Other false media statements identified in the Kash Patel complaint: 1. Special Agents do not, in fact, refer to him as “J. Edgar Shart” 2. Patel did, in fact, know that the FBI is part of the Executive Branch and that Wyoming is a state. He just always looks surprised when you tell him things. /1

Iran is being coy about whether it will participate in talks after signaling that it would not. Interpretable (at least) as either/both coercive bargaining and/or Iran-internal divisions & debates over government & policy.

I just read Alex Karp's 22 points, and what most stood out to me was the ignorance about many things.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

The best possible explanation is that Peter Thiel is a barrow wight

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

Hahahahahahahaha Oh my! Is this an opening para or is this an opening paragraph? This alone should end any normal human cabinet secretary.

PALLETS OF CASH TO IRAN?!?

Iran did not have a stockpile of highly enriched uranium until after Trump withdrew from the JCPOA because Iran was prohibited from doing so and under monitoring, Trump is the arsonist taking credit for putting out the fire he started.

I've been threatening to write this post. I hope to write another in which I consider specific nations.

Yaay!

This @nytimes.com piece on Iran's propaganda war is amazing, BUT it leaves out a very important detail: In the incident involving the U.S. F/A-18 Hornet was not faked. At least not entirely. The plane was ALMOST shot out of the sky.... A short🧵 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The simple answer is that it works as was shown in "House of Dynamite." A military officer accompanies the President at all times with the Presidential Satchel, also known as "the football." The football contains communications equipment and a book of options for nuclear attacks. 1/

I think Tuesday we get to find out whether the chairman of the joint chiefs, the CENTCOM commander and others are willing to carry out illegal orders.

Morally, legally, economically the war on Iran is disastrous and the disaster goes on for years no matter what happens now. But what cannot be overstated is that in pure national security terms it is also an unmitigated catastrophe.

A great and memorable film.

This NPR story is getting a lot of attention bc of the plight the 1,500 sailors evacuated are facing. But how many other facilities in the ME have been evacuated and where are those personnel? www.npr.org/2026/04/03/n...

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

The Putinisation of America. The Dear Leader is fed information that will please him by talentless minions promoted for their loyalty who fear the truth will see them purged.

Government officials who lie about almost everything should be nowhere near the conduct of a war. Nothing they say can be taken as truth.

As Iranian drones target the UAE, Bellingcat reveals a number of instances where authorities downplayed damage and mischaracterised interceptions. Meanwhile the UAE’s attorney general warned that publication of images or videos of strikes is illegal. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

NASA's Artemis II livestream from the Orion capsule is pretty cool: www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

a really good interactive look at how oil shock is developing: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Over the weekend, LeMonde and @francoisdm.bsky.social published a VERY interesting image of what appears to be some of Iran's highly enriched uranium enroute to a secure base in Isfahan last June. Amidst all this talk of seizing Iran's uranium, it's worth discussing in a little more detail...🧵

When I toured #fukushima with Safecast radiation monitoring team founder @azby.bsky.social it was an important part of the tour to see how radiation is still in soil & water of evacuation zone as way to understand the long legacy of a nuclear energy disaster #sustainable youtube.com/shorts/R5i-r...

When I wrote my critique of a possible special operation to take Iran's enriched uranium, I had to guess at the containers that might be used for the UF6, which would constitute a significant part of the load. 1/ #nukesky

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Wow. This story from the NYT suggests damage to U.S. bases in the Middle East are more extensive than previously reported. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

Sometimes history doesn't rhyme but literally repeats, and Western media reports of Japanese panic-buying toilet paper are perfect examples. The only Japanese media reports on this supposed phenomenon are sketchy online outlets that point to a report in the China Times (!?)

The team(slair.bsky.social, @duitsmanms.bsky.social others) spent the last few weeks examining this video showing a U.S. Patriot launch in Bahrain. We're confident this interceptor was involved in the explosion over Sitra that damaged 60 residences and injured more than 30 people.

This is a good primer on the JCPOA, in response to an erroneous post making the rounds. You can see that post in this thread, but I want to minimize it in favor of the facts. (I have a few minor differences with Judah, but if you memorize this thread, you will be ahead of most commentators.)

Great deep dive on the sweeping changes to nuclear regulation in @propublica.org today by Avi Asher-Schapiro. A must read for anyone interested. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Mueller Report, Volume I: www.justice.gov/archives/sco...

OTD in 2020—in @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social’s 2018 speculative novel—North Korea fired 62 nuclear-armed ballistic missiles at South Korea, Japan, and Guam after misinterpreting a tweet from President Donald Trump sent shortly before a limited South Korean conventional missile strike on North Korea.

!!!! Diego Garcia is approx 4,000km from Iran. Iran’s gov has prev said it was limiting missile range to 2,000km 1 missile failed in flight; other missile was target w/a SM-3. intercept status unknown & neither missile hit base. Irrespective: that’s a lorge potential target area increase.

My new novel “Gary’s New Novel Was This Result Helpful to You?” is in big trouble.

This is a very helpful explanation.

I wrote this week about how satellite images of the Middle East are drying up, as American firms clamp down for fear of aiding Iranian targeting. That is thickening the fog of war & making OSINT harder. Some Russian & Chinese firms are filling the gap. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

This is a very bad idea. Even David Sanger sees that.

Job interview eh?

Absolutely astonishing. I don't think many people realize the extent to which the scientific enterprise in America has collapsed over the past 14 months. As someone who covered science funding for the first half of his career, it's almost unfathomable this could happen.

Like telling ICE agents you aren't mad?

Well-written overview.

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online