It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

The military will do a thorough investigation. Whether Hegseth allows them to release it, that might be another matter.

Isn't that the truth. The firehose of BS has been running for nearly 13 months, and counting. I can't wait until the midterms.

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Which side is US on? Bombing Iran while supporting Russia?

I don't think this is a long term conflict. Trump doesn't have the attention span nor the resilience to withstand public disapproval or economic pain. What concerns me is that events spiral out of control as a result of Iranian retaliation.

Greeting the first dead servicemen of the Iranian war, POTUS dons a blue, not black, suit and crowns his outfit with a baseball cap allowing him to forego the morning beauty parlor.

Dignified transfer? Senile Satan is wearing a baseball cap. Next week he’ll be wearing the Fetterman Deluxe hoodie and sweatpants.

Julie K Brown: DOJ docs, FBI interview, allege prison guards talked about cover-up in Epstein's death Inmate tells FBI he heard guards saying Epstein was killed

White House halts security bulletin warning of Iran-related threats reut.rs/4ue7HF6

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

Zelenskyy offers Saudi Arabia’s MBS help countering Iranian drones | Russia-Ukraine war News https://www.europesays.com/2829855/ Ukraine’s president seeks leverage with low-cost interceptors, as the US and Gulf nations burn through stocks of Patriot…

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From drone incursions to squeezed flight paths, the US-Israeli attacks on Iran are making the skies more perilous and ratcheting up the pressure on those flying through them reut.rs/4bbhsem

Hegseth: “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast.”

In just six days, the Trump administration has advanced at least 10 different rationales for the war in Iran, Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Isabel Ruehl report:

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Jobs. Biden v Trump

Tragedy and farce, at the same time.

Prediction: Trump’s new war will be over before No Kings 2.0

A guy who rags about “licking coke off a toilet seat” may not succumb to everyday embarrassment.

We are all going to HAL

Julie K Brown: FBI releases interviews with woman who alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor... "A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."

The enforcement of laws against homeless people is costly. Albuquerque’s Bernalillo County spends ~$169/night to jail inmates — and more if they have significant medical needs. By comparison, the city’s year-round emergency shelter costs $44/night.

Pres. Obama at the Jackson service: "We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope. Each day, we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions." "If we don't step up, no one else will. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him."

That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion." www.cato.org/blog/embarra...

So Iran now has, perhaps for the first time, information about the location of our most sensitive covert sites in the region. A completely foreseeable, unnecessary consequence of unnecessary war with Iran.

Which side is US on? Bombing Iran while supporting Russia?

Interesting that among the few advance plans we made are those that benefit Russia. See my longer essay on Oligarchic Corridors. snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar...

MBS "has no love for the Iranian regime," says scholar Bernard Haykel. But the Saudi prince has a lot to fear if Iran ends up a failed state.

Iraqi oil. Syrian oil. Venezuelan oil. Donald Trump has rarely discussed a foreign conflict without musing about what the U.S. can take in return—but he's been oddly silent about Iranian oil, Vivian Salama and Jonathan Lemire report:

“Cheering for epistemic humility gets you no television interviews,” Eliot A. Cohen writes. “But in the early phase of a war, above all, it should be the prudent observer’s battle cry”:

Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate: ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees who declined to identify former clients.

Teen Roblox creators are raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from simple games, even as major studios cut jobs and cancel blockbusters.

Exactly 👇🏼. It will get you. I’m demanding that Claude come up with some clever name for this malady.

No Bush among the woods.

Dinner à la “aa”

There's a reason that for years, I've to Trump as "Delusional Donald." The headline below is so crazy and fact-free that everyone should understand:

Seems less than ideal.

Trump Demands ‘Unconditional Surrender’ by Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...

FBI Director Kash Patel fired roughly a dozen agents and staff members who once had ties to an investigation into Donald Trump, including agents who specialized in Iran and its proxies. Three days after the firings began, the U.S. was bombarding Iran.

Because undocumented immigrants can’t/don’t vote, so their names are not on the voter rolls.

You know who hated wokenesss? The Tehran regime.

Canadian tariffs

Justice Jackson knows the Bruen standard is goofy but pushed the Court to lie in the jurisprudential bed it made This proved frustrating for Justice Sam Alito, whose commitment to originalism waned when confronted with the prospect of not prosecuting a brown man ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/us-v-...

I charged my EV last night (from 20 percent to 100 percent) and it cost me about $17. Beyond the no gas, the car just rides so beautifully. Got it in July and cannot imagine ever going back to gas car.

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

“The job market is weakening, inflation is still too high, and we’re at serious risk of a once-in-50-years oil shock,” Rogé Karma writes. “The economy’s warning lights might not yet be flashing red, but they are certainly flashing yellow”: