Clear the fuckin' strait, you crazy bastard!

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

We are the ones who insisted that NATO defense obligations be geographically limited to the defense of Europe and North America, because we did not want to be dragged into defending European empires around the world.

Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality. ourworldindata.org/battery-pric...

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

where?

Donald Trump just demonstrated that the United States can have the most well-trained, well-equipped and highest-morale military in history, but still LOSE A WAR against a morally-loathsome, economic basketcase because of bad leadership and negligible strategic planning.

BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.

Mr Art of the Deal vs Obama 👇👇

Is Vance's support of Orban, Russia's most important asset in Europe, really in America's national interest?

Noted. 🤡

It’s probably nothing. 🤡 @dkthomp.bsky.social

Khanna: "No. I'm not supporting new funding. The answer for every Democrat should be 'absolutely no.' It's $400 billion for a war we oppose? We could have universal childcare for that. We could have free public college for that."

The President of the U.S. The man with the nuclear codes. And people are just going to pretend this is ok. In a functioning society, he would be removed from office within hours by his own party.

Heavy weighs the burden of war on our sitting President.

"In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.”  -Jon Lovett

Trump is retreating to his safe space of ballroom posting

This. This right here.

Did he refuse to carry out illegal orders?

Poland PM: 🇵🇱

Maybe giving this speech was a bad call. (And who wrote this mess?) Trump is clearly lost; admitting it to the rest of the world is a bad idea. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

suspect this may be one of the things where they give a plan emphasizing the costs and risks in order that it doesn't get done; the problem is this president is Donald Trump

"The reason that no one steps up now is that Republican members of Congress like being members of Congress, they like being in Washington, they like their jobs...and they don't want to have to go home and live among their own constituents after they get primaried." - @radiofreetom.bsky.social

"Our allies have to contend with the reality, unfortunately, that tens of millions of people put this guy in office a second time. The first time around they could accept it as a strange one-off. The second time around, it looks like a sea change in America. - @radiofreetom.bsky.social

How humiliating. @economist.com www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Today’s FinTwit:

'We don't need the Strait of Hormuz' is the new 'foreigners pay the tariffs.'

Welcome to the story of the Silicon Shield. Fascinating video on how Taiwan turned its biggest geographical weaknesses into a global monopoly that no one else has been able to copy. On an island with earthquakes, no freshwater and a hostile superpower 100 miles away? youtu.be/UWBrzzd1_yg?...

There oughta be a law...

Mar-a-Lago is represented by a Democrat now, Joe The most powerful man in your state of SC just lost his job - by 23 votes Your bitterness about voting is defeatist and foolish.

Hegseth’s embrace of vice signaling is most obvious in his efforts to combine his adolescent, gung-ho excitement about war with Christian prayer, which results in a rancid mess that should offend believers and nonbelievers alike. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. I'll explain it all in 45 minutes on @meidastouch.com here: www.youtube.com/live/H-D8SzR...

Trump fucks things up, blames friends who won't help unfuck them, then says, they were never friends. The friends, meanwhile, have already figured out there's no point in saving a friendship with a degenerate. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Viktor Orban is waging cognitive warfare on a scale no one else has tried before. "Emotions are high because the stakes are high. If he succeeds, he will once again blaze a path that others will follow. And if he loses, an era comes to an end." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Republican-controlled Senate passed a bill to fund TSA without funding ICE, and the Republican-controlled House rejected the measure to fund TSA without funding ICE, so the Republican President just signed an executive order to fund TSA without funding ICE. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Viktor Orban wants Hungarians to re-elect him, even though he has turned Hungary into the most corrupt and one of the poorest countries in the EU. To do so, he is telling Hungarians to fear sabotage, thievery, or even a military attack from … Ukraine www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

While everyone is focused on an Iran oil embargo, Ukraine is embargoing Russian oil in the Baltic. If Iran can close the Strait with drones, then Ukraine can certainly shut down Russia's ports in the Baltic. Ukraine is now doing what the EU should have done in 2022... www.reuters.com/world/blaze-...

This afternoon, I used Claude to circumvent ChatGPT's safety protocols so I could hack into Gemini to learn how to take over Grok, which I then used to destroy Twitter. It's over. Twitter is gone.

some Coinbase customers are horrified that the Coinbase app is encouraging them to gamble they're so close

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

Remind us- what do Republicans think should happen to immigrants who commit fraud? We’ll hang up and listen

How can this go on for another 3 years?

#LeadTheChargeLindsey 🤡

NYT op-ed page leading w Iran pensées of Bret Stephens —In early 2003, he wrote that toppling statue of Saddam Hussein signaled that the hard part was over in Iraq. Dismissed views of "doom-and-gloomers." —Early 2003 named Paul Wolfowitz "man of the year" for "vision" in orchestrating Iraq plans

While lifting sanctions on Iranian oil In response to the oil supply crunch the US war caused The US is threatening ground troops to take Kharg Island Which Iran uses to export oil To pressure Iran to ease the oil supply crunch By reducing Iran's ability to sell oil Which the US is allowing more of

US lifts sanctions on Iranian oil Which US did to get concessions from Iran Which didn't work so US bombed Iran Which hasn't gotten concessions from Iran But did cause Iranian retaliation and an oil supply crunch Which the US hopes eases if Iran can sell more oil Which will fund Iranian retaliation

Wife just told me this one: What’s the difference between Iran and Vietnam? Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.

Well that’s your problem then. Trump people are afraid to use the SUBWAY. How are they gonna handle transit in the Strait of Hormuz?