Spike in web traffic for the TNW report on April 5-6-7 annotated with the timing for Trump's posts about massive attack.

Folks were thinking about it

Nations tried to impose a digital fog of war in Iran. The results are mixed Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.

NEW: Governments on all sides of the Iran conflict have sought to censor information coming out of the war. Here's an in depth look at those efforts (and whether they're working).

www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

Vance Faces a High-Profile Test of His Negotiating Skills With Iran Talks

A few questions.

Is there anyone on the team besides Vance, Witkoff, and Kushner?

Interpreters?

Nuclear experts?

War/peace advisors?

Economics experts?

Iran experts?

What are their instructions from the President?

Where is Marco Rubio?

A long look at a QUICK STRIKE The grim realities of a faux nuclear war plan from 1958

For DOOMSDAY MACHINES this week, a post that has in some sense been in the making for something like a decade. It is a very close look at the "war plan," QUICK STRIKE, featured in the formerly classified 1958 film "The Power of Decision," produced for the USAF. doomsdaymachines.net/p/a-long-loo...

Imagine being a Fox chyron writer this week

So there's war, but no it's not. Genocide but nvm. A cease-fire, but it's off. A 10-point plan that is going to make us rich, but now it's a hoax.

It's just a lot to keep track of if you're MAGA, right? Like yeah vaseline on the lens, but what even is the bottom-line vibe they're supposed to feel?

Hear me out

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I really hope this is what it sounds like in the Nunciature these days

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

It's never the actual journal's fault!

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Everyone knows this industry sucks but it really is just a shakedown racket

Sorry but there's already a DAWG

Finally a chance to unwind the last couple days

Hard to say there's much left in the latency strategy after this, right? If the barrier to strikes is no longer there despite missile + geographic means of deterrence, and lines like decapitation have already been crossed + today's threats, how can there not need to be something else?

Underrated possible outcome is that Trump just walks away like he did with the Houthis last year and Israel and Iran just shoot at each other for another 6 months.

so...

Tacos

Cap of Trump TS post

Trump: “I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for two weeks”

I swear I had plans for this specific dinner before all this

You heard him

The reason that the US President has the exclusive authority to order the use of nuclear weapons is because Truman set up the system along those lines after WWII. This is often depicted as either a power grab, or because in the nuclear age such decisions "must" be made quickly. This is false.

One person familiar with their interactions noted that Mr. Trump had a habit of confusing tactical advice from General Caine with strategic counsel. In practice, that meant the general might warn in one breath about the difficulties of one aspect of the operation, then in the next note that the United States had an essentially unlimited supply of cheap, precision-guided bombs and could strike Iran for weeks once it achieved air superiority. To the chairman, these were separate observations. But Mr. Trump appeared to think that the second most likely canceled out the first. At no point during the deliberations did the chairman directly tell the president that war with Iran was a terrible idea — though some of General Caine’s colleagues believed that was exactly what he thought.

What a day to look back a few weeks.

How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

This is astonishing.

"The president’s advisers could see that he had been deeply impressed by the promise of what Mr. Netanyahu’s military and intelligence services could do, just as he had been when the two men spoke before the 12-day war with Iran in June."

This is too late for today, but could complicate tomorrow

I just don't think anyone would go along with it. They'd say to Trump that would start a war with Russia or China and I think even he would get it and choose an alternative. Yeah he could still order it but he doesn't care about the specific means.

This is an area where deterrence theory only gets you so far. The truth is the president is a mentally declining racist who is facing strategic defeat by people he considers “animals.” This should probably factor into our nuclear risk assessments.

Paging Dr. Pape

A bit late, they are already on their way. bsky.app/profile/andr...