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Professor of History at Western Washington University. Historian of colonial America, labor, and slavery. Most recent book: https://hackettpublishing.com/the-suriname-writings-of-john-gabriel-stedman

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Genuinely hilarious

This is the dumbest most cowardly man that has ever existed.

11.03.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 167 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 11

This is spreading all over Bluesky today and is wildly misleading--it is from eight months ago and it is in reference to working with NATO allies and arming Ukraine.

11.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 1130 πŸ” 322 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 20

"missiles arent real," i assure myself as i close my eyes and pilot my ship into the strait of hormuz

11.03.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 556 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 1

My rough timeline:
If the Strait reopens in the coming week, we have weeks of energy market disruption ahead but things have settled by the Autumn.
If the Strait is closed for another 3/4 weeks we have months of disruption.
If the Strait is closed for longer things get very bad, very quickly.

11.03.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 660 πŸ” 174 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 24

Thanks, right when I forgot about Immerwahr’s horrible RFK apologia…

11.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse

11.03.2026 12:38 πŸ‘ 5806 πŸ” 1490 πŸ’¬ 126 πŸ“Œ 61

Export bans.
Tax holidays.
Emergency reserves.
Fuel quotas.
Price caps.

It’s all on the table now.

11.03.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 315 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 7

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.

trade disputes and conspiracies βœ”οΈ

republic subverted over sex hangups βœ”οΈ

β€œsand people” killed, royalty indifferent βœ”οΈ

naive idiot casts vote for tyranny βœ”οΈ

villains with silly names like β€œdooku” βœ”οΈ

powerful clerical order screwing up βœ”οΈ

list goes on

11.03.2026 10:38 πŸ‘ 3736 πŸ” 861 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 16

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could β€œbomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

11.03.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 6928 πŸ” 1401 πŸ’¬ 253 πŸ“Œ 318
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our boy's on it

11.03.2026 06:35 πŸ‘ 2970 πŸ” 275 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 50

"Get used to higher gas prices" is such a wild message to land on for an incumbent party heading into the midterms

11.03.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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That Qatar outage is becoming a big deal.

β€œ.. The world's largest LNG plant hasn't exported a shipment in five days. That's the longest streak since at least 2008.”

@sstapczynski.bsky.social @bloomberg.com

11.03.2026 09:49 πŸ‘ 728 πŸ” 244 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 14
Han Solo saying "It's the ship that made the Straits of Hormuz in 12 parsecs"

Han Solo saying "It's the ship that made the Straits of Hormuz in 12 parsecs"

11.03.2026 09:58 πŸ‘ 484 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5
Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center

Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center

A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big

A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big

hmm

11.03.2026 09:02 πŸ‘ 10117 πŸ” 1298 πŸ’¬ 686 πŸ“Œ 587

grok how do you open the strait of hormuz

grok how do you clear mines

no grok I don’t mean the game

11.03.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 787 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 3

Hegseth drove himself this morning, I see

11.03.2026 11:32 πŸ‘ 4039 πŸ” 484 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 5

The problem with this β€œsacrifice for our freedom” language is that the Trump administration cannot articulate a single half-plausible reason it did this, didn’t bother to explain to the public it was starting a war in the first place, and has changed its explanation for why three times in a week.

11.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 2327 πŸ” 417 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 19

It’s not like mining will change the amount of traffic through Hormuz, which will go from zero to zero, but it immediately makes the fallout global and irreversible, by ensuring that traffic remains zero for the foreseeable future. Which is why it’s odd it’s getting only moderate press attention

10.03.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 969 πŸ” 116 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 12

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

11.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 13696 πŸ” 3013 πŸ’¬ 475 πŸ“Œ 477

hi i’m johnny knoxville and this is stand up paddle boarding the straight of hormuz

11.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 1727 πŸ” 248 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 5

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

11.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 16155 πŸ” 6550 πŸ’¬ 460 πŸ“Œ 884

Here's my Blooski statement that Sen. Kennedy calls hyperbolic. I will defend natural law until the day I die, Senator. People's rights come from their humanity, not their government. If ordered to act unethically, you should always refuse. Do Republicans now disagree?

10.03.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 2225 πŸ” 425 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 14

Area poster still posting through it

10.03.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4
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Ancient Peruvians transported live parrots across the Andes Pre-Inca elites wore headdresses made of feathers from Amazonian macaws

neat piece from my wife on pre-Incan empires and bird markets.

www.science.org/content/arti...

10.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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They’re calling it the best-planned war of all time

10.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 589 πŸ” 111 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 17
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Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive β€œto his personal computer so that he could β€˜sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

10.03.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 2038 πŸ” 904 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 186
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Putting these two posts together like pieces of a lost amulet and watching a lesson about geopolitics emerge like a genie

10.03.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 427 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

Jennifer Jacobs
@JenniferJJacobs
NEWS via 
@CBSNews
: U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane. Iran is using smaller crafts that can carry 2 to 3 mines each. While Iran’s mine stock isn’t publicly known, estimates over the years have ranged from roughly 2,000 to 6,000 naval mines of Iranian, Chinese and Russian-made variants, 
@JimLaPorta
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Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs NEWS via @CBSNews : U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane. Iran is using smaller crafts that can carry 2 to 3 mines each. While Iran’s mine stock isn’t publicly known, estimates over the years have ranged from roughly 2,000 to 6,000 naval mines of Iranian, Chinese and Russian-made variants, @JimLaPorta reports 2:13 PM Β· Mar 10, 2026 Β· 6,060 Views

Here we go

10.03.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 1464 πŸ” 385 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 253

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

10.03.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 9432 πŸ” 1893 πŸ’¬ 176 πŸ“Œ 39
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Idiot plot

10.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 3428 πŸ” 798 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 51