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Seattle native but Angeleno to the core. Teacher, writer, story-coach, failed iconoclast https://linktr.ee/cjsingerwrites

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When things are going well

12.03.2026 04:33 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Man I cannot tell you how uninspired I am about choosing btwn Steyer, Swalwell and Porter.

12.03.2026 04:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They get used intercepting the early waves of missiles and drones.

12.03.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They're not, they're expensive and we have (had) a limited supply

12.03.2026 04:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Case in point.

12.03.2026 04:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Early on someone said that Iran's strategy would involve depleting defensive weapons and interceptors with junk rockets and drones and then go hard on vulnerable targets with more advanced weaponry. They seem to have been correct.

12.03.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That was a wonderful goodbye to Christopher Plummer

12.03.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Reporting for operation fresh dawn o7

12.03.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cyberattacks aren't rare but we're probably in for a lot more of them for the next several *years* because of Trump's war.

12.03.2026 00:43 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is Baghdad Bob level

12.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Massive dish-soap injections to create oil volcanoes so we can collect the spew with balloons.

11.03.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The black line is when the SPR announcement happened. You can see how much it affected market expectations

11.03.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

"next few weeks." "Hopefully."

11.03.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's about a week's supply and leaves us with only one week in reserve should things go poorly for us at some point in the future.

11.03.2026 23:30 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Wait' we never restored the 220k barrels we dispersed during Covid? We didn't think to refill it when oil was $60/bbl?!

11.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Man 90s indie

11.03.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't want to diminish the atrocity of murdering innocents which we all should be and are outraged about, but we should save some rage for the wanton destruction of monuments to our shared eons of cultural and physical history. This is awful.

11.03.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Who the hell knows man

11.03.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't want to diminish the atrocity of murdering innocents which we all should be and are outraged about, but we should save some rage for the wanton destruction of monuments to our shared eons of cultural and physical history. This is awful.

11.03.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

At any point, you say?

11.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm blaming my screen for the fact that I'm not superhuman.

11.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Iran Says Some Countries Share Intel on US Military Moves: TV
ByΒ Eltaf Najafizada
(Bloomberg) --Β β€œWe maintain good intelligence relations with foreign countries β€” I do not want to name them β€” and they monitor and control movements using satellites,” Rahim Safawi, senior military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, tells state-run TV.
β€œEven when US aircraft take off from America or from their bases, or when their carriers move, we are informed online and in real time,” he said

Iran Says Some Countries Share Intel on US Military Moves: TV ByΒ Eltaf Najafizada (Bloomberg) --Β β€œWe maintain good intelligence relations with foreign countries β€” I do not want to name them β€” and they monitor and control movements using satellites,” Rahim Safawi, senior military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, tells state-run TV. β€œEven when US aircraft take off from America or from their bases, or when their carriers move, we are informed online and in real time,” he said

11.03.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

11.03.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait I missed the 3rd-party intel thing. Can someone reply with a link?

11.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That's a very low-flying projectile, almost like it was floating in the water.

11.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not everyone from 2004 is dead yet

11.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This war is going to cost its accidental participants so much more in actual blood and treasure than it's going to cost the countries that instigated it.

11.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran War Update 7 Events from the last 24 hours

The chaos continues.

11.03.2026 12:53 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

It's mostly that restarting production in the Santa Barbara strait is an environmental disaster waiting to happen.

11.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This war is going to cost its accidental participants so much more in actual blood and treasure than it's going to cost the countries that instigated it.

11.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0