Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Good! First Medlock, now Owens. AOC is following all the best people!
Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking
Woah woah woah woah wait what?! how tf did I miss this? https://t.co/ygLXRFBDqN
7:52 AM · Mar 9, 2022
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Zack Budryk@BudrykZack
Tchaikovsky, a gay man often criticized for his art being overly European-influenced and insufficiently nationalist, was basically the same guy as Vladimir Putin, if you think about it
BBC Music Magazine @MusicMagazine
NEWS: Cardiff Philharmonic replaces the programme of its upcoming all-Tchaikovsky concert, citing it as 'inappropriate at this time’.
https://t.co/tzK3zs0iNS
5:12 PM · Mar 9, 2022
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Ukrainian Memes Forces@uamemesforces
12:05 PM · Mar 9, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
40 years of US policy in the Middle East based on “in the event of a geopolitical crisis, the Saudis will bail us out by pumping more oil” and now they’re just … not doing it.
6:29 PM · Mar 9, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Say what you will about the Iranian regime but they are trying to sell us all the oil they can make.
6:33 PM · Mar 9, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
New way to read a Substack just dropped.
substack.com
Introducing the Substack app
7:24 PM · Mar 9, 2022
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Dr Mike Martin ⛵️@ThreshedThought
The beginning of the splits between Russian political and military leadership https://t.co/awo9jdjQn3
Paul Sonne @PaulSonne
Kremlin says Putin ordered conscripts to be excluded from Ukraine operations and is now asking military prosecutors to find and punish those who allowed conscripts to go to Ukraine. https://t.co/fkARqoGq8n
8:04 PM · Mar 9, 2022
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Randall Munroe@xkcd
I don’t usually laugh at my own comics, but every time I stumble on this one and read through it again, it gets me xkcd.com/1665
8:07 PM · Mar 9, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Chinese state media is buying pro-Russian-invasion ads on FB:
axios.com
China’s state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia’s line on war
8:36 PM · Mar 9, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
This is just the Lancelot wedding scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper
back in 2014 Detroit cops barged into this guy's house, instantly massacred his dog, and ripped it to pieces looking for drugs. they had the wrong address https://t.co/QNQwQSNFDU https://t.co/sT9YxoWCgt
8:42 PM · Mar 9, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The people love great power conflict!
(I think Biden has handled this well but it’s an alarming objective incentive structure — he was right about Afghanistan too but that didn’t pay off)
World Elects @ElectsWorld
🇺🇸#USA, President Biden approval rating poll:
⏫Approve: 48 % (+6)
⏬Disapprove: 49 % (-6)
(+/- 06/02/22)
Léger, 06/03/22 https://t.co/k953gyv893
12:13 AM · Mar 10, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Great thread about how Putin planned this war and why he made the mistakes he made.
Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuev
🧵Two weeks ago, as Vladimir Putin was declaring his vicious war on Ukraine, he called the West an "Empire of Lies." In fact, the Kremlin's disastrous move was itself rooted in lies, misconceptions and giant lapses of expertise & intelligence. 1/ https://t.co/5vi5J0Begq
3:10 AM · Mar 10, 2022
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