Robert Harrison

Geography, 🌎 Observing 🛰s, #GIS, data science, foreign affairs, politics, conservationism, sustainable development, budding 🚲 enthusiast

[Robert Harrison @RMH634]

@ConspiracyBull1 Love that the US is off the hook for the early days since our conquests were all local and not in far off lands!

[Robert Harrison @RMH634]

I love conservation diplomacy (Panda Diplomacy sounds better)

[Gregory Hawken Krämer @Gregory_Hawken]

Giant pandas are returning to DC! As part of the @Smithsonian @NationalZoo’s 52-year-old conservation partnership w/ the China Wildlife Conservation Association, we’re getting ready to welcome 2 new bears—Bao Li & Qing Bao—by the end of 2024. #DCPandas
https://t.co/WCtcipVcL6

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@ConspiracyBull1 Honestly, taking midwit grad student art projects like "anti-manspreading chairs" and propagating them everywhere implying that they were coming to your neighborhood as a matter of government policy was a brilliant campaign to piss off the critical grumpy voter bloc.

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@RachelBitecofer @NBCNews Agree 100, but let's be honest, worse ghouls have drawn paychecks from NBC so this shouldn't surprise anyone

[Robert Harrison @RMH634]

@notPeterWood Recalls are either
a. The basis of an efficient competitive political system
b. A pointless opportunity for well-organized (well-funded) groups to hijack government

Everyone's personal arbitrary threshold for what warrants a recall distinguishes a from b.

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@FeverPotomac

[Robert Harrison @RMH634]

"It was fun and exhilarating the first time around, you know? But at some point you just want boring, predictable, and stable." Said the pensioner with a suspicious accent at the Diner in Ashtabula
https://t.co/w5zr2mFkIS

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@AssLatam @CrazyItalianPol I love a good crossover episode!

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@james_acton32 I'm really struggling to see how even a tiny nuclear weapon would have any utility against satellites unless the goal is to wipe out the entirety of modern communications (which would anger Russia's main benefactor, no?)

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@shashj Setting off a nuke in orbit would fry every satellite over the horizon. Sounds like Putin has found yet another way to hold human civilization hostage.

Isn't the Outer Space Treaty still in effect or are we just not doing treaties anymore

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33% of all news articles now end with the phrase "...has raised fears of a wider conflict"

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@thehill Sounds like something 3rd party charlatan would say. It's a competition to see whom independents (especially educated ones) hate the least.

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@Alex_Panetta Is it about Russia's Wile E Coyote GPS disrupting weapon that accidentally worked too well?
It's probably something boring instead.

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@AndrewSolender @axios My conjecture is that NY House GOP thought they would be punished this Fall for tolerating an embezzling clown. They want headlines about crime and immigration- not stolen taxpayer money used to buy Italian shoes and kink porn. Worth losing the seat to Dems from their POV.

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@GravitysRa1nbow Where else would Hamas leaders run? They've never escaped the IDF before in history, so they must all be in Rafah. Don't you want to beat the terrorists???

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@SwannMarcus89 The liberal position is "can we do northern Europe but without a 20% national VAT?" followed by disappointment that the answer is "no" so we come up with scaled back versions that are somehow overwhelmingly popular (just as the GOP presidential frontrunner).

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@Convolutedname It seems like a time in history when it is unwise to be without a sovereign nuclear deterrent.
I mean, if you can.

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@JeremiahDJohns @whstancil Is this all just the wholesale replacement of journalists with "content producers" who deliver almost exclusively click-baity contrarian drivel that sound smart only to dumb people?
The business model seems profitable unfortunately.

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@SashoTodorov1 Seems like Maduro is trying to provoke a show of force response from us so he can beat his chest about imperialism. Hopefully, we utterly ignore him until he crosses an actual border, at which point we can send in the Cajun Navy and part of the Miami-Dade police force to mop up.

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@bad_histories Does he have a hot take about the Inquisition next?