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Can’t say too much about my job these days but international affairs (especially Asia) is my specialty. I love films, novels, and history. Degrees from Oxford, Virginia Tech, and the London School of Economics. Opinions are entirely my own. He/him

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Whoopsy…

#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

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Yay!!

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Battles Without Honour and Humanity

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Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court.

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*Days of Heaven

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@ryanahunt.bsky.social Remember in Days when Linda’s friend says “If I believe that, he’ll tell me another.”

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a chimpanzee is looking out of a car window ALT: a chimpanzee is looking out of a car window

@professorshaw.bsky.social

19.02.2026 17:55 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Your work matters. Much love and appreciation to you.

19.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

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What a time to be alive

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The Axios evening email tonight was just one big long thing about how great AI was and how it taught him how to get his kids to sleep. Axios is dumb but it just adds to this weird frisson right now, like we’re living in this era where everything is fake, it’s all an illusion…

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Listen closely to every word of this

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Your parcel has been crushed into a tiny cube.

You have 30 minutes to move your cube.

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This is flying under the radar:

Donald Trump FIRED the DOJ official in charge of suing Live Nation-Ticketmaster for monopolizing ticketing and hiking prices.

Then, their stock jumped.

If Trump's DOJ takes it easy on Ticketmaster, it'll be a slap in the face to every American.

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Damn

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This is how authoritarian regimes dig themselves into the grave. They "discipline" people telling them the truth as they see it, instead of what they want to hear. It takes time, but eventually leads to military disaster and economic collapse.

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"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

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From Ukraine’s perspective, the point of the talks is to keep some of the U.S. assistance that still remains. From Russia’s perspective, the talks are to keep the U.S. and EU from offering more assistance. It’s a game. They’re still way too far apart in war aims to secure a real agreement.

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Pretty bad

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Trump moves closer to a major war with Iran There's little public debate about what could be the most consequential U.S. military action in a decade.

Almost all of Trump’s many military imbroglios have essentially been one-offs, where Trump can claim victory easily. This would be more challenging. But hey, Netanyahu is after his white whale and Trump doesn’t seem to mind obliging.

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I’m tired of that.

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The truck that shows up whenever I talk about how bad ICE is

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You and me both

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FBI Agents Seize Quaker Activist from His Home in Morning Raid A change of plea hearing is scheduled for February 18 at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Last August, the Portland Quaker activist pled not guilty to two charges.

Last year, the U.S. government accused Robert "Jacob" Hoopes. a young Friend, of assaulting an ICE agent and damaging federal property during a protest in Portland, Oregon. Hoopes originally pled not guilty, but a change of plea hearing has been scheduled for Feburary 18 at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

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Yemeni Americans feel ‘betrayed’ as Trump revokes immigration protections Prominent Trump supporter Amer Ghalib says US decision to nix deportation protection for Yemenis 'very unfortunate'.
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Bound to last for a thousand years

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🔥 the only appropriate reaction to Lydia Moynihan

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I have no idea what’s going on

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新年快乐!

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