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

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Nobody:

Xi Jinping rn:
January 12, 2026 at 2:12 PM
January 12, 2026 at 1:55 AM
“Welcome to the revolution comrade Jerome Powell”
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 AM
ft. Gwen Stefani
January 11, 2026 at 11:10 PM
January 11, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Come on
January 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
“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.”
January 11, 2026 at 10:03 AM
“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
January 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
January 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
“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,"”

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 2, 2026 at 10:39 PM
The answer is in Plekhanov
January 2, 2026 at 8:08 PM
idk why but I was reminded of this gem
January 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM
January 1, 2026 at 10:17 PM
I Was Just Asking Questions
December 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Nope
December 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“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.”
December 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
MRW I find out I’m British
December 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Hey Europe. How’s it going?
December 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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?”

publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
December 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
And this too tbh
December 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We gotta combine this cartogram and this sort of map projection

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitud...
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
December 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
the best character in stranger things is dipshit derek

the second best character in stranger things is delightful derek
December 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The brainrot of "policymakers and high-powered decision makers" giving them reason to think so

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
v bold choices from James Stavridis in bloomberg opinion
December 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM