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Solar Eclipse 2024 - a thread 🧵

1. Cleveland by Gabe Wasylko

The Biden administration, having drawn out the war in Ukraine with Jake Sullivan's escalation management, has now lost control of the policy (the Republicans blocking it, and the Ukrainians less and less constrained), and the war is both escalating and spreading. Good job, Sully!

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People who accidentally found their doppelgängers in museums - a thread 🧵

Laurence's Think Thimble (UHNW donors welcome) fathomjournal.org/statistically-…

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First round of #Slovak #presidentialelections just concluded - see excellent article by Shaun Walker & Lili Bayer for why this matters:
theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

The first foreign leaders to have congratulated #Putin for his 're-election', as of this AM, per Russian state media:

Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela Myanmar, North Korea
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

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Benjamin Creutzfeldt has written a very problematic opinion editorial for China.Table. Employing cherry-picked anecdotes about China's alleged openness he uses logical fallacies to make his case for an unconditional 🇩🇪 engagement with 🇨🇳. A short 🧵/1 table.media/en/china/stand…

First upzoning, now low-traffic neighbourhoods:

We’re now consistently seeing evidence that many policies which are supposedly unpopular (because the system is designed so we only hear from the objectors) turn out to be popular when you do proper representative surveys.

Donald Trump’s words are dangerous and unacceptable.

Why are there Palestinian refugees?

In the months before the British abandoned its mandate & Israel declared independence, civil war raged as Arab factions tried to prevent the Jewish state from being born.

Of course, had the Arabs agreed to the UN's partition plan, they would…

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