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Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."

If the Navy thinks it’s too dangerous to transit, why would unarmed tankers go for it?

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Because we can’t have good things in life

I know multiple media personalities who had them making the NFC Championship game or even the Superbowl

there's this weird tendency to see Palestine as a load-bearing part of global systems of power or capital, rather than a marginalized population brutally oppressed by a fairly small state. A mirror image of the "Israel is the defender of the West' stuff.

The chances that people in the administration are doing this to game the market and make money are not 0

Was that an option? A lot of people also thought the Bucs would be good last year…

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What if they are just saving the aviation fuel?

If you wanted to bet that the war will end fairly soon, Saudi Aramco saying it would be “catastrophic” to continue would be a pretty good piece of evidence to support your case.

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Yeah, pretty quiet week for commodities

Just leave them. Just stay over here. We value so much all the work that you do.

Delightful show. I was just thinking of that moment where one of them goes “Did you see that Trump—“ and Loudermilk cuts him off and is like “Yes, I know, everything is terrible!”
(It’s been a couple years since I saw it so if I screwed up the wording, I apologize.)

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The succession has concluded and that potentially fraught moment for the regime is over.

I know a lot of Israeli and American politicians are talking about how they’ll be able to assassinate the new Khamenei too. I can only say that it certainly won’t be as easy as the first time. 2/3

Screencap from an article about the Iranian leadership pledging loyalty to the new Ayatollah Khamenei.

There might have been an outside chance that in the wake of Khamenei dying of natural causes, some combination of a power struggle and popular protests could endanger the regime. If ever there might have been a breaking point, that probably would have been it. Now that’s gone. 🧵 1/3

As the doctor says in Denis Johnson’s story Emergency “That person is not right, not at all, not one bit.”

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.

GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

Oh yeah. Way higher each time.

We might be done, but maybe we'll invade and hold a coastline roughly the size of Maine's. Lotsa options

Yep! That’s where we are!

Probably, though that’s still very much an if at this point. The markets acted like it’s a when, even though Trump is still talking about taking over the strait and the sirens are still going off across the Gulf.