeant-esque figure wearing an "ultramarine-colored" beret and the pinstriped "telnyashka" common in Russian military branches, at what appears to be a VDV training ground, with the caption "who else to send but the VDV!"

08.03.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Π‘ Н Π• Π‘ О П Π  И Π’ Π• Π’

08.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0