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website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf
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website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf
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Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...
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If you look at the thread of people replying to the @aselrod.bsky.social “Lenin is bad” post, many of them are under the impression that Lenin overthrew the czar, when Lenin famously did not travel to Russia until after the czar abdicated
I think we’re not required to pretend that history respecters who glaze Lenin, Mao, Robert E Lee, Hitler, Pinochet, etc are doing so out of scholarly interest
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Related - www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
this is 100% true and it's largely a Keynesian beauty contest of high-engagement politics sickos trying to imagine what will win over the absolute cretins they imagine low-info swing voters to be
Feels to me like we’ve got a subset of folks desperate to find OUR populists, the left Trumps and Rogans, and they’re willing to make… certain sacrifices and compromises to do so. They’ve looked at some of the darker things that follow in populism’s wake and decided some of them, they can live with.
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> Another bizarre angle NE take is emphasizing Douglass’s stated view that the Constitution was an abolitionist document. They’re doing the thing where someone says “America is better than this” and you go “um, actually, America ISN’T better than this”
“Karl Marx had a deep connection to America in his lifetime. Though Marx never visited America, he was a regular correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New York Daily Tribune, which at the time had the largest subscriber base in the world (200,000 in 1855). Marx wrote nearly 500 articles for the paper”
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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I think it’s less that US debt is seen as riskier (default) as there is a strong desire to diversify away from exposure to the US economy and the dollar.
Normally, in a crisis, US gov’t bond yields fall because they are (were) considered the safest investment possible. Now, yield are suddenly rising. This indicates a couple things, but most critically: Risk premium for US debt surging. Investors view US debt as much more risky than the did a week ago
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