Most important long read of the week; a thoroughly educational brief on alignment of political goals with military planning, and what happens when they diverge. #iran #strategy

What was Walt Schultz was smoking when he designed the Shannon Shoalsailer? #Sailboats #Weird

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

The US energy secretary has no idea what commodities are and why. FT reports: "Chris Wright said on CBS’s Face the Nation that oil and gas prices “shouldn’t go much higher than they are here” because “there’s no energy shortage in the Western Hemisphere”."

Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney coming back to ruin America is what happens when you let Nixon resign and don't go after everyone in his inner circle. We saw what happened when we did nothing about Trump. This time, we have to make sure none of his inner circle come back to haunt us in the future.

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My coworker of Iranian descent has parents and siblings in Tehran. He is all in for this American war. They want all the Muslim clerics out and this is their chance, he says. His parents are wiling to give their lives so the young ones can live freely. But if this fails it'll get worse.

@repauchincloss.bsky.social Informative contribution on Bloomberg this morning about the strategic incoherence of this administration and the consequences of its self-imposed weakness in Ukraine and other theaters. Important historical perspective of resulting impairment of military leadership.

Very illegal.

perhaps I have made a mistake

@toasttab.bsky.social can't order even with Apple Pay without signing up, which means giving you my phone number. Used to be able to check out as guest with Apple Pay. This sucks.

@markwarner.bsky.social After voting today in the special election, a canvasser asked me to sign your ballot access petition. You continue to support this criminal mafia running the federal government by confirming their appointees. So I said no. And I welcome a competent primary challenge.

Hi @timladerach.bsky.social I appreciated your very competent discussion with Bill Rosello about Alexandria city development and other issues. You immediately answered YES in support of the old town waterfront pump station, which was surprising because this project is clearly already a boondoggle,

@sirstuck.bsky.social You don't have replies on your PCB posting but I am going to guess V1/V2 are 12AX7 and V3/V4 are EL84s. How close am I?

Notable message from President Zelensky. The USA is clearly putting pressure on Ukraine to hand over more of its land to dictatorial Russia. Good to see the Ukrainian pushback--but the USA should hang its head in shame.

Are those Whitefish Energy power poles? #badbunny

Civil litigator here with years of experience of business people’s emails to each other in disclosed evidence for disputes. As a general rule: the senior the business person, the less effort they put into emails, and the more effort expected from those reading them. Effectively a mark of rank.

Tired: Trump Derangement Syndrome. Wired: Jeffrey Epstein Withdrawal.

If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss

If he does so, he will become my arch enemy.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social It's already illegal. Do better. Say NO FUNDING. Make them fix their problem.

I struggle to think of anything that might be in the Epstein Files that could possibly be worse than what he's doing right now every day right in front of us.

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@democrats.org often fall for the trap of proposing solutions when all we want them to say is NO.

Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

Interested in getting Tom Suozzi out of office? He has yet to get a primary challenger. So if you or someone you know in New York's 3rd District wants to run against him, now is the perfect time to get started. Major party filing closes April 6th, independent on May 26h Primary is June 23rd

Angry about the seven Democrats that voted yea for the DHS/ICE appropriations bill? Then now is the perfect time to get acquainted with their primary and general election challengers. 1/

@golden.house.gov For all the times in the past and future that you have lent your vote to Republican efforts to impose a police state, ruin the economy, destroy America's standing in the world, and foul the environment, you suck.

People are beginning to understand that the bus driver actually works for a rival company.

Mark Ronson - Night People. Read by the author. Just the free preview has honestly got me a little verklempt.... for what was, "...a time when clubs were diverse, glamorous, and a little lawless.... in a golden era before Giuliani, camera phones, and bottle service upended everything.

Latest from a US based engineering firm. Staff: We're light on work. Mgmt: We need to hire! Bonuses for hiring! Gotta grow! Staff: If we hire they'll need to charge overhead because we're light on work. Mgmt: Get your new hires billable as soon as possible!

@housedemocrats.bsky.social nearly all of your front page posts are about affordability, while Trump tortures American citizens and tears apart 80 years of American global dominance. Wake the f up. You people need to work together with moderate Repubs to impeach and convict.

Must read. SVB intentionally blown up to funnel cash into VC alt-banks and crypto, and as propaganda fuel against trad bank reputation/stability.

#Cadillac will join #F1 racing championship series this year with a unit unaerodynamic #design

strongly recommend involving witness. their work is invaluable. check out/share this training. cc @samgregory.bsky.social

Been a Hilton Honors member for years. Put in a message to cancel my Honors account. Currently staying in a Marriott hotel.

Meanwhile #NPR is reporting breathlessly on Iran multiple times per hour in hopes Trump solves Israel's problem for them. NPR certainly knows their audience.

“The dominant feeling is that this reign of terror can hardly last long, but that its fall will bury us.” ― Victor Klemperer

Are we really awaiting the remaining Epstein Files as some kind of salvation? There's already plenty of damning information available, more than sufficient to impeach and remove. JD Vance, perhaps even more conniving and insane than the president, remains a potent insurance policy.

Sad to think that today these refugees would be shipped back or worse held indefinitely in ICE/CBP concentration camps. We must fight to recover the ideal of "freedom" we used to celebrate as Americans.

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

And the man himself, at the centre of the stage, appeared diminished... A figure eroding in public view while the machinery around him grows sharper, more disciplined, more ambitious, and increasingly independent of him. billkingpiano.substack.com/p/the-traito...

Now watching Mrs. Frisbee and the Ants of Nimh take place around the bathroom sink. My intervention with a few squirts of Dawn will ensure an unhappy ending to their escape.

Taking over my elderly mother's finances, it's shocking to see how much she spends. Old people get soaked by service providers - car mechanic, house maintenance, and especially the dentist. Whose stupid idea was it to do implants for a 90 year old woman with osteoporosis, costing her thousands.