Never surprising to see to see amoral hypocrisy in the Trump admin, but hearing Hegseth's emphatic advocacy for supplying Ukraine with defensive kit is still jarring.

Ouch. Courts need to be extremely strict on this. Especially in the case of a state attorney doing this. Really, really bad.

This (well-written) editorial offers this as one of its closing thoughts: "As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought." To which I say, what nonsense.

damn. that's crazy. who could have predicted this www.wsj.com/finance/comm...

Quite the kiss of death from Pam Bondi's "Dow is over 50,000"

When the cholesterol eventually gets him, we can mix his ashes into the concrete footpad of a windmill. It's what he wouldn't have wanted.

Look, I know what the Senate math is what it is, and on that basis maybe this guy ends up being slightly better from a realpolitik perspective than Collins. But there is just a mountain of evidence that this guy would be a disaster, and I don't understand why 'progressives' leap to defend this.

Trump thought he could control the war in Iran. Three weeks in, it’s clear he can’t. Allies have their own agendas, the objectives are unclear, and the political pressure is mounting. History tells us what happens when leaders walk into traps they cannot escape.

A part of the problem here is that the property is considered to be impossible to secure properly.

Great, so vague scaremongering with no information other than 'nuclear powers contain 50-year trend weapons development'. How is this news

Very cool. Could be one of those "why would you study bats that get the flu" kind of pure science explorations with enormous real-world implications.

I feel this is misapplied to Sinners THE FILM rather than Sinners THE DISCUSSION. OBAA is an explicitly political film that reflects a particular moment in time. Sinners is a vampire movie based in history (and yes it's a vehicle to talk about racially motivated violence against black people)

WaPo Deputy Opinion Editor is just straight up lying about Mamdani's estate tax proposal (in both tweets and an op-ed). The bill contains a $1.75 million primary residence exemption, exempts retirement accounts, and the 50% marginal rate doesn’t kick in until $30 million.

One Battle was good, but it wasn't *that* good. It was not the best picture of the year. Sinners was spectacular, and I don't even particularly like the horror or vampire genre.

For the next time he's bloviatinf about his support of "our great troops and veterans"

I remember being absolutely blown away by this scene in theatres when the different dancers began to blur the boundaries of time. That they pulled this off so well, on live television (!) is incredible. So, so well done.

1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries

“I told him, Julie, don’t go. Don’t go, Julie, I said. If I told him once, I told him a thousand times. Julie, don’t go I said. It’s the Ides of March. Beware already.”

For a major closure (scheduled or not) the TTC needs to be a lot better about even just putting up a sign before people pay for a trip they can't take @ttcalerts.bsky.social @ttcriders.bsky.social (I know that neither are official accounts, but... Thoughts?)

My suspicion is that a few years down the line, we will come to realize that the markets' non-reaction to major macro-crises was not a display of resilience/strength, but rather an alarm signal that was naively disregarded.

Ah so we all agree the Ellison takeover is 100% an ideological play. Great.

Yes, this is already stupid, but just wait until Elon Musk announces that the Boring Company is working on a tunnel, sending TSLA shares soaring

don't worry, the U.S. is fully capable of removing mines from the Strait of Hormuz, we didn't just decommission out last mine- sweepers in the area and replace them with Littoral Combat Ships (the worst boats in the fleet by wide agreement) with untested mine interdiction upgrades

Gosh I wonder how the Nikkei index will do in 5 minutes on the news of this new tanker strike

Second part's definitely likely.

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

It’s fine for Russia to use drones to freeze out your population — by the way, can you give us your drone defenses? This is the actual US position.

I shit you not America 250 is ringing the opening bell at the NYSE tomorrow www.nyse.com/_events/NDE1...

Statements like this from Trump will make the oil market reaction *worse* No one who has any idea how the oil market works is buying it—all this does is make it seem like Trump believes it, which means the base case length of this disruption is growing ever-longer. Tick. Tock.

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz." —Bill McKibben

Here's the Karoline Leavitt interview people are talking about. Maria Bartiromo asks if Trump might send ground troops into Iran, because "mothers are worried" about a draft. Leavitt replies that ground troops aren't in the current plan, but Trump won't rule them out. No mention of the draft.

Worth reading for context on potential scenarios going forward. Oil shock effects could be massively disruptive if this isn't skilfully managed. Given the opening act here, I am not optimistic.

their excuse was they were trying to locate the remains of an IDF pilot thats been missing since 1986, btw. slaughtered 41 people. to find a missing skeleton.

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

100%. These schmucks learned all of the wrong lessons from Venezuela.

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

[Exit Murderer.]

"As is tradition, of course." #cdnpoli

This is pretty fucking rich from the Trump admin who have been trying to screw over this man and his country for over a decade. But Donald made an oopsie and needs help with the war he started.

Got it. I'm sorry for your loss. To clarify: You want a eulogy for your father that's 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲, sounds 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁, and captures the 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗺. I get it. He wasn't just your father — he was your Dad. Here a few options I came up with:

This is excellent. youtu.be/XwPppkdD_p0?...

Are Democrats in the Colorado legislature ready to impeach Polis if he does this?

Voting momentum now suggesting that Talarico will win the nomination outright. Probably the best outcome for Dems who may actually have a shot with this seat, in this cycle.

Ah yes, Chiang Kai-shek, who famously defeated the Chinese communists

Particularly with the reporting on some American commanders (unconstitutionally) stating that this is a war of religious purpose, the elimination of Iranian clerical figures is concerning. Yes, these guys are bastards, and yes - regime line of succession, etc.

setting a big box on fire labeled LOAD BEARING TAIWAN INVASION DETERRENCE and staring back at CCP like a contestant on the price is right