Jeff Mosenkis

how do you not do this before launching a war on iran

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I believe someone called that the passive exonerative tense

Mid-20’s to Early 30’s Man’s War tester better with key demographics

Can’t he issue an executive order nullifying them?

Does anyone here know any historians or political scientists who study wartime propaganda? Bonus points if they specialize in the American context specifically, but not necessary

Flexport's Ryan Petersen says we're seeing weird, second-order effects in freight disruption -- like a 55% increase in shipping rates this week "in the Vietnam-US sea lane, of all things."

@cnbc.com

I was just thinking, this is what happens when you fire the professionals and keep only yes men around

Surely the military has gamed this out many many times and had a plan written down somewhere??

John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”

1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.

First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP

In a flurry of spending before the fiscal year ran out, in one month the DoD spent more than the annual budget of USAID, whom this administration had accused of waste that never materialized

They had to have run this for the hate clicks, right?

Don, you're genius is only rivaled by the algorithm that gave me an ad above that article for a memory foam pillow

(Gated source: carbon-pulse.com/490403/?site...)

Liberia fact of the the day.

Look, the novel infections disease understanders and tariff impact knowers must move to new areas when they are needed

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...

Corpus Christi is in trouble in terms of water supplies for refineries and has wasted years trying to unsuccessfully build desalination plants. www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...

Sturgill Simpson - Call To Arms [Live on SNL] YouTube video by Johnny Blue Skies

For a change the algorithm did its job a picked the right time to bring up maybe the best modern SNL musical performance

youtu.be/qsrsrOB0zNQ

@oddthisday.bsky.social
Six years ago. Kiwi as 👍🇳🇿

MacKenzie Scott’s more than $26 billion in charitable gifts have arrived without warning and have led to bolstered finances, scholarships and jobs The injections of cash, which arrive without warning, have led to bolstered finances, scholarships, jobs—and sometimes even more money.

The injections of cash, which arrive without warning, have led to bolstered finances, scholarships, jobs—and sometimes even more money. on.wsj.com/40eoPwO

A picture of a USAID forever sign

spotted in DC ❤️

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

Another wise move

Poly crisis

Do you think gulf states that gifted Trump/Kushner families are wondering if they can get a refund @donmoyn.bsky.social ?

a man is making a surprised face with the word what written below him ALT: a man is making a surprised face with the word what written below him

But they’re in the financial *services* industry!
(our meeting with the university provided TIAA rep always starts with my asking if he’s a fiduciary and him hemming and hawing)

I got an ad email from Fidelity (where I think my state defaulted me into high fee 529 accounts) advertising a webinar on crypto investing (to be clear I don’t know what side they were taking on it)

Texas Hippie Coalition - Gunsmoke (Official Music Video) YouTube video by THCmusicVEVO

That might be a coalition situation

youtu.be/5SUSYlT_cgQ

(And which AI/model?)