Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
democrats still seem to be laboring under the delusion that they can introduce stuff to pass while trump is president and they, not trump, will somehow get credit for it. they learned nothing from trump taking credit for covid stimulus checks
I’m betting there was a plan, but they likely fired all the people that knew it, hollowed out the departments that have knowledge of the region, and their computer systems were probably wrecked by DOGE so
I have to accept a lower standard of living why, exactly? For what? There has been zero business case made for this.
No oil tanker captain in their right mind would transit this. Gas is going to $9 per gallon, if you can get it.
Today’s fun fact: the reason shipping lanes in the Baltic are so damn narrow is that there are anywhere from thirty to one hundred THOUSAND unexploded mines in the waterway from the World Wars, and the lanes are where the bottom has been swept
That this war with Iran is unpopular in a way never before recorded in American history has seen remarkably little attention from the press
Everyone stop what you're doing, the Mariners are selling fries, nachos, and fish and chips in ferries now. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...
Much as Soviet propaganda accurately depicted the United States as a racially tiered society, Iranian propaganda has accurately depicted the Trump administration as entirely run by pedophiles.
I'm sure that the face scan requested will totally be deleted and not used for any form of real name registration by Palantir.
FAFO.
Charts from The Economist showing daily scheduled v tracked flights from DBX, KWI, DOH and RUH
These flights charts are an excellent addition to our Iran war tracker, courtesy of @fteoldi.bsky.social
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Somehow I imagine you working at the WeaselCo conglomerate, home of the Drain Weasel, Garden Weasel, and The Original Weasel Ball. But all of that is just a front for its real business, which is secretly building an interstellar spaceship.
Yes, because they know Democrats will cave. Your party leadership is looking for any possible way they can cave.
I'm sure Iran will be giving up their only leverage in exchange for nothing in return immediately.
They’re calling it the best-planned war of all time
Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
Some days it’s easy to forget that Apple strongarms Google and Microsoft to ship their iOS browsers as Safari with a thin coat of paint on top.
And some days I have to go find my Windows laptop or an Android phone to accomplish my goals.
Question - why would any country with a half-competent leader make any deal with the US right now?
Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
man i went on twitter and the timeline I got was just a full economy/ai/war crashout on all fronts this evening
This seems fine
We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.
Blowing up 160 schoolgirls: "the rules of engagement are woke and gay"
Blowing up the oil: "we must use the utmost caution so as not to upset the heroic Iranian people"
15/ "Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left" -@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Asian markets CRASHING as oil prices shot up 30%!
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I remember when Bluesky was convinced no one would leave the country for tax reasons: turns out people will rush to endanger themselves for tax reasons!
Suspect this won’t stop until Trump either de escalates or, more likely now, puts troops on the ground to secure the straight. Trump doesn’t like to admit defeat.
It’s too easy to go to war
