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[Caolan @CaolanReports]

A boy on his bike near Kramatorsk was just murdered by a russian drone. They posted this video of their crime. This is evidence this war has nothing to do with territory. It’s an attempt to wipe out an entire civilian population of an innocent county while the world watches.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

I don't usually write personal stuff, but a few words about my experience of being interviewed by Gary Stevenson.

It started with a nice chat, comparing taste in hoodies... then the tone changed. He demanded to know why I'd deleted a tweet criticising him.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

I'm not sure the Irish understand the damage the recent story of their pumping economic support into Putin's war machine is doing to their reputation in Central/East Europe. The idea of Ireland standing on the side of the oppressed against imperialists is gone, probably forever.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Wokeness will seem such a joke in retrospect that many people won't believe it was ever a serious problem. Even many of the participants will forget. But it really was a big problem.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This is insanely hardcore

[Alan F @ebolasoup]

Unbelievable

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

[Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v]

This war is a slaughter. The Russians are mostly killing defenseless civilians. By halting assistance (primarily air defense), Trump is helping to escalate this slaughter even further

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

How disgusting

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

The activist class is clueless and dangerously wrong about homelessness -- they refuse to deal with fact (that the homeless themselves will straight up tell you) that a stubborn percentage of homelessness isn't solved with "stable housing and health care", something that most already can access but don't, because they don't want it, can't live by the minimal rules it asks, or are simply too mentally unbalanced to handle and be in society without intense and restrictive supervision and/or medication.

[Alan F @ebolasoup]

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[Alan F @ebolasoup]

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[Alan F @ebolasoup]

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[Daractenus @Daractenus]

For the sake of better understanding the inner workings of the "mysterious Russian soul", I've compiled a long list of polls which, put together, make for a rather compelling image, one that I hope will dismiss the idea of the "silent majority of the good Russian people". 🧵

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A new paper estimates that Chernobyl cost 318 million life years by discouraging the construction of nuclear plants and thus increasing air pollution. If we conservatively estimate life expectancy at 80 years, that's about 4 million lives.

https://t.co/iaVpDKEwy7

[Alan F @ebolasoup]

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[Paul Niland @PaulNiland]

What a vile person. An international pariah state is waging a genocidal war and a week ago they bombed a hospital treating kids with cancer. And this cunt thinks that's funny.

[Alan F @ebolasoup]

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[@eliothiggins.bsky.social @EliotHiggins]

So is it the "we should fund social services and help out poor people" left or "Assad didn't use chemical weapons and Putin is just misunderstood" left winning in France?

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

Some have argued that it's better for Democrats to stick with Biden than risk the chaos of the unknown.

I think this idea rests on little beyond status-quo bias. And I'd advise Democrats who think otherwise to consider a simple thought experiment:

https://t.co/tZaPKx2IpU