Exclusive: Sweden has intelligence indicating Russia's systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its war spending & western sanctions, Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden Military Intelligence, told me & @maxseddon.bsky.social
railroads were expensive
from finn on twitter
Great to know we have an objective jurist who focuses on the merits of the cases before him on the Court
The Strait is dead for the foreseeable future. Trump can say it's blocked or unblocked or whatever. Tankers aren't going until this shit is sorted out in some permanent way.
Schrödinger's Strait
wait what? billionaire jets doing ICE deportation charters???
I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason?
just a wild country
Hampshire College to close permanently after fall 2026 semester Emma McCorkindale
While Hampshire’s case is in some ways unique, it is amazing to think that in a single lifetime - about 70 years - the US founded the greatest public and liberal arts college system in the world and then destroyed it, to build prisons, give tax cuts to the rich, and own the libs
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
The Telegraph Solar power threatens to overwhelm electricity grid Operator at risk of paying households to consume excess supply for the first time, warn energy chiefs
Well done to the Telegraph for making this look like a bad news story.
I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy:
There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
You should definitely read this ...
Europe’s dependence on foreign energy makes it tougher for the ECB to keep prices stable, writes Executive Board member Frank Elderson.
Meeting clean energy targets would help by reducing the impact of volatile global markets on domestic energy prices www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...
"What Iranians deserve is so ordinary is almost embarrassing to say aloud. They deserve not to spend their mornings calculating whether they will survive until evening. They deserve to be seen as people... not as acceptable losses, not as the unfortunate human context around a geopolitical problem."
Believe it or not, this was peak AI summarization. This is basically AGI
When Trump says, Russia Russia Russia,
…it’s no hoax
Trump is losing his war
Ummm.....
Bloomberg reports that, with Ust-Luga and Primorsk both being offline, 45% of Russia's oil export capacity is gone.
And with fires so large that the smoke is visible from Finland and Estonia, don't expect either to be fixed quickly.
We don't need no water, let the MFs burn.🔥
"The crisis also feeds into Beijing's narrative that China is now the only superpower defending peace, free trade and multilateralism, painting itself as the hero confronting the aggressive and selfish United States.
"The US-Israel military intervention in Iran is very unpopular in several […]
China’s liquefied natural gas imports this month are on pace to hit the lowest level since 2018, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Kpler, as a price spike caused by the conflict in the Middle East curbs demand.
This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.
trump with second delay on self-imposed deadline…now paused until us troops are expected to arrive in persian gulf.
Trump denies he's 'desperate' to make deal with Iran, insists Tehran is 'begging' for one (ABC News)
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No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...
We've got to continue waging the war to get something back that we had before we started the war.
Its the specificity of his nonsense which is always curious. Not ‘200 years ago’, but 182 (no-one discovered the paperclip 182 years ago, indeed it wasn’t ‘discovered’ at all).
