Stockholm ExPat retweeting stuff for American friends & family
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"Political influencers and parties incentives can align. In the end, however, the former is looking for engagement and the latter for votes, and those interests can diverge—leaving politicians chasing engagement while not realizing they are shedding voters theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
Trump's fucking dance hall dwarfs the White House, and however much one might wish that a future Dem administration would tear it down, that's not gonna happen, thanks to the five floors of military and intel stuff that's built under it.
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Trump Calls Veterans “Wall of Flesh and Blood” in Disgusting Speech newrepublic.com/post/217886/… via @newrepublic
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"Try thinking about it as if Russians had already taken half of Florida & were asking Trump to hand over the rest so you two could finally close the deal and go back to building luxury resorts on the rubble."
[Read the whole 🧵and the interwoven posts by Zelenksy and others.]
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Abu Dhabi’s big diplomatic breakthrough by Trump’s real-estate boys: Zelensky had to sit them down and explain, like they were five, that Ukraine isn't a distressed asset in Florida.
"I've had to explain this to the Real Estate Bros Kushner & Witkoff: the Donbass isn't my personal property to flip. I can't just gift them an extra two kilometers because it makes the term sheet look cleaner or because someone in Moscow offered a 'package deal'. The Donbas is not my building. People live there.
Try thinking about it as if Russians had already taken half of Florida and were asking Trump to hand over the rest so you two could finally close the deal and go back to building luxury resorts on the rubble."
Once again, Ukraine rejected the US plan to gift its regions to Moscow.
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🧵"Couldn’t keep his meat in his pants and let the chips fall where they may."
"We never learned from the slut manchild Henry VIII."
"zuck is the last wife guy standing"
"Netflix has probably already bought the rights."
in hindsight, perhaps it was a bad idea to build an entire global economy around whether one man would be faithful to his wife
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🧵"A sober counterpoint to the US government's current glamorizing nonsense, 'warfighters, Dept of War,' etc."
"So powerful. And even more so when read out loud. Venomous, sneering contempt in every line."
"And he was killed in France just 7 days before the war ended. Tragic."
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🧵"Vintage nepo baby stuff. In 2026 he would have been given this job at the age of 25."
"Gloria Vanderbilt's story is interesting all in itself. Being her son and your own kind of legendary is wild."
"Cute, great intellect, old money. Trifecta of attractiveness."
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"The party’s most impressive victories came from mainstream or moderate candidates: Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia, Senator-Elect Roy Cooper of North Carolina, and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (21.5 points).
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Ornstein: "Capricious firing of top generals undermining our military leadership, disgraceful blocking promotions to general of capable leaders vetted by peers for racist and misogynist reasons. In the majority, Ds can have a full debate, not a cursory one, on Hegseth's perfidy."
Foolish for Ds failing to show up for the Hegseth impeachment vote. OTOH, Massie's articles were incomplete and a bit scattershot. Ds can include reckless Signal chat, murders of fishermen in open ocean, indefensible failure to protect troops murdered in Kuwait by Iran.. 1
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🧵"More geopolitical masturbation from the Russians. They act like the Russian tricolor waves over Berlin when in fact the army is being routed in such glorious European locales as Mala Tomachka."
As they say in Russia, appetite grows while eating.
Russia’s top negotiator Medinsky says in Abu Dhabi that Moscow’s demands extend to all of Europe, far beyond Ukraine.
“The security system in Europe works very badly. The entire organism is sick. Ukraine is just an abscess that burst. The organism must be cured as a whole, a band-aid will not be enough.”
Dr Putin to the rescue of poor sick Europe…
The more Trump seeks to mollify Putin, the more megalomaniac the Russian demands become.
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🧵"The combination of hubris and ignorance is so breathtaking, I can only listen to his comments in increments."
"Everyone who's taught foreign policy or international relations to very confident university freshmen will recognise this phenomenon."
"Dunning-Kushner effect."
It is like Kushner thinks it never occurred to the Europeans or past US administrations to try to do diplomacy with Russia before it invaded Ukraine.
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🧵"They take part of your premium to pay for the overhead of refusing your claim. What a great system."
"What’s the profit margin? They insure over 50 million people."
"@AbdulElSayed What u gonna do bout this"
"Shit like this creates Luigis."
UnitedHealth made over $6 billion in profit in just 3 months. Reportedly denying about 1 in 3 claims.
You paid your premium. They denied your claim.
They kept your money. Then they called it a "record quarter." And it's all legal.
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"Coping with loss looks different for everyone, and President Trump has processed the country’s nearly wholesale rejection of the Republican Party in the midterm elections in his own way."
nytimes.com/2026/11/10/us/po…
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🧵"Question is whether this is a curtain raiser on the future or if this will be seen in the future as part of a dark era that was then over."
"Weaponizing a state event for partisan incitement demonstrates his constitutional incapacity."
MW continues: "I got my journalist education from my grandparents, who owned a local newspaper for over 50 years. I spent my childhood in my grandfather's dark room developing pictures and seeing folks typing out articles on old Macs, and even a few typewriters that I played on.
Glad you're back on the Hill. You're one of the very few Beltway Journalists I actually trust these days.
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🧵"Rahman, a US citizen who is autistic and has physical disabilities, was en route to a doc appt on Jan. 13 when ICE agents surrounded her car, smashed her window, dragged her out + put her in detention center, where she endured severe medical neglect, requiring hospitalization"
🧵"If he’s threatening to deny certification, we need to act."
"Why Emmer? What do the Repubes have planned?"
"He's threatening 256+ members who will be the majority? Is this mthrfker insane?"
Emmer cuts a promo on Democrats: "Come January 3, 2027, you will regret ever putting your name on a ballot!"
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🧵"A Buckeye excited to meet a Wolverine."
"Sherrod is a true blue. He’s been waiting a lifetime for everyone to catch up with his vision of helping everyone."
"We are all Senator Brown."
🧵"Haley Stevens, getting ready to fake a Michigan accent that no one here in Michigan actually speaks in"
"This is who Schumer wanted over El-Sayed. Who Schumer pushed on us."
"She was always a right-wing plant. Schumer tried to foist a Fetterwoman on Michigan."
Haley Stevens was in the Republican cloakroom during Congress’s first votes since returning after the election.
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