Everyone keep your eyes on any dogs in the DC area
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Everyone keep your eyes on any dogs in the DC area
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Plus a spotlight on @katmabu.bsky.social, the 26-year-old Palestinian American running for Congress in IL-09 whose campaign HQ doubles as a mutual aid hub and who taught her audience how to read FEC filings. Her primary is March 17th.
Also in this issue: gems from the 88 pages of research notes behind my last video, including the 11,959 bayonets the Pentagon handed to local police and the 1893 law that accidentally built the modern federal security state.
Two facts from it:
- The navigable corridor through Hormuz is two miles wide. 20% of the world's oil moves through it. As of this week, it's effectively closed.
- A single Iranian drone costs ~$35k. A single interceptor costs up to $4M. The asymmetry is the strategy.
The centrepiece is The Two-Mile War a breakdown of the Strait of Hormuz and why a shipping lane narrower than a highway interchange is about to rearrange your cost of living. Insurance companies, drone cost curves, and decades of sanctions building the fortress America's now trying to bomb through.
The Commons will run twice a month, free issue on third Thursdays, paid issue on first Thursdays for Patrons. Both issues are free this month because launching something called "The Commons" behind a gate felt wrong.
The first issue of my newsletter The Commons is up! It's on patreon but this issue is free. www.patreon.com/posts/common...
My mom is 67, my dad is 69
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
What's your favourite verified rotten movie?
The first newsletter drops tomorrow. It's going up on Patreon, but is free, so you just gotta follow or just go to my page tomorrow after it drops: www.patreon.com/stepbackhist...
Maybe I will be institutionalized for saying this, but Sabrina Carpenter and Bugs Bunny have the same energy.
The Epstein files show that the world's elites are all libertarians.
lol I said something that would genuinely be a crime I think.
Been thinking a lot about the point that Tristan made: “When the power is out in your area, who are the first three people you’re going to reach out to?”
I knew immediately who my first three were. We have to build community to be strong together.
Reach out to others and know who you trust.
It has been an internal house meme for a couple days.
There's something inherently funny about saying the word shitty in a Norwegian accent
"No war for Israel"
"No, war for Israel!"
Great practical skills. People always go to get store bought gasoline when it's really easy to make at home
That is sonic villain doctor robotnik or doctor eggman
The president insists that the troops will be home by Christmas.
they sent 3,000 agents. they weren't ready for the PTA. youtu.be/t8LjsiLi1q0
You know, on second watch, except for the baffling choice to do polar express grand Moff Tarkin, Rogue One is perfectly fine. I'd even say it's decent.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s long career was built on conflict avoidance—then, October 7 transformed and radicalized him, @Yair_Rosenberg argues:
OMFG they think we are the dumbest people who ever lived.
Deedleedeedee dee deedleedeedee dee deedleedeedee dee dooooooo.
Winner! Gagnant!
Tristan is back, and he made me cry
Great thread by Tristan the Step Back guy on youtube. Glad he is back to making videos.
new york times when they have to report the results of this poll