The Iran-linked hackers who hit a Fortune 500 company today say it was retaliation for the U.S. missile attack on an Iranian school that killed at least 175 people.
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The Iran-linked hackers who hit a Fortune 500 company today say it was retaliation for the U.S. missile attack on an Iranian school that killed at least 175 people.
In addition to oil, the war has bottled up the world’s main supply of sulphuric acid, setting back a lot of heavy industrial supply chains. theoregongroup.com/commodities/...
“The former official said he doesn't think Trump is playing ‘the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he's just eating the pieces.’"
He should do some photo ops of him sailing through the strait himself, just to prove how safe it is
(0:13) "Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war"
[Klein quotes the text of the Constitution saying Congress has the power to declare war]
[long pause]
(0:50) "So, constitutionally, the Constitution says Congress has the power to declare war ..."
You really need to watch this whole clip. It's amazing.
“The former official said he doesn't think Trump is playing ‘the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he's just eating the pieces.’"
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If you thought China was selling a lot of batteries and solar panels before, you’re going to love what happens next.
If/when a deMAGAfication of US ever occurs it must begin with the Roberts Court without which none of this would be possible
- they can credibly threaten the Strait as far as insurers are concerned without a whole lot the US can do to convince the insurers otherwise
- the US has no plan and has no strategic guidance besides grandpa's cottage cheese brain
- bibi does not give a fuuuuuck about oil prices
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.
But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?
They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.
3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.
2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal.
But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Take our "4/5" single-stair prototype building
and put it on two 33'x122 lots.
Mid block or corner.
18 elevator accessible homes, where every home has windows on 3 sides.
Light, Air, and a Social Stair
Sure sounds like somebody at DOGE took the Social Security numbers and personal information of every American on record, and put it on a thumb drive to bring home to Elon Musk’s AI company.
Well, we may be running a really interesting experiment to see how the world does with 10-12% less oil and ~20-25% less LNG 🤷
That was faster than Iran going from having their nuclear capability obliterated to being two weeks from an ICBM that could hit the Capitol Dome. I'd hate to think of the ayatollahs might accomplsih if it was Infrastructure Week.
Wars have public support when:
1) The country was attacked and has a good self-defense case.
2) Leaders persuade the people that a war of choice is in the national interest and important enough to be worth the risks,
And that's pretty much it. Neither apply to the Iran war. Not even a little.
This #1 article on CNN right now is a bunch experts strongly implying there is no way out of a global economic recession unless the U.S. Navy turns every shore battery and naval base in Iran into a heap of ash, at terrible cost in lives on both sides
www.cnn.com/2026/03/09/b...
Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.
That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.
The dealer needs to keep you addicted.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
U.S. border agents searching electronic devices is way up. Smartwatches, SIM cards and flash drives added to the list
theprovince.com/news/canada/...
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
holy shit
Not sure about the Trump administration to wreck solar and wind energy and rely on carbon fuels. Just seems risky to me IMHO.
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock
If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time
