Trump attacks Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, Alex Jones and others in a long post calling them “NUT JOBS”

boats stuck in the gulf

No

Anybody? “..they’d bring me into Blackrock and Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, and they would want to teach these young administrators how to have difficult conversations, à la how to fire somebody. They would bring me in as an actor so that these administrators could get practice firing someone.”

Saudi Arabia confirms hits to the critical East-West pipeline (a pumping station), which led to a 700 kbpd throughput loss. As well as confirmed strikes to upstream production assets (!!) that have reduced Saudi production *capacity* by 600 kbpd. On top of downstream refining/processing attacks.

You can disperse alot of freaking drones in a week.

After two weeks of digging, I think there's a verrrrrrry real possibility that OpenAI's planned IPO for late 2026 crashes and burns. A few points: - OpenAI's $122b raise was co-led by Softbank and Masayoshi Son - the same guy who told WeWork's Adam Neumann that he "wasn't crazy enough." 🧵follows

CANADA STRONGLY CONDEMNS ISRAELI AIR STRIKES ON LEBANON - FOREIGN MINISTER

Always time to throwback Altman (2024) on one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard in my fucking life:

I think there’s a 25% tariff on steel from the EU, but then again, the special boy won’t have to pay it.

FEDWATCH: “.. Iran keeps leverage over the Strait without using significant military force. Iran gains its leverage from a flexible missile arsenal, remaining at ~1,500 missiles and ~200 launchers .. “.. Tomorrow’s CPI is therefore the kickoff for the macro effects as negotiations begin.”

So well said.

XAI TOP FINANCE EXECUTIVE ANTHONY ARMSTRONG DEPARTS - THE INFORMATION

The Electronic Frontier Foundation say a tweet gets 3% of the reach of 7 years ago. It would be interesting to see an attempt to analyse how much of their prior reach the UK government [or other institutions] maintain by trying to use the platform

I find GDP revisions don't get the news coverage they deserve. Final revision for Q4 GDP dropped this morning. My handy app shows what happened:

Once again, dependent families and troops are expected to sacrifice while the government is indifferent. In Washington, I’ll be a voice for those who wear the uniform and their dependents to ensure they’re supported at home, not just in a war zone.

As a Navy sailor & Air Force JAG Corps officer, I swore an oath to the Constitution. I lived by clear moral and legal standards, and enforced them. And I brought those experiences with me as a professor who taught the law of war at the NATO School and Air Force Academy.

Most predicable thing ever.

An anti-pope based in Texas is the only result from this broadly terrible decade in politics that would make me laugh.

also these are some of the exact points that CNN posted yesterday that both Trump And FCC chair Carr threatened to investigate them over and that it was fake new planted by bad actors

Well, I for one have enough of this shit.

This was one of the worst days I’ve lived through in my entire life. How much more of this insanity do we have to endure?

Pardon my language, but...no fucking way, right?

gulp even if you think this is as good as the models get at finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities that's scary enough. "language models are now remarkably efficient vulnerability detection and exploitation machines"

2nd this

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

This is just too on the nose. Graham has finally discovered a role for Congress in war powers: its consent is needed to *end* a war.

This is not good for a lot of reasons.

well today fucking sucked

Iranian drones are blowing up in Ukrainian cities every night. They have been for years.

Getting the sense that multiple people have never heard the term “Ayatollbooth” for describing Iran’s proposed transit fees thru the strait of Hormuz, but like, literally everyone I know in the oil industry calls it that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We need to cut them off.

When you’ve lost *checks notes* Josh Barro.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

Shhhh If he thinks this was a L-O-S-S the little guy is going to go crazy again, and we all know he needs his nap. So if we’re all real quiet and let him think he got his way. Maybe he won’t throw any more tantrums.

Totally normal

Once it started there was only bad outcomes really

we are choking on this bullshit, culturally, politically, and (increasingly) economically

Thank god. Christ. But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

He lost a war with Iran.

I’m not sure how you are supposed to stay sane and be aware of the news.

See everyone again at the edge of the world in two weeks!

What I'm hoping to see in the immediate future— Where "the dog" represents the American/Israeli axis of evil; and The "Emu" represents "Iran." #SolidarityWithIran #SaveIran

Chris Murphy: "He's not telling the truth. But if you accept even part of the Iranian statement, Donald Trump has agreed to give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz. That is extraordinary and cataclysmic for the world."

Checking in on the status of the U.S. government: