JustADog

Why do we need a strategy when we hold all the “cards”

Iran’s Control of Hormuz Means It’s Exporting More Oil Today Than Before the War Tehran is letting ships carrying its crude pass through the strait, while it scares off others that would dare.

Links

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’m sure that there is a plan for opening the straits, but it likely involves significant boots on the ground so it was rejected for the fantasy that Iran would surrender

Read somewhere that Iran has anti-ship missiles with range of ~75 mi. So draw a semicircle of that distance from the Iran shoreline and the 82nd airborne will be there

Yep. My thoughts on the third post three days ago:

bsky.app/profile/dw54...

Must’ve broken his arm installing it

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Getting closer along with the price of oil

I think this was a good and fair question that actually set @chrismurphyct.bsky.social up nicely to hammer home his point in an effective way

Ask Ukranians how well Witkoff's pleas to Putin work

I want my 14 months back

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

Two columns of the DOGE spreadsheet summarizing my book “Yes. Analyzing race and print culture explores historical racialization and its lasting societal impacts.”

It is crazy to see my project on DOGE’s ChatGPT hit list. “Yes” my project about race is about race.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Criminal

This Trump post deserves the famous stock New Yorker cartoon caption: “Christ, what an asshole”

In this case I really, really would have preferred to see him totally humiliated at the polls

- claims when he met with Trump pre-2024 his first question/demand was that Iran could not get a bomb
- obligatory thank you to Trump
- That the moment of truth for Iran is coming and the people should rise up.

- Israel is now, thanks to me,
a regional power
- after October 7 I made decision that we had to be daring and not sit back
- lots of horrible Iranian regime stuff
- a fair amount of almost Hegsethian rhetoric about killing and people that needed to watch out

Netanyahu just addressed the nation for, I think, the first time since the war began. As many have said, listen to what he says in Hebrew, not in English, so here’s a Tldr of the stuff you won’t hear in English:

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of misinformation fueled his primary loss: "The truth didn't matter" The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset. BY GABBY BIRENBAUM MARCH 6, 2026, 4:25 P.M. CENTRAL REPUBLISH SHARE

"Fire hurts," complains arsonist

www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...

My own personal candidate for where our boots on the ground will land within the next week or so

The leopards came for Dan.

If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.

I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath

There are 92 million Iranians

Irony rolls its eyes as it rolls over in its grave.

So you don't heave a missile into an elementary school, then fire a second missile into the school to finish off the survivors is why a professional military engages in dumb, politically correct rules of engagement. But no, American exceptionalism > 175 schoolgirls.