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It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

Gasoline is at $3.69 a gallon in our tiny hamlet. $0.90 since Mad King Donald launched his was on Iran three weeks ago.

Actually the WW2 generation did Iwo Jima. The Boomers lost Vietnam and Iraq and now they’re on “third time’s a charm.”

Bessent is saying they don’t need supplemental funding. By the way, what happened to the trillions of dollars the Pentagon already received over the last ten years? Shouldn’t we have more three weeks of missiles on hand?

I’m fine with taxing every billionaire into mere millionaire status. Killing them and taking their stuff is also an option.

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó gave Russia inside access to EU meetings by calling Lavrov during breaks and sharing real-time updates, WaPo reports.

Here's the cold open from the very first SNL UK

If Iran closes Hormuz for six months or longer the entire world economy would be in danger of collapsing. Imagine $200+ a barrel oil.

Bitcoin response.

The private credit market is a ticking time bomb poised to explode taking down the banking system. Trump’s war on global trade and the closure of the Persian Gulf petroleum exports is putting a lot of stress on the system. Things could become real interesting in a few months.

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk found liable for misleading investors in Twitter takeover. Damages could cost him billions.

At some point CBS will be reduced to a You Tube channel and a Substack newsletter. Which is what Weiss is accustomed to managing.

The US F-35 shot down by Iran won’t be returning to service. It made a “hard landing”. The pilot is in stable condition. (NPR)

The US is going to put troops into Iran.

The Supreme Court's ONLY decision today is Olivier v. Brandon. Kagan's unanimous opinion holds that Heck v. Humphrey does NOT bar §1983 suits seeking purely prospective relief against the government. (This is good.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

In retrospect trying to close the US Institute of Peace and renaming DoD the Department of War were pretty unsubtle attempts at foreshadowing

Shocked to see that Trump, who has spent a decade wanting to lift sanctions on Russia, has again suspended sanctions on Russia. Still, I'm sure it's just temporary and related solely to the current crisis.

How much juice can Iran squeeze from turning Hormuz into a turnpike?

In an 1990s anime the AD Police would have shown up and blown up the restaurant.

Netanyahu doesn’t care about anyone else, but there should be a lot of effort directed at restraining him from going after energy and civilian infrastructure. The Iranians are obviously not bluffing and will hit third party oil capacity again.

Discussion with Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour.

New Economist.

Campaigns cherish a dramatic graph. www.gasbuddy.com/charts

Everything is coming up Trump.

What has the Pentagon been spending the trillions in Defense spending on over the last decade if we only had six weeks of munitions on hand? Did they think a war with China or Russia was going to last less time?

@warren.senate.gov @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social Platner is ringing every bell for being far too close to neo-Nazism. I’m really disappointed in this endorsement.

The Iran War ends in utter humiliation for Trump. And I don’t discount that he may double down by nuking Iran.

What did the Pentagon do with the trillions of dollars it received over the last ten years?

The United States is acting as a terrorist nation.

What if Trump actually wants inflation to skyrocket so he can introduce $1 million bills with his face on them

I have a mid-October pub date for DON'T BREATHE. It's a near-past alt hist, imagining COVID to have a 10-15% fatality rate. I wrote it during the Biden interregnum, so it's more optimistic than it might be if I started it today. Preorders help! Thanks! www.amazon.com/DONT-BREATHE...

It’s official: There are now 3,000 protests planned for No Kings Day. That means there will be more protests on March 28 than any previous day in American history. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Mark Zuckerberg, 2021: “within five years, [Facebook] will be known primarily as a metaverse company.” Mark Zuckerberg, now:

There’s a massive fire still burning at Iran’s South Pars natural gas field in Bushehr after the Israeli strike. It provides most of Iran’s power generation. This will send prices soaring on the energy market and will hit the EU in the winter season.

My all-time favorite lineup of U.S. allies.

Congratulations to Trump - the sharpest gas price spike since Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago. And we’ve barely started.

Iran has ordered people to evacuate energy production facilities in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar as it threatened to launch strikes following an earlier Israeli attack on its own gas infrastructure, Bloomberg reports. Oil prices have spiked.

My email news digests all seem to have not adjusted their clocks for daylight savings. It’s been ten days.

If you want to create a techbro civil war just say that the G in DOGE is pronounced like GIF.

Iranian MIRV over Israeli skies last night.

Reporter: “If you could say something to Trump, what would it be?” PA voter: “You're a worthless pile of shit.” Reporter: “How many times did you vote for him?” PA voter: “Three times. That was my bad. Apparently I'm an idiot.”