"EU imports from Russia worth €124 billion have exceeded the amount of aid provided to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion." - stated Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard. censor.net/en/news/3586...

This is a problem entirely of Moscow's own making, and it is only fair for people to defy it in turn. Ain't nobody but Russians turned Russian into a fundamentally political language.

Oh cool, I 100% support putting American troops in Ukraine to enforce the peace, this is definitely something this administration is seriously planing to do.

One reason (of several) I'm sceptical of the Witkoff deal is that it's apparently contingent on independent US security guarantees and that's such a colossal reversal of US policy that I struggle to see how it survives contact with political reality.

Border Patrol will be replaced entirely with mobile robotic hydration stations/information kiosks

My Border Policy is very strict (everyone who arrives is given a “Congratulations, you made it!” balloon and some residency paperwork)

U.S. Secretary of State Mark Rubio stated that achieving a lasting peace will require both sides to agree to difficult but necessary concessions. What exactly is Russia conceding? Not killing even more people in Ukraine? www.nbcnews.com/world/ukrain...

Bill Cassidy should be required to have this shit framed and hung where he can see it every time he sits at his desk this is the bargain you made, asshole you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway

1/5 Bloomberg: "China is considering new measures to turn around its struggling property market, as concerns mount that a further weakening of the sector will threaten to destabilize its financial system." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We lose, and we lose, and we lose, until we win

Oh yeah this is definitely the marred universe as compared to 47th US President Harris, but bush v gore happened too. We're gonna keep getting punched in the nuts until we win

"trump accidentally rides a worldwide anti-incumbent wave into becoming a global pariah infamous for pedophilia" is such snake eyes bullshit luck

Gonna go ahead and say it actually feels like it's falling apart.

This is one of the clearest examples of a disordered counterpublic capturing an institution I've seen. It's nice to have your work proven on a regular basis, but also very bad. demos.co.uk/research/ver...

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An idea that somehow never really comes up in any political theory literature is that, if someone is, in fact, incapable of participating in the business of self-government as an equal (say because they're eight years old), what that means is the rest of us owe them a very strong fiduciary duty

Just thought of the worst term ever: the space litoral

1) people generally have the CLEAREST picture of the things a society does and why, and inherently have a less good picture of the things a society doesn’t do. 2) partly because of 1, people are extremely biased toward the status quo.

4) the hypothetical assumes there’s no clear benefit to getting rid of the fence, when that doesn’t make much sense, given the fact that someone wants it gone

I spend a surprising amount of time stewing about chesterton’s fence. Not even coming up with new reasons to hate it, just mentally relisting the three or four reasons I already hate it and getting mad

Stop laying off copy editors and then complaining about errors and lack of reader trust challenge

Fake News: Bad, now. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...

It’s never a bad time for this meme, but International Men’s Day might be the best time

It's always slavery.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

a largely true story that right-wing propaganda and sundry irritable "leftists" convinced a critical mass of people was fake? do tell

See: laws in general. You are *far* better off creating an arbitrary standard with thought and consideration put into it as opposed to the Organic, Earnest, Unpretentious way of violence and Larger Army Diplomacy, because now everyone has a common standard that's less easy to game.

basically every single measure of academic achievement is correlated with family income for pretty obvious reasons. the ~20% of SAT variation explained by family SES makes it one of the measures *least* determined by this.

This is also my position re: equity concerns. ‘get a good score on the test for which literally thousands of resources to prepare for exist” is far easier for low-SES applicants to navigate than the Byzantine maze of ‘holistic‘ admissions which have lots of unspoken rules, etc

grades are an extremely messy signal and you do in fact need some kind of universal baseline.

The other thing I’ll say about the UCSD stuff is that I’ve seen absolutely nothing that makes me think removing SATs wasn’t a huge mistake, should really go back those.

My most extreme policy position on college admissions is that if you want to be really serious about admissions equity and preserving rigor, you just use some form of school adjusted GPA and standardized test scores and then lottery admit from all applicants above that threshold.

It is understandable to get frustrated at medievalists who overcorrect for conventional views of the middle ages with stuff that is objectively nonsense, but it is also worth remembering that normie history nerds still think the Romans "could have" invented electricity if they didn't "fall."

The average person is such an idiot that it is actually still worthwhile to go about challenging Gibbonian historiography because while it may be dead among people who read books that have bibliographies, it... very much isnt among everyone else

About the only real "this isn't a total catastrophe" that exists is that states still mostly set vaccine policy and also massive systems like public health take a long time to irreparable damage. But we're gonna be notably worse in a year or two and something baaaaddd is gonna happen.

Lyndon Baines Johnson in his wise and merciful benevolence attempted to elevate the white working class to sapience with his Great Society and they killed them for it

Half a century ago the white working class got presented a choice between solidarity with their brown coworkers or their white bosses and they've been choosing the latter every four to eight years since then

Russia has once again come forward with a "peace proposal" that is no different from the previous ones. The Russian side’s proposal is essentially a demand for Ukraine’s capitulation. American journalist Michael Weiss also commented on this, citing a source in the U.S. government.

INCREDIBLE CURVES

give me the quadrivalent mRNA flu vaccine right now. put it in me

Heartbreaking: the person you campaigned and championed to get elected does exactly what he said he would do

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

a funny thing about the current wave of fascism is how cosmopolitan it is the country's biggest neo-Nazi is named Fuentes and a man named Abdul Rahman Al-Malik has the exact same repressed psychosexual neuroses as any white /pol/ poster

Stand back and stand by. Something is cooking

oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with

>writes book about how semiconductor supply chains are essential to national security You got it boss, close ties with every country perpetuating FARA violations against us that also has ties to the PRC

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

have i got news for you about normal cars