10/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this.
Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.
His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.
Russian hookers and teens. And the pictures that resulted.
Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions.
If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.
The rise of app-based sports gambling was the result of a Supreme Court opinion written by Sam Alito applying a doctrine invented by Antonin Scalia. Also sports gambling is not legal in Minnesota
Just bought this for vacation on the recommendation of you and a couple of others. Also got Meet Me in the Bathroom for a similar reason.
'LLMs as a disability aid for ADHD' just goes to show how many critical misunderstandings people have about ADHD.
Like literally the best coping strategy for ADHD is mindfulness. Writing your OWN notes. Keeping your OWN lists. Finding strategies that help YOU remember things. YOU, not a chatbot.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
I used to think of the ADL as a group that advances a general social/moral principle (anti bigotry) in a particular underserved case, like the NAACP. Now I see it as just a right wing group with its particular fig leaf like the NRA. It is to Jewish people what Moms for Liberty is to librarians
It's all a f-ing TV show to these clowns. Guess that's the way it works when you never get out of Mom's basement.
Pete Hegseth thinks his butch drag is convincing. It was, at least for the MAGA bro crowd, for a time.
But now that he's waging an idiotic war on Iran, a lot of his fanboys are freaking out.
It was all manly role-play! They didn't want a real war!
www.salon.com/2026/03/13/p...
Two things here.
One, you don't sit there and whine about media coverage and headlines if things are going well.
Two, the administration is just outright saying that they fully expect Ellison to use CNN to be a Trumpist propaganda organ.
This is the pentagon press corp now: hand picked propagandists
The February jobs report and the revised Q4 GDP report combined with the ongoing energy price shock open up a very different distribution of macro outcomes than people were thinking about two weeks ago.
Great point from @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social: From Minneapolis to the Mideast, Trump keeps discovering that he can't bully and bullshit his way through. Failure to grasp real-world complexities keeps blowing up in his face.
On the pod, Nick is so illuminating:
newrepublic.com/article/2077...
Goodbye Stranger is an underrated guitar solo. But I do love those 4 minutes (!) of sax/piano work at the end of Child of Vision.
That is a banger track indeed.
More like they've had stuff PUSHED ONTO THEM that led them that direction. We should ask how they got turned onto Fuentes' BS to begin with. Not surprisingly, these guys didn't get out of the house at age 18 to meet other people.
And we should tell him that BDS stuff is due to right-wing fundies.
It's worth noting that Trump was always promoted as a savvy businessman when he is, in fact, one of the dumbest businessmen ever and seems to know virtually nothing about economics.
Oh, so we can borrow even more and have even more inflation on top of oil that's up 70% for the year and 43% since this stupid adventure in Iran began?
Hey Donnie, this one's on you. Deal with it.
This has been an excellent listen. And Henry nails what the oligarch class wants - for most everyone else to be their servants. And when the shit hits the fan, the oligarchs can go in their rocket ship or bunker and avoid the fallout.
www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
NEW: Under Trump, mental health care for vets is getting squeezed
VA is bleeding shrinks & *not replacing them*
One told me she's so overloaded her sessions can be *16 mins*
She's had to online sessions w/ 35 vets
How is that therapeutic? It's not, she said
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year:
-1.4 million people on Medicaid
-19 million kids getting free school lunches
-1.4 million people getting affordable housing
-1.1 million hungry seniors fed
-0.8 million children given free child care
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
I'm not a commodities guy but I don't know how many more events like this the markets will be willing to overlook because Trump occasionally shouts, "nearly done!" at a reporter from his golf cart.
The split within Trump's voting base over Iran is very real.
Media figures whose income depends on agreeing with dear leader are still onboard publicly, but at the grassroots level, the tentative Trump voter is not into foreign wars and deporting their honest neighbors.
Ah, I was looking at outlays expected. So in theory Trump/GOP could blow all of that budget authority at once and then not have anything extra available for future years?
Yikes, I guess I misread the CBO table of the time.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
Yeah, any war supplemental request should be an opportunity for not only calling out this stupid war, and for the extra spending in the OBBBA, which was stolen from food and medical aid.
Military got an extra $41 billion or so in OBBBA, right? Take it out of that.
