Just one more bombing campaign bro. Just one more. And then maybe some troops. That’s all we need, then it’ll definitely be over and we won’t be back with more troops and more bombing a week later.

What's wild is that this current war is indistinguishable from a deliberate plan to frighten countries away from petrostates & into the arms of the world's dominant electrostate.

The Iran war has already cost twice that.

I once had a prof. who’d been Asst. Secretary of State for Africa. Her describing how she created the Africa daily brief, which in turn was compacted into a small part of the President’s Daily Brief, was staggering. It was hundreds and hundreds of expert hours. Everyday. Now it’s a music video.

Trump gets half a music video as an Intel briefing for a fucking war

One shouldn’t romanticize the Cold War and related activities but the fact our moon plaque read, “We come in peace for all mankind” is still pretty moving.

“.. He fought back tears as he explained what was there before: two wooden shelters, an outpost to make cheese, sheds for his equipment. The horse paddock was spared, but the chicken coop was gone.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

It’s amazing how many people are going to suffer because some people got bored of a broadly functional, affluent society, and decided making crises was more exciting.

Elon Musk gave <0.4% of his income away in a year when he made over $100b.

Giving away the game here that ICE is his own mob he will deploy if his demands aren't met.

Lost count of all the times people scoffed at a 1970s-style inflation “double top.” Not as much laughter now. 😞

a hugely underrated aspect of parliamentary systems is the snap election. far superior to impeachment, which was a dumb design to start with and straight up does not work anymore

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

This is what shithole authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in broken, fucked up countries look like. And Trump is bringing it to America. We get rid of this regime, or it ruins everything we know and love.

The president who fired hundreds of thousands of federal workers is nonetheless spending far more every day than his predecessors. www.pbump.net/o/trump-like...

Potentially unsalvageable country.

He's lying. He's also delusional. He's also being lied to constantly by everyone around him. This regime is headed for a very nasty shock in the midterms, and it is almost certain to attempt to prevent or overturn them through violence. Which will go *very* badly for the regime.

if real this would be the single biggest positive effect on fertility by anything ever +0.5 kids per couple is crazy high

There's gonna be a cascading wave of force majeure declarations stemming from this war. First from energy suppliers, then from all sorts of businesses with high energy consumption, and then from many other businesses as the wave crashes through the whole economy. And then there's agriculture.

A transformational shift in public opinion is happening in Germany, France, Canada and the UK, away from the US and towards China www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Much efficiency, many savings

The prognosis of an AI driven economic boon is now generally considered all hype and no substance.

conversely, if you read the Bible, specifically the Gospels, right-wing evangelical behavior cannot possibly be reconciled to the teachings of Jesus Christ

"Even if we win easily, we have no plausible exit strategy. Iraq is a deeply divided society that the United States would have to occupy and police for many years to create a viable state."

It’s like a casino — but the roulette wheel is on your phone, and the background music isn’t Sinatra but Harry Enten.

a thing i will never get over is how little interest any of these wannabe tech oligarchs have in anything resembling class or grace or leadership or respectability; they’re all content to behave like pigs wallowing in shit in public, without even giving it a second thought

It’s always a shame to see billionaires walking away from a pledge they made with true intentions and good hearts to give their money away, eventually, to help humanity at some point at a future date

Did you see this 👀

The part where he blames Israel and (heavily implied) AIPAC not just for the current Iran war but the 2003 invasion of Iraq and also somehow ISIS is pretty explicitly antisemitic conspiracy theory crap, not just being a dovish critic of Israeli policy.

A worrying health pattern for some of the Gen X and Millennial crowd has been highlighted by a new study: people born between 1970 and 1985 are experiencing worse mortality rates than the generations before them, across multiple causes. The international team of researchers analyzed cause-of-death

“No deporting US citizens” is a CONCESSION???

The historical antecedent for this was all the Asia experts who lost their jobs to McCarthyism for telling the truth about Chiang Kai Shek's nationalists being unpopular, incompetent, and cruel, so were not around to advise as America slid into Vietnam. newrepublic.com/post/207857/...

"we didn't Fall For It Again, it was The Jews" is gonna be the takeaway for at least a plurality of young Republican voters but nobody in the mainstream political world wants to acknowledge it

"While antisemitism explodes on the right, including throughout the Trump administration and popular right-wing online spaces, anti-antisemitism organizations are disproportionally focusing on left-wing anti-Zionists and Muslim politicians." forward.com/opinion/8123...

Majority of Canadians say it’s better to depend on China than on the US under Trump. In other key allies - Germany, UK, France - a plurality say the same. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

why aren't other countries helping us with the strait of hormuz after we started an unjust war, cut off trade, and insulted them for a year?

We are destroying our future and our children’s futures. Funding medical research and should be one of the highest priorities of our generation. Yet we are decimating and dismantling it all while diseases keep rising.

i don’t really get any joy out of this, but this is who trump is, this is who he’s always been, he has no decorum, no tact, no empathy and no sense of decency, and if you throw your lot in with him, as every republican has, this is what you should expect from him

The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.

Trump provokes an historically unprecedented brain drain from the US. The United States has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

god this is going to be awful but they went to war with the childish misconception that they were going to bomb everyone and that no one was going to bomb them

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

I’m in @haaretzcom.bsky.social today, dissecting just one of the countless terrible effects of this war. To write this, I read absolutely every survey of US public opinion re: Israel and Jews, going back 50 years, looking mostly at the young. I’ll just say: choppy seas ahead.