It’s not too late to move the whole thing

Yeah. He means stop sending them aid in the same sense that Diego Garcia doesn’t receive “aid”, and instead integrate them into the logistics & procurement systems so they can order everything for themselves

The x link above is broken, should be https://xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2065354449225424925?s=20

without knowing anything about any of those cases: birthright citizenship remains as-is, campaign finance limits are weakened but some fig-leaf rules remain, and trans athletes get no protections. Based on the theory that the court is completely reactionary but also still wants some role for institutions and precedent, because otherwise it has no purpose.

What if the national debt paranoia of previous conservatives was true, and China simply reposses the country?

18.9M barrels is the most recent I can find. Still drawing down between 1 to 1.5 M per week.

I’ve seen some articles saying it’s a problem when it’s below 20M, others saying it’s no big deal and they have ways to deal with it all the way down to nearly 0. So I guess we’ll find out sometime between a week ago and Sept 1st.

Other people are saying it’s completely the wrong thing to measure because long-term, larger reserves are more important, and Cushing is more of a short/medium term buffer. So idk.

Good stuff.

Jacobin is increasingly becoming a journal of contrarians and engagement bait.

I dunno what you mean, I’ve sold like 40 or 50 Communisms just today, it just flies off the shelves, basically sells itself

The Iranian government’s chief interest is self-protection and not the protection of its citizens

The authors need to take this brief little pause to reassure the reader that Iran is still really bad and nothing in this paper is intended to threaten that opinion. As if this statement doesn’t apply equally to most/all other governments on the planet.

And in this thread it derailed the entire topic, so yeah, a poor choice in terms of clarity

Work truck, no Bluetooth, no better options

Since anti-imperialist leftist were the first to condem the genocide, they have been made invisible on the platform.

IG has heavy censorship around Israel. My org still getting posts removed for this. I’m not involved in that at all, so unfortunately can’t share any specifics beyond that.

Weaponized incompetence? I don’t know what you mean

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it just seems pointless at best and counter-productive at worst.

Me when depression

This is what the IST actually believes

“paid to lose” is a good racket, while it lasts

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Truly a sisyphean task, you know, you just gotta keep working hard at it like Sisyphus.