BlogHide Resteemszafrada (77)in biden • 1 hour agoHypothetical primary polling.Seriously I'm begging people to actually look at any polling data in their wishcasting. Kamala Harris dominates all hypothetical primary polling. Even just ignoring the hypothetical polling, she…zafrada (77)in netherlands • yesterdayMore F-16s on the way from Netherlands.The Netherlands says 24 F-16s are going to be delivered to Ukraine soon. The export license was approved in June. Exact timing is confidential. At this point the main delay is with pilot training.…zafrada (77)in french • 2 days agoLe Monde detailing the candidates that have withdrawn.NFP is the Nouveau Front Populaire, the left wing coalition. Together is Macron's coalition. RN is the far right. For the second round there are now only 129 3- or 4-way runoffs. Hopefully more…zafrada (77)in presidential • 3 days agoCNN doesn't fact check the debate live!Okay, but two things. Debate moderation is also supposed to include follow-up questions. I don't expect live fact-checking per se. But when a candidate refuses to answer a question or when they…zafrada (77)in presidential • 4 days agoDon't just tell me you want Biden to step down.Tell me how you think the process to replace him will go and why that would be better? Here's what post-debate polling says. I want to beat Trump. I'm about as anti-Trump as you can be. He's a…zafrada (77)in economy • 5 days agoPCE inflation on track!In a bit of good news, PCE inflation was excellent in May. Headline PCE was 0%. Core PCE was 0.1%. PCE is the main inflation measure the Fed watches. If we keep seeing months like this we could…zafrada (77)in terrence • 6 days agoRacism in the entertainment industry.Actor Terrence Howard has sued the Creative Artists Agency, saying they owe him up to $120 million for not getting him pay comparable to what white actors were getting, particularly those “white…zafrada (77)in clean • 7 days agoClean energy keeps shocking the "experts" and beating all projections.I chuckle every time I hear some chuckle head economist, business man or pundit predict that a technology has no future because look how expensive or unwieldy it is. There has been a very similar…zafrada (77)in election • 7 days agoThe election is so close that there really ain't much difference here between the 538 forecast and this when it comes down to it.Nate Silver's 2024 presidential forecast is now out. His initial probability is Trump with a 65.7% chance to win. That's similar to the Economist's model. He's got Kennedy winning electoral votes…zafrada (77)in trump • 8 days agoTrump's gag order lifted.Judge Merchan lifted Trump's gag order in regards to witnesses and jurors now that the verdict has been reached. But it remains in place in regards to prosecutors and the court staff and their…zafrada (77)in civil • 9 days agoJohn Logan.John Logan was a crazy racist senator from Illinois before the Civil War. His political claim to fame was helping pass a law that made it illegal for black people to settle in his state. Like a lot…zafrada (77)in russian • 10 days agoRussian sabotage schemes throughout Europe.The WSJ is reporting that western officials believe Russia was behind the arson at the Diehl Metal factory in Berlin this May. Adds to a growing list of suspected Russian sabotage schemes throughout…zafrada (77)in nato • 11 days agoEastern European country sovereignty.It gets especially absurd when Russia is in fact attacking its neighbors. Then-President Medvedev even went so far as to say Russia invaded Georgia so as to stop their ascension to NATO. In the…zafrada (77)in biden • 12 days agoNorth Carolina emerges as key battleground.It is a smarter strategy than Trump campaigning in Virginia. North Carolina isn't as close as the other battleground states, but it is close enough and significant enough that it is worth putting…zafrada (77)in ksenia • 13 days agoKsenia Karelina's trial began today in Russia.She's being held on treason charges for conduct that hopefully most of my friends are guilty of- she donated $51.80 to Ukrainian charity Razom for Ukraine. She's a Russian-American dual citizen.…zafrada (77)in presidential • 14 days agoIt is still weird to me how the media handles Trump.They treat him like a chaos agent and not like an actual presidential candidate of one of the major parties. If Biden were proposing to deport 12 million people, 60% tariffs on China, sending the…zafrada (77)in crimea • 15 days agoOne should not confuse Russian speakers and Russian ethnicity with support for Russia.One of the Kremlin’s most effective distortions of history is the false claim that Crimea was “always Russian.” In reality, Crimea has an incredibly rich recorded history stretching back more than…zafrada (77)in ukraine • 16 days agoRemember Victoria AmelinaShe was only 37 when the Russians killed her. She was dining at a pizzeria in Kramatorsk that Russia attacked. She became a war crimes researcher after the Russian invasion. She found the diary of…zafrada (77)in movie • 17 days agoUnder Paris.The actual movie was kinda super goofy as one would expect from a movie about a shark attacking people in an inland river. 99% of the movie could have been avoided if people stopped pulling others…zafrada (77)in pentagon • 18 days agoThe Pentagon officials that greenlit this program should be fired.Just absolutely insane. I've not been this infuriated since the time that the CIA used a children's Hepatitis B vaccine program in Pakistan to find Osama Bin Laden. "The U.S. military’s anti-vax…
