Andrew Meadows

[Andrew Meadows @ElectricShaka]

Ah haha

[MONETARY MAYHEM @MONETARY_MAYHEM]

Live footage of Scott Bessent trying to get 30 year yields back below 5%

[Andrew Meadows @ElectricShaka]

@DoubleWideCap With the rejection of the EOD spike I'm kinda surprised it hasn't retraced the whole selloff already.

[Andrew Meadows @ElectricShaka]

@StealthQE4 What? This has got to be bs, Texas foreclosure process is very fast. Homes when someone's payments go 120 days behind it can go on the auction block within 160 days, no judicial process needed.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

The new Prime Minister of Japan on Russia, from earlier this year.

"The U.S.-Russia-led ceasefire talks remain deeply concerning. If the world accepts border changes through military force, the global order will collapse. Without guarantees for Ukraine’s security, any ceasefire will merely give Russia time to rebuild for another invasion.

After the Soviet Union’s collapse, Ukraine was the world’s third-largest nuclear power. Under the Budapest Memorandum, it agreed to relinquish its nuclear weapons in exchange for security assurances from Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Russia betrayed that promise.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is reinforced by its military alliance with North Korea. We must also not forget the joint military operations conducted by China and Russia around Japan in recent years. Japan faces an exceptionally harsh geopolitical reality, surrounded on three sides by authoritarian nuclear powers—Russia, North Korea, and China.

Depending on the conditions of a ceasefire, Japan’s security risks could increase further. We must move beyond excessive reliance on others and continuously strengthen our own defense capabilities. NATO is also showing signs of instability, highlighting the growing realization that diplomacy without military strength is weak."

[Rose O'Keefe @RoseOKeefe2]

Tour the Worcester Historic District in Otsego County https://t.co/Raxv3gIgOq via @NewYorkHistory

[Rose O'Keefe @RoseOKeefe2]

Erie Canal Songs: Some History https://t.co/Wv2wf8wanP via @NewYorkHistory

[Rose O'Keefe @RoseOKeefe2]

Cloudy, gray, humid Sunday morning post: https://t.co/4Y746YViIX: #WhenYouReachMe; #RebeccaStead; #NewberyAward; #NewYorkCity; #MoonOverManifest; #ClareVanderpool; #WWI; #TheGreatDepression; #spies;

[Rose O'Keefe @RoseOKeefe2]

Happy Juneteenth post: https://t.co/4Y746YViIX: #DrMarkChristian; #NgomaConversations; #Africana;

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ronald Reagan: “Rather than...talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems and make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit…earning here they pay taxes here.”

[Andrew Meadows @ElectricShaka]

@rachbarnhart Unpopular opinion but I wish they would just put up speed cameras and issue tickets that way.

[Andrew Meadows @ElectricShaka]

@RpsAgainstTrump

[Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs]

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."

— Søren Kierkegaard, 1848.

Alexei Navalny †
June 4, 1976 - February 16, 2024

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[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Imagine if we delayed on aid to the U.K. in 1941, 2 years after World War II began, because some argued that we needed first to deal with immigration reform?

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

We do not have Republican security interests or Democratic security interests. We have American NATIONAL security interests. Preventing Putin from conquering Ukraine is a clear American national security interest. C'mon Congress. Get this done. #NewAidToUkraineNow. 1/THREAD

[Monroe County Sheriff’s Office @monroesheriffny]

Investigators continue to attempt to locate 22 year old @RITtigers student Matthew Grant. He was last seen on 11/20/23 at about 10 PM. He drives the dark gray 2014 Jeep Cherokee Michigan license plate ESR8141 pictured below.

We are following up on every lead we receive. Please continue to call 911 with any information.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Think strategically about Ukraine:

"After the war ends, Ukraine will emerge as a powerful U.S. and NATO ally. Ukraine’s military will be one of Europe’s largest and best-armed, a defensive bulwark to deter future renewed Russian aggression and keep the peace." 1/

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Lemme take a moment to fact check this.
(Spoiler: Every single claim is wrong.) 🧵

[Andrew Meadows @ElectricShaka]

@McFaul What is the diplomatic calculus here? Will Xi turn his back on his only significant ally? Especially in the face of resistance and alliances populating all around the them?

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

As Arabs, our message to the world cannot be restricted to eliciting global sympathy for the children of Gaza. We cannot depict ourselves as helpless children, behind whom we hide our failure to control our Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 non-combatant Israelis. This is a moral failure that the world sees but that we try to hide behind the “rights of the Palestinian people,” rights that none of us are willing to articulate. Free Palestine can mean anything, from an Arab Palestinian state living in peace next to Jewish Israel to an Arab Palestinian state instead of Jewish Israel.
For Arab Israeli peace to happen, and since Palestinians are either children, or Hamas thugs, or useless corrupt Mahmud Silicon-Face Abbas, non-Palestinian Arabs should step up to save the Palestinians from themselves and save the region ongoing sorrow. We, Arabs, have to show the world that we are at peace with the idea of a Jewish state, that we are willing to concede what we believe – rightly or wrongly -- is ours (1948 territory), that we genuinely want bygones to be bygones, without secretly holding grudges and passing them to our children. We must seek a better future for ourselves and our kids, as well as for Israelis and their kids.
The Palestine disaster (nakba) is not a disaster of land loss or military defeat. It is a disaster of absence of leadership that can articulate the Arab alternative to war and death. We ask the world to stop the Israeli war on Hamas, but what do we offer as an alternative to stopping the war? Just let those Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 Israelis get away with their crime (because there is a history of dispute)? Ask Israel to go back to October 6? Knowing that Hamas can break out of the Gaza fence and repeat its massacre any minute? Hamas must go. We Arabs must help get rid of it, and most importantly, we must show that we have a plan for the day after Hamas.
Let’s learn from the mistake of Iraq and Arab Spring countries, that once what we have is gone, what comes next looks worse. Let’s preempt the worse by offering the better.
As long as we, the Arabs, do not have answers to all these questions, the world will manage things without us. It does not matter if all of us, 1.3 billion Muslims, think that Israel is at fault. What matters is global perception, which clearly thinks that Islamist terrorism is the problem, not Israelis dancing at a music festival. And we, the Arabs, are not even talking to the world. We are talking to each other, patting ourselves on the back for being utopian and principled on Palestine, while we are in fact idiotically out of touch with reality. We insist on our backward message, then act surprised why many of our states are failing and why we are migrating in droves.
Please stop treating Palestine like religion, like we have to stick to our principles to win credit in the afterlife and to garner social acceptance among each other (Arabs and/or Muslims). Please think of Palestine like a problem that requires troubleshooting, compromise, pragmatism, and most importantly, looking toward the future, not the past.