CSIS on Taiwanese views of the US www.csis.org/events/taiwa...

GREAT WORK, CENTCOM!

the NYT's anti-Mamdani stuff also has this very distinct tone of sneering resentment. oh, he does all this COOL stuff that PEOPLE like, does he? but why hasn't he done THIS (thing that he has done) then?

Exactly what people like me were warning about right from the start

My favorite moment like this was during a job talk to college freshmen last year I offhandedly mentioned Saddam Hussein and it was clear no one had any idea who that was

Lukas Milevski isn't on here, but his scholarship is always good and he has a new piece out on Clausewitz's trinity. press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/v...

Damn, I got pump and dumped by the president again?

Even if the destruction somehow stopped today, it will take years to rebuild.

Nexperia China says it has begun producing some of its own chips – Reuters: ‘a further step towards independence from ‌its Dutch parent’ ‘but using 12-inch wafers – a size the Dutch company cannot ⁠manufacture in Europe.’

this was the survey where in order to get the horrifying numbers they found down they would only define 'anti-Jewish Republicans' as ones who were *both* holocaust deniers *and* described Israel as a colonial state.

Billionaires dumped $3 billion into 2024 election campaigns.

as I've said for a while now, the entire plan and theory of victory is, 100% accurately, described as "I dunno bomb stuff I guess" near perfect tactical execution all things considered, operationally incoherent, and strategically vacant, that's the DoD/USG promise

Cover of today’s NYT Magazine:

The latest edition of the Snake Island Institute monthly update is here, and includes: Gerbera and Shahed as “motherships,” launching FPVs mid-flight; & Russia connecting interfamily drones in a single airborne network using Chinese mesh modems. drive.google.com/file/d/1fnzz...

“The war with Iran is little more than the joint targeting process unleashed. The Frankenstein’s monster that is the operational level of war, unsatiated after eating strategy, is now feasting on policy”. @bafriedman.bsky.social

If you can't even manage to wipe the stupid smirk off your face while writing about a war that started with 160 children being bombed in a school, it's time to start thinking about the decisions that led you here.

New from Bellingcat - Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Airstrike Hit Iranian Emergency Medical Base in Shiraz, Killing 20 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ai...

going to go pitch a ‘no, bombing Iran does nothing to affect China, anyone who says so is in denial’ piece and get a lot of sour looks

Noah was born on a placid island of blissful stupidity in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that he should voyage far. His takes, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday...

Denmark registers Taiwanese as Chinese. We in @taiwancorner have a solution to registering Taiwanese in Denmark correctly with nationality Taiwan by law. What the Danish government could not do in 2 years we have done in two hours. taiwancorner.org/restore-the-...

The asymmetrical debate about what to about ICE in left-liberal policy circles and “let ChatGPT run roughshod over the federal government” consequences be damned in MAGA land is really something

A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Amazing how the ball knowers on here were like “they’re going to run out of military targets in a week” and they immediately start hitting economic/civilians infrastructure on day 8

In other war powers news… Really not clear what is happening here. Who is the “we” SecDef refers to? Is this merely bombastic PR for U.S. support to Ecuadorian operations? Or U.S. direct action?

re-reading the Reza Pahlavi op-ed they tossed up on Washington Post:

What we suspected is, of course, true.

They blew up an elementary school Tom www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Sulaymaniyah is getting hammered tonight, PUK and rojhelati organizations and even hotels. this is the direct consequence of all the speculative reporting on Kurdish intervention.

lol www.axios.com/2026/03/06/h...

Jalisco state police agents entered Michoacán territory as a shield for a CJNG group and fired at residents of the Tepalcatepec, Michoacán. The fact that Jalisco State Police went all the way to Michoacan for this is pretty indicative of their connection with CJNG.

It's as if they understand and accept the facts and/or expert consensus on a given topic but set policy in the opposite direction to annoy the libs. It's not just ignorance or a lack or knowlege. It's anti-knowlegde.

“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

this isn't just a MAGA thing, it's a cross-American one and *especially* a lot of people who came of age in politics or punditry in the 1990s. the idea that the news could happen to them - that the world might not be all going their way - is genuinely brain-breaking to a lot of them

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I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

Running for Congress on a platform of sneaking into Polymarket HQ and unplugging all their stuff. Overflow crowds at a local Knights of Columbus hall roar with delight as I promise to pour Florida's Natural Grapefruit Juice (with pulp) into the USB-C port of every computer in the damn place.

We bombed a girls elementary school.

Probably first major US loss of the conflict when it comes to ballistic missile defense. One of TPY-2 radars belonging to the THAAD battery deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan seems to have been struck. The full radar set goes over $200M.

To the surprise of some officials in Kyiv, no one from the U.S. bothered to ask Ukraine to share its expertise in how to defend against drones before starting the offensive in Iran, Simon Shuster and Nancy A. Youssef report. theatln.tc/AFPCstm6

It’s hilarious how much Congress hates OSD and the strategy cheese in particular rn

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Seems relevant to the upcoming war powers vote in the House.

It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.

you can genuinely watch the news anchor not compute in real time

Obviously will want to verify this further but this certainly looks like a double-tap strike on first responders in Beirut, moments ago on the AP livestream. The fire burning was started by an air strike about three or four hours ago.

The restrictions Miller and Hegseth railed against were designed to prevent us from doing things like slaughtering children en masse.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.