Ridhiman Balaji

Economist. Tweets about economics and politics.

[The Iranian Letter @TheIranianzg3z]

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has announced the formation of an international maritime coalition aimed at protecting commercial shipping in the Red Sea from Houthi attacks.

The alliance reportedly includes Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Sudan, and Djibouti, with Pakistan, Turkey, and Egypt serving as its largest military participants.

The United States is reportedly not joining the coalition, and no European or other Western countries have agreed to participate.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Netanyahu was asked about the growing consensus among genocide scholars, humanitarian organizations and UN bodies that Israel has committed war crimes, including genocide in Gaza.

He blamed Hamas for seeking civilian deaths for propaganda and claimed “a lot fewer civilians to combatants lost than just about any urban warfare in modern times.”

Asked why Israel still bars independent foreign journalists from entering Gaza outside military escorts, Netanyahu says the territory remains an active war zone and insists Israel is “not hiding” anything despite continuing restrictions on foreign independent reporting.

He then pivoted to criticizing New York mayor Mamdani and his wife for not supporting Israel’s campaign in Gaza.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Trump exploded and lost his temper during a security meeting, shouting and cursing out of frustration over the military options presented to him and the lack of progress toward a deal with Iran, per NBC News.

A US official adds "after all this time, there is no unity" inside the administration, which is "facing a strategic defeat without clear policy guidance or a decision about where this is going."

An ally close to Trump adds the president is "exasperated" and there was "not a real strategy for how long or what they should do."

[Ridhiman Balaji @ridhimaniac]

Welfarism repackaged as "socialism"

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Analysis: Democratic socialists have been winning in New York, Colorado and Washington, in some cases knocking longtime Democratic members of Congress out of office.

Here’s what democratic socialists stand for and why they seem to be surging right now. https://t.co/7ISOJTH7cO

[Ridhiman Balaji @ridhimaniac]

Joke show

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

JUST IN: 🇩🇪🇮🇱 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Germany will not support sanctions against Israel and that Germany has special responsibility towards Israel

[Ridhiman Balaji @ridhimaniac]

The best reform was The Reform Act of 1832 #neverforget

[Ridhiman Balaji @ridhimaniac]

"Immediately following the decision, the odds of a a quarter-point rate hike at the Fed‘s next policy meeting in September rose slightly to 59%, according to the CME FedWatch tool"

https://t.co/Q0W4oxdnHa

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Yemen's Houthis considering fees for ships sailing through Red Sea, sources say https://t.co/3xZ7vB4E7Q

[Ridhiman Balaji @ridhimaniac]

TIR is the most important show/podcast discussing the bankruptcy of Black racial politics in the United States.

[THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast @TIRShowOakland]

THE BLACK POLITICAL CLASS AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ft. BOB BUZZANCO https://t.co/k5eWgOh9jC

[Ridhiman Balaji @ridhimaniac]

Tobias Fünke, leading analrapist

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Shopify CEO draws criticism for apparent support of giving wealthy more voting power https://t.co/74beJOIR5j

[newslaundry @newslaundry]

The RSS claims it needs no government funds since only volunteer donations sustain it.

An investigation by @Sachi_HN, @Jahnavi_R, @anotherayush, & @NeelMadhav___ found 20 Sangh-linked organisations received Rs 668 crore in CSR funds from ONGC, a state-owned oil company, over the last ten years.

https://t.co/ZBCW0Umg16

[Ridhiman Balaji @ridhimaniac]

Intra-right politics on immigration is pretty amusing to read. One person was criticizing UK's Tommy Robinson for aligning with Sikhs and Hindus to kick out Muslims. Hes like no we need to deport them out as well...

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Many such cases

[German Ideologist @RotIdeologist]

Marxists be like: “I’m a materialist and disagree with idealism” and have zero idea what either if those things mean

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

According to the World Health Organization, at least 233 attacks on healthcare in the occupied West Bank were recorded in 2025. Of the incidents involving 165 ambulances, 84 percent included obstruction of access, such as delays at checkpoints, ambulance searches, harassment of medical staff and restrictions on their movement https://t.co/0O8r1hhl0v

[Ridhiman Balaji @ridhimaniac]

Explore Trump's 3,600 stock trades from the first 3 months of 2026 | @CBSNews https://t.co/1sm4HLJ4Jp

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Saudi Aramco has officially shut down its Jazan oil refinery, removing 400,000 bpd capacity from the market following the Houthi attack on Saturday, per Reuters citing an IIR note.

The oil market is completely disconnected from reality.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Nearly a quarter of U.S. workers are staying in their current job for fear of losing health insurance, an eight-percentage-point increase from 2021, according to a new report from Gallup.

Read more here: https://t.co/GhNcYtFoax

[Ridhiman Balaji @ridhimaniac]

Expecting the far-right to cynically exploit mass murder of LGBTs in #Berlin to push their anti-immigration agenda, despite the fact that many of themselves are also weird christian nationalists that are hostile to LGBT rights...

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

ICE is on pace to arrest the most people in a single month during the second Trump administration, according to agency detainment data reviewed by The Post.

President Trump is seeking to deport 1 million undocumented immigrants per year. https://t.co/kCnnyfN4d9

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Canada’s Victims of Communism monument nearly commemorated Nazi collaborators.

Internal government records show that the charity behind the fiasco is still at the center of the publicly funded project. https://t.co/NTApj7fE8M