feels telling about American foreign policy punditry that while many decry the aimlessness of Trump’s monstrously wrong Iran war there were far more outraged columns over the harm done to US power and influence and standing and interests and example when Biden rightly withdrew from Afghanistan.

tapping the "people underestimate how many of our society's elites are motivated not by self-interest, but by sadism" sign

I think we should do a "Iran Reset" but instead of presenting the Iranians with a ceremonial red button, we give them Pete Hegseth hogtied with a bag over his head

it's fascinating how most presidents don't have a button to lower prices, but donald john trump has created USS Enterprise levels of buttons for generating inflation

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

Turns out, the Haber Bosch process working best with piles of cheap natural gas means that all the fertilizer is now made in like three places

So, if this becomes a thing, any DOJ attorney that takes their oath seriously should resign in protest. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

vibe check: CNN now has a gas tracker on their front page

Trump take gas

I dont like the way this video read my entire life like this lol

A good overview of the incompetent and nonsensical (but not unexpected) way DOGE ripped apart the NEH last spring, leading to hundreds of cancelled grants for petty reasons. I'm grateful to @historians.org and co-plantiffs for challenging these actions in federal court.

this was the IRA, which every senate democrat voted for and every senate republican voted against

the problem, fundamentally, is that rural voters don't want the economy to be "good" in the typical sense of being efficient or productive, they want it to be "good" in a moral sense where it rewards the people and industries they like

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

Gift link gift link!!! These DOGE assholes!

Every story I'm seeing on oil reserves, interceptor stockpiles, etc., I keep going back to March 2020 when every airline needed bailouts because all of a sudden they were on emergency footing. Not apples to apples, but a similar "wow that ran out fast" feeling.

Staggering jump in average diesel prices over the last 168 hours: Texas ⬆️98c/gal New Mexico ⬆️91c/gal North Carolina ⬆️89c/gal Arizona ⬆️89c/gal Tennessee ⬆️87c/gal Mississippi ⬆️87c/gal Georgia ⬆️85c/gal West Virginia ⬆️82c/gal Florida ⬆️80c/gal Louisiana ⬆️80c/gal

in a way this is fascinating because in the family you hide this member from guests at dinner parties and the US is like buddy he's doing a daily off the cuff 30 min sesh with the press

Here we go again. “.. threatens to hike the cost of the metal used in auto parts, appliances and beverage cans.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Shutting an oil well isn’t like turning off a faucet. It’s a huge engineering risk, difficult to reverse — and an indicator the Kuwaitis don’t see choke points improving anytime soon.

"The comeback kid!" is the storyline the media runs on scandal plagued fuck ups that they like and want to help

nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen

In a year of stupid headlines, what to even say, this has to be among the stupidest and frankly most offensive yet

FAFO

damn, if the Childcrusher 5000 GTX pickup truck owners can’t afford gas, how are they going to be able to tote their massive loads of a single loaf of bread and a canned Starbucks latte

Predicting a return to reading books. It will be on the frontier of resisting subjection.

“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.” @jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Man JD has disappeared like an Ashley’s just opened.

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

a lot of what has made discourse insane is that there's an entire crop of guys who live in dc, do a ton of uppers, and have massive gender insecurity around the fact that they're soft-handed scribes

Capitol Hunters confirms Platner lied about why he could not get back into the Marines in 2009. It was because of his Nazi/antisemitic tattoo. He blamed Marine policy barring sleeve tattoos, but Marine policy grandfathered sleeve tattoos. It barred symbols of hate, which is what the Totenkopf is.

yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)

Fondly recalling the 2010s, when one could borrow money for free and instead of densifying our cities and building electric-powered mass transit, we pretended Uber rides would always be cheap and worked hard to prevent "transit-oriented gentrification."

so apparently Brian McGinnis has been denied access to both his family and legal representation since a sitting senator broke his arm

i work with words for a living, so I am biased, but I really think we've got to bring back words. really useful if you imbue them with meaning and arrange them properly!

Oil prices are going parabolic. This is insane.

"forget touch what if I duct tape my hand to the stove and turn it up high as it goes"

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear: Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes. Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

This is what they said about tariffs, too. We must all be willing to endure some short term pain so our dumbass president can implement the policies that will ensure long term pain.

mind you this is rhetoric targeted at a constituency so psychopathically selfish that they think a table of hand warmers at an ad hoc assembly for a murdered neighbor is proof of millions in funding

“Trans children are perfect.”

To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others.

lol, i have been chuckling about this all week

Obama on Jesse Jackson: "The message he sent to a 22 year old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place, any room, where we didn't belong"

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%