Lucy Kwiatek

Imagine being the Lloyd’s underwriter who has to explain maritime insurance to a Trump appointee

*fuel

Which would all require their own film, and which would all be a lot more vulnerable to loitering munitions than a ship.

'positioning yourself at the exact bottom of the basin of peoples libidinal desires' is a real and dangerous skill that he undeniably has, but if he lost despite inheriting a good economy, giving people a bunch of free money, and having an excuse to be racist to china, he can be beaten.

i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.

the thing about 'trump escapes all consequences' is that its not actually true. he notably did lose a presidential election despite giving people a bunch of free money. the median voter likes him when they can imagine what he *would* do, not when confronted with what hes actually doing.

'throw the economy into a brick wall right at the end of your term so dems have to pick up the pieces' is standard policy. doing it at the beginning makes escaping the crash-out a bit harder

Excited to see what blatant lie from the administration Wall Street is going to rally on today.

20th century american leftism and its derivatives are really either like woke jeffersonian liberals or anarchists.

U.S. Plan to Unblock Strait of Hormuz Collides With Realities of Global Insurance The U.S.-centric insurance idea runs counter to the realities of an international market, according to industry executives.

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said."

When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine."

www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

Singapore and Malacca get Officers of the Deck lives flashing before their eyes lol

Relatedly, how do you make a Whoppers Junior situation possessive? Whopper's Junior or Whoppers Junior's?

Yes.

This would be pretty funny, except I'd be kind of worried that he'd successfully talk Rogan into blaming everything on the Jews.

One way you can tell the past was a miserable place is that almost every single fucking time any segment of the public got a chance to get thoroughly wasted it proceeded to do so with IMMENSE ENTHUSIASM.

Booze, hallucinogens, cocaine, khat, you name it. Ppl self-medicated like crazy.

Immediately disqualifying for the job for which he has been nominated. The 4th Amendment specifies it’s “the right of the people,” not of citizens.

We cannot allow someone who doesn’t understand the 4th Amendment to be the head of DHS.

Pakistani media is reporting daily on number of Pakistani workers charged with 'spreading' videos of attacks. Massive information suppression and censorship effort in all GCC countries but esp UAE and Bahrain

Me when-

No government should ever concern itself with whether its people "appreciate their sex". Fuck off.

Source: (TS/NOFORN) It came to me in a dream.

"Why isn't Iran's air defense better?" because they haven't spent $800+ billion a year developing and buying weapons for the last 80 years

Pentagon Tells Congress First Week of Iran War Cost More Than $11.3 Billion

Comparing different military budgets isn't super useful bc how it is counted varies wildly, but worth noting that the estimated cost of the first 6 days of this war to the US, exclusively in terms of munitions expended, is equivalent to about half of Iran's 2025 total estimated military expenditure.

Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm

You read the news like "White House surprised Iran fires missiles in war. Investors bet on the Money Fairy turning sea mines into cotton candy" and it's that scene in Downfall where Hitler is moving imaginary armies on the map.

I will again mention my Oz story, which is that I was in a room full of early career New York surgeons for a study one time, and every single one of them had an Oz story where he would make a resident do all the work, show up for the cuts he got paid for, and leave. 15 minutes scrub to scrub.

Live look of Robert Pape

One thing we kind of know but I'm not seeing discussed enough re: Iran is Trump's view that every state clearly must be/is run by a single autocrat who makes every decision. It's how he views business and politics and is why he likes people like Milei, Putin, etc. He figured Maduro was that way(1/x)

Can I interest the people in a new ETF called bitoil?

That’s terribly convenient.

Cal Raleigh said he didn’t want to answer anymore questions after assuring reporters that he and Randy Arozarena have a great relationship “I hate that this is a thing. There’s no beef. He’s my brother.”

He's wearing a Front Toward Enemy shirt; Team USA saluting each other in the outfield; they know they haven't been drafted right?

Gotta say that this is some extremely creepy language. And the argument basically is... that if the prevent people from treating gender dysphoria (adults, in this case), that they'll just... stop having it? That's not at all how any of this works.