Tricia McLaughlin spent her time at DHS peddling bald-faced lies as official statements while attacking the media on a daily basis. And here's CNN, a regular target of her "fake news" insults, helping to jumpstart her cable news pundit career. (Also, she's objectively TERRIBLE on TV.)

If there's justice, McConnell will rot in hell.

The laser-like focus the US has brought to great power competition and its components is really paying off.

UAE says it will leave OPEC and OPEC+ as of May 1. UAE energy minister tells Reuters this is a decision taken after a careful look at our strategies related to the energy field, the petroleum sector, and others.

This does not sound realistic...

Certified Steven Mnuchin Moment

Frame it.

Of course Europe can defend itself! It is a challenge, structures are as they are but we need to stop pretending that we are some helpless babies needing to be saved by the US. My - slightly less rant-y - comments from last night.

1/ So angry. First, this is what "elections have consequences" really looks like. In addition to big stuff like wars and Liberation Day tariffs, the whole vast US machinery of state is now working everywhere, on everything, to make the world worse in every way. Thanks guys.

The US is a heavily-armed society going through an almost-unprecedented crisis of legitimacy. It doesn't need conspiracies for there to be a bunch of assassination attempts on a historically-unpopular president.

This line they're pushing has to be shut down asap. Its possibly the most dangerous lie they've pushed because it opens the door to allowing them to control the media moreso than they do now. Scary stuff.

Back to back posts...

IMO Passes Major Reform of Ship Registration Process maritime-executive.com/article/imo-...

What a move from O'Donnell

What a disgusting disgrace for a President. 🖕🍊🌮💩 ✊🔥✊

Children shouldn’t use AI until they understand what it is and what it isn’t. It’s being integrated as if it’s a learning tool, when it’s really a productivity tool. Children need to build thinking before outsourcing parts of thinking. Tech literacy before tech dependence.

Honestly seems like a very blunt (Germanic) assessment from Merz. It really is hard to see a winning exit strategy and any negotiation will likely have to include concessions to Iran, now more hardline than ever.

There is an entire class of journalists that are even worse than being useful idiots. They are wilfully ignorant and actively damaging democracy through their self centered arrogance. They shame all other journalists.

The media suddenly starts to pretend that they care about "the rituals of democracy," after elevating the Jan 6 leader for 5 years.

This is such an offensive line of questioning that Raskin would have been justified in walking out imo. Anything else I have to say...

@sodrock.bsky.social should've gone to Polymarket for this one...

According to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.

The idea that there'll be 0 revenue growth seems ridiculous?

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

I know first hand the comments made by certain companies exposed to the stop work orders by the Trump administration in the past. This policy is unbelievably damaging for US offshore industry. Some companies have black listed the US (incl post Trump) as a result.

U.S. is Negotiating to Cancel More Offshore Wind Leases maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-...

OK well wtf did I wake up to...

Nope. Bin the Home Office.

If I were an EU leader I'd make it conditional on getting the US to fuck right off out of the Persian Gulf so as to not be seen to be working with them, but rather working to fix the global economy. I'd also look to involve as many partner nations as possible from outside NATO.

Trump does not in fact, hold all the cards.

To be European you must claim that being a lesbian fascist doesn't make you gay and therefore you're not like the other LGBTQ people...

In nine hours the national press corps will raise their glasses to the most racist person in the country and claim it’s a “work dinner” for “source building”

I loved the 2006 Mitchell & Webb TV sketch show, but I never imagined “are we the baddies?” would graduate from funny catchphrase to the defining philosophical aphorism for our age

From their non existent Navy obviously...

The most sane response so far jfc

Official data is in today, and US solar power generation continues to grow rapidly, up 25% compared to this time last year!

Fucking hilarious

Les services syriens annoncent l'arrestation d'un responsable du massacre de Tadamon, perpétré dans ce quartier de Damas le 16 avril 2013 par les Shabihas & l'unité 227 de la sinistre branche du renseignement militaire. Au moins 280 civils dont 12 enfants avaient été exécutés sana.sy/fr/syrie/230...

I guess state owned companies are OK now

Somehow some of Iran's naval ships surfaced from the bottom of the sea and intercepted two cargo vessels yesterday.

1/ Recent satellite images showing dozens of Iranian fast boats in formation in the Strait of Hormuz illustrate Iran's ability to lay naval mines in the strait. An Iranian export catalogue highlights its many indigenously produced mine types. ⬇️

Trump is trying to pressure Afghans who fought alongside us in the war to go back to Afghanistan and live under Taliban rule. If not go back, Trump is threatening to dump them in the middle of a civil war in central Africa. That’s evil.

A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.

The Secretary of the Navy is not in the chain of command. Phelan was not the last person stopping Trump from nuking Iran. The SECNAV is responsible for getting ships built and making sure the sailors have the stuff they need.

Trump Math is now a thing apparently...