@ptrombley
Formerly Sunflower Seeds on twitter 1. Fox "news" is the ringleader of a multi-billion dollar agit-prop machine. 2. SLAVA UKRAINI! 3. Dogs rule. 4. Avid member of The Bulwark 5. TB Lightning HOCKEY! 6. Florida Water Family, Gulf of Mexico
“Planning around preventing this exact scenario — impossible as it has long seemed — has been a bedrock principle of US national security policy for decades,” a former US official who served in Republican and Democratic administrations said. “I’m dumbfounded.”
edition.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...
Against “The People”
by Jonathan V. Last of @thebulwark.com
"What we are talking about is the civic version of depraved indifference."
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Let me get this right.
At a time when our country is incredibly vulnerable to terrorist attacks, Trump's Cabinet has directed the entirety of of our security apparatus inward...
to arrest gardeners, field hands, food delivery guys, restaurant workers, nannies, children, babies, & legal protesters.
Gee, if only there had been a way to see this coming as a result of an utterly pointless and globally unpopular (except with Putin and Netanyahu) war-of-choice by one demented choad desperate to divert attention away from his child rape history and his tanking of the US economy.
(ABC) - The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as "an operational trigger" for "sleeper assets" outside the country, according to a federal government alert sent to law enforcement agencies.
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Writer Adam Serwer at The Atlantic (GIFT link here) and scholar Edward Harrington (OPEN substack link below).
The gullibility infection.
Mr. Serwer coins a cute new term.
Mr. Harrington discusses many studies that explain how and why this brain-rot happens.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This cartoon is 10/10, no notes
Nasa pulls off a real-life Armageddon with asteroid smash
For the first time, scientists have deliberately changed the course of a celestial body. Could it help save Earth from future catastrophic impacts?
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
“Super El Niño” for late summer /fall? That’s the latest European seasonal model forecast that came out today. It’s not holding back! The average forecast is for +2°C or higher sea surface temp anomalies over the Pacific El Niño region. In It could put the next El Niño in top 3 status on record 1/
It also means huge heat will be lofted into the atmosphere,
(which has been stored in the subsurface Pacific during cool La Nina) that would mean Earth likely sets new all-time heat records in late 2026-27 -and- it will super charge heat waves and storms/ flooding next fall/ winter (non tropical).
Big dawg El Niño coming this summer and fall! This is a bit science-y… but easy. So follow along. You are looking at a vertical cross section of the tropical Pacific Ocean at the Equator with depth downward deep into the ocean. Left side is west near Asia. Right side is east near South America 1/
New study from one of the most prominent climate research institutes in the World (in Germany) shows global warming is accelerating - a lot. The most recent decade 2015-2025 has seen the rate of warming almost double!! 1/
I was on a Jet Blue flight this week and noticed on their in flight tracking maps they name the Gulf of America as the body of water south of Texas. I almost barfed.
American war propaganda (picked up by FOX) now maintains that the United States has been at war with Iran for 47 years.
This obviously untrue claim implies that the USA has been a Saudi client state working against Iran for the better part of half a century.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.
Whew.
All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.
And here they say the true thing. Payday for ExxonMobil and Cheniere.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...
Tax cuts for corporations. Healthcare benefits cuts. Tariffs (tax increases for regular people). And now, a war that is going to cost $1B a day. And in the meantime, gas and natural gas prices are going to be a HUGE tax on regular Americans that is directly attributable to this war of choice.
Unsere neue Studie: die Erderwärmung hat sich ab 2015 erheblich beschleunigt. Die rote Kurve zeigt 10-Jahres-Trends, um je 1 Jahr versetzt; der letzte ist 2015-2024.
Die blaue Kurve zeigt den Trend vor und nach dem objektiv bestimmten change point.
👉 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
This is going to be a HUGE issue for this year and next year. The tropical Pacific is the heat engine of the planet. This is the engine going into overdrive. You WILL notice this in your day to day lives.
I was in Orlando last week at a reinsurance conference. It was a red flag day and the forest looked like you could drop one match and it would go up. I had never seen with my own eyes and felt why FL had such wildfire risk. But it was obvious. Hair on the back of your neck stands up obvious.
Ville tatt en prat med ‘Historie professor på UiT’ er jo referert av Toje - antagelig løgn den samtalen og. Merkelig at det ikke finnes intellektuelle høyrevridde som samtidig er redelige 🤷♀️
GIFT article NYTimes.
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, is Released Independently
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...
GIFT article NYTimes
Gov't report (National Nature Assessment) killed by President Convicted Felon, is released independently.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...
There have been some very bad developments today.
Live with Raw Story America
I was not aware that Mitt Romney (Bain Capital) ended Air America radio....
Great discussion here first 12-14 minutes about Dems historical (& catastrophic) failure to enter the fight against right-wing takeover of media.
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
Lieu: “Did Liam [Ramos] commit a crime?”
Noem: “Liam was not detained. His father was, and his father abandoned him.”
Lieu: “You're not telling the truth.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to short-circuit state bar ethics investigations into department attorneys through a new and unexpected proposed rule. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
The US Agency for Global Media, which is run by Kari Lake, has just failed an audit. The organization's finances are too chaotic even to assess.
www.stateoig.gov/report/aud-f...
