Find someone who loves you as much as Thomas Muller loves scoring goals. #VWFC

I've been a reader and member of @talkingpointsmemo.com for literally decades and it's one of the most impressive independent media operations in the country. Amazing how long it's been going, producing great reporting and analysis. Indispensable. talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships

"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"

I agree with this. I don’t understand why some public health folks think RFK Jr & his MAHA movement are “acting in good faith” & think they should be welcomed. Their push to dismantle public health & vaccination systems, driving up deadly infectious pediatric diseases, is NOT welcome. Not at all.

Fuckin unbelievable, thanks Jared. It’s the Golden Age of congressional irrelevance.

Three US carrier groups and 10 destroyers blockade Stait of Hormuz — they’ll be “pivoting to the Pacific”any day now I’m sure www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

Orban seized the Seven Mountains. The Christian Dominionists in North America can’t be allowed to do the same. denverriggleman.substack.com/p/trump-orba...

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Our goal is AI out of schools in BC. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...

Whew! Hillary Clinton this morning on the US-Iran talks that fell apart: “This is hard, disciplined effort that has to go into diplomacy to reach any results. And I don’t see this administration either wanting to do it or, frankly, being capable of doing it…”

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

The Glover Family.

Massive dub for Hungary 💪🇭🇺

New form of rent seeking just dropped

There's an ambulance market (I could stop there), private equity has rolled it up, and it's now delaying deliveries, tripling the cost for cities & creating shortages across the country. This is what happens as we shout about what podcasts politicians should go on

1968: We had to destroy the village in order to save it 2026: We had to blockade the Strait in order to open it up

At least from the mil side, this drives home how the “operational level of war” is a mythical contrivance that indulges the worst impulses of military organizations that think war isn’t politics and strategy is just the plural of tactics

“Lissen. Lissen. Lissen,” Rubio said to Trump after his fifth $18 UFC beer. “What if WE blockaded the Strait of Hormel, Hermanos, whatever? Right? Right? Right? Right? We should totally do that, they’ll never see it coming. ‘Boom! Blocked, bitch!‘ I’m gonna go get some nachos, want anything?”

While JD was in Pakistan lmao

Congrats to NASA and the #Artemis crew! I watched the Integrity reentry and splashdown with my daughter and her friend, and they were locked in. Her friend, 9, said, “That was cool because it just happened right now. And it was real.” Damn right, kid.

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

My appreciation has grown more for Sansa over the years than for any other character in #ASOIAF, I think. Book Sansa’s triumph over Littlefinger is going to be incredibly satisfying. David has given us a gem of a video on her symbolism and foreshadowing. youtu.be/zuWc8ERXDzM?...

Never gotten over how Columbia had a whole micro-site paying tribute to its 60s protests and building takeovers; then, when Gaza protesters repeated that strategy they called in the NYPD

Hall of fame FT correction

Didn’t last a full Friedman Unit (six months), or a full Trump Delay (two weeks), or even a Scaramuchi (10 days). Matt Gaetz’s nomination lasted 8 days. I believe Trump has had constipated shits that lasted longer than his “ceasefire”.

Iran gets: the strait the hereditary leader the dead guy wanted withdrawal of enemies to tell the story of how they fought off all of west asia plus USA at the same time and won for the next 100 years to give no nuclear assurances USA gets:

Wow. What an achievement.

Trump posted the statement by the foreign minister of Iran as an “official statement of Iran.” And it is an official statement, but it’s also worth noting that the more authoritative statement is the one from Iran’s Security Council, which is bombastic and declares victory on behalf of the nation.

Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.

My takeaway from this stunning photo is let’s not nuke each other

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

The vibes RN

I think one of the things about bluesky is that for a lot of its users, it represents a kind of retirement from social media. Like I’m tired and I want to get out of the game

The New York Times could use an adult editor or two because this is "getting the two buckets question in IDIOCRACY wrong" levels of incompetence; that said I love how the correction essentially negates the whole premise of this piece, "HUURR DURRR ACRONYMS HARD"

This should be absolutely humiliating to anyone associated with the New York Times.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

one time bill clinton talked to an attorney general for a couple minutes and it was the biggest scandal in politics for about a year

You may have missed some of Trump's 20+ wars, covert ops, armed interventions, and proxy wars. We're keeping track...

NYT destroyed Biden for his successful & necessary withdrawal from Afghanistan, but urges US to give Trump benefit-of-doubt about disastrous war-of-choice against Iran.

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

The new front cover of The Economist.

get discharged if you have a beard but steal an attack helicopter for an unauthorized joyride to kid rock’s house for a political photo op and the secretary of defense will personally praise you while overruling and humiliating your commanders for pursuing basic disciplinary procedure

I have a hunch that Pete Hegseth didn’t read this February issue of Princeton alumni weekly. Soft power? What’s that?

What an epic Duke collapse. Choked away a 19-point lead and then just had to hold the ball at the end and they couldn't even do that. Just amazing.

Boots on the ground eh. Have fun with that

BREAKING: Avi Lewis wins the NDP leadership with a commanding majority on the first ballot. Avi Lewis is the new leader of the NDP.

This is the FCC Chairman, who is ostensibly a non-partisan industry regulator, openly bragging about conducting a political purge of the media.

“We’ve come a long, long way from regime change and unconditional surrender.”