"Yes, hello, Polymarket? Can I bet a gazillion dollars that no one briefed anyone in the Trump White House that this was a possibility prior to launching the Iran war? Hello?!" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/b...

Also literally a treaty about this

The two “why not STV?” replies a hilarious reminder of how badly the Yes to AV campaign went that people think I am referring to my abstract preference and not an actual campaign in an actual referendum in 2011. 😭

Ngl my jaw hit the floor when this got sent around this AM. Torsten has some wild takes.

I can never get Botox, I need people to see the face I make when they say that they asked ChatGPT something

Not looking great for yud's film career

One of the things I don't miss by not being on X the Nazi Bar anymore is regularly seeing Marc Goldwein's very bad ideas about fiscal policy/debt. Also, I'm confused. I understood that Matt Yglesias supported doing A Popularism. But now he wants to raise retirements ages & mess with Medicare & SS?

i do not understand the idea that there is something worthwhile, even laudable, in an obviously bad faith effort to reverse engineer an “original meaning” to justify a narrow partisan interest

well, im sure that the director of the fbi was exercising intense caution before this and studiously avoiding any intermingling of his personal and professional obligations.

Story here: www.reuters.com/world/us/ira... Updates TK:

That Iranian claim to have hacked Kash Patel's been email inbox is at least partially legit, per @reuters.com Story TK

Religion aside: This isn't at all the point here, but I am a religion reporter, so this is me reminding folks that Rev. Black is a Presbyterian minister or pastor, not a priest. *Most* Protestant denominations do not describe their clergy as "priests," usually opting for "minister" or "pastor."

What I want to know is why the CBC uncritically promulgates PP’s lies about how international students were impacting the housing market.

The federal government first announced a cap to international student admissions in November 2023 and provincial governments have sat on their hands ever since.

Reviewing a paper, & this is my regularly scheduled rant that while Nordhaus justifiably won the economics Nobel for developing the integrated assessment models upon which much climate work depends, he was completely unqualified to assess climate damage functions and lead us dangerously astray.

Just saw this and had to screenshot it because it’s just such perfect Blueskyism

CNN 2027: “Vice President Vance and Tucker Carlson have filled up the anti-war lane in the Republican Primary. Here’s why experts believe it will prove beneficial for them if they get to face off against the Democratic nominee in November”

Catching up on the UK party with the "far-right AI rapper" that draws heavily on white-nationalist / skinhead imagery, but the party is led by a Pakistani guy? Might need the psychologists for this one.

Prediction: idiots will fall for it but Vance still will lose because he's a friendless chud who no-one likes, not even others in Trumpworld.

Fertilizers. Anything made with plastic. Helium for use in microchip production. Lotta folks don't know UAE's like 5% of the global aluminium market.

Vance finding it’s basically impossible for a VP to run away from their boss’s support for a dumb war Kamala Harris and Hubert Humphrey: “First time?”

HEGSETH!! COOPER!! WHERE IS MY FUCKING AMMO!!

CENTCOM (derogatory)

having a mayor who actually does good things is so awesome, highly recommend

it is crazy how specifically this fucks all of asia

yeah pivot to fucking over asia

anyone remember when the us was going to pivot to asia

Some wildly poor economics from Calgary's blanket rezoning. 1. If no one will buy it, you've priced it too high and it's not a starter home. 2. If no one buys such houses, no rowhome conversions. 3. Ask your grandkids if you should spend $20k to block their friends without inheritances from homes.

Folks, the budget update is not good.

It’s kind of funny when a graph is flat for years but then magically starts to rise in the future. Is that a projection or a fantasy?

Really really good article on the food crisis but also just a small window into the diesel and power shortages that are already happening

I don't think Roya is an evil succubus & it's fair to assume she didn't know how miserable Aham made Lindy, but I do think it's important to remember that she's chosen this POS repeatedly. She can see the difference in how Aham treats them both. She does not seem great or ethical or lovely.

I think if we are going to underline Aham's disgusting email to Scaachi Koul's very generous article, then it probably behooves us to remember the nicest thing Scaachi could say about Roya's was "it was mostly polite" and it also was very cruel in places while apparently not mentioning Lindy at all.

You know if they say a call was "difficult" that it was absolutely catastrophic

Still, this wouldn’t change the basic dilemma. Ending the war will require concessions on the part of the US - and Trump does not like concessions.

My new @opinion.bloomberg.com piece is on US aluminum tariffs - and some of the many, many reasons why they may very well be the dumbest tariffs in the world (and why the Iran war has made them even dumber). Seriously. 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"Israeli op against JD" claim is interesting from within the admin, because Vance has always tried to portray himself as anti-war, but pro-Israel

Also this is super weird. From what I know (heard it a few times recently), the Iranians really would prefer to talk with Vance. Been that way even before the war, I believe.

Using Battlefield 2042 imagery is great since the premise of the game is that you're going to be (para)military due to the long tail of the climate crisis limiting career options unless you're born elite

Declining upward job mobility reduced annual real wage growth in the US by 0.68 percentage points, roughly one-third of the post-1980 slowdown, from Niklas Engbom, Aniket Baksy, and Daniele Caratelli www.nber.org/papers/w34981

India has a large enough population that these millions code as a significant proportion of the population. But the gains remain spectacularly concentrated.

India is a classic example of aggregate prosperity not being distributed in a sustainable way, millions who are able to do vast conspicuous consumption which accrued as profit back to them while the vast majority slave away for miniscule wages in precarity

Zero-sum thinking—the belief that one's gain is another's loss—runs in families, crosses party lines, and has its roots in some of the deepest forces in American history, say researchers at @yale.edu, UBC, LSE, and @harvard.edu. #econsky #ResearchHighlight www.aeaweb.org/research/zer...

It’s hard to overstate how rare it is to see a lawyer have as a bad a week in court as this Toronto prosecutor has had.

They're setting up Vance to run as the anti-war candidate in 2028 and the stupidest people you know are all going to fall for it.

Brent up about $1.50 this morning and at almost at $110 again. About 12 hours after the latest Truth Social signalled deescalation. The half life of these posts is falling.

“.. even if the conflict is wound down within weeks, fertiliser disruption alone would cause US food inflation to rise from around 2 per cent to 4 per cent year on year. If fighting drags into the summer, she warns, the increase could reach double digits.” www.ft.com/content/27e0...

it's also just a really *useful* idea a lot of the weirdness, the utter irrationality, of us politics starts to make sense when you realise people are processing it all through sexist stereotypes