a. is he saying he was told oil is going to $300/bbl
b. It’s wild that he genuinely does believe “it can only could happen”

screencap from the 10k showing in the 3 monhts ended 31 march 2026, alaska spent 796m on fuel

for some comparison, in the quarter before, alaska spent $796m on fuel. they're expecting it to go to ~$1400m

Fuel remains the largest source of near‑term uncertainty. April fuel is expected to be approximately $4.75 per gallon, and we expect the quarter to average approximately $4.50 based on the forward curve today. This assumption adds approximately $600 million of expense to the second quarter, equivalent to an earnings per share headwind of $3.60. We expect to consume approximately 297 million gallons of fuel in the quarter based on our current capacity plan.

gork is this a lot news.alaskaair.com/company/alas...

it's at least cosmically funny how some folks in the admin were clearly setting up to blame israel for this debacle and then trump is like "oh nonono i made the decision to do this all by myself"

Two of your cities are in Arizona, though! I think it nailed you!

every detail i learn about rod dreher's life is a totally self-contained maniacal part of the whole, like my brain cells are each individual blind guys trying to figure out the elephant

On the least-normal website on God's Green Internet?

Donald Trump is very unpopular and being seen as opposing Donald Trump in clear moral terms is an almost instant path to political and cultural relevance.

All that said, I don't mean this an discouragement of travel. Being in a different place, even if truly unique experiences are hard to come by, is an unalloyed good for the mind.

You'll find the small differences and appreciate them.

I haven't really, either, and I imagine it is easier to be different, but I think it's also extremely possible to make it a EuroDisney experience if you don't seek out truly genuine things.

Not that you can't still seek out unique stuff in cities, but we've gone from it being the default experience to an active thing.

In a sense, "City" is almost a brand now, and one city vs another is mostly Disney World v Disney Land stuff.

Long term followers have heard it before, but one of the biggest bummers about travelling now is how easy it is to find the exact same shit everywhere.

And I don't mean like chains. I mean like being in a tiny mountain town of like 500 people and finding a 2013 Major City coffee shop.

the real lesson of Civil War is that cameras are actually more powerful than firearms

a picture is, it turns out, worth a lot more than a thousand words

We Forget About ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at Our Peril The abuses are piling up, and Democrats and activists are desperate to get the word out.

"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told me she saw 1,500 detainees housed in cages at the site, a cage area that smelled like urine, and one cage configuration where detainees appear to have no option but to go to the bathroom in front of everyone."

I guess Tim Cook’s real passion is presenting gold plaques to fascists

The problem is this post-Moses trend in treating the "community" as if it's monolithic and knows more about transportation planning than the experts. We as a society can say "more transit good, road expansion bad" and ask locals to weigh in on where staircases go, not "should this even happen?"

No joke, there must be 15,000 op-eds with this exact take.

Disgusting take. Everybody knows Philly is a New Jersey exurb and Pittsburgh is one for Ohio.

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

- Harry Truman

As Trump proves often, the reverse of this is also true.

It’s amazing how much you can fuck things up when the only thing you care about is getting the credit.

Kind of wild but it seems like Iran is the first major (person/institution/country) with the power to draw blood that Trump has picked a fight with that doesn’t have the incentive to be like “eh let’s kind of humor him and wait it out until he’s gone.”

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Explosive & really outrageous revelations in here about a billionaire's private surveillance network completely run amok.

If we can't stop Dolan from spying on us at MSG, let's at least cancel his sweetheart tax break. (1/2)

"Ukraine has a theory of victory that looks plausible, while Russia’s is crumbling. There is a path to Ukraine achieving drone dominance.... Russia bet that meat waves would overwhelm Ukraine while the US and Hungary blocked Western support, and failed."

there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term.

it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City

Why do I want the highest political body in the land to be an opaque cabal where I cannot understand who or what is being discussed and what the actual opinion of the Justices are, why is that a desirable system, exactly

... what the fuck

The AI bubble is like the dotcom bubble: It’s not that the Internet was some useless passing fad; it’s that a lot of money got poured into absolute horseshit before people started figuring out where the actual value was.

Wow that was a journey. This is my favorite part I think:

Them adopting it as standard care would probably lower the cost a bit, too. [It would be as a contracted price, not free market signalling, but still.]