If I had to choose to live under the rule of a Haitian warlord or a cabal of leftist academics, I'd be voting to put dogs and cats on the menu.
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Late-stage democracy is more descriptive than “end-stage capitalism.” What you’re seeing is a predictable failure mode of a system in which people can vote themselves more money. That’s not a failure of capitalism, that’s unrestrained democracy robbing capitalism.
I'm in my 40s. I'm a lawyer. My wife is a lawyer. We both work full time.
We cannot afford the house my parents purchased on a single electrician's income in their 30s.
We cannot afford the house my immigrant grandparents purchased on a single MTA bus driver's salary in their 30s. They had SIX CHILDREN.
For 30 years, politicians in Washington & their oligarch allies convinced regular people that this was just about avocado toast and fancy coffee.
In reality, this is end-stage capitalism. Everyone is stuck in place. It's impossible to buy a home. It's too costly to move. We work too much to have passion projects. We don't have enough savings to start our own businesses. We can't afford to go without healthcare to do it.
Thanks for writing this article @troy_closson. Would be very happy to discuss further.
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@ZalinskyS Remade with birds scaled to 2026 IMF nominal GDP: US ~$32.6T (largest), Brazil ~$2.65T, Mexico ~$2.18T.
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JUST IN: Taiwanese families moving to Arizona to work at TSMC's chip plant are shocked American high school classes are "so much easier" than those in Taiwan. — NYT
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Oh, I don't know, maybe he did it because you're running on a platform of "let's take all of Elon Musk's stuff and throw him in the gulag"?
Elon Musk is dumping half a billion dollars into Republican races.
Why?
Because Democrats in Congress won’t be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump and will actually fight to lower costs.
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Sweden is officially ditching mRNA vaccines, and they are not hiding their reasons for doing so.
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I'm in Arizona and enough is enough with all this political nonsense. I am completely fed up with how crazy things have gotten.
My 26-year-old daughter was actually slapped around today just because she supports Katie Hobbs.
Can you even believe that? Truly a sad state of affairs when my own daughter gets slapped around for voting for Hobbs.
But you know what? I will absolutely do it again if she doesn't change her ways!!
My 26-year-old daughter was actually slapped around today just because she supports Katie Hobbs.
Can you even believe that? Truly a sad state of affairs when my own daughter gets slapped around for voting for Hobbs.
But you know what? I will absolutely do it again if she doesn't change her ways!!
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The Italian Defence Minister said that most Italians are against military aid to the Kiev regime, but since Russia is manipulating public opinion, it doesn't count, and the Italian government shouldn't listen to the Italian people. I love democracy.
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I really can’t understand how any American can look at what’s happening in other countries under left-wing rule and think, oh yeah, that’s what we need here
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And yet, when Mexico and the USA reached a negotiated peace agreement in 1848, and Mexico officially ceded 55% of their territory to the USA as part of the terms, we've now gone 178 years without war.
Territorial concessions can and do happen as means to formalize an end to war.
Territorial concessions can and do happen as means to formalize an end to war.
More Ukrainians will die if Ukraine surrenders than if it continues to defend itself. Russia doesn't stop killing people just because you stop fighting back.
Never has. Never will.
Absolutely psychotic to blame a national defense effort for the actions of the invading force. It would be like blaming ICE deportations for murders committed by illegal aliens.
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Look how quickly other communist leaders are congratulating Lula despite the questionable results. This tells you everything about their bigger plan to take down capitalism in the West. Eyes open folks. This is the fight of our generation.
Congratulations, President @LulaOficial, on your re-election in Brazil.
The relationship between Canada and Brazil has flourished under our partnership. Let’s seize this opportunity to make it even stronger, together — to create major new trade opportunities, protect the environment, and build greater prosperity for both our peoples.
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Trotsky – The Myth.
Ask a Western leftist which communist he admires, and you often get the same answer: Trotsky. The intellectual. The orator. The true revolutionary, betrayed by Stalin. If only he had won…
Look at the young Trotsky in the picture: round glasses, wild hair, g leftists today would recognize themselves in him. The look hasn’t changed. Neither has the certainty.
So let’s look at what he did when he had power.
Born in 1879 in what is now southern Ukraine, Trotsky was a brilliant writer and a spellbinding speaker. In October 1917, he played a central role in organizing the Bolshevik seizure of power.
Then Lenin made him Commissar for War, and he built the Red Army, directing it from an armoured train that rushed from front to front.
Deserters were shot. Military discipline was enforced through executions. Blocking detachments were deployed to stop retreating soldiers, and former tsarist officers recruited into the Red Army were kept under surveillance by political commissars. Their families were sometimes held hostage to guarantee their loyalty.
Cruelty knows no limits when you have no doubts.
In 1920, the Red Army marched on Warsaw. It was stopped on the Vistula.
That same year, Trotsky published an entire book, Terrorism and Communism, explaining why revolutionary terror was necessary. He wanted labour militarized too: workers organized like soldiers, subjected to military discipline and compelled to serve the needs of the state.
In 1921, the sailors of Kronstadt – once hailed as the pride of the revolution – demanded free elections to the soviets. Trotsky supported the suppression of the revolt. Thousands were killed in the assault or executed afterwards.
Then he lost the power struggle to Stalin.
Expelled, exiled, forced abroad. From there, he wrote that the revolution had been betrayed – by Stalin, never by himself.
He ended up in Mexico City, where he stayed for a time with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. And so the Western romance took shape: the exiled prophet, the revolutionary betrayed, the road not taken.
In August 1940, a Soviet agent who had gained his confidence entered his study and struck him with an ice axe.
The machine Trotsky had helped build had come for him too. His killer later received the Soviet Union’s highest honour.
Trotsky was not the alternative to Stalin. He was the same machine – only with better prose. He never rejected the terror. He rejected losing control of it.
The "good communist" is always the one who lost.
Next: Stalin.
Ask a Western leftist which communist he admires, and you often get the same answer: Trotsky. The intellectual. The orator. The true revolutionary, betrayed by Stalin. If only he had won…
Look at the young Trotsky in the picture: round glasses, wild hair, g leftists today would recognize themselves in him. The look hasn’t changed. Neither has the certainty.
So let’s look at what he did when he had power.
Born in 1879 in what is now southern Ukraine, Trotsky was a brilliant writer and a spellbinding speaker. In October 1917, he played a central role in organizing the Bolshevik seizure of power.
Then Lenin made him Commissar for War, and he built the Red Army, directing it from an armoured train that rushed from front to front.
Deserters were shot. Military discipline was enforced through executions. Blocking detachments were deployed to stop retreating soldiers, and former tsarist officers recruited into the Red Army were kept under surveillance by political commissars. Their families were sometimes held hostage to guarantee their loyalty.
Cruelty knows no limits when you have no doubts.
In 1920, the Red Army marched on Warsaw. It was stopped on the Vistula.
That same year, Trotsky published an entire book, Terrorism and Communism, explaining why revolutionary terror was necessary. He wanted labour militarized too: workers organized like soldiers, subjected to military discipline and compelled to serve the needs of the state.
In 1921, the sailors of Kronstadt – once hailed as the pride of the revolution – demanded free elections to the soviets. Trotsky supported the suppression of the revolt. Thousands were killed in the assault or executed afterwards.
Then he lost the power struggle to Stalin.
Expelled, exiled, forced abroad. From there, he wrote that the revolution had been betrayed – by Stalin, never by himself.
He ended up in Mexico City, where he stayed for a time with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. And so the Western romance took shape: the exiled prophet, the revolutionary betrayed, the road not taken.
In August 1940, a Soviet agent who had gained his confidence entered his study and struck him with an ice axe.
The machine Trotsky had helped build had come for him too. His killer later received the Soviet Union’s highest honour.
Trotsky was not the alternative to Stalin. He was the same machine – only with better prose. He never rejected the terror. He rejected losing control of it.
The "good communist" is always the one who lost.
Next: Stalin.
The Butchers – The Men Who Ran the Soviet Terror.
Moscow, a winter night in 1937. Long past midnight in the Kremlin, a man with a pipe sits at his desk under a lamp. In front of him, a stack of typed lists – names, one per line. He runs a blue pencil down the pages. A tick. A etimes a name crossed out, sometimes one added. The same pencil he uses to edit film scripts and poems.
His officials stay awake at home, next to the phone, in case he calls before dawn.
Hundreds of lists. Tens of thousands of names. On a single day, December 12, 1937, he and Molotov approved more than three thousand death sentences. Then, historians tell us, they went to watch a film.
But Stalin didn't invent the machine. He perfected it.
In August 1918, Lenin sent a telegram to his comrades: hang at least a hundred kulaks – hang them so that people see it for hundreds of kilometers around. Trotsky, the "good communist" of Western nostalgia, ordered the families of officers taken as hostages.
The founders gave the orders. Then the machine needed men – men who would build the apparatus, fill the camps, write the confessions and pull the triggers. And sooner or later, it devoured many of them.
1. Dzerzhinsky – the Founder. "Iron Felix," a Polish noble's son, who built the Cheka in 1917.
2. Trotsky – the Myth. The revolutionary Western intellectuals still romanticize, who wrote a whole book defending terror – until the machine he helped build killed him with an ice axe.
3. Stalin – the Editor. The man at the desk, with the blue pencil, long past midnight.
4. Yagoda – the Builder. The Gulag as an economy: canals dug by prisoners who died by the tens of thousands. Then shot by his own machine.
5. Vyshinsky – the Prosecutor. "Confession is the queen of evidence" – so he got confessions. "Shoot the mad dogs!" at the show trials, then the Soviet seat at the United Nations.
6. Yezhov – the Butcher. The Great Terror, the quotas, the Polish operation – then shot, and erased from the photographs.
7. Beria – the Strategist. Katyn, the atomic bomb, the deportations – and a predator. Shot by his own colleagues three months after Stalin's death.
8. Blokhin – the Executioner. In the spring of 1940, at Kalinin, he personally shot thousands of Polish prisoners over a few weeks, in a leather apron and cap.
9. Serov – the Hunter of Poland. He crushed the Home Army, lured the leaders of the Polish Underground State to "talks" and had them tried in Moscow. Then Hungary in 1956, and the first chairman of the KGB.
10. Andropov – the Modernizer. Dissidents sent to psychiatric hospitals instead of camps: softer, quieter – same goal: erasing people. The first secret police chief to rule the country.
11. Epilogue – The Chekists Never Left. From the KGB to the FSB to the Kremlin.
Why name them? Because their whole work was erasure – of people, of records, of memory. Remembering is the opposite of what they did.
And erasure didn't die with them. Today it rarely needs a bullet. It is called cancelling, deplatforming, debanking, lawfare. The inconvenient person isn't shot – he is removed: from his job, his bank account, his platform, the conversation. Yezhov needed a retoucher. Today a terms-of-service update does the job.
For Poles, these are not names from a history book. They are the names behind our grandparents' graves – and that is why we recognize their heirs.
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Everything they've told you about the War in Ukraine is a lie.
When Russia "Invaded Crimea" in 2014, why did 9,268 "Ukrainian" soldiers accept Russian citizenship and join the Russian Army?
When Russia "Invaded Ukraine" in 2022, why did 2.9 million Ukrainians flee into Russia?
When Russia "Invaded Crimea" in 2014, why did 9,268 "Ukrainian" soldiers accept Russian citizenship and join the Russian Army?
When Russia "Invaded Ukraine" in 2022, why did 2.9 million Ukrainians flee into Russia?
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The illegal, CIA sponsored Maidan Coup in 2014 Ukraine spiralled into a brutal Civil War with Western Ukrainian Nazis unleashing a brutal assault against ethnic Russians in the East
The architects and fathers of this catastrophe are the US and NATO
The architects and fathers of this catastrophe are the US and NATO
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The West’s inability to have a grown-up discussion about the Ukraine war is staggering.
It sits at the same level as the COVID madness from liberals. Question the narrative and you’re immediately a Putin apologist, a traitor, or worse. No nuance allowed. No costs discussed. No exit strategy considered.
This is the simple truth.
It sits at the same level as the COVID madness from liberals. Question the narrative and you’re immediately a Putin apologist, a traitor, or worse. No nuance allowed. No costs discussed. No exit strategy considered.
This is the simple truth.
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This investigation of the failed back-channel attempt in 2022-2023 to reach a peaceful settlement on terms highly favorable to Ukraine exposes as flawed some of the “unquestioned truths” in the discussion of the war.
For example, the idea that Putin has been bluffing about nuclear strikes. Or that all negotiations and compromise proposals have been a sham, because Putin would never accept anything but Ukraine’s capitulation. Or “Russian imperialism” as the primary explanation of the war. In a weaker position after the painful setbacks of fall 2022, Putin drew his red lines, which are, surprise, surprise, Ukraine’s neutrality and Crimea. In 2025, at the peak of Russia’s accelerating advances, he was satisfied with the “Anchorage” terms, which are basically the Istanbul demands plus territory, used as a punishment and a means of pressing for their acceptance. They are still miles away from anything that could be called Ukraine’s capitulation, the elimination of its separate identity, the destruction of the independent Ukrainian state, and so on.
That these and similar dangerous and absurd ideas dominated the expert field is a sign of a deep intellectual crisis.
For example, the idea that Putin has been bluffing about nuclear strikes. Or that all negotiations and compromise proposals have been a sham, because Putin would never accept anything but Ukraine’s capitulation. Or “Russian imperialism” as the primary explanation of the war. In a weaker position after the painful setbacks of fall 2022, Putin drew his red lines, which are, surprise, surprise, Ukraine’s neutrality and Crimea. In 2025, at the peak of Russia’s accelerating advances, he was satisfied with the “Anchorage” terms, which are basically the Istanbul demands plus territory, used as a punishment and a means of pressing for their acceptance. They are still miles away from anything that could be called Ukraine’s capitulation, the elimination of its separate identity, the destruction of the independent Ukrainian state, and so on.
That these and similar dangerous and absurd ideas dominated the expert field is a sign of a deep intellectual crisis.
At one of the tensest points in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, two Americans teamed up with a former GDR spy to stop nuclear war. They just needed to tell Putin.
On the cover of @FTMag this week, one of the most extraordinary stories I've ever reported:
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RT @75Sukhoi: When 🇺🇸CNN was on the side of the people in 🇷🇺Donbass People in 2014.
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