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Int’l affairs. Praising progress and condemning kakistocracy in the strongest terms. Slava Ukraini.
The missing piece here is that those who rise must be made to strengthen those beneath them - the ones they fundamentally depend on - as they ascend or the artifice crumbles. The billionaires can keep swinging from the chandeliers for a long time while the pyramid below them falls in on itself.
I disagree on basically every level with that sentence, and history has agreed.
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The missing piece here is that those who rise must be made to strengthen those beneath them - the ones they fundamentally depend on - as they ascend or the artifice crumbles. The billionaires can keep swinging from the chandeliers for a long time while the pyramid below them falls in on itself.
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Still not nearly enough discussion on how the U.S. forcing Ukraine to cede territory to Russia will all but guarantee a new nuclear age.
Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Poland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, even Ukraine itself—what non-nuclear power looks at this and doesn't now go for nukes?
Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Poland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, even Ukraine itself—what non-nuclear power looks at this and doesn't now go for nukes?
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Still not nearly enough discussion on how the U.S. forcing Ukraine to cede territory to Russia will all but guarantee a new nuclear age.
Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Poland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, even Ukraine itself—what non-nuclear power looks at this and doesn't now go for nukes?
Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Poland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, even Ukraine itself—what non-nuclear power looks at this and doesn't now go for nukes?
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"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.
It’s an ongoing and seemingly bottomless humiliation. Our people know there is much to be won if we play this right and break Putin’s back, but Trump & company’s greed and ignorance are driving the opportunity off a cliff. The catch is, we’re all tied to this crazy train.
Something not yet considered by the media- how this total US diplomatic fiasco re Russia-Ukraine talks must have landed on US diplomats, military, and IC who work side by side Ukrainians. Questions from US staff presumably like-WTF is happening? What is our policy? What do we say to our partners?
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It’s an ongoing and seemingly bottomless humiliation. Our people know there is much to be won if we play this right and break Putin’s back, but Trump & company’s greed and ignorance are driving the opportunity off a cliff. The catch is, we’re all tied to this crazy train.
If this “peace plan” fiasco alone doesn’t shake the frozen Russian funds loose for Ukraine, European powers need to lean HEAVILY on Belgium to wake up. Russia only uses maximalist negotiating, and only respects arguments backed by force and conviction. For Europe’s sake, Putin can’t win this war.
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
If this “peace plan” fiasco alone doesn’t shake the frozen Russian funds loose for Ukraine, European powers need to lean HEAVILY on Belgium to wake up. Russia only uses maximalist negotiating, and only respects arguments backed by force and conviction. For Europe’s sake, Putin can’t win this war.
Because they think they can do even better with a numbskull counterpart like Trump. Maximalism pays when you’re bargaining with your own asset.
Russia rejected their own peace plan?
Russia flat out rejects Trump's 28-point peace plan: "Even in a reduced military and territorial form, Ukraine would remain a significant danger, requiring us to keep our forces on the western borders."
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Because they think they can do even better with a numbskull counterpart like Trump. Maximalism pays when you’re bargaining with your own asset.
Glad to see the adults speaking up.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made clear: “This war can only end with Ukraine’s full consent. It cannot be resolved by great powers over the heads of those under attack.” He stressed that Europe must be part of any solution and warned that Ukraine’s defeat would destabilize the entire continent.
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Glad to see the adults speaking up.
Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection advertisement on Ezra Klein’s podcast proving that cerebral lefties are also stuck in a gilded bubble. As a moderately educated middle-classer, this burns.
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection advertisement on Ezra Klein’s podcast proving that cerebral lefties are also stuck in a gilded bubble. As a moderately educated middle-classer, this burns.
It’s worse than this. A handful of fools see a mirage of wealth, and they’re going to drag us all into the desert to die when Putin betrays them. Nobody but Putin wins from this.
The Moscow Times: „The very emergence of such a U.S. initiative signals, in Putin’s view, that Washington is capitulating. And capitulating not because it has suffered losses — it has lost neither tanks nor aircraft nor soldiers — but because it is tired,frightened and eager to avoid involvement.“
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It’s worse than this. A handful of fools see a mirage of wealth, and they’re going to drag us all into the desert to die when Putin betrays them. Nobody but Putin wins from this.
Call your Reps and Senators. This Ukraine “peace” plan is a betrayal of America and Ukraine. Our veterans and ancestors didn’t fight and die so we could give the game away to Russia. Don’t let this be our legacy, folks. It’s not too late to save ourselves and our real friends.
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Call your Reps and Senators. This Ukraine “peace” plan is a betrayal of America and Ukraine. Our veterans and ancestors didn’t fight and die so we could give the game away to Russia. Don’t let this be our legacy, folks. It’s not too late to save ourselves and our real friends.
We might have a functioning democracy if those influence payments were redirected to taxes to take care of our own people. Think how many school lunches that could cover.
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We might have a functioning democracy if those influence payments were redirected to taxes to take care of our own people. Think how many school lunches that could cover.
Congress must re-materialize its spine and denounce this abhorrent proposal - an extension of rotten American oligarchy, victimizing Ukraine far beyond the suffering inflicted at home. It is a razing of the fundamental principles of democracy and self determination enshrined in our founding.
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Congress must re-materialize its spine and denounce this abhorrent proposal - an extension of rotten American oligarchy, victimizing Ukraine far beyond the suffering inflicted at home. It is a razing of the fundamental principles of democracy and self determination enshrined in our founding.
If Trump is on the decline, it’s important to identify where this malignancy will next manifest so we can start excising it now. We cannot fall back into the current decay again.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
If Trump is on the decline, it’s important to identify where this malignancy will next manifest so we can start excising it now. We cannot fall back into the current decay again.
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Do me a favor and forward this post.This needs to get out to everyone. We need to be unified.
Congress, pay attention. We the People decide where our money goes — not the President. And we are demanding full support for Ukraine, with everything they need to win. Trump does not hold the power of the purse. The American people do. Act accordingly.
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Do me a favor and forward this post.This needs to get out to everyone. We need to be unified.
They’re not just getting incredibly rich at the top - they control enough of the market to get away with slashing service/product quality. Crap news, miserable flights, high meat prices, astronomically expensive drugs. All proof of significant long term antitrust failures.
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
They’re not just getting incredibly rich at the top - they control enough of the market to get away with slashing service/product quality. Crap news, miserable flights, high meat prices, astronomically expensive drugs. All proof of significant long term antitrust failures.
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Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.
Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.
Cretin behavior.
You think housing is unaffordable now? Just you wait…
Time for voters to look around the corner, and fast.
Time for voters to look around the corner, and fast.
The end of dollar hegemony will transform U.S. debt from a fiscal drag into a high-yield fusion bomb.
For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.
For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.
one thing that I think we really don't think about is if Trump fucks up America's macro privileges or role in the international system and Americans are forced to end up dealing with a economic system that doesn't allow for the same old fiscal fixes as before
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
You think housing is unaffordable now? Just you wait…
Time for voters to look around the corner, and fast.
Time for voters to look around the corner, and fast.
Definitely gives Weinstein vibes.
Yank institutions should be treating Summers like British ones are treating Andrew and I really feel like they are actually cutting Summers a lot more slack than that
larry summers is genuinely, deeply misogynist in a way which is not even captured by his public contempt for women
November 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Definitely gives Weinstein vibes.
Dark Homer Simpson here unraveling our closest international relationship.
Remember when it was a weeks-long scandal that Obama gave the Queen an iPod full of music, bc it threatened the Special Relationship?
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Dark Homer Simpson here unraveling our closest international relationship.
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When you read these Epstein emails, you start to understand why so many prominent conservatives are obsessed with checking the genitals of children. It's a big thing for them!
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
When you read these Epstein emails, you start to understand why so many prominent conservatives are obsessed with checking the genitals of children. It's a big thing for them!
Either a sign of the times or the softening of my aging soul, but this had my eyes leaking. Great to see what leadership can be. Thanks veterans.
Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Either a sign of the times or the softening of my aging soul, but this had my eyes leaking. Great to see what leadership can be. Thanks veterans.
To the surprise of nobody. Ed Gein could catch a pardon if he genuflected in the right direction these days.
BREAKING:
A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc
A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
To the surprise of nobody. Ed Gein could catch a pardon if he genuflected in the right direction these days.
Charlie Schumer puckering up for another dose.
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Charlie Schumer puckering up for another dose.
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Senator Ocasio-Cortez:
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Senator Ocasio-Cortez: