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@WarintheFuture

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This is an another excellent thread from @Tatarigami_UA that explores Russian tactical adaptation in eastern #Ukraine. In particular, the shift to infiltration tactics is interesting. A thread on tactical innovation and why it needs to be nested within operational plans. 1/22 🧵 <span class="quote-ca...

@TKavulla

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Let's take a look at @pjminterconnect's capacity auction, shall we? This market is tighter than a pair of skinny jeans. Only 17 MWs of capacity [solar, it would seem] was offered but did not clear (out of 134,205 MWs). 🧵...

@arnesa_kustura

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Sincerely shut the fuck up. I am so goddamn tired of utterly idiotic and ignorant assholes like you trying to minimise &amp; deny the genocide of Palestinians by daring to tell me that I am “watering down the meaning”. What is happening in Gaza is genocide in every single way. <span class="quote-car...

@Will_Tanner_1

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Why is Rhodesia important? Because it was a normal Western country typical of the century prior to its destruction, one "more British than the British." In fact, that's the very reason it was destroyed 🧵👇 ...

@GregTSargent

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Disturbing: A big reason Trump won was undecideds couldn't be persuaded that millions of jobs lost in 2020 and death of Roe were Trump's fault, internal Harris campaign polling showed. Biden/Ds let Trump rehab himself to disastrous effect. New piece: <a target="_blank" href="https://newrepublic.com...

@johnastoehr

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1. I was wrong about this election. Maybe I erred largely on the side of hoping too much. I hoped that most people in America understood that Donald Trump was the worst candidate of our lifetimes....

@ddhitchens

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25 questions for @kimleadbeater: 1. You’ve suggested that feeling like “a burden” could be a “legitimate” reason to ask for an assisted suicide, and you rejected an amendment to rule this out. How common do you think it is for terminally ill people to feel like a burden? 2. If a terminally ill per...

@eugyppius1

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One thing I first noticed during Covid – but the phenomenon is surely older – is this subcategory of political quagmire wherein (for obscure reasons) all the Smart and Important People go totally crazy and become completely and diametrically wrong. Suddenly everything everybody says about the issue...

@books_rum

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I suddenly got interested in the accounts of Sirhan being seen with groups of Arab students affiliated with Pasadena City College. One account said they were a group of pro-Baathists. Espcially in light of the feds' surveillance of Arab groups after the Six Day War...