@GeoffPigman.bsky.social🇺🇦

Consultant. Academic - studies diplomacy, political economy, international trade, sports-diplomacy. Author, _Negotiating Our Economic Future_. Mets fan. #BLM.

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@vijayvinyl :( Instagram is Meta. Zuckerberg collaborated with the Russians in the 2016 election. He's really no better than Musk. Go with Bluesky!

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I went over this week. If you haven't started yet, now is a good time! Together we can free ourselves from M**k.

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@lewis_goodall If he's pro-Musk, Oxford should 'just say no.'

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@colynelliott follow the butterfly

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@Gizmo_Tweets Do Bluesky too!

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@julesadit Like a stealth rent increase?

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This is a big deal. National security = supply chain resilience.

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

Data released today shows US battery production continues to rise rapidly in the wake of the Inflation Reduction Act, hitting new record highs and up roughly 25% over the last year

[Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick]

The answer is Kamala Harris. Period. 🇺🇸

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Do you have an extra $5,700 lying around because Trump doesn't understand tariffs? Vote accordingly.

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@thatbobertguy Try Tokyo 11 hrs behind DC - been almost a week and I still haven't recovered😨💤

[Ali Vaez @AliVaez]

As a growing chorus of Iranian officials and advisors - including Kamal Kharrazi today - float the possibility of shift in IRI nuclear doctrine, the TL;DR from my piece in @ForeignAffairs last month as to why this is a bad idea.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Pretty textbook fascist rhetoric here.

Four days to turn the page.

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@thatbobertguy It's totally crazy

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'treacherous ferret' - call him out #NATOStrong https://t.co/a0SgVncbEk

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

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@Junotane @benjaminaengel Jeff your arguments presume that superintelligence won't wipe out all humanity within a very short space of time following the Singularity. I'd ban all AI across the board until we've developed proper safeguards. Then we can talk about higher ed reform.

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Freedom

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

.@Beyonce’s full remarks in support of Vice President Harris

[Anthony Michael Kreis, FRHistS @AnthonyMKreis]

I may not live past November 5th.

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Time to turn the page on Putin

[Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @PP_Rubens]

3/3 Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1605 Another early Lady-in-Landscape from Domenichino, painter of Bologna, whose day is today.