How do political dynasties impact development? Using election results and nightlight data from Punjab, Pakistan, researchers find that dynasties negatively impact growth, persisting by offering security instead of growth-enhancing goods. Read it now → bit.ly/46GNKMp

Orban: "Ukraine is not an independent country. Ukraine is not a sovereign state. It is controlled by the West. We supply it with weapons. Ukraine must not behave as if it were sovereign." Pretty wild coming from a dude who sold his country to Russia and China.

If your family tree is just a limb, #YouMightBeBritish

Funny how they abandoned Moldovenism and straight up adopted Russification. That was the final goal after all, they never cared about Moldovan identity.

In Sumy Oblast, russian drone strike on a home claimed the lives of an entire family – a father, a mother, and their two little boys, just six and four.

Sounds like so much desire for peace, JD Vance Michael Brendan Dougherty

Here is Nathan Gill in 2014 blaming the EU for Russia advancing on Ukraine Nathan Gill pled guilty to accepting bribes from Russia to promote a pro Russia anti EU position He started in UKIP, joined the Brexit Party, then Reform UK Here's what he said at the European

With Russian bots and propagandists again spamming all of the internet with the same three fancy looking places in Moscow and St. Petersburg, I figured it'd be a good time to write a continuation to my travel guide to Russia. Welcome to vol. 2 of "Posh Russian cities"! Enjoy!🧵

Nothing says "everything is going to plan" than a round of "there are wreckers and saboteurs in our midst!"

UN confirms: hundreds of documented torture cases; dozens of deaths from abuse or lack of medical care; 1,800 civilians still held by russia. 🧵4/6

If you like doom metal (and who doesn't), these guys are simply awesome. Good dollop of Solitude Aeternus worship here. youtu.be/OOJyaJGW9sQ?si…

Oilfield Rando You have absolutely no clue about the size of foreign aid in the US budget. USG spends $20k per person per year in TOTAL - way more than it has to or should. But unless you're making $300 a month, you're not even working "for free" for a month for the whole foreign aid budget.

Did someone wake up Green Day? Or should we let those poseur bastards sleep?

BREAKING: A massive leak of highly US govt classified files, dated January 2025, has surfaced on a Telegram channel The documents detail U.S. strategy, Russian and American weapons systems, NATO’s posture in Ukraine, and Asia-Pacific bases. The source is reportedly demanding

These people unironically exist. Which is a sad commentary on the world.

Israel had to pay for 473 plane tickets to fly Greta and her friends home. As Israeli taxpayer, why am I supposed to pay for flights for those European idiots?????

The default state of nature is poverty, and we've been clawing our way out of it for the last 200 years

Putin’s Valdai speech sharpened Moscow’s red lines: – Europe blamed for prolonging the Ukraine war – Strategic defeat of Russia declared “impossible” – Sanctions portrayed as a failure, resilience emphasized – NATO attack talk dismissed as “nonsense,” but Russia warns of a rapid

Tim Pool "Liberals are grifters. They don't care about ideas they care about money." Tim, this is you after you were paid by Russian state:

Yes, the Russian agent was the interpreter for Witkoff. A few months ago, I published a post saying that something felt off. Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, didn’t have his own translator with him and seemed to rely on an unknown interpreter provided to him in Russia. This