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Has Trump tried threatening to hold his breath until they remove the mines?
For Hormuz ship traffic "the reinsurance cascade cannot be reversed by political will on any timeline shorter than six months." shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/actuarial-...
Eagerly awaiting the Democrat Defenders' explanation as to why the Dems *had* to vote to confirm the NSA director today, and also why I expect so much of them when they are so smol and also it is their birthday
I really hope this lays to bed the idea that these guys are playing 12 dimensional chess. They're incredibly arrogant men with no vision, strategy, or understanding. It's incredibly dangerous re Iran and equally if not more dangerous in terms of what it signals to China and others.
So many average citizens have stood up to Trump.
Alex Pretti went to the street to protect his fellow humans, who the Trump regime was harming. He lost his life for it. Renee Good lost her life for resisting.
And sorry, but—these fucking cowards in the Senate can’t vote against Trump nominees?
18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's NSA director:
Baldwin
Coons
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kelly
King
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Whitehouse
how is this level of illiteracy possible? surely senior officers in the US military either know from self-education or learn from on-the-job training that ethnic identity, religious affiliation, and language fluency are different?
who thinks every Christian speaks Aramaic like Jesus did?
More than a few folks (rightfully) pointing out that this is down to everyone in the room now being incredibly stupid, but folks... I just don't understand how so many people could be so fucking stupid, at the same time, about this very specific thing.
Not having a plan to demine Hormuz is a ‘no winter clothes to invade Russia’ level planning error
The law of unintended consequences rules.
This is clearly fine with the GOP.
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
Show up and show out. Keep asking Republicans about lawless ICE agents and Trump's plans for concentration-camp warehouses. Make them own the policies that they were so eager to impose and which have done (and continue to do) so much harm.
Thank you! Inspiring!
New US governance strategy: acting on "feelings based on facts".
Just for fun, here are some images of the same DOGE douche (Justin Fox) at the raid on the US Institute of Peace via the MPD body cam footage I obtained:
absolutely unacceptable!
#SlavaUkraini
"The dramatic change in energy markets could not have come at a better time for [..] Putin [..]. The country’s energy revenues had been plummeting, with oil & gas companies contributing 44% less to Russia’s budget in February than in the same month a year earlier."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/w...
Setting aside how absurd it is that federal tax dollars went to something like this, can we take a moment to acknowledge that we have a federal agency comms division whose sole focus seems to be to equate its leader to an action hero? The post of HHS Secretary is now a vanity project.
“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”
You know what pisses me off about the announcement by Oz and Makary, now disproven, that leucovorin could treat autism?
It’s the false hope given to people with autism and those who love them.
If you’ve ever had a kid with a complex condition and you’re desperate for help, you are vulnerable.
So the US is neither a good place to travel to for science nor for fun/entertainment? Dark times ahead 🧪
H/T @alexwild.bsky.social
My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)
This problem was completely foreseeable before the war, by the way. It is a function of the geography of the Strait, and Iran has prepared to leverage it for decades. 3/4
a chart showing that. There's almost no impact on productivity for firms, the vast majority showing either no impact or a very, very small impact, less than 5%,
The impact of "AI" on productivity over for large firms over the past 3 years (US, UK, DE, Aus) according to NBERS
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www.nber.org/system/files...
I know our expectations for this administration are in the basement but it is INSANE they started a war without a plan for the Strait of Hormuz.
Graph of ERPO respondents in Michigan in 2024 and 2025 from https://www.courts.michigan.gov/493ab9/siteassets/reports/erpo-2025-annual-report.pdf
New data show that Michigan's "red flag" (ERPO) law was used 514 times last year, up from its 1st year in effect in 2024.
It lets law enforcement, health professionals & family members ask a judge to order removal of firearms from someone who poses an immediate danger to themselves or others. (1/3)
"...the United States has a lot of destructive power, some of it apocalyptic, and it worries me a great deal to think that the people at the helm of it are obsessed with violence for its own sake..."
Important contribution from @jamellebouie.net
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJjk...
Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.