Look at us. We are the somali pirates now.
US CENTCOM posts video of seizure of Crude tanker MV Tifani in the Indian Ocean, comes 2 days after seizing Iranian Cargo vessel MV Touska close to Chabahar port.
Florida is determined to join the rest of the South in driving away the middle class through making quality of life worse.
Florida officials gift prime Miami real estate for Trump's presidential library
Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet voted to give the parcel appraised at more than $66 million to the foundation that's planning the president's post-administration archives, www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/f...
For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi
A new report shows that Trump appears to support medical fraud, as long as corporate executives and other elites are the ones committing it. buff.ly/cn3eT0r
Ms. Sherman, who went on to become deputy secretary of state in the Biden administration, would go into these negotiations with a large posse. She often had the C.I.A.’s top Iran expert in the room, or nearby. So was the energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, an expert in nuclear weapons design. Proposals floated by the Iranians would be sent back to the U.S. national laboratories, where weapons are designed and tested, for expert analysis of whether the agreements being discussed would keep Iran at least a year away from a bomb. But Mr. Trump’s negotiating team travels light, with no entourage of experts and few briefings. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, the president’s son-in-law and the special envoy, learned their negotiating skills in New York real estate and say a deal is a deal. They say they have immersed themselves in the details of the Iran program, and know it well.
I think David Sanger is one of the most dangerous sanewashers of Trump's instability & this column ignores extent to which Iran War is a global negotiation & Trump is increasingly less likely to be the decided. But Trump reads him these two ¶¶ say quite a bit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
Military action alone will not solve the Houthi challenge. A smarter strategy would pair deterrence with economic pressure and stronger local governance in Yemen.
Trump did this 👇🏽
If Trump 2.0 has made anything more clear in this industry, it’s some version of the following:
You have a pretty good idea of who is gonna stand up for their fellow journalists vs. who has the first instinct to grovel, fold, and embarrass themselves in the long term.
ICYMI: The U.S. military continued its campaign against suspected narco-traffickers over the weekend, launching another strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean that killed three people, U.S. Southern Command said.
Afroman on Becoming the 2028 Libertarian Presidential Nominee
Afroman discusses his free speech court victory, why he thinks he could unite America, and whether he feels pressure to always be high.
reason.com/podcast/2026...
Department of Defense ends union agreements at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Workers for two unions at the shipyard said loss of collective bargaining protections could impact safety, pay, and working conditions.
www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...
Trump Considers Bailing Out His Family’s Major Business Partner
The Trump administration seems open to giving a massive lifeline to the UAE—which the country says it may need thanks to the war in Iran.
newrepublic.com/post/209273/...
Nothing financially fishy here, Elon?
www.reuters.com/legal/transa...
Tesla's Singapore subsidiary, Tesla Motors Singapore Holdings, reported approximately $18 billion in profits between 2023 and early 2025. This figure is notably high, representing 89% of Tesla's global operating income during that period, despite the company selling only 6,633 cars in Singapore.
Australia has reached an agreement, valued at up to $10 billion, to purchase 11 Japanese-built frigates, underscoring growing defense ties amid concerns about China's military expansion.
From Stars and Stripes' Seth Robson and Hana Kusumoto:
A reminder:
Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.
UPDATE: DOJ still going after this lawyer at 9th Circuit, seeking almost $6000 in legal fees from him over representation he performed pro bono.
Putting strict limits on the definition of treason and significant requirements for its proof was one of the smartest things the Founders did.
Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them
A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients bet tariffs will be struck down.
www.wired.com/story/cantor...
Meet the quiet winners of the Supreme Court tariff ruling: hedge funds creating a $100 billion market snapping up rights to importers’ tariff refunds fortune.com/2026/03/07/w...
The Supreme Court agreed to review the bid of Catholic preschools to participate in Colorado’s universal prekindergarten program, even as they deny admission to the children of LGBTQ+ parents.
From @caolanrob.bsky.social
Tremendous warning, sir, you should issue more of them, and more often.
"Strategically, Ukraine has a theory of victory that looks increasingly plausible, while Russia’s is crumbling....Russia bet the farm on the theory that meat waves would overwhelm Ukraine while the United States and Hungary blocked Western support, and failed."
www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraines-s...
The United States has invested heavily in high-end capability. The war in Iran suggests the harder problem is sustaining that force when losses mount, and logistics become contested.
On April 8, Israel warned residents to evacuate before hitting at least a dozen locations in Beirut’s southern suburbs, according to the Lebanese Civil Defense.
But the military also bombed central Beirut without warning, according to a Post analysis.
“Writing the United States off as a friend might once have been a sign of doom for Ukraine,” Phillips Payson O’Brien argues. “It isn’t anymore”: theatln.tc/WoOIskeE
🎨: The Atlantic. Sources: Nikoletta Stoyanova / Getty; Beata Zawrzel / Getty.
