My “am I an extremist?” t shirt raises many questions answered by the t shirt

Time makes mugs of us all

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

The thing is, from a state security perspective, allowing use of AIs developed by other groups poses a huge amount of risk should it be deployed and used heavily by any sector even remotely connected to state stability as “poisoning” models during training/fine tuning is relatively* simple (2/5)

Highly recommend this one, by @kellygrieco.bsky.social. Very astute and insightful analysis that makes it clear Iran considers the global economy by way of the Gulf states, and not Israel, the enemy's center of gravity.

Update on the situation at Hertie: unfortunately the student representatives lost their vote of no confidence, 52-47. Frankly it's impressive they almost held on despite the student body being subjected to a huge intimidation campaign by university admin, the Stiftung, and right wing German media

Statement of the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA) on the Hertie School Representatives (HSR) resolution on 05.03.26⬇️ pja-verein.de/2026/03/12/h...

Love the way any progressive measure is publicly nickle and dimed while wild discretionary overspending (bike shed anyone) has to be FOI'd.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

EXCL: Reform UK have been processing cryptocurrency donations through Poland, under a 'lax' regulatory regime which previously housed a Cambodian crime syndicate sanctioned by the US Treasury for laundering $4 billion in illicit funds (inc. proceeds from North Korean state-sponsored cyber heists)

Saw something about Josh Hawley and realised I didn't really know who he was so I looked him up and I guess my question is: why in his official portrait does he look like he's just peed himself a little and can feel it soaking through his pants but is pretending it's okay

this means it is not open for transit

We know the Minab girls' school was on the DOD target list. This info means that, if an error, this falls in the unexcused category of reckless negligence.

Probably bad

The fact that a substantial number of people who are against Zionism also seem to be against the very concept of taking anti-Diaspora antisemitism seriously is a major reason Zionism is as influential as it is in the Jewish community.

The Iran war is showing that renewable energy is a national security imperative, and that fighting renewables tooth and nail as the White House has been doing since day one deeply undermines national security, as @ryanlcooper.com writes. prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

This is Adrian Chiles' world and we're all just living in it

I do remember when Clausewitz said that "in the combat all the action is directed to the destruction of the enemy, or rather of his defence innovation centres"

Officer suffering anxiety attack given ambulance intended for shooting victim. “A man who was shot by police and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for an ambulance after an officer having a ‘mild anxiety attack’ took the first one that arrived..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Hmmmmmmm

Varus give me back my Dow over 50,000

Good luck to the AI trying to establish a consensus on how humanity stacks a dishwasher.

Time to price them off the roads everywhere, by all means possible. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

#OtD 12 Mar 1977 authorities shut down Radio Alice, a radical pirate radio station in Bologna, during a rebellion in response to the police murder of Francesco Lorusso. The station had been an essential hub for workers, students, feminists & gay groups stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8419...

Lotta talk about China acquiring a "nuclear shield" behind which they'll invade Taiwan but they're also being handed a "the United States is run by idiots" shield

Respectfully, eat shit. Those kids were expelled, arrested, and targeted relentlessly by their school administrations with the specific goal of preventing further protest. Eighteen year old kids were held down and maced by campus security, hit point blank with tear gas canisters by riot cops.

When FDD gives up on regime change, you know it is over. If war was just to degrade Iran's missile and drone capabilities but leaves nuclear materials in place, while fueling nuke weapon motives , it is an even worse plan than it first appeared. US has thrown away its shot and for what?

this is true but like, i think if you're in zoomer spaces you have definitely seen an uptick in anti-semitism on gen z platforms in my experience

In yet another example of "I can't fucking believe I actually learned things from Hearts of Iron 4" a staggering number of economists and policy experts don't understand that production lines aren't light switches that can be turned on and off at maximum efficiency

The median voter is not a centrist but actually just holds a bunch of mutually contradictory, meaningless opinions.

Low key the biggest political asymmetry between the sides is if the USA destroys Iran's entire navy and air force, everyone will shrug and give the campaign a 3/5, it was okay in execution at best and if Iran shoots down a single stealth fighter or sinks a destroyer, they blew up the Death Star.

RAMIREZ, SECURE THE BURGER KING AT THE TIP OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.

I’m sorry, the suffering is infinite and things are genuinely fucking dire, but it is truly hilarious that the nazis ran into the middle east while screaming “logistics and diplomacy are fake and gay” and now they’re trying to ask everyone else to fix the strait of hormuz because tfw no more THAADs

now would be a good time for some national football orgs to grow a fucking spine and say they’re going to boycott

The "everyone is twelve" theory has more explanatory power than anything else anyone has come up with in decades

Who fractured it Simon?

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

📣 New Research just published. Adoption of EVs, solar PV, and heat pumps in Ireland is driven by affluence. Current grants favour high-income groups, risking a "green divide." Policies must focus on equity and lower upfront costs. Open access: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Tells you something (not sure what) about the interaction of technological progress and culture that someone posted a Telegraph mad headline generator here last week, and already it's obsolete because the real Telegraph headlines are even madder.

This World Baseball Classic has been so weird. What do you mean Italy and Canada both won their groups

I could help contextualize this by sharing links to a bunch of excellent research, but the thing is, you actually don’t need research or to be some kind of brain genius to understand why this is a terrible idea. You just have to think about it for thirty seconds or ask yourself “and THEN what?”

Me neither, but they’ll learn this war won’t end just bc Trump decides he doesn’t want to play with this toy anymore. Why would Iran reopen the strait with the threat of renewed attack hanging over them? Or with Israel continuing to bomb? They killed or discredited the pro-negotiations faction.

she's barely inches from just saying "kill em all" outright

Another day of monitoring the situation

remember three weeks ago when europe was saying they would no longer be america's toadies

Calling the Epstein Files a pedophilia ring lets society off too easy. What the Epstein Files reveals is the impunity of the elite class to do anything they want--though, on point of fact, most don't want to have sex with children.

Reports coming in that faint screaming can be heard from the grave of Alfred Thayer Mahan

Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."