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@farnamstreet

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In 2007, Charlie Munger gave a speech at the USC School of Law. It contained his most crucial ideas for living deliberately. If you can master these 9 principles, they'll change your life (and help you live a better one):...

@Devon_Eriksen_

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Sigh. Do I really have to explain this? Really? Okay, fine. Fine. Here we go. I want you to picture a six year-old girl. Bare, dirty feet from playing in the yard. Dress with pictures of bright blue kittens on it. Worn out stuffed bunny in one hand, carried by the ear. Some of the stitches a...

@stevemorris__

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It's become pretty clear that Senate Democrats pulled off a historic feat in holding 4/5 swing state Senate races. Only one time in the past 20 years has a party won a state's Senate seat the same night the other party flipped the state at the presidential level. And since 1992, no party has done i...

@Mortenthebjorn

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Thread on refinery strikes and what we can tell from the data. @benamy and I have over the last week tried to systematically collect data on refineries and refinery strikes, incidents and alleged attacks. Here is what we can say. 1)...

@eugyppius1

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JD Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference today was intended for an American audience. The German press & regime politicians are now lining up to denounce his statements. A real effort to nudge EU politics away from Eurocrat authoritarianism would look much different....

@TheNairobiTimez

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Leaked WhatsApp Chats by The Standard Expose President William Ruto Using Parliament to Push His Agenda Over People’s Will, Open Thread 🧵 ...

@SStapczynski

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Putin wants to sell more Russian gas to Europe But can he? A thread 🧵 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-15/putin-wants-to-sell-more-of-russia-s-gas-to-europe-can-he?srnd=undefined" color="blue">bloomberg.com/news/articles/…</a> ...

@Austen

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The Supreme Court's Chevron ruling may be most impactful things to happen to startups in a long time, in ways that people don't realize. A thread:...