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Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com

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Everyone in this country has gone insane | Opinion Not a Single Voice of Reason to Be Found Among the Pundits, Politicians and General Public, Who All Run to the Shelters on an Hourly Basis but Smile When They Emerge, Praising the Iran War and the Ble...

from Haaretz. 🎁
Everyone in This Country Has Gone Insane - Opinion www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

06.03.2026 07:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's honestly kind of incredible that some people (not OP, he's making fun of them) are so conspiracy brained they've convinced themselves Trump has a grand plan to manipulate oil prices rather than him being a dumbass who want to kill brown people because it makes his dick hard

06.03.2026 06:34 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

yeah no shit, we have essentially validated the iranian government’s whole worldview for the past 40 years in 3 days

05.03.2026 21:42 πŸ‘ 6642 πŸ” 1395 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 25

Unusually, OK requires Senate appointees promise to not run for election. Unenforceable and constitutionally debatable, but it's likely whoever will voluntarily comply. I have no idea if Stitt wants the seat himself, but he's well positioned to pick a placeholder and then run himself, if he wants.

06.03.2026 06:12 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You needn't convince people, you need to convince insurance companies.

06.03.2026 05:56 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | An Urgent Need to Contain Turkey If the Iranian regime falls, beware Ankara’s regional influence.

In which a Wall Street Journal op-ed explicitly compares Erdogan to the Ayatollah after the fall of Saddam Hussein and implicitly makes the case for an eventual war of aggression against Turkey by the US and Israel.

05.03.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 601 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 116

β€œWe destroyed 30 ships.” Does that mean ships can pass through the strait of Hormuz? β€œWe dropped dozens of 2K bombs on underground launchers.” Does that mean commercial airliners can fly through?

06.03.2026 00:33 πŸ‘ 481 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1

TBC this is Israeli Jewish respondents; Israeli Arabs were… much lower; but Iran is viewed in Israel as THE threat

06.03.2026 04:52 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

93% support for the war at home

06.03.2026 04:48 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is one of those things that is less sexy to talk about but is unequivocally a war crime

05.03.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 1033 πŸ” 262 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1

Somehow we got permission to endlessly change the name, maybe it was because they were all temp courses?

05.03.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You’re telling me this for the first time

05.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

But we would just slot in a nice title there and yeah definitely eye catching

05.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, so we don’t have a Topics: prefixβ€”but we make that particular title cool. (I guess this as my previous institution, here we are not able to provide so many quick changes)

05.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wait this is just like a vanilla upper div course? Oh boy. Maybe list a topic or two? Sex and Death in Literatuee?

05.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

We always hide ours … just keep putting in cool titles but administratively it’s POLS 394Aor B or C etc

05.03.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Literature Bussin’

05.03.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

I’ll Donate to your race

05.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

51-47-1 (Tillis)

05.03.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My retirement stonks

05.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

New work is four letter candidate

05.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can you imagine when this race is won?
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune
The music's played by the, the madmen

Forever war
I want to wage
Forever war

05.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was wondering where CENTCOM was getting their β€œterminate conflict by September” guesstimate

05.03.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 156 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2

They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters

05.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again SPRINGFIELD, MOβ€”Were this an ordinary Tuesday night, Wendy Vance would return home from her receptionist job at a Springfield chiropractor’s office and spend the evening engaged in any number of empty...

theonion.com/a-shattered-...

05.03.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Star Trek missed the Irish reunification of 2024 call, World War three in 2026 is still open.

05.03.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Born too late to watch Star Trek TOS in first run

Born too early to see warp drive

Born just in time for the Eugenics Wars

05.03.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

It’s wild that we’re living through Trump 2 and people are still acting like all the admin and legal and logistics jobs are β€œbullshit”.

We’re seeing very clearly what happens when you rip all of that out of large organizations.

These jobs are literally about navigating complex social systems.

05.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

somebody help my tradewife is becoming Zheng Yi Sao, I am running out of space to park these treasure ships and the neighbors are complaining

05.03.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Chart showing lifetime average GDP growth for Brits by year of birth. 20-year-old Brits have experienced an average of 1.4% growth, compared with 2.4% for 75-year-olds

Chart showing lifetime average GDP growth for Brits by year of birth. 20-year-old Brits have experienced an average of 1.4% growth, compared with 2.4% for 75-year-olds

Part of the issue is a lack of growth. A recent study showed that cohorts who experience more GDP growth in their lifetimes are more likely to trust the government and have positive perceptions of their living standards. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... In Britain, such voters are dying out

05.03.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 123 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 8