Double dog dare you, Brendan Carr, to get on a plane to Beirut or Baghdad and call Richard Engel, Christiane Amanpour, Matthew Chance, Clarissa Ward, Matt Bradley or Matt Rivers or Nic Robertson “fake news” to their face.
YARDENI: “.. three days after the war began, we concluded it might last longer, leading to a 10%-15% correction, and warned that we could not rule out a bear market.
“.. we've become concerned that a weakening US economy might exacerbate the cracks in the US private credit market.”
👏👏👏
WSJ: Gen. Caine “said in several briefings that U.S. officials had long believed Iran would deploy mines, drones and missiles to close the world’s most vital shipping lane ..
“.. Trump acknowledged the risk, these people said, but moved forward ..”
@wsj.com
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2 headlines from this week
“Fond memories?”
Wow. There really is no bottom.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...
Ahhh, such fond memories.
🔥 🇪🇸 SPAIN — MAR ESPINAR: “Go lick boots at Mar-A-Lago… which Iranian women are thanking Trump? The mothers of the 160 girls murdered at a school?”
This @WSJ.com headline and few paragraphs are the story in a nutshell: the blame for this stupid, reckless, doomed war is all his, abetted by his circle Republican sycophants in the White House and Congress.
JB Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois, recently spoke about the U.S. regaining the world’s trust after President Trump leaves his office, the country’s relationship with Israel, the war in Iran and more. Read, watch or listen to “The Interview.”
Bluesky facts:
42 - # of people currently working at Bluesky
10% - Percentage of posts involving politics
(Other top topics are music, entertainment, sports, and science.)
100% - Bsky new CEO is trying to dispell the notion that Bluesky is mostly about liberal politics.
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americans (correctly) believe that tariffs have led to higher prices.
wednesday: president trump tells g7 leaders iran is about to surrender, war is nearly over.
friday:
'No one has done more with less than the Iranians,' said a former chief of staff at a US special forces command centre. ft.trib.al/pNUuJcu
Hegseth this morning, now this rant from Jeanine. These people come unglued when you point out their obvious incompetence and demonstrable failures. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
🤔🤔🤔
two weeks before us marine expeditionary force—some 2,500 marines—now being deployed to iran arrives in the mideast.
this war (and global economic disruption) isn’t over soon.
(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.
Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:
Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.
And recognized as such by the US Government.
From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
A US federal judge said that a 'mountain of evidence suggests that the dominant purpose' of the subpoenas was to 'harass [Jay] Powell to pressure him to lower rates', in a major blow to the justice department's criminal investigation into the Fed chair. ft.trib.al/ezvHaJT
Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the US military can drop bombs on scores of children and face no serious media scrutiny for it. His vile claim that he can't wait for David Ellison to run CNN shows he pines for oligarchic control of media.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2077...
Today’s headlines vs. what Trump is posting about:
ICYMI — Live Nation employees boasted about “robbing fans blind” 👇🏽🤔
Trump then stepped in and reached a “baffling settlement” with Live Nation, letting them keep their monopoly.
www.huffpost.com/entry/live-n...
As many as 5,000 additional U.S. Marines are reportedly heading for the Middle East.
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moved into a home at Fort McNair traditionally reserved for the Army’s vice chief of staff. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others also now live in military housing.“
Try not to be so despised that you have to live behind barricades.
ICYMI, Netanyahu used his first press conference since this Iran war started to ask Israel's president to give him a pardon (the PM is on trial for corruption). Netanyahu said he would like to be "completely unencumbered"
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than under the Republicans" — Donald J. Trump, 2004
I guess even Trump is right about some things.
https://youtu.be/oEMn40L5UN4?si=jma0yrFyeb-kdHZq
* TRUMP: I THINK PUTIN MAY BE HELPING IRAN A BIT -- FOX NEWS INTERVIEW
@reuters.com
It's genuinely terrifying that my country is at war and I can't tell the difference between a press conference by the Secretary of Defense and a pro wrestler hyping an upcoming match.
This is not hyperbole. Hegseth is emotionally incapable and intellectually void and that is an important job.
