Now this is dumb, but would u believe me if I told you energy politics was also this dumb in the 70’s?
11.03.2026 05:34
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Now this is dumb, but would u believe me if I told you energy politics was also this dumb in the 70’s?
Matthew Yglesias is poking fun at the White House finally realizing its policy is too unpopular to run on? The guy who spent all of 2025 and until circa February of 2026 arguing Democrats shouldn’t even talk about Trump’s immigration/deportation policy? That Matthew Yglesias?
One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes
In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.
"I am convinced we built the border wall and have sequestered these places of mental and physical torture on military bases or in faraway rural counties not so that immigrants stay away, but so that we don’t have to see them." www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...
The people are always asked—demanded—they sacrifice. But ask it of the wealthy and suddenly it isn't a virtue anymore.
Laszlo marching over to the band and very calmly but confidently demanding they play La Marseilles despite knowing it might get him killed has gotta be one of the best moments in cinema
Helps bail out Trump from his own idiotic decisions, while reducing gov revenue and will earn no credit from voters in the process. Brilliant.
is it morally or legally right? no
has it achieved any long standing strategic aims outside of degrading iranian strike assets? no
did any plan go into thinking about the second-order effects of this conflict? no
Okay but let's see Bam do this against Mike James and Joey Graham and Matt Bonner
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Fox News was on at the gym over the weekend and the chyron said "WOKE MAPPING" to refer to gerrymandering and honestly I've gotta hand it to them, it's been rattling around in my head like Beat It for 48 hours.
A close second: the announcer saying "he'll come out right here" when Bam tied Kobe's mark at 81.
He very much did not come out right there! It would've been wild if he did!
I love the announcer mumbling "this is what it's about right now" as Bam spun into the foul that helped him break the record
The Democratic Party is unpopular at this moment. That’s not news and has been obvious. But, pretty reasonable bet that the party would recover its baseline standing - if its leaders in DC led around the values of the party base.
Jon Husted palled around with Epstein’s billionaire sugar daddy, so I guess people living in poverty missed out on that particular “experience”. What a corrupt ass.
I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!
This does suggest new ways for government employees with access to upcoming social media posts to bet in both the stock market and now prediction markets with the benefit of inside information.
This is a laughably inept possession 😂 wild that it resulted in a game-winner. Must be March!
TPUSA's "professor watchlist" and the cadre of students they've deputized to report on their professors and fellow students is the ground operation, but it's the bureaucratic long game that Vought and the Project 2025 folks are carrying out that's the far more substantial threat to US higher ed.
The flopsweat in Trump's posts is so embarrassing. How did we let someone this transparently dumb attain the heights of power
Old globes are the best. It’s educational for kids to learn that this stuff is contingent, not permanent! I grew up in a world with the “USSR” and “Zaire” and “Czechoslovakia” and there are dusty globes in attics and storerooms out there that reflect it.
there is an extremely long list of people who need to be held accountable in the next administration but sending the DOGE boys to big boy jail needs to be near the top of the list
You’d probably need round the clock ISR as well CAP, helos, etc. the biggest problem is that Iran only really needs the *threat* of mining the strait to further spook the markets
We’re winning the messaging battle against Trump’s extreme immigration policies, even while “popularists” who apparently haven’t read the news or the polls since 2024 bleat that we should be more cautious and accommodating
This kind of legislative schedule ⬇️ is just unthinkable today. Multiple bills each day! Amendments! Conference reports! Working six days a week, convening at 8:15 am!!!
DOGE (leftishly)
the issue right now is vested oil interests want to prevent the transition to clean energy, not that clean energy is somehow limited to being less than fossil energy
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
Protection and production. That's how we get to a future where everyone's human right to housing is upheld. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Not directly related to this, but it reminds me of how many “you should really think about India more like you think about Europe in terms of scale and cultural variance” I’ve had in the last few years
