shameless shitstain AI fuckhead according to folks on interwebs

I fully believe Trump is in a strategic alliance of mutual interest, pressure, and affinity with Putin against what used to be considered the interests of the United States.

Rapidan Energy Group Announces Gulf War III Is by Far the Largest Oil Disruption in History and Has Zeroed Out Spare Capacity /PRNewswire/ -- Rapidan Energy Group, a leading energy market, policy, and geopolitical data and research firm based in Washington, DC and Houston, TX, has...

"Compared to the last maximum disruption during the 1956 Suez Crisis (as a percentage of total liquids demand), this represents the largest oil supply loss in history, by a factor of TWO"

Suez then. Hormuz now.
The End of European Empire then
The End of What now? www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Gee I wonder why

"Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it."

-- Hannah Arendt

www.jstor.org/stable/23025...

"But he can't do that"

Yes, like he can't do all the other things.

Again, it is not doomerism to ponder these scenarios, which are obviously illegal & unconstitutional, because the institutions are not self-enforcing, & he's gotten away with all the other things so far.

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Iran signaling it may deploy mines to disrupt Strait of Hormuz, U.S. sources say Iran is using smaller crafts to lay mines in the Strait of Hormuz, two U.S. officials said.

Concerning reports that Iran is attempting to mine the Strait of Hormuz. 1/
www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-mi...

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

‘AI for whom?’ Inside Brazil’s data centre boom The government’s legislative push for the sector is stalling, while experts warn of its socio-environmental risks and governance gaps

Brazil’s data centre capacity could triple by 2030, with expansion driven by companies from China and the United States.

Experts warn the growth of generative artificial intelligence is increasing demand for electricity, computing power and water.

Read more: https://loom.ly/eWCCTp0

The mystery of a globetrotting iPhone-hacking toolkit Tools used in a series of hacking campaigns by hackers in Russia, Ukraine, and China may have originated inside U.S. government contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.

SCOOP: The iPhone mass hacking toolkit used by Russian spies was developed at U.S. military contractor L3Harris, former employees said.

The Coruna toolkit was used against Ukrainians and by Chinese cybercriminals, according to Google. But the toolkit was initially developed for Western governments.

Research by Martuza et al suggests people overestimate how dishonest others are, and this pessimistic bias in dishonesty beliefs about others shapes prosocial expectations and policy preferences:

SAUDI ARAMCO CEO: EVEN WITH OUR ABILITY TO EXPORT THROUGH THE WESTERN REGION, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT CLOSE TO 350 MILLION BARRELS THAT WILL COME OFF THE MARKET

Total exports jumped 21.8 per cent from a year earlier – the biggest gain in four years – to US$656.58 billion in the combined figures for January and February released by customs authorities on Tuesday.

By @sunyue_luna

www.scmp.com/economy...

"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time

(ABC) - The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as "an operational trigger" for "sleeper assets" outside the country, according to a federal government alert sent to law enforcement agencies.

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Escalation Management 🎉

Fucking rad that we’ve reached the point where the president and his state media apparatus are telling tanker captains to risk their lives and their crews without any military assistance just so maybe it’ll keep the economy from imploding but it probably won’t anyway.

Are we allowed to get the rest of the Epstein files now?

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@miamiherald.com

"China under the CCP will always remain stable", until it isn't

On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

DHS detains US citizen from Evanston at O'Hare, releases her in Wisconsin after nearly 2 days The woman's family said federal agents told them that she was not in custody despite her phone location previously showing her at the Broadview facility.

“At some point, the family said, they lost Naqvi's location that was being shared from her phone. Relatives said federal agents continued to tell them that Naqvi was not in custody, despite her location previously showing her at the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.”

Historian here Greg Sargent is right. A war of obliteration without purpose one that tanks our economy and destroys American hegemony, even our allies are not happy to put it mildly. Trump was truly sent to destroy the republic.

I like to look back on feted FP experts takes and smile as they still get fawned on for their insights at Aspen

They have good reason to issue such warnings.

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

We're running out of sky If Saudi or Azerbaijan airspace shuts, Europe will be cut off from Asia

We're running out of sky.

If Saudi or Azerbaijan airspace shuts, Europe will be cut off from Asia.

My newsletter, out now.

But, rather than receiving a formal invite to meet Trump, Farage was in fact invited to Mar-a-Lago by a member of the club, according to multiple people briefed on the matter They said Farage had hoped he would be able to catch Trump for a conversation as the US president was scheduled to travel to Mar-a-Lago that evening. However, Trump had a change in his itinerary and decided to stay instead in Doral, about an hour`s drive away The Reform leader's failure to secure an audience with the US president underscores a weakening of ties between the two populist leaders who famously formed a close friendship in the vears before and after the 2016

Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

A tale as old as time

The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?

Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016