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Can’t say too much about my job these days but international affairs (especially Asia) is my specialty. I love films, novels, and history. Degrees from Oxford, Virginia Tech, and the London School of Economics. Opinions are entirely my own. He/him

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There’s a lot of assumptions about when the war will end in that statement

11.03.2026 14:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

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 👍 2344 🔁 607 💬 78 📌 31
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“.. Pictures shared by the Thai navy showed black smoke pouring out of the vessel.”

(via AFP) #Hormuz
uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/cargo-v...

11.03.2026 13:57 👍 185 🔁 55 💬 9 📌 4
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That’s a rare downbeat note from Kudlow.

11.03.2026 11:52 👍 1205 🔁 275 💬 87 📌 27
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

10.03.2026 21:30 👍 16949 🔁 4635 💬 150 📌 293
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Rick Scott: "Is it gonna be easy to get the Strait or Hormuz open? It never was gonna be easy."

(The Strait was open just fine two weeks ago!)

11.03.2026 11:58 👍 2634 🔁 644 💬 242 📌 79

Yeah, that checks.

11.03.2026 09:55 👍 141 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 1
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It saddens me that a surprising number of people in the West do not seem to care about the political censorship built into Chinese AI models, considering that is irrelevant to their usage. www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...

11.03.2026 11:43 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Huge

11.03.2026 06:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Boom

11.03.2026 06:50 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

AFP: Ship Hit Near UAE by Unidentified Projectile

11.03.2026 04:09 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing performance

11.03.2026 03:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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11.03.2026 02:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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11.03.2026 02:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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."

10.03.2026 15:34 👍 5240 🔁 2010 💬 122 📌 112

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

10.03.2026 23:26 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

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10.03.2026 23:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How do you feel about that?

10.03.2026 23:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

👍

10.03.2026 21:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

It becomes clear that the Epstein octopus is entangled with the Londongrad octopus, via figures like Peter Mandelson. Great dot connecting from @professorshaw.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

10.03.2026 14:10 👍 23 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
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2025 NFL midseason predictions: Playoff races, MVP, Super Bowl Can the Bucs reach the Super Bowl? Will Myles Garrett win DPOY? We asked 15 experts to give their predictions for the rest of the NFL season.

www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

10.03.2026 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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'We're in witness protection': Tampa Bay Bucs being ignored as Super Bowl contender The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are an undercover Super Bowl contender. But this team is more than good enough to win it all.
10.03.2026 20:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Chiefs-Buccaneers Rematch? 'First Things First' Crew Predicts Super Bowl LX | Fox Sports Will the Chiefs return to the Super Bowl, or can the Bills take them down? The "First Things First" crew gave their 2025 predictions.
10.03.2026 20:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Because we can’t have good things in life

10.03.2026 19:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

10.03.2026 18:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

10.03.2026 16:55 👍 621 🔁 82 💬 22 📌 8

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

10.03.2026 17:41 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

10.03.2026 17:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Look at these charts. TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help. The timing coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB. www.propublica.org/article/cred... @joeljacobs.bsky.social

10.03.2026 12:21 👍 933 🔁 452 💬 9 📌 16

What if they are just saving the aviation fuel?

10.03.2026 14:09 👍 135 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 0