This is Putin-grade nasty

No doubt Tulsi Gabbard is drafting her resignation letter as we speak.

Here’s the thing: a President openly contemptuous of Congress & willing, unilaterally, to recklessly and illegally commit the US to wars of aggression is an existential threat to the Republic, *regardless* of whether he can ultimately explain his acts to Congress. The demand must be impeachment.

The Israeli public broadcaster confirms that the nuclear talks with Iran were all a ruse. Trump and Netanyahu has decided on this war weeks ago. www.kan.org.il/content/kan-...

I was right Omani FM:

Off to a great start

Per Bob Citino, the American way of war is whatever the plan is, plus 50,000 tons of bombs. Thus it follows that a war without a plan will simply be 50,000 tons of bombs.

Oh fuck off

again, anthropic is almost all people who explicitly left OpenAI for ethical reasons which i find esoteric and wrong, but nonetheless meaningful "ethics"

Anthropic has a good statement out, blending the normal "we love our warfighters uwu" ass-kissing with some "LOL what are you even doing man?" anthropic.com/news/stateme...

this is nonsense and does not square with anything else we know. my best understanding is that sam is putting his credibility on the line for hegseth's obvious lies now as it happens he's a peter thiel protege

if we can kick off cascading private credit crunch prior to the spacex ipo that would be sick

Great job, intern

Stop calling the department of defense by the fake tough unofficial name the fake tough babies gave it. By statute & still by statute, it’s the department of defense. Stop accepting this juvenile garbage masquerading as accomplishments. Be an adult. Demand our officials be adults

Canon cannot like the sound of this

A remarkable series of choices by the administration to pump up the AI industry such that it is one of the few pockets of growth in the economy and then turn around and attack one of its largest companies in a fit of pique.

A number rivaling the population of Atlanta

This looks like Hegseth, ever the idiot, has picked a fight he can't win, and worse, a fight he is too stupid to realize he cannot win. And the boss is getting bad advice telling him to back another screw up by the drunk Secretary of Defense.

Yeah, I’m shocked if not surprised by the audacity, but this guy is by far the dumbest dude in the room, so going head to head with the smartest seems ill-advised

Coming from a culture of people that include organ meats as part of their traditional food because we lived in conditions where society enforced poverty on us and it’s all we could afford: this is what you say to people you’re enforcing poverty on.

“When you end up using antisemitism as a pretext for kicking kids out of universities and out of the country, and... for ending cancer research and... for undercutting the First Amendment, you’re going to get some blowback against the people doing that.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

I’m pretty sure the department has never been led by anybody more terrified of talent in the ranks.

This is importantly incorrect - Labour did a whole bunch of evil culture war shit whilst raising government spending and improving worker rights. The take-out is that riding those horses at the same time doesn't work, working class right wingers are too far down the rabbit hole to win with policy!

Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees. “Composition II with Red, Blue, and Yellow is in the U.S. public domain. It has been since January 1, 2026. No amount of Spanish law or invented ‘dual copyright’ theories changes that.” [copyrightlately.com]

Hello darkness my old friend...

Labour and the Democratic Party have been marching in place since the 1990s and they've both ended up with electorates far to their left Centrist Democrats here are far too complacent about their hold on the party

I'll do it. I will fire tens of thousands of ICE agents. I will fly around the country like George Clooney and Anna Kendrick in that movie, just firing people all day. Except instead of it crushing my soul each ICE agent firing will bring me joy.

This is assault

Have I got this right? Farage bemoaning the Greens win as a result of "family voting" means he thinks loads of Muslim women wanted to vote Reform but their husbands stopped them 😂

Followed by an anvil

They’ll do both if they can but yeah, the latter is far more important

What's wrong, babe? You've barely touched your horrors that persist

corporate elites, the people who own newspapers, run the labour party so struggle to get what electorates are grasping intuitively: it's death camps, deportations,& deranged pseudo-science or a friendly, inclusive, multi-racial society with lots of public transit

if you're a normal person, that might not seem like an especially hard choice the fact that the current columnist class *really* struggles with it, struggles to accept that even is the choice shows how unfit for purpose they are

A major shift, via Gallup. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...

hey comedians/performers, wanna see a show title so good you’ll be furious you didn’t think of it?

I worked at AP for a long time, and even it has lost a lot of capacity—but it’s filled in for a lot of local media as local newspapers have been eliminated. Those losses are a big reason all politics is national and heavily BS-based now.

I honestly had no idea it was possible to be this good at this. I just didn’t.

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

The Nazis stopped Jewish doctors from practising, so thousands of them left the country (my great grandfather was one of them). So many left that this was a good natural experiment for estimating the causal effect of losing doctors on infant mortality (& thousands died)

Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s ‘best and final offer’ ft.trib.al/x16c2SZ

Mamdani being the Trump whisperer is reason enough to rewrite the Constitution

second paragraph is one of the funniest paragraphs ever in a statement of interest, concerning a person who is not actually listed among amicii. is the pope ordering SCOTUS to strike down the eo..... well, he's not NOT ordering SCOTUS to strike down the eo

Anyway the risk profile for Platner isn’t Fetterman, it’s Gabbard

As cities struggle with heat, Zürich offers a masterclass in using vegetation to cool streets, manage stormwater and restore biodiversity reasonstobecheerful.world/zurich-turne...

Look, whatever it takes

The Pentagon wants to use Anthropic to go to war with Iran. Why? @attackerman.bsky.social thinks it is using the war on Gaza as a template: www.forever-wars.com/the-scent-of...