Looks like Kharg Island will be spared and the 82nd Airborne will be rerouted to the US District Court in DC.

In the Trump era, headshakers come so fast and frequent it's hard to keep up. This one, from last week, bears inspection. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

"The timing and the fact that the two trades were placed at the same time, it kind of smells like something was off,” veteran futures trader Mike Khouw tells me. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Was the surge of profitable oil trades before President Trump’s postponement of strikes in Iran mere happenstance—or did someone get tipped off and cash in? www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

And a nice liveblog from Crimson reporter Elise Spenner. www.thecrimson.com/thread/2026/...

No Kings NYC

This is the FCC Chairman, who is ostensibly a non-partisan industry regulator, openly bragging about conducting a political purge of the media.

while the country is at war, Trump is golfing

Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

Little did I know...

There are a whole bunch of reasons to turn out for #nokings tomorrow but here are maybe the top two: 1) huge turnout is a signal to republicans edging away from Trump and puts steel in Dem spines. 2) least we can do to honor bravery of Minnesotans who turned the tide

Sharp piece about the late Jurgen Habermas in New Left Review. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

"STOP THE MAD KING'S WAR" I'm trying to figure out what my sign should say. What's yours? www.headsupnews.org/p/will-no-ki...

Iran’s attacks on energy infrastructure sites across the Gulf last week “were another sign that the war, and its economic consequences, was spiralling out of Trump’s control,” @johncassidysays.bsky.social writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2zpNlF

"The worst-case scenario is that the war proves difficult to stop, leaving the global economy short of reliable sources of oil, crude products (including fertilizer feedstock) and L.N.G. for an extended period,” veteran energy analyst Simon Flowers tells me. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

The main goal of the war is to undo the main effect of the war. 🙃

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

Axios reporter:

This is the quintessence of narcissistic sociopathy. And just plain stupidity. From @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

3 weeks ago: "Their policies created the high prices. Our policies are rapidly ending them." Today:

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts. State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis.

Tuesday’s Page One @financialtimes.com

"Perhaps the most startling thing about the whole situation is that the Trump Administration was apparently surprised by, and unprepared for, Iran’s capability to inflict economic pain on the U.S. and its allies," writes @johncassidysays.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin... 🔌💡

Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions. If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.

Capriciousness, arrogance, amnesia, slapstick--my take on the management of a needless war. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

As a thought experiment, imagine if there were a Joint(ly) & Comprehensive(ly) negotiated Agreement, designed as a Plan of Action to prevent this very regime from having nuclear weapons for at least decades. And imagine a world where this regime doesn’t have long-range missiles to reach 🇺🇸 cities 🤔

Big war-related bets on so-called prediction market platforms have raised important ethical questions. On our show today, @johncassidysays.bsky.social talked about his recent story, "How to Prevent Insider Trading on Trump’s Wars" and related news. www.wnyc.org/story/predic...

"Part of the problem is that the number of people who are insiders is very large," @denniskelleher.bsky.social tells me. “We are incentivizing lots of people to use their knowledge of classified information for their own benefit.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Two veteran journalists produced a documentary that showed evidence of war crimes in Gaza. But the BBC refused to air the film. This week on Reveal, we team up with @kcrw.com to tell the story of the film the BBC didn't want you to see:

"Part of the problem is that the number of people who are insiders is very large," @denniskelleher.bsky.social tells me. “We are incentivizing lots of people to use their knowledge of classified information for their own benefit.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Just how divorced from reality and reason is Trump? The next 24 hours will be the tell.

He wore a damn golf cap to meet the caskets of soldiers killed in his war on Iran—and then the propaganda network tried to cover it up for him.

So much “winning.” 🙄

NYMEX Brent prompt opens at over $108 #EconSky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

For a man who gets flown/driven around on the taxpayer's dime, the cost is "very small," its true.

Buckle up!

ICE is in fact the worst of the worst

Didn't the guy with the makeup tell us a few months ago that the US had obliterated Iran's nuclear program?

Another day ending in "y": another rationale.

Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

WOW This will mean a lot to some US Capitol Police families Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) just now at hearing: "All those thugs have actually been pardoned, yet we haven't thanked the Capitol Police officers"

Personally, I don’t think we should bring about Armageddon.

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"We pay for this stuff, we use it, the welfare of our children and grandchildren depends on it. I’m not saying the government should take over A.I., but it should use its power to shape its development,” MIT economist David Autor tells me. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

welcome to the depravity economy

"We pay for this stuff, we use it, the welfare of our children and grandchildren depends on it. I’m not saying the government should take over A.I., but it should use its power to shape its development,” MIT economist David Autor tells me. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Plain speaking has its merits.

Half a billion dollars gambling on death and destruction. We are a diseased society. bsky.app/profile/bloo...