5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.
But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?
They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.
3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.
2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal.
But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
"What this really amounts to is a four billion dollar tax to corn farmers in the United States."
Illinois farmer John Bartman joins @stephruhle.bsky.social to explain why the Iran war could make your grocery prices higher - and farmers' lives harder.
AD HOMINEM: Attacking the person, instead of their argument. Used by dangerous demagogues to mock and delegitimize legitimate opposition. #DemagogueForPresident
Rather than allow their conspiracy narrative to be punctured with evidence, demagogues attack the reporter who asks for evidence.
WTAF??!! This is insanely DANGEROUS!
This needs to be a bigger story. And folks should scream about it now, before an attack.
Ehrlichman argued that the break-in at Ellsberg's psychiatrist was justified under the President's "inherent power," Ervin argued it was not.
Ehrlichman: "How do you know that, Mr. Chairman?"
Ervin: "Because I can understand the English language! It's my mother tongue!”
Wow, this is great work! As a lifelong NYer, I never understood why they stopped expanding subway lines - as the real estate values (tax revenue) spike wherever transit is available. So it should pay for itself over time.
Q: Any consideration given to connecting LaGuardia to 125th MNR?
We've posted the slides and a printer-friendly version of our subway expansion report, A Better Billion!
Slides: transitcosts.com/ABB_Presenta...
Printer-friendly PDF: transitcosts.com/A_Better_Bil...
NYT write-up: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...
The OG interactive: transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...
AT&T customers are underestimating the impact of the copper retirement. In reality, a lot of those "IP" and U-verse circuits are still delivered over legacy copper pairs in the last mile. This means AT&T’s copper exit by 2029, with aggressive milestones hitting some wire centers as early as 2027.
Thank you for covering this story. Please stay with it, throughout the process, as there is no “solution”. Infrastructure is hard, and infrastructure mistakes are even harder.
The Cross Bronx Expwy may be the most hated road. The 7-mile stretch runs like a scar over the poorest congressional district in the US, and all-day traffic contributes to high asthma rates. Can the state's $900M repair plan do more good than harm?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...
Pritzker’s invoice to White House:
(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov
Yes! Upload speeds on most cable systems like Spectrum are anemic. Fiber connections like Fios generally deliver symmetric bandwidth (same upload and download).
There is no widespread voter fraud nationwide. No facts, no proof to support it. Therefore, there is no need for new federal legislation to tell the states, which have the primary responsibility for elections under our Constitution, how to run elections.
www.ourrepublicanlegacy.com/post/our-rep...
New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
I finally have a newsletter!
It's called The Fine Print* and I'll be writing about tech, media, politics, consumer rights (and whatever else I damn-well please).
It's free, but if you have disposable income, you can support independent reporting for just $50/year or $4/month.
Trump posted more than 60 times on Truth Social last night, but he handed his phone to an “unknown staffer” when the video depicting the Obamas as apes was posted?
GTFOH
This moment is bringing out the best in some of us (like this speaker) and bringing out the worst in others of us. This is a time for choosing to live a life that you're proud of, or not. ❤️
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
US intelligence -- of which this wingnut is the titular head -- has no damn business meddling with voting. This madness flows from lunatic conspiracy theories. What Gabbard's doing here (and in Georgia) is an attack on our democracy and our freedom. It has to stop.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
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President Trump needs to keep his hands off Greenland before he gets us into an insane war with our treaty allies Denmark and NATO and rescind his threats of more destructive tariffs on US consumers. Congress must reclaim its Constitutional powers and act!
www.ourrepublicanlegacy.com/post/orl-sta...
Many attending a Chester village board mtg Monday night correctly called it a “concentration camp.” Attention is high and public opinion is shifting rapidly against ICE’s operations and existence. This isn't just NIMBYism anymore, it's fierce moral outrage. (2/2) open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
A report from Chester, NY, where unofficial word that ICE is planning to build a new mass detention center in a former Pep Boys warehouse has turbocharged local activists already more in motion because of Renee Good’s murder and the attack on Minneapolis. (1/2)
We should absolutely support the people of Iran who are fighting back against a brutal regime that has repressed them.
But if the President wants to use military force, the Constitution requires authorization from Congress. He cannot just do so without our authorization.
