You know it’s bad when a dozen insiders start leaking who is to blame.
Not unlike Trump miscalculating on how bad Covid would be, now it’s:
“How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
George
A masterclass by @davidjbier.bsky.social on how to maintain your composure and principles in the face of people unable to do either.
We don't need to yell or mock because the facts, the law, and common decency are on our side, as David made apparent before someone unfit to hold the seat he's in.
Im sure no one in the Admin was gambling their own money on this little episode to get rich while messing with the global economy and world order. They wouldn't do such a thing.
The AI for Democracy Action Lab @protectdemocracy.org represented these principled scientists and researchers on this brief today in what we hope will be continuing stances of solidarity like this within the industry on red lines for democracy and human freedom.
The case has also rippled through the industry in other ways. On Monday, more than three dozen engineers, scientists and researchers working at rival AI companies Google and OpenAI issued a legal briefing in support of Anthropic. The employees, who are building Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT software and who signed the briefing in their personal capacities, argued that the Pentagon’s decision created unpredictability across the industry, undermined American competitiveness and stifled legitimate and important debates about AI’s deployment. The signatories included Dean, Google’s chief scientist and a longtime leader of the company’s work on AI. (The Washington Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.) “By silencing one lab, the government reduces the industry’s potential to innovate solutions,” the briefing said. The employees noted that they represent the spectrum of political viewpoints but that they were united in the belief that there must be guardrails around the use of AI to create autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Some AI competitors are coming together to oppose Trump's strong-arm tactics against Anthropic.
This is a very important development and critical to how a pro-democracy coalition defeats authoritarian threats.
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Pretty sure this is what they used to call war profiteering.
Correct: bsky.app/profile/cram...
And this is also true:
And now we shall see:
Called it!
Six years ago this week, an unplanned disaster engulfed the world. Trump catastrophically mismanaged it. The economy collapsed and 1m+ died.
Now reelected, he’s on the verge of topping that, only this time the disaster is entirely of his own making.
The results may be even worse.
Most likely: He announces that “the U.S. has won!”; Declares the war over and successful; and spins up some brand new super dramatic newly invented crisis (with a healthy dose of fear mongering) to try to shift attention but still control it.
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
“Donald Trump’s White House is blocking top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about rising threats to the homeland tied to his war with Iran, the Daily Mail can reveal”
The Pentagon just put this person -- who has boosted the views of white supremacist Nick Fuentes, among other unacceptable public posts -- in charge of its AI policy: www.reuters.com/world/us/sta...
Noem deserved to be fired. That is a win for the forces of the Constitution.
But the fact that Trump launched a war with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and then days into it fired his Homeland Security secretary is a level of reckless incompetence that should get him fired too.
I’m baffled why there is so little talk of the actual worst case scenarios.
Trump obviously doesn’t get them.
But the guns of August started as an assassination in Sarajevo.
This war is already expanding countries by the day.
And the world is filled with flammable tinder.
From FT comments
The long erosion of the constitution’s war powers structure has been a growing catastrophe, with Trump’s further escalation only risking worse.
Excellent history by @charliesavage.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
On the final day of candidate filing in Montana, former University of Montana President Seth Bodnar filed to run as an independent in the U.S. Senate race to unseat Steve Daines.
via @dailymontanan.com
If Trump said we all should stick our hands in a blender, the polling would be:
67% GOP approval
23% Indy approval
7% Dem approval
Why is the tail risk just "Iraq 2.0"? Why isn't it worse?
Russia supports Iran. Sure they're bogged down in Ukraine, but we're talking tail risks here.
If the US gets bogged down, China may see an opening re Taiwan.
When you light a match, worst case scenarios are not just a room burning down.
Five Republicans just voted with Democrats to subpoena AG Bondi over Epstein files.
She will now need to sit for a deposition under oath.
Trump is losing his grip on his party, over both Epstein and his deepening unpopularity.
Keep speaking up. It's working.
“I guess the worst case would be we do this and somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person,” he said. “Right, that could happen? We don’t want that to happen.”
That is not even close to the worst case scenario.
New YouGov poll finds that for the first time, a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump *strongly.* His overall approval is down to 38%, a new second-term low.
When is the last time a majority has disapproved strongly of a president?
@thefarce.org on @protectdemocracy.org’s Hilton v Noem lawsuit.
