An editor was like why are you using this word? Isn't it some bullshit Wall Street types say? And I appreciated it www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/s...
An editor was like why are you using this word? Isn't it some bullshit Wall Street types say? And I appreciated it www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/s...
Video from a Chinese cargo ship which shows an Iranian Shahed-136 striking an oil tank at the Port of Salalh in Oman.
🎙️ I was thrilled to rejoin @weisenthal.bsky.social & @tracyalloway.bsky.social on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss the historic and ongoing disruption of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which ~20% of the world's oil flows
This is it. This is the big one
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He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The largest refinery in the world only cost a few billion dollars. Come on people www.valleycentral.com/news/local-n...
The first thing US/Israel did was kill the country's religious and political leader, and a school full of children. In other words created martyrs from top to bottom. bsky.app/profile/revk...
New: The number of days where extreme heat makes it too dangerously hot to walk the dog, sweep the porch and engage in other ordinary pursuits has doubled since 1950. Older people experience a month a year when heat prevents them from routine activities. Free link.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
If you're American your taxes are paying to blow up children. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...
As AI becomes critical to national economies, cloud infrastructure becomes a wartime target. Drone strikes on Amazon sites in the Gulf may force the industry to rethink where it builds https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-amazon-data-center-strikes/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky
We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Church in LA Ktown with a sign that says IF YOU ARE MORE FORTUNATE THAN OTHERS BUILD A LONGER TABLE NOT A TALLER FENCE
Immanuel Presbyterian Church in LA’s Koreatown. “If you are more fortunate than others, build a longer table, not a taller fence.”
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
Everything people said 11 years ago about Trump being mercurial and dangerous has proven true, not that it ever seemed in doubt www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
I’ve been trying a thing where I call old friends just to have a chat. I highly recommend it.
NEW – Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says
✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here ⬇️
Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise'
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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#iran
Greenpeace Germany has made an interactive map of the oil tankers stuck east of the Strait of Hormuz, with information about the tankers, and oil dispersion simulations if there was an oil spil of selected tankers
maps.greenpeace.org/maps/gpde/ho...
Description in German in the post below
Since last year, I and Al Shaw & @bxroberts.org have investigated the linkages between Trump appointees and the industries they oversee. Today we published a searchable database containing approximately 3,200 financial disclosure forms of roughly 1500 officials.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Qatar has reportedly suspended the production of liquified natural gas. That means more reliance on U.S. LNG, including in Europe -- just as the U.S. oil industry was strategizing to dismantle European climate regs.
American oil cos has already used that growing reliance to their advantage
Past fossil-fuel price spikes left import-dependent countries with two options: pay up or cut fuel use. Now there is an alternative in solar and batteries.
I looked at recent examples in Europe, Pakistan, Cuba to glean what might happen with the war on Iran.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Bro, are you fucking kidding me rn??
US launches military operations in Ecuador - POLITICO share.google/Rxx2PtZgXpzM...
Gift link while it lasts.
ICE using AI to file subpoenas quickly, buying private data to get around sanctuaries and using facial recognition.
How ICE’s new software tools could speed up deportations
economist.com/science-and-...
'Rule by far-right movements hence does not “conserve” anything. It enshrines what Camus calls “gangster morality”: “an inexhaustible round of triumph and revenge, defeat and resentment.”'
Gig workers in Africa helped train AI systems for a company that performed work for a secretive U.S. military unit. Many were never told their work could be used for military purposes https://restofworld.org/2026/gig-workers-us-military-appen/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky