“War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.”
~ Ernest Becker, American cultural anthropoligist (1924-1974)
I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right.
But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.
For the love of God stop moving the clock and just pick one. The number is arbitrary, it doesn't matter which one you pick. Just stop messing with it.
The kids and the dogs are very confused. Id say the cat too, but let's be honest, it doesn't care.
Just noticed that my microwave oven miraculously is showing the correct time again.
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s. on.wsj.com/4rhSXCo
"the Shaquille O'Neal of girls' basketball" scored 40 points going 18 for 20 against UMD.
Incredible story about some ill wager a lot of people wouldn't expect this story to be about just looking at pictures.
Change your idea of what's possible and the impossible starts to happen.
Just realized that the Iraq War (2003) is as far in the past for my youngest son (b. 2023) as WW2 was when I was born.
When Anthropic announced the start of testing on Friday, security vendors, and the markets, sat up and took notice. But is the panic warranted?
www.csoonline.com/article/4136...
For those of you who'd like to read it, instead of shaking your fist at half the title, here you go:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Had to doublecheck the date on this
Based on reading one (1) book about Iran and looking at a map of the region I have questions like “what happens if a civil war spurs a refugee crisis spilling over into Pakistan? Could that trigger a coup in a country with nukes? How would India react to that? What about Israel?”
Sidebar but I am reading about India/Pakistan partition and boy religious nationalism leads to some really bad places, probably should stick with liberal pluralism.
Without Trump’s trade wars since 2017, US exports to China would have been nearly 60 percent higher in 2025, or roughly $90 billion annually.
www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
Republicans screamed to high Heaven about the U.S. not evacuating friendlies from Afghanistan, but today Americans, and not just diplomats, are trapped in-theater while we wage war on Iran because nobody made a plan for them.
I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:
Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.
Seems bad
?
I understand media is a tough business. All too well. But the problem of paywalls is serious -- good information is often behind the wall and the lies and disinformation are free. (Not counting public media obviously.) So if you want to help inform your fellow human? POST. THE GIFT. LINK. 😘
We are officially doing too much. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
The Whooping Crane Recovery Shows What We Stand to Lose www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o... #endangeredspecies
“It’s a little bit like asking, when the Archduke Ferdinand got killed, what the macroeconomic consequences would be, and having no idea what was next,” Mr. Rogoff said. “When World War I started, everyone thought it would end in a month.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...
"The US-Israeli operation that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader has done what 4 years of Russian budget planning could not: push the price of Russia’s crude oil back to the level Moscow needs to fund its war against Ukraine."
Really wish I could quote post a few of your threads on this topic.
"We are beaten and happy because we believe ourselves unbeaten and victorious." - Proust
A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them.
I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran.
So here goes nothing. 🧵
Reporters should ask the administration -- if a foreign power bombed the United States, would they expect the American people to respond by suddenly demanding the Trump administration be removed from power, or would there be a different reaction?
Especially if the bombs had hit a girls' school?
“Mr President, your approval ratings are in the toilet, the economy is looking increasingly brittle, and you are sailing one tide ahead of a swarm of personal and corruption scandals. The midterms are looking ominous.”
“What if I started a war of choice and made gas $7 per gallon this summer?”
The @nytimes.com & @theatlanticpr.bsky.social are out w/ articles reflecting their stance on the Iran bombings. @washingtonpost.com editorial is quiet. Guess they're too scared to have an opinion.
I'm going to subscribe to a paper. Time to jump to @nytimes.com
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
read for free
US and Israel attack Iran; Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government
People raced to shelter from explosions in Tehran as Trump announced a “massive and ongoing” assault. Israel joined the attack, as the Middle East braced for Iranian retaliation
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
Fast response by NYT editorial board
(gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...
