"Throw the bums out" has won far more elections than "let me show you my white paper".

Electro-rockers FCUKERS are out with a full album. Dance yourself clean with this album. "I Like it Like That" is a great track. Awesome live show if you get to see them. open.spotify.com/album/4Rrsgn...

#polisky the absolute decimation of the social sciences cc @professormusgrave.bsky.social @mcopelov.bsky.social

Qatar produces 1/3 of the world’s helium

Trump Administration approach.

Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks.

Doesn’t sound great.

Good job y’all. You bombed Iranian universities and now they are coming after Western uni’s in the region. Really well done.

So at the moment, it seems like Trump is willing to say he’s accomplished regime change, doesn’t need the Strait, and seemingly isn’t going after the uranium…so what exactly is the goal here

Pete Hegseth, national disgrace: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“Sensible people who look at what’s being proposed here think this is insane,” said JP Bryan, a conservative former oil executive who owns two ranches and a popular hotel in the Big Bend region. “Anyone who supports this ought to put their name on this wall, so it can go down in infamy forever.”

When I said "we're screwed on aluminum," I wasn't being flip. We can't plausibly bring anything new online anytime soon. "In this sort of market, when you suddenly take out 3 million tons of capacity, it cannot be replaced," said Panmure Liberum analyst Tom Price. 🔌💡 www.reuters.com/world/middle...

If this is what the administration settles on it would represent a major shift from decades of stated U.S. policy. Not to mention a self-inflicted strategic setback.

U.S. automakers advocating against Chinese FDI in auto sector in U.S. was big new takeaway from this piece. open.substack.com/pub/kevinbru...

Lmfao if this war ends up also breaking the sanctions system on Iran, truly master strategic genius hours

I mean I just can't even find words. The US defense secretary helping plan a massive, destabilizing surprise war - a war the US has immediately LOST - and then using his insider knowledge to make stock bets so he can personally get rich? Hard to think of worse corruption, anywhere, ever.

Trump admin is more like lick the stove.

New Substack from me about Donald Trump's 'Calendar of Chaos'. I just looked at my calendar and apparently it's still only March, despite Trump having created a decade's worth of chaos since Jan 1st. This post walks us through the rest of the year 1/n benansell.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Truly the best - read it immediately if you haven't yet

BREAKING via WSJ President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran, a complex and risky mission that would likely put American forces inside the country for days or longer.  Full Story: on.wsj.com/4m43Y9G

A lot of people are being way too casual about what a prolonged Strait of Hormuz closure means. This is not “glass half full / glass half empty.” If 11–12 MMbbls/d of liquids supply is offline, it’s offline. That’s not framing. That’s physics. www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-econom...

Is it a good sign or a bad sign for a president when a popular sports figure is denouncing your immigration policies on a widely watched March Madness broadcast?

This looks great.

"Iran is now earning nearly twice as much from oil sales each day as it did before American and Israeli bombs started falling on February 28th. It may be pummelled on the battlefield, but the regime is winning the energy war." www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Not looking forward to the next steps in this emergent debacle. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Good job everybody.

Heard this and thought the voice sounded so much like Robert Smith of The Cure. Turns out it’s a long ago collaboration he did w band member from Siouxsie and I just missed it 40 years ago. Maybe because I was 12 at the time. Amazing tho. open.spotify.com/track/2r8SMY...

I'm trying to think of any historical analogue for a government this unpopular bogging his country down in an offensive war this unpopular, and I'm drawing a blank. The closest I can think of is Nicholas II, and even his entry into WW1 was initially popular.

dropped by a military historian convention to see a friend today, and about half of the conversations I eavesdropped on in the lounge (as well as our conversation) were basically 'I can't believe how goddamn stupid this war is'

This guy sounds smart. Laid out Iran's moves with incredible foresight. Too bad he no longer works as the National Security Council’s director for Iran b/c some online nutjob does not like him and that is enough to get experts shitcanned from government these days. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story @us.theconversation.com @ezgicanpolat.bsky.social theconversation.com/war-in-the-m...

While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....

This is what homeland security looks like in our age of Earth system stress. www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

Great discussion on the changing role of China’s overseas finance and other topics. www.youtube.com/live/6NBJr-g...

How is he so good at this?

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

“The force, which would likely include infantry and armored vehicles, would be added to the roughly 5,000 Marines and the thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division who have already been ordered to the region.”

Doubling down on failure. Deeper into the quagmire we go. www.axios.com/2026/03/27/i...

I don't have a great feeling.

So, Trump gets to do whatever he wants. Power of the purse, eh?

This sounds like a recipe for awfulness.

As @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explains here, when the US admin ended the NASA climate modeling group's office lease, they were kicked out of their building -- and "have been kind of couch surfing at various NYC universities and libraries" since then. Unbelievable. Read more here:

This.

Wait, we’re looting gold from Venezuela now?