Kenneth Silber

Why Trump Didn’t Plan for the Strait of Hormuz In wartime, the enemy always gets a vote.

Extraordinary folly and also not surprising. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Iran’s Cheap, Plentiful Weaponry Puts US Military Under Unprecedented Strain As the conflict extends toward a third week, an arsenal of attack drones and ballistic missiles has helped make Tehran unlike any adversary the US has faced.

The lack of preparation and strategy that went into this is incredible. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Weird back to back conversations earlier today. First, a long time Democrat took my head off bcuz I’m a proud Zionist and a huge supporter of Israel. And then a Trump supporter yelled at me bcuz I oppose Trump’s illegal/stupid war and I think Netanyahu has to go.

Gonna go walk the dogs.

Look for peace in the year 2073.

Facing Unreality Taking advice on consciousness from Michael Pollan, John Horgan, and Emma Stone. || Kenneth Silber

www.splicetoday.com/politics-and... Notes on reality, anxiety, and Emma Stone.

Every Element of Stephen Miller's Immigration Agenda Is Designed for Ethnic Cleansing He is effectively engaging in regime change to demographically purify America

"A state that learns to remove people by terror, coercion, and paperwork does not stop with foreigners. It learns something far more dangerous: that law is not a limit on power, but a weapon that can be selectively wielded against anyone." www.theunpopulist.net/p/every-elem...

You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.

A good picture of Trump’s ignorance, confusion, recklessness, incompetence and fantasy of being the unstoppable action-hero king of the world. And of advisers too scared to be tell him the upsetting plain truth. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

Q: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it?


TRUMP: You could say both

U.S. Capabilities Are Showing Signs of Rot When a military force begins to decline, the first symptoms may be subtle.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Much-needed antidote to hubris.

Central NJ friends, I urgently need help with signatures to qualify for the ballot. Come help, get swag!

I need at least 500...but we have to overkill, or else face legal challenges. Sign up to help in Princeton, Montgomery...or another town in NJ-12.

Earn a hat! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Trump’s Unauthorized War The Constitution grants Congress, not the president, the power to mobilize the military—and for good reason.

Why this war is illegal, and how the Constitution's checks on war powers broke down

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

Jayapal to Noem: "I want to introduce you to just four of the US citizens unlawfully detained by ICE ... they're in this room with us."

Support for abolishing ICE reaches 50% This marks the first time support has reached 50% in YouGov polling. Support for abolishing ICE has been steadily growing since January

So much to see in this poll. The country is breaking with MAGA. yougov.com/en-us/articl...

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?

"Hey Kurds, it's the United States. Remember us, from all the betrayals? Anyhoo, would love it if you all could march into this thresher for us. Let us know."

Fake footage of US-Iran war floods social media Social media users are using old and AI-generated images to make false claims about military strikes in the Middle East.

www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fa... Onslaught of fake videos.

Are prime numbers hiding inside black holes? The strange case for prime numbers at the heart of physics

The strange case for prime numbers at the heart of physics

Extraterrestrial Perspectives How aliens may assess developments on Earth. || Kenneth Silber

I write about alien views of Earth developments. www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...

Extraterrestrial Perspectives How aliens may assess developments on Earth. || Kenneth Silber

I write about alien views of Earth developments. www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...

epstein and the epstein class were so fucking desperate for validation they funded a cranberry bog of academics to explain why they were the master race, but yeah sure. it's women who only care about being admired

Someone asked me last week what I thought the worst thing about AI products in higher ed was - I replied that they eroded and destroyed the social compact of trust and expertise between teacher and student.

what even is the fucking point

#28 in Urquilla-Ramos v. Trump (S.D.W. Va, 2:26-cv-00066) – CourtListener.com MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER granting 1 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus; directing Petitioner be released immediately; Respondents are PROHIBITED from re-arresting and detaining Petitioner absent...

"Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Jeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture wars The academics in the Epstein files aren’t all criminals, but they shared beliefs about whose work matters.

"Could anyone have guessed that the celebrated titans of social science and psychology Epstein sought out would just happen to think that #MeToo went too far or that women aren’t temperamentally suited to careers in STEM?" www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...

Trump’s order to release evidence for aliens obscures the scientific search for extraterrestrial life The president on Thursday ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: What’s behind Trump’s order to declassify U.S. government documents about aliens and UFOs? How are scientists actually searching for ET? What happens next?

Here’s what some real experts have to say.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the ‘banality of evil personified’ in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

One tipster called after she went to Publix and the worker who helped her find the water didn't speak English. “And then she did help you find the water?"
Palmer asked on the call, to which the woman responded,
"Right, she walked me right to it." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Live Updates: Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs

Even a bending-over-backwards Supreme Court couldn't find constitutional justification for Trump's tariffs. A significant crack in the regime's power. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution