Masked, badgeless, anonymous armed goons guarding critical civilian infrastructure during a heightened terror threat environment. Definitely not exploitable.

Everyone I know with practically any knowledge of global supply chains be like:

you know, it doesn't really matter what my opinion of robert mueller was, the president of the united states saying out loud that he's glad a lifelong public servant is dead is terrible fucking behavior and i don't need to clear my throat about what mueller did or did not do in order to say that

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

Like the last decent person alive

One obstacle in learning a tonal language for English speakers is that typically the only time you attempt to copy someone else's tone in English is if you're attempting mimicry or mockery of someone else. Suddenly, you have to match tone for basic vocab _and_ retain it.

US Treasury Sec Scott Bessent’s decision to lift sanctions on Iranian oil at sea shows just how badly Trump’s war has failed. Iran will get $14 billion from the deal, the first time the US is buying Iranian oil since 1996. Trump’s Omnishambles: lives lost, billions wasted, now he’s paying Iran.

It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

just weird to think about how few people there were during the bronze age. like, Tyre, when we first hear about it as influential, is less than ten thousand people. everyone who knows the alphabet works in maybe one of four buildings. one bad harvest and you wouldn't understand any of these symbols.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

This is at least the second instance of Trumpworld men using ICE against the mothers of their children to win custody. apnews.com/article/karo...

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

But that IS the story of conservatism. They simply do not understand that people who openly admit to disagreeing with them and being different from them could nonetheless love them better than those who behave as they behave and believe as they believe.

The only reason Iran can't call in 30,000 Russian paratroopers and the entire Syrian Army to save themselves right now is because Ukraine, with our aid, has trapped Putin feet first in a meat grinder.

The initial invasion of Iraq...2 months of full spectrum combat operations including not just air and sea bombardment but airborne landings, special operations and sending 100,000+ US troops 400 miles north in tanks and armored convoys fighting the entire way cost an inflation-adjusted $140 billion.

Oh man, the hit at Ras Laffan has taken almost 20% of output (i.e. roughly 3% of global LNG volumes) offline for *3-5 years*.

one thing i appreciate about Apple's commitment to privacy is the absolute ironclad secrecy with which they treat the questions "what shows are on AppleTV" and "when do the seasons start"

Tired: AI will take your job Wired: Trump’s war will take your job

Fascinating: The appendix evolved independently 32 times across 361 mammalian species.

Electric vehicles are already cutting 2.3 million barrels of oil demand per day. That's about to double under a business-as-usual scenario this decade. It could go faster if EV sales rise, which there are indications they will at this oil price. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

perhaps, justice roberts, the president wouldn't feel such license to denounce the courts if you didn't give him a grant of nearly unlimited impunity

Every day Trump trial balloons another friendly force he expects to be an agency-free deus ex machina cannon fodder army to end the war he started with no plan for ending. First it was Iranian protesters, then the "Kurds", then NATO, now Syria. No one bites because he's betrayed them all before.

Yes,the emerging line is wily, ruthless Israel tricked poor, trusting, naive Donald Trump into a stupid, reckless war. GMAFB. Israel has absolutely pushed for this but ultimately it’s DONALD TRUMP who decided to take the US to war. He likes war! He likes blowing things up! He literally says it’s fun

Really hope he’s just straight-up lying here because the alternatives are 1) he mistook a random person for Clinton, Biden, or Obama or 2) he hallucinated an entire conversation with someone.

The thing to remember is that Trump set a bloodthirsty mob filled with Nazis, militiamen, rapists and gun-wielding felons on Congress with de facto orders to lynch everyone including his supposed pals and they all decided it was just a fun prank by Good Ole Biff. Big misunderstanding we joke around

opposition to DC statehood in 2026 is just functionally 100% anti-Black racism right

You really can’t expect dod to worry about strategic issues when he’s busy making the military masculine again by demanding servicemembers have influencer abs and denigrating anyone in a non combat or civilian role www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Khamenei was on death's door, an empty shell of a leader whose last years saw the collapse of the Iranian Axis with comparatively minimal direct intervention on our own part. Assassinating him guaranteed a changing of the guard under a banner of war and martyrdom. What could have been:

how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

i needed this out of my head

Too few of you realize takes about AI water usage are vice signaling. They advertise that the speaker is an unprincipled person who is willing to say anything to further their hatred of AI. That it's stupid and fake is the point.

this means it is not open for transit

Hey does anyone remember how we had like a decade of near zero interest rates? Thank god the USA spent that time investing in infrastructure! What a calamity if we had just squandered the last best chance of our lives

Something I've wondered about... Regarding Senate reform, would it be constitutional to grant each Senator a number of votes equal to 1/2 their state population? It would just be a rules change for the body, right? And the Senate can determine its own rules. Committees would be a mess, though.

Okay so we have a problem that needs to be solved in days for the global economy not to seize up. What if we gathered the largest tanker truck fleet in the world and sent them all barreling toward a tiny Omani fishing village that’s suddenly the biggest commercial port in the world? Could that work?

The war I am currently working on a history of still doesn’t have an official reason for starting- the closest we have so far is an officer crossed the border, got drunk, lost a bar fight, came back with an AK and opened fire. Troops followed the next day. That regime would be toppled in ~6 months.

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

If he doesn't like the fact that anyone can be American he's free to move somewhere else! bsky.app/profile/coop...

I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened

Tbh the entire race to the bottom between the US, China, and Russia

Satisfying to see @davidjbier.bsky.social absolutely dogwalk Sen. Kennedy here. Kennedy is so far gone he doesn’t even seem to realize the “Blue-ski” posts he’s reading are the consensus view of most Americans and not some Marxist smoking gun or something.

Yes. "They're not scared that Mamdani will be a bad major, they're scared he's gonna be a good mayor"

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

they're calling it the most normal and stable price action of any commodity in global history

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

Nothing says “we are liberating you from a bad regime to give you a better life” like bombing desalination plants and oil refineries

Shutting an oil well isn’t like turning off a faucet. It’s a huge engineering risk, difficult to reverse — and an indicator the Kuwaitis don’t see choke points improving anytime soon.

Unironically this could be a useful way to make the war less popular