As I was saying..... Unfortunately, Trump has multiple possible bogus emergencies he can try to draw on to stage his next coup attempt. It would be great to know their plans*, but barring that, we must be prepared across a range of possible attacks. /1

It's absolutely gobsmackingly amazing how many Americans have zero idea of how the nation and elections are supposed to work. Remember, Democracy is like a giant civics class. To pass, you have to pay attention in class. /1

The best friend of SECSTATE is a foreign agent? It just keeps getting better, and better, doesn't it?

Speaking truth to power only works if power has any desire to listen to the truth.

Some Futurists thoughts: The siesta is a traditional method of dealing with extreme heat during the day. This approach may be have to be expanded and broadly adopted in the areas affected by extended periods of dangerous wet-bulb temperatures. /1

"Nebulously scoped mission?" About that, Mr Hegseth....😎

Easing sanctions on Russia is one of the most cynical, self-serving political ploys of recent memory. What would it accomplish? /1

Trump has no clue. I suspect Netanyahu isn't stupid enough to think he can win the war in the traditional sense; that of destroying the enemy and hearing the lamentation of their women. /1

I sent a note to Governor Stein saying he and other governors need to prepare for the nearly inevitable Trump efforts to subvert the election. The response? Platitudes. Disappointing, but expected.

Kilmeade is an idiot. Captains, who are probably not too keen to be targets in a shooting gallery, take orders from the companies that own the tanker. The companies that own the tanker lost their war risk coverage for transiting the straits. /1

These,"water is wet" insights are what we look for in our elected officials. Said in tones of deep seriousness, the statements of obvious facts or empty platitudes are meant to make them appear statesmanlike. 😎

The techbro billionaire fascists forgot to buy up this one.

I'm feelin' it. I should have tracked how many times I was forced to unleash Captain Obvious in recent months. The only question is which ones are using the disingenuous dodge (now known as the Speaker Johnson Maneuver) pretending to be total idiots and which are really total idiots.

The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.” The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. trib.al/a7gyvkz

No doubt. Remember, folks, the greatest delusion of mankind is the illusion of the short victorious war! One of the leading indicators of the decline or dissolution of empire is that empires' involvement in disasterous and expensive foreign wars. We are hitting it off in spades in both these areas.

Deliberate neglect, cruelty and death. The great American Standford Prison Experiment has run its course. The ICE Himmler training protocols have been successful. ICE agents are fully prepped.They are America's Auschwitz Guards now. They only await the installation of the machinery of mass death.

"Trump is not the architect of the Iran war, only its vehicle." On who's really in charge: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

He is probably not the kind of man who's going to be suing for peace anytime soon, or maybe ever.

Do you recall when I said the Omens are not favorable? Well, that's still going on.

Cancelling the election would be a Hail Mary of sorts, but so was 1/6. A terror attack would be a pretext, but a weak one. No US election has ever been cancelled, not during the World Wars, or even during the Civil War. The States run elections, with some input allowed by Congress. /1

Remember yesterday, when I spoke about how brittle the world food system was? We all knew the side-effects (Remember, "There are no unintended side effects. There are just effects." - Dr. John Sterman) from this Trump and Bibi's disastrous war would be brutal. Just how? We are going to find out.

Basic Civics Man™️ Here: If the President doesn't sign a bill or veto it, it becomes law after 10 days, Sunday excluded. In other words, a President can't just let passed legislation pile up on his desk. He can't kill legislation by doing nothing.

Yesterday, I wrote about the problem of AI in domestic national security. Today, I will address autonomous AI. Some thoughts on autonomous AI, and the general problem in Intelligence of reasoning under high uncertainty mefletcher.blogspot.com/2026/03/some...

The recent AI Pentagon bloodbath gives every indication that Hegseth wants the Pentagon to use AI as a TIA 2.0 dragnet fishing expedition to surveil Americans.That is problematic on so many levels. 4thA shredded. "AI bot, please list all American who meet Trump's criteria for domestic terrorist."/1

Washington may lift oil sanctions on the country that is providing Intelligence support to the nation that the US is currently at war with. /1

This has been a long hidden grift/subsidy that benefits agribusiness. They pay far below market rates for the use of land for grazing. Admittedly my bias here is that almost all government subsidies in a capitalist system can turn into ongoing rackets to boost business profits. /1

"Fire hurts," complains arsonist www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...

We found a good use for AI -- well, Grok at least. 😎

Civilization is like an artificial womb. It's the Great Anesthetizer. It creates layers of systems to mask and reduce everyday risks, but that risk doesn't really go away. Those cans get kicked down the road. /1

That Russia (or the US, for that matter) provides intelligence to allies should surprise absolutely no one because it's practically SOP. That Iran isn't a country of idiots and has long been planning out how to fight a war with the US and Israel in the region also should surprise no one. /1

In the, "as if you didn't have enough on your plate" department: Food Security - it's been on my watch-list for over 20 years. We get a lot of Happy Talk from governments on this topic. The reality is that the global system is quite brittle. /1

Creating a real or fabricating a fake emergency in order to use the real or imagined emergency as an excuse to use emergency powers (also real, or imagined) is SOP for Trump. This is right out the authoritarian playbook on using emergencies, real or fabricated, to accumulate more power.

AI Cartoon of the Day 😎

One minor ray of sunshine in US politics is that polls give the odious Mr. Rahm a support number so close to zero it was said to be zero.

Bless Mr. Z. After all the underwhelming cautious help and downright betrayals by supposed allies, he made a deal with Transactional Man - on Zs terms. I hope he drove a bargain hard enough to make Trump squeal.

Helpful analogy: Not sounding the town tornado siren does not make the tornado go away. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

A succinct summary. Our failure, the failure of all the earnest meetings, agreements, and pledges, can be seen in one simple graph. Not only is the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increasing, but the rate of emissions is also. We are failing and failing badly. /1

Rumsfeld turned down the military plan that said it would take 500k troops to properly occupy Iraq. He sent a third of that, and we know how that turned out. Iran is almost four times larger with it about double the population.

Among 1000s of disastrous tweets by Trump, the demand of unconditional surrender stands out. He won't walk it back. He can't even say he was just joking.

Gas at our local gas station jumped sixty cents a gallon. So much winning!

Deals for Democracy, the new International Game Show hosted by Donald J. Trump joins The Board of Peace as another stellar achievement in the Art of the Shell Game Grift.

Echoes of Gaza. Who could be behind this, I wonder?

If you haven't figured it out yet, the WB Operation was the quiet one masked by the bigger one in Gaza. Bibi's gov allowed the extremists to go wild and even aided them. The strategic objectives in the WB and Gaza are identical. You get three guess what those are, and the first two don't count.

Just so you know, there is another war going on. Naval blockades are viewed as an act of war. The US is using military force to interdict oil shipments. That's a naval blockade. That's an act of war. It's a false pretense to link it to a long-time US sanctions on Cuba.

Take a break from the global charlie foxtrot. Clear your mind with some beach therapy with dog.

This war isn’t an emergency that requires us to give the president more latitude. It’s a monstrosity that requires that judges, lawmakers and above all citizens work to preserve the integrity of elections and the republic.

Pouring the sum of human knowledge, falsehoods, biases, hatreds, fabricated political and religious narratives into a blender and hitting puree and waiting for machine to pour out THE ANSWER (It will be 42 of course 😎) does seem a bit of a dodgy concept when we actually bother to think about it.

The Trump regime has taken crony capitalism and corruption to heights never before seen in the history of the Republic. Indeed, I've even postulated that the GOP and its financial backers have become little more than one big networked criminal enterprise, a huge RICO case waiting to be prosecuted.

Allow me to decipher the logic here: Due to the side-effects from the regimes reckless war being heighten risk at home, please fund the Department of Homeland Repression so it can continue to act outside the law and Constitution with abductions and disappearances. apnews.com/article/iran...

Iranian opposition groups should absolutely not take up arms at the behest of the US. Past US behavior, and especially that of Donald Trump, indicates a very high likelihood that they will ultimately be betrayed - left hanging in the breeze to be crushed and slaughtered by government forces.