Lethality, terms & conditions apply. This as the Army faces an estimated 4-6 billion dollar budget shortfall & is cancelling training deployments. Apparently there is still funding for National Guard soldiers to mill about aimlessly in DC metro stations however. share.google/aOBWyxqq7jqC...

¡ Reply guy below viviendo menos ! Go outside and touch grass mi chavo.

That’s the plan.

78 WEEKS. the estimate that I continue to loosely give is that for every day of the Strait being closed, it may take a week to fully recover- we're now at 78 days- so ~78 weeks would put us roughly at November, 2027 to see global oil inventories fully recover.

Trump has come out against Lauren Boebert, one of his fiercest defenders. For some reason, he is really upset at the Republicans who pushed to release the Epstein files.

There it is. The Senate parliamentarian rules the $1 billion for Trump's ballroom in the GOP's budget reconciliation bill violates the rules + is subject to 60 votes vs 51. Via budget committee Dems:

No matter how much ass they kiss in Trumplandia, eventually they all get thrown under the bus.

🎁 article VIP snorkel? WTF What’s next, a paintball tournament in Arlington? Last summer Patel capped a South Pacific trip with a snorkel trip in Hawaii. Navy SEALs used 2 boats to transport & escort Patel & 9 others on what a DoD email called a “V.I.P. Snorkel” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

BIG: Syria carried out its first Visa and Mastercard transaction in over 15 years. The milestone reconnects Syria to the global financial system after years of sanctions-driven isolation.

A Farmer greets Joseph Stalin at his Potato Farm, “Comrade Stalin, we have so many potatoes that piled one on top of the other they would reach all the way to God,” the farmer excitedly tells Stalin. “But God does not exist,” replies Stalin. “Exactly,” says the farmer. “Neither do the potatoes.”

Sure if an agricultural golden age is characterized by fallow fields and farm foreclosures driven by closed markets, drought /water scarcity, and the rising costs of fuel and fertilizer.

🔎🇷🇺 Inside Russia's elite Bauman University, a secret department trains the GRU's next-gen hackers, saboteurs, and spies. Now, 2,000+ leaked documents expose how its graduates feed the units behind Russia's cyberattacks, election interference, and NATO sabotage.

FBI launches criminal leak investigation into the reporting of The Atlantic regarding FBI Director Kash Patel. Also today: New reporting from The Atlantic on Patel.

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

In March, a heat dome over the intermountain west brought 90 degree (F) temperatures. Now in the first week of May it’s 45 degrees. 🫡

Facing a choice between escalation and humiliation Trump asks, “¿Por qué no los dos?”

Somewhere a coyote is evading. He is evading with minimal food and water in austere conditions day & night. Coyote doesn’t worry about what workout to do, he runs until people stop chasing him. Coyote doesn’t care about how hard it is or going home. He is home. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

So, Operation Epic Freedom is concluded according to Rubio and the Iran war (or military operation or whatever) is now being referred to as Project Freedom per Hegseth and Trump. www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-...

He’s stealing my thunder. 😏 tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-age-of-a...

Agree with the comments and quote posts. On a tangential note fielding soft skinned ISVs vulnerable to SAF and weaponized FPV drones (which UAF are deploying at platoon and squad level) is *a choice.*

So much for the ceasefire *IDF: HEZBOLLAH LAUNCHED DRONES, ROCKETS AT TROOPS IN S. LEBANON *UAE DETECTS FOUR MISSILES COMING FROM IRAN: DEFENSE MINISTRY

JUST FILED: Staffing Crisis is Unfolding Inside Justice Dept., Giving Criminal Defendants New Leverage open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

CENTCOM, “We’re not going to escort you but we will guide you by suggesting transit routes and not being there if/when things go sideways. May the odds be ever in your favor.”

Speaker of the House Johnson echoed this as the House of Representatives shirks it’s obligation to authorize the war after the 60 day mark as required in the War Powers Resolution.

Empty trolling as his administration self-immolates

Read this and substituted the Trump administration for “my team”

Standing by for the Lego Trump 🇮🇷 slopaganda reel of this interview.

OK and now we have information that the shooter was believed to be targeting admin officials. This is how this is supposed to work! Info comes out piece by piece and we don't assume. Graaaaagh. apnews.com/article/whit...

Grim but useful read. Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster economist.com/finance-and-...

WASHINGTON (AP) The civil rights group faces charges including wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in the case brought by the Justice Department in Alabama, where the organization is based.

The depositions from Patel’s security detail will be interesting.

Which gives Congress, if it were to act, nine days to pass a resolution or AUMF to authorize the war with Iran. Since the HoR will not be in session from 23 April-1 March, Congess, would not vote on an extension until after the 60 day clock has run out 1//

No paywall 🎁 Trump’s former campaign lawyer, Joseph diGenova, was selected to lead the inquiry after a career prosecutor was removed from that post. At least part of the investigation appears to be using a grand jury overseen by a federal judge, Aileen M. Cannon. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

And for anyone who doesn't subscribe to The Atlantic yet, a gift link for you: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

In today’s episode of Currently Clean on OPSEC, Trump details the security features of the ballroom and what appears to be a secure compound beneath it. Probably none of these features are sensitive or classified 🫡

“A constant tenet of that thousand-year tradition is a nation can only legitimately take up the sword in self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed.” Consistent with the jus ad bellum requirement in int’l law that the use of force in self defense be necessary, eg exhaustion of diplomacy.

Not a single person working in all of emergency management has told me a single thing about World Cup preparedness efforts that would suggest this is going to go well. Nightmare all around.

1/ The Russian army has been taken over by an organised crime syndicate, says a Russian journalist. The mass recruitment of criminals means that crimes and corruption of all sorts – murder, torture, extortion, prostitution, drug and alcohol smuggling – are now routine. ⬇️

Centcom added that US forces would not impede the freedom of vessels transiting to and from non-Iranian ports, and that additional information would be provided to commercial mariners via a formal notice before the blockade starts. www.bbc.com/news/article...

90 minutes before polls close in Hungary more people have voted than on any previous election day at the closing of the polls. An all-time record high turnout is now guaranteed, it will likely be around or above 80%. Particularly many people are voting in cities and large towns, a bad omen for Orbán

🧵 Thread of European leaders reacting to Péter Magyar's victory and Viktor Orbán's defeat. Ursula von der Leyen: "Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger."

BREAKING: DOJ investigates the Hungarian electorate for Mortgage Fraud

No paywall www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

Turnout at 66% at 1500. It was 68% at 1830 last time.

Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.

Watched a senior Quaker woman put her body between ICE and an immigrant they were trying to snatch. When asked why, she said: "Because God is not a noun. God is a verb." That will stay with me forever.

A primer on Hungary’s electoral system. Hungary has a mixed-member pseudo proportional electoral system. 106 elected in first past the post constituencies 93 by proportional representation in closed lists 1/