I do think it's somewhat underemphasized that a head of state saying we'll bomb them back to the stone age is essentially a societal threat

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

The World Cup is going to be a world showcase of enshittification and price-gouging in Trump’s America — everything is worse, yet everything is more expensive. And this is actually one of the few stadiums you can even take public transportation to! www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...

Trump has given your children and grandchildren "Trump Accounts" and... a closed Strait of Hormuz controlled by Iran.

Nasdaq futures down -1.05%. This actually scared people. Like it was creepy in a profound way many have been trying to deny. There is nobody home.

Another example of major media normalizing an erratic and internally incoherent speech.

Wow, who can believe Trump's big prime-time speech to supposedly wind down the war was... not that at all, and just a rehash of every deranged thing he has been saying and posting for weeks?

Damn, this is embarrassing. Can't Sanger just get an interview with Trump by cold-calling him like every other journalist in Washington?

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

Some people call this "sane-washing" but I think a better description is when the real Trump falters, they sub in a fake, imaginary Trump into their stories. Beyond cleaning up untidy remarks to make them sound more coherent: "Trump super concerned with nuclear proliferation" is an imaginary guy

Sorry but in what world has Trump been "intently focused on making sure Iran never had the nuclear fuel in hand to build a nuclear weapon," let alone for the last decade? He withdrew from the JCPOA to spite Obama, and because it was what every Republican wanted him to do.

As I note in this piece, asking the question of whether the constitution creates birth right citizenship is on par with asking whether it creates a federal senate. This entire question is made up. Only SCOTUS corruption makes it an issue. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

Cannnot wait for Rubio to debase himself and say, well, of course Trump can do this.

💥 Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine in order to pressure European Nato allies to join a “coalition of the willing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Nato’s Rutte warned capitals Trump was “rather hysterical” about their refusal w @lauramdubois.ft.com as.ft.com/r/d508debe-f...

Solicitor General Gil

When has Israel telling Lebanese Druze and Christians to help them kill Lebanese Muslims ever worked out badly?

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

Israel wants to ethnically cleanse South Lebanon. This isn't a "buffer zone" (the favored euphemism for occupation) but a way to stoke another civil war. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

We’re not panicking, who’s panicking www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

This war is winding down, huh? The UAE signals it wants to join the war to open Hormuz, and “has also said the U.S. should occupy islands in the strategic waterway including Abu Musa, which has been held by Iran for a half-century and is claimed by the UAE.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Trump when he announced this war, sounding an awful lot like a neocon from the early aughts: “To the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand.” newlinesmag.com/essays/the-u...

But the Secretary of War, for all his warrior ethos, forgot to move some things around: "Images from the scene of the attack, which also injured US servicemen and damaged several in-flight refuelling aircraft, show a direct strike on the E-3’s radar dome located near the tail."

Learned recently that he's going to be an opposing coach in the 7-year-old league I have a team in WE'RE PLAYING FOR BLOOD

"For him to nod at Bari Weiss’s preferred politics, that doesn’t surprise me. I don’t remember Tony having politics to begin with.” A very revealing @bryancurtis.bsky.social quote in this scathing piece on Tony Dokoupil's "rise" to CBS anchor from humble roots as hair model and Newsweek scribe.

This Rahm Emanuel puff piece mainly reveals how his base is a handful of editors and media insiders in DC and New York. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

More on the uncanny echoes of Iraq in a war that gets dumber by the day, by me for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/the-u...

Hegseth’s dismissals about Hormuz echo Rumsfeld’s “Stuff happens,” but only vastly more stupid. “Hegseth on March 13 told reporters Iran’s actions were a sign of ‘sheer desperation’ and was ‘something we’re dealing with, we have been dealing with it and don’t need to worry about it.’”

Trump has gotten away with basically everything up to this point, so of course he thinks he can start an unnecessary war that blows up the global economy and then… just walk away. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Remember that Trump rally in Kentucky a few short weeks ago? “We won. We won,” Trump crowed. “In the first hour it was over, but we won.” newlinesmag.com/essays/the-u...

Is insider trading also part of the warrior ethos? www.ft.com/content/744e...

You really don’t have to be this credulous, but then again: This is The Daily.

“In conversations with more than three dozen oil and gas traders, executives, brokers, shippers and advisers over the last week, one message was repeated over and over: The world still hasn’t grasped the severity of the situation” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Is this won, or winning? www.ft.com/content/2160...

Is this won, or winning? www.ft.com/content/2160...

One of many, many reasons this war is a rolling disaster.

Brent up about $1.50 this morning and at almost at $110 again. About 12 hours after the latest Truth Social signalled deescalation. The half life of these posts is falling.

Just in time for a market rally Friday… which then fizzles again next week… until another desperate fake Trump deadline to juice the market again. Meanwhile:

I feel like the volatility of the market -- along with inscrutable single-day surges based on dumb Trump blather -- has really overshadowed the fact that the markets are WAAAAAAAY down since the start of the war. The S&P is off 6% in just the past month.

Trump is tiring of the unnecessary war he started for no reason, and imagines he can just end it soon and “shift to his next big challenge,” like regime change in Cuba or, you know, doing something about the global energy crisis he created. This is all delusional. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

A “final blow” sounds a lot like “shock and awe,” and how did that work out? @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/the-u...

MBS, who was the architect of the Saudi-led war in Yemen that he said would be a quick and decisive victory over the Houthis, now sees Trump’s war with Iran as a “historic opportunity” to remake the region. 🙃 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Currently the lead story on the NYT — taking euphemism and Trump clean-up to another level. Trump didn’t “find an offramp.” He set a bogus deadline and then, surprise, backed off — just in time for the markets to react.

“The energy crisis caused by the Iran war is worse than the combined effect of the oil shocks in the 1970s, the leader of the International Energy Agency said on Monday, warning that it would take time to resolve even if the war were to end soon.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/w...

the markets are basically one big prayer circle of folks closing their eyes and chanting “everything is going to be okay”

“The relative resilience of the US economy is feeding the arrogance of American power.” As Trump juices the markets with fake “deadlines” about his war with Iran, this is more true an ever. A new kind of irrational exuberance. www.ft.com/content/a6d0...

"What if ICE did airport security?" sounds like the premise of a black-comedy sketch.

Trump’s 4D chess move to solve the shutdown and airport chaos: ICE thugs harassing everyone in TSA lines.

From an American service member who has for weeks been treating US military personnel affected by Iranian attacks: A ground operation into Iran would be "an absolute disaster… We don’t have a plan for that" "We can’t even fully defend a single land base in the theater." Growing alarm among troops.

The Trump administration planned for everything and has already achieved a total military victory over Iran, but also still can’t believe Iran is retaliating in the Strait of Hormuz just like everyone said it would. www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/p...

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime