Milena Rodban
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Personal. Irreverent. Former Senior Advisor at CISA. #PoliticalRisk #GeopoliticalFlux #bringthemhome 🎗️
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Companies:
“We’ve decided to postpone hiring a geopolitical risk person until early 2024.”
Me: “But the geopolitical risk… it’s a problem right now.”
Companies: “The state of the world is just too complex.”
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What you can do after a mass shooting/terror attack:
- Resist the urge to write political posts.
- Go and give blood.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I wish a piece of the USSR existed as a Westworld style experience so we could send socialist/USSR “wasn’t that bad” morons there to confront the idiocy of their beliefs.
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The people keeping us going right now:
1) Medical staff of all sorts
2) Cleaning staffs
3) Grocery store employees
4) Food service workers
5) Truck drivers
These people deserve to be applauded for how hard they’re working to keep us all taken care of, fed, and safe.
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Germany is the problem in nearly every potentially major geopolitical flashpoint right now. You can bitch and moan about the US, France, etc, but Germany takes top spot in causing and perpetuating some of the biggest challenges facing the world right now, from Iran to China.
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Trading cowardice for unfathomable incompetence isn’t remotely the win Blizzard seems to think it is
Blizzard president J Allen Brack: "I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision."
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Yes... Hate high rise jeans so much. You need to have a really long torso for them to be comfy. Low rise is the way to go.
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There’s definitely something majorly wrong with the audio, right?
#SuperBowl
#PepsiHalftime
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Who saw this coming?
Oh yeah, everyone.
José Andrés: Ivanka Trump 'had nothing to do' with D.C. party snub after all
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Sounds about right
Rocket fired at Israel by Gaza terrorists hits Hamas official’s home
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Fuck all this nonsense that you’re all currently obsessed with, from Trump’s tweets, moronic candidates polling at 1%, and some off-pitch chanteuse’s breakup. Hong Kong is the defining story of our time right now.
Any publication giving only cursory attention to Hong Kong is an absolute embarrassment to journalism. There are way too many of them.
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Was once in an elevator with a disheveled businessman who turned to me and said “I’ve been in 4 cities this week. Where are we?”
Me: “Vienna.”
Him: “What?! How’d I get to Austria?!”
Me: “Vienna, Virginia.”
Him: “Oh, thank G-d.
Me: “First time anyone has ever said that.”
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She didn’t lose control of anything. This didn’t happen to her. Don’t cast her as a victim. She lied, and defrauded a lot of people.
How did the CEO of blood testing startup Theranos lose control of her company?
@ArmstrongDrew
explains
#tictocnews
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1) Reading clickbait
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Many people think COVID-19 kills 1% of patients, and the rest get away with some flulike symptoms. But the story gets more complicated. Many people will be left with chronic kidney and heart problems. Even their neural system is disrupted.
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Stop repeating this nonsense. We have enough shootings without inflating the numbers, and exaggerating or mislabeling events.
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Let me fix this: To all the parents who lost a child, all the spouses who lost a husband or wife, and all the children who lost a parent. How are you still ignoring all the women who’ve died for our country?
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The $600 federal supplemental is NOT A DISINCENTIVE TO WORK. THE RAGING, OUT OF CONTROL PANDEMIC IS A DISINCENTIVE TO WORK.
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I feel like everything on Netflix is about a troubled detective trying to solve a murder in a town where it rains nonstop.
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Your medical mask selfies are stupid. Wash your damn hands.
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Opposing the stimulus because people would use it to buy things is quite a special level of galaxy brain.
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"Controversial" is now a compliment to many
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My fellow Americans, the tax preparation industry and its powerful lobby are abominations that continue to wield undue influence over our lives. We must unite against it.
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If you drive 8 hours just to go to an open bar, you should re-examine your life.
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If you can, please consider giving blood. So many blood drives have been cancelled due to the pandemic, yet the need for blood remains high. Giving blood is safe. You will save lives.
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This is disgusting
Can you admire an anti-Semite and advance the cause of women? Maybe so. Life is full of contradictions
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Good grief... these are the best and brightest Davos ideas?
Ginni Rometty: We need new collar workers - workers who are not white collar or blue collar - but who have been trained to embrace new technologies.
#wef18
#sharedfutures
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There's a metaphor here
Autopsy of bald eagle confirms that loon stabbed it in the heart with its beak
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It’s Jack Ryan
Breaking News: The whistle-blower is said to be a CIA officer who was assigned to work at the White House. His complaint suggests he is a trained analyst.
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This is an impressive level of stupid.
When I asked Kerry if he had a science degree, he answered “no” but forgot to turn his microphone on. The left has been using his flub to conceal what this exchange proved which is Kerry admitted he doesn’t have a science degree, even though his degree says “science”
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So she’s admitting that her own transition from bartender to US representative from the state of New York was a political stunt managed by people trying to shove out a long time incumbent? Nice to know
.
@AOC
on America’s rags-to-riches ideal: “It’s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces? It’s physically impossible. The whole thing is a joke.”
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I urge you to remember that for some people, this isn’t an IR case study- it’s an event that will change lives in tragic and unnecessary ways. It will end dreams. It will destroy fortunes. It will enrich evil people who care naught about others. Quit the gleeful prognostications.
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Every hot take on schools opening up forgets that teachers exist and don't all live alone, ignores all support staff like custodians (who tend to be older and higher risk), and assumes children just appear in their classroom and teleport out w/o bathroom or lunchroom usage.
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Have a feeling that “Free Hong Kong” or “Free Tibet” still won’t be allowed
The NBA and NBPA are planning to allow players to replace the last name on their jerseys with statement on social justice, sources tell
@TheAthleticNBA
@Stadium
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Well, it took many years, but we finally got a TED talk that matters
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People seem to vastly underestimate how many people are cowards.
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Do not fly while awaiting results. What the fuck is wrong with people.
A man who was awaiting results on a coronavirus test learned midair, on a JetBlue flight from New York to Palm Beach, that he had tested positive, officials said
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Can’t believe
@KillingEve
is almost over for the season. Villanelle (
@jodiecomer
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People keeping us sane right now:
1) hilarious meme creators
2) people with ideas to keep kids and adults occupied with activities
3) people who care enough to share hilarious memes with us
4) internet and mobile companies removing data caps
Make someone laugh. Share a meme.
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Excellent example of innovation put to work for good
An Italian hospital ran out of ICU valves. A local biz brought a 3D printer to the hospital, redesigned & produced the valves in a few hours.
“At the time of writing, 10 patients are accompanied in breathing by a machine that uses a 3D printed valve.”
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TP aisle vs condom aisle... maybe if you weren’t all suffering from violent diarrhea all the time, you’d have better luck dating
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Wait, there are people who don’t know Cleopatra was Greek?
Which Hollywood dumbass thought it would be a good idea to cast an Israeli actress as Cleopatra (a very bland looking one) instead of a stunning Arab actress like Nadine Njeim?
And shame on you, Gal Gadot. Your country steals Arab land & you’re stealing their movie roles... smh.
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Polo-wearing losers who can't get dates on a Friday night use Polynesian-style tiki torches to light their white supremacy march. 🙄
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It's fascinating that McKinsey is laying people off at a time when the world is getting much more complicated.
They should be booming, right?
But they have nothing to offer in a more complex world. They don't have any answers, just recycled nonsense they resold 100s of times.
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This whole hashtag hijacking is one of the most delightful things on Twitter in recent memory.
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People who were in positions where they could’ve done something, and didn’t, now whining that “something must be done!” to get some RTs and likes is politics in a nutshell.
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How do you tell if someone is an “expert” in something?
They haven’t updated their knowledge of the field since grad school.
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Why are there Neo-Nazi jackasses in America, the world's greatest country?
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Any publication giving only cursory attention to Hong Kong is an absolute embarrassment to journalism. There are way too many of them.
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Really,
@jack
? Create a satire check mark then. This trash heap is getting more toxic and less fun literally by the day.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
INBOX: From the woman who runs the account
THEY PERMANENTLY BANNED
@BetosBlog
!!!
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So working with DOD via Project Maven caused an internal uproar, but helping China’s Party oppress over 1.3 billion people and violate their human rights is totally fine? Really, Google employees?
Wow. Google said to be planning a censored version of its search engine for China, which would block sensitive search results and websites about human rights, democracy, Tiananmen massacre etc. Project Dragonfly has been demonstrated to Chinese officials
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They’re both going to make money off this, and that’s as American as apple pie.
I'm not a huge fan of either Candace or Cardi B but damn do they both have an amazing hustle.
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It's great to discuss ideas and engage in debates. It's wrong to tear people down. If you don't like someone's ideas, don't follow them.
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Remember kids, just because someone served in government doesn’t mean they’re smarter or more adept at correctly analyzing situations. Many people tweeting critiques (like, cough, Rhodes and Power, cough) did poor jobs and accomplished stunningly little when they were in gov’t.
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Kid on the left 100% already planning his revenge
French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominos during a visit to a school, July 2020.
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Stop trying to make “non-alcoholic wine” happen.
There’s a name for that.
It’s just grape juice.
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My local liquor store is following stricter hygiene protocols than any other place I’ve seen or heard from and this is when you know who cares about you most.
#COVID19
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Today I got the results of my 6 month scans, post-tumor removal surgery.
I am thrilled that they show no sign of the large benign tumor that was nonetheless closing my airway and killing me.
Prayers to all those still fighting.
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Have we really run out of things to write about?
Yacht owners with priceless art need to beware of flying champagne corks
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New NYT motto: “All the news that we feel like printing”
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And also people.
The California wildfires aren’t just bad news for wine—weed is in danger, too
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The last 36 hours have been an absolute blur. I lost my great aunt and 18 hours later, her husband, my great uncle. Two more pillars of the family gone. They were inseparable for 70 years of marriage, and inseparable even in death. Baruch Dayan HaEmet. What a difficult year.
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People have no appreciation for artisanal, small-batch, domestic meth anymore
Sen. Steve Daines: “Twenty years ago in Montana, meth was homemade. It was homegrown. And you had purity levels less than 30%. Today the meth that is getting into Montana is Mexican cartel.”
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Every DC think tank event:
- panelists say nothing new
- everyone pretends they're impressed
- they're all just there for free coffee
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Make friends with people who challenge you to grow intellectually, not people who will pressure you to do dumb shit.
Don’t rape anyone.
Know your alcohol tolerance.
Figure out how to skim readings effectively.
Seek out a mentor who will help you advocate for yourself.
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PLEASE stop using the phenomenally stupid phrase "geopolitics has returned with a vengeance."
It makes exactly zero sense.
Geopolitics did not go anywhere.
It is not back from vacation. It did not take a sabbatical.
You just stopped paying attention for a while.
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This is one those "probably sounded better in their heads" tweets...
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Something academics don't seem to understand: Fewer meetings, more gets done. More meetings, less gets done. Doing is better than yapping.
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One more Sun Tzu or Clausewitz or Ghenghis Kahn quote and my eyes will roll out of my head.
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Falling out of windows is reaching pandemic levels over there
A third Russian doctor has fallen from a hospital window after he complained about being forced to work despite contracting coronavirus
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Big crowd, standing room only,
@labyrinthdc
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@JasonDCMatthews
introduce
@Volko26
, who is speaking about his approach to designing war games and to debut his new game Inferno, available soon from
@gmtgames
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People are acting as if Mooch's vapid, contradictory views/quotes/actions are somehow unbelievable. He's a typical Wall Street bro.
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Union jacks line Pennsylvania Avenue in memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II…
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I’m super flattered that so many people think I’m just a dumb all-American, but I was born in the Soviet Union- I know what it was like. I know what it did to people. People did get married, have children, and live life- and fought hard to leave, to find a much better life.
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Never, EVER end a business meeting by asking someone out. There are literally no circumstances under which that is ok. You want to reach out later and see if there’s something there? Fine. But never drop a “so, would you want to go out sometime?” as you’re both standing up.
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Unfriend and unfollow buttons getting a good workout today. You’re judged by the company you keep and I’m absolutely not going to be in racist cretins’ company.
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Jared, how badly did you fuck up playing Pandemic that he’s convinced we can’t import European goods because of Covid19?
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Why on earth would young, healthy people want to avoid a 10% chance of long term complications from having COVID-19, and aid in preventing the spread of this horrible virus to older parents, immunocompromised friends, and other at-risk relatives? It’s a head scratcher.
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DC’s metro makes me so embarrassed to be a resident. How is it possible that this cascading clusterfuck of incompetence hasn’t resulted in literally everyone involved being replaced by people with a functioning brains?
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Disrespecting the military, by using rain as an excuse to avoid commemorating the bravery of the heroes of WWI, should make anyone still able to support
@realDonaldTrump
finally come to their senses. But the deluded cultists will keep lying to themselves.
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Each year, there are fewer Holocaust survivors. Fewer witnesses to the cruelty and evil that humans are capable of. On this
#YomHashoah
, consider following
@AuschwitzMuseum
/
@yadvashem
Learn the story of just one person who perished. Try to do an act of kindness in their memory.
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Oh dear
Mike Pence: 'Spend more time on your knees than on the internet'
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Me: “Bourbon, neat.”
Man 1: Ok, and I’ll get you some ice.
Me: “No, thank you.”
Man 2: I’ll add some water for you.
Me: “No, thank you. Are we not familiar with what neat means?”
#2
: But you’re a woman.
Me: Yes. Cheers.
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It isn’t people’s desire for freedom that threatens autocrats. Most people do very little with their freedom anyway. It’s the desire for accountability and equal application of the law that terrifies them. The autocrats do not see themselves as equal to people- but as above them.
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Ways countries can show no
#COVID19
cases, for all you gullible morons:
- not testing (no positives if there are no tests)
- writing off hospitalizations and deaths as being for other reasons (bronchitis, pneumonia, complications thereof)
- literally killing sick people
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Dear Martha,
The war is lost. But good news! I'm coming home. Hope you're ready to support the family in these lean times.
Confederacy-loving student shown in viral flip-off photo kicked out of Christian college
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Today, on “chart crimes”
The better-than-expected jobs report follows a series of other recent data that points to a V-shaped recovery. Take a look at these charts:
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Does the world talking shit about the US diminish America’s power? No.
China thinks people talking shit about anything related to China is such a threat to its power that it deserves a completely outsized response that makes Xi + CCP look like a bunch of hysterics. Pathetic.
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Friend: “Do you know [Person]? They’re also from Baku.”
Me: “You know not everyone from Baku knows each other, right?”
Friend: “So you do know them?”
Me: sigh “Yeah.”
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