“It would require large numbers of ground forces to seize the coast,” General Hinote said. “Short of that, the only lasting solution to the strait is a diplomatic one.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

This is where the West ends. Finland's border with Russia is NATO's newest Arctic fault-line. I went there in winter with @louiepalu.bsky.social to see what a nervous Europe can learn from a country that "for 109 years stared to the east without blinking an eye" @opinion.bloomberg.com (1/6)

Finland is NATO’s Arctic bulwark - and offers a masterclass in self-defense for European allies caught between a revanchist Russia and ambivalent America My latest Arctic collaboration with @louiepalu.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Trump rushed into a deadly war with Iran without a complete game plan. Not a surprise — he’s done it this way his entire life — but still another reminder that his White House is home to a wrecking crew: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

“Two weeks into the conflict, the US war effort is showing unexpected signs of strain against an adversary whose military budget is smaller than the GDP of Vermont — but which has an arsenal of missiles and drones unlike anything the US has ever faced.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Oceans are rising as the climate changes, threatening coastal cities. A new study shows that much more of the world's population is vulnerable than earlier predictions had estimated. n.pr/40EoN1z

City officials in Corpus Christi, Texas, expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to airports, hike gas prices “and trigger a local economic disaster without precedent.” www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...

ABC NEWS: “.. Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday that he worries the current war with Iran could drag on for years.” abcnews.com/Politics/adm...

Historian here no literary scholar but here we are

holy shit

Vance, 9/28/24:

Iran destroyed a key $300 million radar system crucial to directing US missile defense batteries in the Gulf that risks further straining the region’s ability to counter future attacks. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The U.S. economy has lost jobs since "Liberation Day."

Corey Lewandowski looks to have been comfortably in the middle of the money flowing through Noem’s controversial $240 million ad campaign. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Noem will now be “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas” because we’re in the Marvel Universe.

Trump pushes Noem out of DHS — after a streak of disasters and the predations, and deaths, in Minneapolis. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The House Oversight Committee will subpoena Pam Bondi to answer questions about how the Justice Department handled the Epstein files. apnews.com/article/bond...

Sure. Why not launch another war? After all, once you get started… www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

I don't think it's a coincidence Talarico and Mamdani cobbled together basically the same demographic coalition in two very disparate areas of the country, and both present coherent worldviews not defined solely by Orange Man Bad

Looks like Sam Altman regrets making ChatGPT available to the Pentagon. And he should, @davelee.me says 🎥

AI-generated war footage is becoming a problem, X is taking a stand against it by *checks notes* demonetizing bluechecks for 90 days when they share it without a label?

Tillis: You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to say it’s a leadership lesson. You killed a goat and said it was behaving badly. You’re a farmer — you don’t castrate a goat, they behave badly.

Polymarket and Kalshi gamifying war and death seems pretty sociopathic to me and the idea of insiders betting on Iran strikes is appalling. But there’s real security risk is sending these price signals too. Seriously, just stop. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is quite the comparison.

Words cannot express the insanity of slapping across-the-board inflationary tariffs in the middle of waging an inflationary war. It’s like they’re trying to crash the market or someth— ah, I see now www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“But the risk is real — whether by targeting desalination plants deliberately, or by accident due to a stray missile or drone. Oil is essential; but water is irreplaceable.” Water, not oil, is Iran’s most precious commodity. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump is burning through missile stockpiles as if the inventories were endless. And they aren’t. And China and Russia are watching. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

“I don’t put a timeline, I put a bodycount,” said a former Trump official, who like others in this report, was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “That’s a narrative in the media that erodes how people feel about this war.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

For a while, Anthropic was the Lyft to OpenAI's Uber -- a company with a better reputation but ultimately doing the same thing. Now the line dividing the two leading AI firms glows bright red. My @opinion.bloomberg.com column this morning (🎁) : www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

🎶 We didn’t start the fire…

Those big law firms never needed to cave but they caved. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

The things you say when you have absolutely no foreign policy experience and simply carry water for your boss every chance you get.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, Israeli officials told The Associated Press: apnews.com/live/live-up...

“If ever history demanded that Congress reclaim its constitutional monopoly in declaring war, that moment is now.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to decide when the nation goes to war. President Trump’s strikes on Iran are flatly unconstitutional. There’s been no deliberation, no vote, no clear justification. This is a flagrant abuse of executive power.

The judges in WV have seen enough. They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“There is nobody in Washington who can be sure of where this war of choice leads.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The US and Israel have launched strikes against Iran: www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

State of the Union report card: Trump promised voters lower prices, higher wages, a massive deportation campaign and many other things in 2024. A look at all of that — along with health care, jobs, energy and more — by the numbers: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Boom. SCOTUS strikes down Trump’s tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

Leaving the police station and life comes at you fast. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

“Through the accident of birth, one lucky family attains riches, prestige and fame. It’s not too much to ask that in return they behave with decorum. This time, the scale of the potential wrongdoing is too great to bury under the privilege of monarchy.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Not the birthday card that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was expecting today: www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

An ecological crisis of "historic proportion" is underway in the Potomac River after a massive sewer pipe collapse north of Washington, D.C., the Environmental Protection Agency said. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

John Eastman, who is up for disbarment in California and currently cannot file cases in CA courts (apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Lic... ) has filed this amicus brief in the US Supreme Court seeking to stop states from accepting ballots arriving after election day: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

RIP, Robert Duvall. screenrant.com/the-godfathe...