It has been (0) days since DVIDS caught the DoN doing something boneheaded with a patch

Bleakly funny that what obvsiouly started as "we need to have a way for the Decker to be more present in the heist rather than off playing their own min-heist with the GM" turned out to be predictive

Are they gonna make him sign a pledge not to disclose anything he hears at dinner?

Weird to want to punish people for your huge, not-in-any-way-embarrassing massive success

Trump pardoned CZ, who built Binance and used it to launder crypto money to Iran so they could fund weapons that gave them leverage against Trump’s war of choice. Trump’s ceasefire now includes paying Iran in crypto. This is on brand for all involved. www.ft.com/content/02ae...

Incredible that these guys learned nothing from watching Ukraine systematically demolish the myth of Russian military dominance

Again, the issue here is not our capabilities, it's tactics divorced from strategy. Which sure, under this administration reveals our ineffectiveness *right now*, but doesn't necessarily reflect on the U.S. military as an institution.

Lee defeated again, just in time for the April 9 anniversary of his surrender at Appomattox! www.wavy.com/news/virgini...

If a President Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter led America to such an embarrassing humiliating defeat as the #HormuzHumiliation - the Congress (even if it were led by Democrats) would have impeached and convicted them out of the office. Coaches get fired for being losers.

my local gov halted new data center development and is pouring the net revenue from existing sites into affordable housing. this has been a far more productive use of the revenue than other localities, which have largely used to it cut property taxes (in a state with fairly lower property taxes)

Elizabeth Holmes or Travis Kalnick cannot exist without a deep cultural history of journalism reinforcing the image of the eccentric genius inventor, personified by the CEO even if they invented nothing, because it’s an easy story to tell that resonates with our cultural history. They’re totems.

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

Thank you, President Trump! www.kentucky.com/lexgoeat/bou...

As I keep saying, Orban is their emotional support autocrat, he's supposed to be the proof this will all work out for them. If he goes down it's going to break them.

“If you hate your wife, it’s a lot easier to justify exploiting her unpaid labor for your own personal gain." - my take, in this terrific piece from @amandamarcotte.bsky.social on why MAGA men want--but also loathe--"traditional" wives. www.salon.com/2026/04/08/w...

Unmovable object (no one really wants the smoke) versus an unstoppable force (dumbest fucking people on the planet)

to succeed in such a competition requires not just piling up missiles but *learning* from china's genuine successes--and recognizing our own failures--and reforming, *reconstructing* our system to be better than it was

Hey, did you know about Madagascar giraffe weevils

Spending my week making graphs

I appreciate @kschake.bsky.social's efforts to shed light on these vital issues, but I am less sanguine Politicization operates through multiple mechanisms not captured by analyzing the credentials or past partisan commentary of senior officers replacing those who have been fired. 1/

Operational technology, as an industry, is massively behind on security, chronically underfunded, and invidividual installations can be in service for decades. And when it fails, people die. Within days. An AWS compromise and outage would suck; Nowhere County, OH losing a water main kills people.

I guess I don't have to listicle the outcome of the war in a blog post--Rhodes (who is not perfect by any means) nails it here.

Someone should write their PhD thesis on a gaslighting theory of IR

Why is it that we hear the loudest yelps for “meritocracy” from the inheritors of inter-generational wealth?

Unfortunately his audience is entirely domestic, and the American people are utter morons, so this war will have 60% approval as a stunning visionary victory in a week

Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.

We did it. We went to Iran and ate many meals.

Brutal.

Our ten point plan, which I am sure the president of the United States read and understood before agreeing to...

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The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

You take a mortal man And put him in control Watch him become a God Watch people's heads a-roll Just like the Pied Piper Led rats through the streets We dance like marionettes Swaying to the symphony of destruction

this is a wild story. this level of detail cannot come without many of the principles talking to the reporters. this reads to me a whole lot like vance and rubio - especially - trying to cut their losses and throw the president under the bus. it's like something from W's second term circa 2007.

Other US officials said Hegseth’s focus on launch volume is dubious even if his numbers were close to accurate. “You saw a bunch of missile and drone attacks at the start — and then it dropped off precipitously. That was Iran preserving their magazine"

New: Pete Hegseth's triumphant portrayal of the conflict in Iran has alarmed U.S. officials who are concerned the statistics he often promotes are misinforming both the public and the president 🧵

Starfish Space has announced its biggest funding round yet, which brought in about $110 million to boost the Seattle-area venture's plan to inspect and service satellites in orbit. www.geekwire.com/2026/starfis...

Important @gigansprogress.bsky.social news

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order. Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not. For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

The Trump administration can remain irrational longer than interceptor stockpiles can hold

not only are wire services the core of an enormous amount of reporting, AP plays a very specific and authoritative role in election calling

Saskatchewan: The official tartar was designed by Alma Bastedo, wife of Lt. Governor Frank Bastedo. Adopted in 1961, the colours represent the province's crops (gold/wheat, yellow/canola), the Prairie Lily, snow, oil/coal and forests are also represented. 🧵4/16

I am so glad we learned from our mistakes in 2003!

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country