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In 2020, the American people liked Biden more than Trump. In 2024, they liked Trump more than Biden. In 2026, polls now show voters they miss when Biden was president. At some point, you have to acknowledge that a huge percentage of political momentum is just Americans having zero attention span.
February 16, 2026 at 5:32 PM
In 2020, the American people liked Biden more than Trump. In 2024, they liked Trump more than Biden. In 2026, polls now show voters they miss when Biden was president. At some point, you have to acknowledge that a huge percentage of political momentum is just Americans having zero attention span.
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i don't like "steelmanning" but i do want to say that the discussion around "we have to vote all the time to keep out fascism" has never really addressed the core of the issue, which is that it gets tiring for every election to be "the most important election of our lifetimes."
February 16, 2026 at 5:31 PM
i don't like "steelmanning" but i do want to say that the discussion around "we have to vote all the time to keep out fascism" has never really addressed the core of the issue, which is that it gets tiring for every election to be "the most important election of our lifetimes."
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Note: Spartan Oliganthropia is the problem of depopulation among the Spartiates, a malady at the start of the Peloponnesian War that grew into a critical illness in the 4th century.
Their line is your fighting can't be done by marble. But Sparta was losing an attritional war to its own system.
Their line is your fighting can't be done by marble. But Sparta was losing an attritional war to its own system.
February 16, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Note: Spartan Oliganthropia is the problem of depopulation among the Spartiates, a malady at the start of the Peloponnesian War that grew into a critical illness in the 4th century.
Their line is your fighting can't be done by marble. But Sparta was losing an attritional war to its own system.
Their line is your fighting can't be done by marble. But Sparta was losing an attritional war to its own system.
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Not sure the global system is really prepared to cope with a more aggressive and rampantly nationalistic Saudi Arabia that loses patience with figures like MBZ
February 16, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Not sure the global system is really prepared to cope with a more aggressive and rampantly nationalistic Saudi Arabia that loses patience with figures like MBZ
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Looking at serious geopolitical risk scenarios down the track for the early 2030s, I have never really gotten a reassuring enough answer to the question of "what stops Saudi Arabia from seizing tighter military control of UAE and other Gulf states if Riyadh decides it is strategically necessary"?
February 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Looking at serious geopolitical risk scenarios down the track for the early 2030s, I have never really gotten a reassuring enough answer to the question of "what stops Saudi Arabia from seizing tighter military control of UAE and other Gulf states if Riyadh decides it is strategically necessary"?
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This is how William Robertson Coe, who funded Yale’s American Studies Program, wanted his donation to be used. He also funded the American Studies Program at Univ. Of Wyoming. Source: Michael Holzman, “The Ideological Origins of American Studies at Yale,” American Studies 40:2 (Summer 1999), 71-99.
February 16, 2026 at 1:25 PM
This is how William Robertson Coe, who funded Yale’s American Studies Program, wanted his donation to be used. He also funded the American Studies Program at Univ. Of Wyoming. Source: Michael Holzman, “The Ideological Origins of American Studies at Yale,” American Studies 40:2 (Summer 1999), 71-99.
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One of the ironies of the attack on American Studies is that it consolidated as a field during the Cold War, when many of its academic promoters and financial benefactors saw it as an effective soft power weapon in that ideological battle.
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 16, 2026 at 12:48 PM
One of the ironies of the attack on American Studies is that it consolidated as a field during the Cold War, when many of its academic promoters and financial benefactors saw it as an effective soft power weapon in that ideological battle.
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SCOTUS, in its current instantiation, will very significantly stand in the way of a Dem administration bringing in new regulations.
February 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
SCOTUS, in its current instantiation, will very significantly stand in the way of a Dem administration bringing in new regulations.
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After a year of spectacular deregulation, “the United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
After a year of spectacular deregulation, “the United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
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With Bill Ackman, Randy Barnett, or John Fetterman, you can see that October 7 melted their brains in real time.
I should have been watching Karp more closely at the time, but I don’t think the drugs alone explains his descent.
(He’s apparently been boot-curious for ages)
I should have been watching Karp more closely at the time, but I don’t think the drugs alone explains his descent.
(He’s apparently been boot-curious for ages)
These people are maladjusted lunatics.
Dude is quickly climbing the ranks of Most Dangerous Man Alive
February 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM
With Bill Ackman, Randy Barnett, or John Fetterman, you can see that October 7 melted their brains in real time.
I should have been watching Karp more closely at the time, but I don’t think the drugs alone explains his descent.
(He’s apparently been boot-curious for ages)
I should have been watching Karp more closely at the time, but I don’t think the drugs alone explains his descent.
(He’s apparently been boot-curious for ages)
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It's not even worth arguing basic historical or political economic facts with a US MAGA milieu so enclosed in its own echo tomb that is going to meme the United States into self-destruction
February 16, 2026 at 3:16 PM
It's not even worth arguing basic historical or political economic facts with a US MAGA milieu so enclosed in its own echo tomb that is going to meme the United States into self-destruction
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now you see directly why these empty suits who are good at sucking up to money and just showing up to an onslaught of events keep crowding our political stage
February 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
now you see directly why these empty suits who are good at sucking up to money and just showing up to an onslaught of events keep crowding our political stage
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People are emailing the chapter about this protest. I am being asked to figure out a megaphone/PA system. I am getting asked about chants. Shit getting out of hand quickly lol.
babby plans their first direct action
February 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
People are emailing the chapter about this protest. I am being asked to figure out a megaphone/PA system. I am getting asked about chants. Shit getting out of hand quickly lol.
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For better or for worse (and I do think it is for the better), my chapter is now a major component of the local opposition to what is happening more broadly in this country. People have needs, organizing need bodies, and my chapter has gone far in backing the work I am doing to meet the moment.
misspoke: For 3,000 KYR cards (3 varieties, multilingual etc) we paid $320. By this math, and a slightly better discount for volume, we need ~$1000 to print another 10,000.
Comment “KCIF” for the funds to go to our KC ICE FREE campaign.
We have demand from over 30 different schools in the KC metro
Comment “KCIF” for the funds to go to our KC ICE FREE campaign.
We have demand from over 30 different schools in the KC metro
February 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
For better or for worse (and I do think it is for the better), my chapter is now a major component of the local opposition to what is happening more broadly in this country. People have needs, organizing need bodies, and my chapter has gone far in backing the work I am doing to meet the moment.
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Y’all came through bigly with over $3,000 in total donations and I can’t say thank you enough. I know there are a lot of people out there who need help so your charity means the world. From mass printing KYR cards, we’re now buying a small PA system for a major protest against a detention facility.
Thanks to everyone who has donated to this. Not only do we have enough money to print over 10,000 more KYR cards in various languages, I even got some more local teacher families on here reaching out for some ❤️🔥
misspoke: For 3,000 KYR cards (3 varieties, multilingual etc) we paid $320. By this math, and a slightly better discount for volume, we need ~$1000 to print another 10,000.
Comment “KCIF” for the funds to go to our KC ICE FREE campaign.
We have demand from over 30 different schools in the KC metro
Comment “KCIF” for the funds to go to our KC ICE FREE campaign.
We have demand from over 30 different schools in the KC metro
February 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Y’all came through bigly with over $3,000 in total donations and I can’t say thank you enough. I know there are a lot of people out there who need help so your charity means the world. From mass printing KYR cards, we’re now buying a small PA system for a major protest against a detention facility.
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Athenians famous for practicing restraint and peaceful coexistence throughout the Peloponnesian War.
Sparta also famous for winning the Peloponnesian War through their own efforts. Pure Spartan warrior ethos. No Persian cash at all.
Sparta also famous for winning the Peloponnesian War through their own efforts. Pure Spartan warrior ethos. No Persian cash at all.
February 16, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Athenians famous for practicing restraint and peaceful coexistence throughout the Peloponnesian War.
Sparta also famous for winning the Peloponnesian War through their own efforts. Pure Spartan warrior ethos. No Persian cash at all.
Sparta also famous for winning the Peloponnesian War through their own efforts. Pure Spartan warrior ethos. No Persian cash at all.
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This year's spending was hiring and spinning up real estate, the next fiscal will be about building out capacity and expanding the scope of operations, would be my assumption
"There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up."
-- Tony Benn
-- Tony Benn
No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch
A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.
www.inquirer.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
This year's spending was hiring and spinning up real estate, the next fiscal will be about building out capacity and expanding the scope of operations, would be my assumption
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He overrode the CA legislature to prevent caste-oppressed people receiving protection in a place where people openly drive around with casteist vanity plates and check for signs of the brahmin thread by patting people on the back. He did it as a backroom deal with a Hindu supremacist. Unconscionable
This is a very important and under discussed story surrounding Newsom and his priorities -- especially because of this part:
www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
February 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM
He overrode the CA legislature to prevent caste-oppressed people receiving protection in a place where people openly drive around with casteist vanity plates and check for signs of the brahmin thread by patting people on the back. He did it as a backroom deal with a Hindu supremacist. Unconscionable
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“They plan on canvassing sometime in the next 30 days” cool we have been canvassing and we will be canvassing again next saturday, i see no reason we can’t coordinate people together. We raised over $3000 this week (lol thanks guys) and so we can even print the materials, what else is a blocker
February 16, 2026 at 4:19 AM
“They plan on canvassing sometime in the next 30 days” cool we have been canvassing and we will be canvassing again next saturday, i see no reason we can’t coordinate people together. We raised over $3000 this week (lol thanks guys) and so we can even print the materials, what else is a blocker
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Simply become unignorable by doing more work than everyone else imho. Skill issue.
February 16, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Simply become unignorable by doing more work than everyone else imho. Skill issue.
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Good news, I got the rr lead for this area to agree that we should have the other major group in the east part of the county working together with my canvassing people, mission accomplished people, never underestimate being persistent in person and asking why groups shouldn’t be collaborating
February 16, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Good news, I got the rr lead for this area to agree that we should have the other major group in the east part of the county working together with my canvassing people, mission accomplished people, never underestimate being persistent in person and asking why groups shouldn’t be collaborating
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Mention enough times how you know immigrants who have been kept out of this stuff because of pointless obstruction and people will typically lose the ability to bullshit. “We want the community to take the initiative“ great news i have people in that community ready to lead so what else is a blocker
February 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Mention enough times how you know immigrants who have been kept out of this stuff because of pointless obstruction and people will typically lose the ability to bullshit. “We want the community to take the initiative“ great news i have people in that community ready to lead so what else is a blocker
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Luckily we have been building global trust in international arbitration to help us resolve these issues
February 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Luckily we have been building global trust in international arbitration to help us resolve these issues
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The rest of the world is absolutely gonna free ride on this spending to the extent it creates anything useful and that, more than anything, is why a lot of these companies are overvalued.
February 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
The rest of the world is absolutely gonna free ride on this spending to the extent it creates anything useful and that, more than anything, is why a lot of these companies are overvalued.
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I wonder who is going win: a terms of service click wrapper saying you can’t reverse engineer this AI product or a Chinese state backed entity reverse engineering that AI product
February 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I wonder who is going win: a terms of service click wrapper saying you can’t reverse engineer this AI product or a Chinese state backed entity reverse engineering that AI product