What a jackass.

Gulf governments are trying to turn Pakistan into a more substantial regional security guarantor as confidence in US protection weakens.

This is why people are wasting their time arguing with those people and should instead let their vote do the talking.

The real answer to this behavior is to turn out the vote like Hungary did; however, I just don't think America has enough civic minded people to do it. Hungary didn't have it either before. They had to go through darkness to find it. I fear that is our fate.

In America, it’s “eat while the burger is hot”

lmao

Huh? Iran literally codified their control of the strait into law.

Take a bow people.

I’m glad the “Secretary of War” isn’t being distracted by woke stuff like winning wars.

Looks like this is authentic. One has to be careful. Israel benefits strategically from convincing Trump that Iran poses a direct personal threat especially when Washington is weighing escalation versus restraint.

This is a good article by Bloomberg. I've been complaining for quite a few years now that we have a vast misallocation of capital. We're hollowing out.

IRAN'S FARS NEWS AGENCY SAYS U.S. STRIKE HIT RAIL BRIDGE USED FOR CHINA, RUSSIA TRADE ROUTES

lol

Trump on AF1 on Graham Platner: "It's really a question of whether or not you believe the woman. A lot of people say big falsehoods."

SAUDI ARABIA ADVANCING PLAN TO SIDELINE ISRAEL FROM INDIA-MIDDLE EAST-EUROPE ECONOMIC CORRIDOR BY REROUTING PROJECT THROUGH SYRIA INSTEAD OF ISRAEL - JERUSALEM POST

IMHO a lot of this is now a soft version of what has happened with Russia and Putin. The problem with "touch the stove" is that basic recognition of the sheer scale of Trump's screwups means a shattering of the assumptions needed to keep business as usual going. There's nowhere left to hide if

Even before the “ceasefire” ceased, Bloomberg’s count of tanker crossings showed that traffic was still far below normal and had begun to dwindle again (h/t John Authers)

I was wrong. This is definitely a sack.

House of dragons was cooking this week.

The political theory that Nazi tattoos, calling people “r******d,” demeaning women, etc. are “working class values,” and that people who object to it should “lighten up” because working class voters who like that are the key to elections, isn’t looking great. And it was always very condescending.

The IRGC fired at least two missiles at commercial ships transiting through the strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said. The U.S. official said two commercial ships were hit and suffered significant damages, but no casualties.-Axios

You might wonder: why camouflage Putin’s HQ inside, not outside? To create the illusion that it’s on the front line, while it’s actually a bunker far from combat. Unlike Zelenskyy, Putin hasn’t visited the front once in 4.5 years.

An unfortunate side effect is also to make one question the non-loyalist professionals in similar positions who do not get purged. Were you just lucky? So good they couldn't spare you? Or did you signal that you can in fact act like a loyalist to keep your job?

Early in Trump's first term, David Frum wrote that every time Trump and MAGA say "the deep state" you should hear "rule of law," then it'll make more sense. That stuck with me. And I thought of it again as an unqualified and unconfirmed director of national intelligence conducts political purges.

The U.S., he planned to say, was preparing additional cuts to its forces in Europe that would go beyond the canceled deployment of an armored brigade to Poland and the earlier withdrawal of an infantry brigade from Romania, people familiar with the matter said.

Russian drones exposed weaknesses at bases housing US nukes in Europe, report says www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...

”Some of our customers [OpenAI] may be highly leveraged and subject to their own operating and regulatory risks and even if our credit review and analysis mechanisms work properly we may experience risks of non-payment in our dealings with such parties.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

oops

Jesus. 68,900 reported missing in Venezuela.

Luke.

I always thought it was cool that this took the shape of a hexagon.

Well you just have to think about it from the perspective of the person who owns the lot that's being rented. Are their utilities, maintenance expenses, taxes, price of property, and so forth also being frozen? Otherwise, you're robing Peter to pay Paul.

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

Israeli Defense Minister Katz: Even if the United States demands it, we will not withdraw from southern Lebanon

Could be significant if they ban exports of diesel.

Republicans made all those arguments about "principle" out of convenience than real principle. When it was no longer convenient for them, they dropped every last principle they claimed they had and were laid bare.

This is just straight up propaganda. There is no "glut" fears.

Occurs to me that we’re at the end of an ultimately very anomalous century-long evidentiary golden age during which it was extremely easy to produce an accurate visual/auditory record of reality, and relatively difficult to produce a false one.

(Reuters) - BofA Global Research expects the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates by 75 basis points in 2026, it said on Monday, citing resilient economic data and rising expectations of a hawkish Fed under new Chair Kevin Warsh. @reuters.com

Alan Greenspan has died at 100. During his 18½ years leading the Fed, he reached rock-star heights and shaped the U.S. economy under presidents of both parties. Milton Friedman called him the greatest of all time. 2008 recast his legacy. The WSJ obituary: www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

The disturbing part of his comment to me is that he suggested the US would put tolls on the strait as if the United States no longer concerns itself with the freedom of navigation.

No shit

"[Josh] Brolin did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment. One of his representatives told The Hollywood Reporter that he wants 'to know what the fuck he got himself into.'"

"only about 40% of recruits opted to get vaccinated" 😮 I, perhaps stupidly, expected a far smaller refusal rate after Hegseth made vaccination optional. Not good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Moscow

NATO's Rutte said the scaling back of U.S. participation in NATO crisis response forces comes into force immediately.