today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason
virtue signaling is good. practicing virtue is better, but both signaling AND practicing virtue is best.
wow just wow
18 years ago today
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
Everything is bad, but at least I can focus on my dissertation chapter about how the British in 1915 didn’t have the navy to force a strait when it needed to because it spent the previous decades funding their army’s misadventures in unimportant areas that turned into expensive quagmires.
probably the best humiliation ritual I've seen
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
Matthew Yglesias is poking fun at the White House finally realizing its policy is too unpopular to run on? The guy who spent all of 2025 and until circa February of 2026 arguing Democrats shouldn’t even talk about Trump’s immigration/deportation policy? That Matthew Yglesias?
Just transit with caution, folks. That's all you need.
not sure how I feel about the fact that I apparently put considerably more thought into military operations in Hearts of Iron 4 than the US government does in real life
issuing an update to a previous tweet of mine, regarding the US military apparatus "CENTCOM": fuck
I torpedoed my 401k in the 2010s in large part thanks to Twitter. This is more of a function of who you choose to listen to rather than where you hang out imo
doing this without attaching it to a war powers vote is political malpractice
The Helicopter Mommy party: poised to swoop in on a split-second's notice to protect Republicans from the consequences of their own idiocy.
He has no rizz. Jeb! energy.
Iran has leverage and US offers are not even in the same zip code compared to what Iran is going to ask for
Iran's problem here is how do they stop Israel from doing this again next year? There was a ceasefire in place from last year's attacks.
Iran is creating leverage for itself but its ask is also going to be higher than last time.
I am embarrassed for this guy just reading this
Like watching a guy get kicked in the nuts so hard you feel a little sympathy twinge of pain
The bunker scene with Hitler from the Downfall movie
"No problem. Anduril has the technology to stop the mine layers."
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
Fuck it. I'm in with some size. YOLO
Honestly the best video I've watched in at least two weeks.
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
This crisis will continue to get worse until normal traffic through the Strait resumes, and, at this stage, even if the conflict ended today and tankers ramped back up to 100% Hormuz flow, it would still takes months to return to anything resembling normality.
I'm not an alarmist, but I am acutely alarmed
This is the scenario you would propose as a thought experiment to understand how shocks like this would ripple through the global crude and refined products markets (spoiler: EVERYTHING BREAKS)
It's educational, but it's terrifying
Yeah this is fantastic. And it's the core problem in industry right now, feels like much investment in the future has been halted in favor of "ship faster"
Image from X
sent this to the team today
everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible
and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that
