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Yusuf
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political philosophy, social epistemology, anarchy, sometimes charts 📈 | PhDing @LSEGovernment | he/him

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Xi Jinping rn:
January 12, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Jeremy Corbyn hacked tweet/meme from 2016 “Here we... here we... here we fucking go!!!”
January 12, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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“Welcome to the revolution comrade Jerome Powell”
Andrew Bailey wearing a military uniform
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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ft. Gwen Stefani
January 11, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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Bidoof, they outnumber you, 5 to 1 "Then it is an even fight." - meme
January 11, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Come on
Meme of guy posing in front of gravestone: Gravestone labelled: “special relationship”
January 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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“Looming over everything is the sheer scale of China’s defense-industrial potential…It is really hard to see how the US can avoid outright defeat in any sustained military struggle anywhere within China’s orbit…This problem is especially acute because the US is the strategic defender in Asia.”
Table 1. Metrics of Defense Industrial Capacity. China US Europe Japan India Russia Mfg. value-added ($bn) 4,661 2,913 2,723 867 490 288 Electricity production (TWh) 9,192 4,269 2,579 949 1,714 1,031 Steel production (mmt) 1,005 80 177 84 149 71 Cement production (mmt) 2,100 91 176 50 140 57 Motor vehicles production (ooo) 31,282 10,562 13,403 8,235 6,015 983 Machine tools production (€bn) 27.4 8.1 27.5 8.8 1.4 0.4 Industrial robots (oo0) 2,027 394 441 451 53 20 Scientific publications ('oo0) 43.4 32.5 43.5 6 2.9 0.9 Sources: All data is latest available. Europe is EU-27, which excludes the United Kingdom. Manufacturing value-added and electricity production is from the World Bank (2025). Steel production is sourced from the World Steel Association and the EV. Cement production is from World Population Reviero (2025) and European Cement Association (2024). Motor vehicle output is from International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (2025). Machine tools production is from CECIMO (2023). Industrial robot stocks are from International Federation of Robotics (2025). Scientific publications are from Nature (2025).
January 11, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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“How should we understand the endgame of the ICE and Border Patrol unions? What is striking about these organizations is the extent to which their material and ideological investments in immigration policing tend to reinforce one another.”

- @michael-macher.bsky.social
Hypertrophy How should we understand the endgame of the ICE and Border Patrol unions? What is striking about these organizations is the extent to which their material and ideological investments in immigration policing tend to reinforce one another. Opponents of immigration have long argued that restricting numbers will help protect the labor interests of native citizens. Often the connection between the two is highly uncertain. But for ICE and border agents— whose jobs, prestige, and livelihoods literally depend on the level of immigration enforcement-it could not be clearer. For those on the frontlines of the war on immigrants, nativist politics combines with direct material incentives to support zero-tolerance policies, which seek to eliminate all forms of amnesty. This is precisely the institutional culture that the Trump administration has sought to tap into by shutting down DHS's civil rights division and the detention ombudsman's office.
January 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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“C’mon do something…” meme but it’s Mario Draghi poking the EU with a stick
January 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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“Neo-royalist orders neither begin nor end with Trump…Over the last decade, numerous leaders…have embraced elements of a neo-royalist order. But Trump's position at the top of unparallelled power resources…allows him to act as a "world orderer,"”

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Neo-royalist orders neither begin nor end with Trump. The "ideal typical" order we outline can be found across time and space and has long competed and co-existed with state-based systems. Over the last decade, numerous leaders-including Turkey's Recep Erdogan, India's Narendra Modi, Hungary's Viktor Orbán, Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman, China's Xi Jinping, and Russia's Vladimir Putin—have embraced elements of a neo-royalist order. But Trump's position at the top of unparallelled power resources including the dollar-based global financial system and US military power, allows him to act as a "world orderer," with "a particular vision of the whole world... who want to order it in a particular way and, in doing so, create, modify, and reproduce political, economic, and social institutions in the world. "6' Table explaining Liberal, Westphalian, and neo-royalist orders.
January 2, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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The answer is in Plekhanov
Was Vecna controlling the Mind Flayer, or was the Mind Flayer controlling Vecna?
January 2, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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idk why but I was reminded of this gem
January 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Meme of Derek from stranger things holding up a lunch box and his hands. Black and white photo. Caption reads “ABSOLUTE CINEMA” - riffing off the Scorsese meme
January 1, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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I Was Just Asking Questions
Illustration of old man with beard and bottle and glass next to him. Probably to depict Socrates with hemlock. Illustration by James Hankins.
December 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Nope
The economy is failing, and a heavy political resignation is paralyzing the country. In these troubling times, the only one who can provide guidance is... you!
December 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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“Even if no viable competitor currency emerges, financial fragmentation can accelerate. Rather than moving to a euro standard or a renminbi standard, still hard to imagine, the world might shift by degrees to no standard and/or rival standards.”
[Post-Chorus] And I wish on all the rainbows that I see I wish on all the people who really dream And I'm wishin' on tomorrow, praying it'll come And I'm wishin' on all the lovin' we've ever done
December 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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MRW I find out I’m British
December 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Hey Europe. How’s it going?
Screenshot of economist op ed/article headline Europe | Charlemagne The Finnish lifestyle philosophy that could save Europe Sisu, or grit in the face of adversity, is just what the continent needs
December 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Cool box from @advaitarun.bsky.social’s “Bubble or Nothing” report that unpicks the key q:

“How do we know if the Al boom is really a bubble?”

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Box 3.1. How do we know if the Al boom is really a bubble? A 2019 paper written by senior managing directors at State Street Associates, an asset manager, and the CEO of Windham Capital Management offers an interesting criteria for defining an asset bubble: Whether or not investment in a boom sector is a "crowded trade." The authors derive a measurement of (1) asset centrality-"the extent to which a group of similar assets drives the variability of returns across a broader universe of which it is a member"-as a proxy for locating sectors subject to crowded trading, and they combine this measurement with an indicator of a sector's (2) relative value to "identify when a bubble transitions from its inflationary phase to its deflationary phase" due to market participants' sudden reevaluation of its real value. The authors combine and apply these tools to stock trading data to identify the creation of bubbles, particularly the dotcom bubble and the real estate bubble, and to suggest that they can be predicted before they occur. The paper's methodology is intricate and compelling, but it may be less applicable to the current Al boom due to the inability to directly measure returns on private markets, through which increasing amounts of debt and equity investment are flowing. But the heuristics involved remain useful, especially given the concentration of key stock market indices around the tech sector and the rapid rise in tech companies' valuations. Further research into whether the Al boom meets this paper's criteria would be welcome. See: Kinlaw et al. (2019). "Crowded Trades: Implications for Sector Rotation and Factor Timing." IPR Journals.
December 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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And this too tbh
Mock book cover: "This is economic history on an epic scale." -THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CRASHING OUT FIGE 100 How the West Fumbled the Bag Adam Tooze Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize Author of THE DELUGE
December 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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We gotta combine this cartogram and this sort of map projection

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Cartogram showing the distribution of the world population by representing it through 15,266 squares, each representing half a million people Latitudinally equal-differential polyconic projection of the world, centered on 150°E and with higher latitudes cropped out.
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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2 panel sleeping Shaq meme: Panel 1 - Shaq asleep labelled “political philosophers” next to text that says “what is capitalism?” Panel 2 - Shaq awake with laser eyes saying “real shit?” Next to to text that says “what is justice?”
December 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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the best character in stranger things is dipshit derek

the second best character in stranger things is delightful derek
2 panels - scene from stranger things series 5. Top panel - Henry/Mr whatsit asks "who gave you this map?" bottom panel - dipshit/delightful derek: "your mom"
December 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The brainrot of "policymakers and high-powered decision makers" giving them reason to think so

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Financial Times article: 'A stream of negativity and abuse: why are Labour MPs still sticking with X? Despite concerns, politicians continue to use Elon Musk's platform in search of a 'civilised debate' with constituents © FT montage/Getty Images Mari Novik, Jim Pickard and Joel Suss in London Published DEC 23 2025
December 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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v bold choices from James Stavridis in bloomberg opinion
THE CAPITAL VOLUME: 1, 2 and 3 KARL MARX Red book with image of Karl Marx on front
December 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM