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06.03.2026 21:50
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Wars Often Lose Public Support Over Time. Trump Started This One Without Much.
Americans skipped the rally-around-the-president stage this time. JFK gained 13 points after Cuban Missile Crisis, LBJ 8 after bombing Hanoi, GHW Bush 18 during Gulf War, GW Bush 8 after Saddam captured, Obama 11 after OBL killed. Trump gained 0 since Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...
06.03.2026 21:45
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Turns out that Spursy can defeat Typical Palace
06.03.2026 21:23
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It’s all going a bit Yoon
06.03.2026 21:16
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Feel like I’m going to need to use /s/ again
06.03.2026 21:15
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Successful authoritarians rarely succeed when hated by the public so good luck DJT…
06.03.2026 21:14
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Well I’m afraid you and I are just woke liberals who don’t get it.
06.03.2026 21:11
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Yeh I’m not in fact astonished.
06.03.2026 21:08
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Or indeed Iran and Ukraine ‘joining the Commonwealth’
06.03.2026 21:06
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Nothing they talk about more in "left behind communities" than reinstalling the Shah.
06.03.2026 20:52
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Blue Labour is now pro-Shah? RIP Morgan you would have loved this
06.03.2026 21:04
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I’m pretty astonished Badenoch and Farage both decided to get lockstep behind Trump as he walks off a cliff.
06.03.2026 21:03
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That Trump repeats calls for Iran's unconditional surrender on same day he's got the defence industrial chiefs round for an emergency meeting on military supplies perfectly sums up his grasp of ends & means.
06.03.2026 19:48
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The United States Could Lose the Gulf
Iran’s attacks on its neighbors are a reminder that the United States cannot protect them.
Here, none of that. @abuaardvark.bsky.social describes the shock in the Gulf at the US inability to protect countries to which it had made security promises, if not treaty commitments. One may think the US should not be in the Gulf, but this is chaos. 8/
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
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Sorely tempting. 9,999 forever!
06.03.2026 16:30
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“War-a-Lago”
By Barry Blitt @newyorker.com
06.03.2026 16:10
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Should keep subscribing then unsubscribing to keep me on my toes
06.03.2026 16:28
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"Reform will give £40,000 to your local pub instead..." etc etc. Children in handcuffs AND pub bailouts - the new hang the paedos, fund the NHS.
06.03.2026 16:26
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Alright, two of you out there, you know the drill. Get subscribing...
benansell.substack.com
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Don’t just do something; poast.
06.03.2026 12:48
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A policy that changes the rules on people shabbily AND uses made-up numbers? What’s not to hate?
06.03.2026 12:41
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A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
06.03.2026 03:24
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The Two Deprivations
Are poorer constituencies going green of turquoise?
10/ Thanks a lot for reading. The full article is here: parables.substack.com/p/the-two-de...
May be of interest to @sundersays.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @emmaburnell.bsky.social @christabelcoops.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social
06.03.2026 11:49
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Oh God... the number of Dad’s Army jokes this will lead to
06.03.2026 11:54
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Letting India buy Russian oil seems to be part of that framework
06.03.2026 09:28
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Feel like all these people should start with @ldfreedman.bsky.social and deduce from there
06.03.2026 09:25
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Sounds like the new boys are doing great
05.03.2026 20:48
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This game….
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Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
05.03.2026 19:12
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