As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...
I strongly encourage every American to visit the Gettysburg battlefield site, look down from Little Round Top, and decide for yourself whether Lee was a “brilliant military tactician.”
GOP Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz devised this off-ramp, Kennedy says on Fox: "Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, he said no. ‘No deals with the Democrats.’ It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the president said no deal."
Kennedy: "Democrats offered to open up everything but ICE. Ted and I said, 'Ok, let's accept,' then at the same time we'd offer a bill for reconciliation where we don't need any D votes. That way we're out of the shutdown and DHS is back open. Thune submitted that to Trump. He said, 'No. No deals.'"
For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.
Covering sessions daily at the Commission on the Status of Women this week, one question keeps coming up for me: How can responsible media better amplify the institutions trying to address global crises? Too often we are not meeting the moment — we are being entertained by it. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus & @DrTed...• 6h Global military expenditure just hit $2.7 trillion - in a single year. According to @UN estimates, ending world hunger by 2030 would require $93 billion annually. That means we spend almost 30 times more every year on killing each other than on making sure everyone eats.
This is Director of WHO. And that’s exactly the point I’m trying to make all day every day this week.
Corey Lewandowski, the powerful aide at the center of a Homeland Security scandal embroiling Kristi Noem, believes he can operate without consequences because President Donald Trump will pardon him, according to a new report.
The Trump administration's decision to drop its bid to sanction law firms prompted the president to erupt in a fiery outburst, according to a new report.
President Donald Trump was lining his pockets and simultaneously making MAGA lawmakers pay up for their stays at his Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami this week, according to reports Wednesday.
"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said."
When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine."
www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...
The president just said that he is not going to sign anything -- presumably including a DHS funding bill -- until and unless a different piece of legislation he wants is passed.
it is genuinely very funny how many big name/shop analysts have gone on tv in the last 24-48hr and been like "man we didn't think this administration would be so stupid" like, come on
"For the next phase of my career, I look forward to some independence and finding new spaces to share my work in line with my personal goals."
Another CBS News journalist leaving and talking about independence. Bit of a not-so-subtle hint at what's happening over there.
For some reason unknown to me, Meta just authorized me to participate in their "community notes" program. I just gave it a test run and the first 10 stories it flagged as needing "community note" fact checking were stories that coded as leftist or anti-Trump. Very fair and balanced Zuck!
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
David Ignatius is, i guess, worth reading today to see how inadequate a conventional frame is for today's events. Gift link.
And WaPo has managed to get an op-ed from "the dumbest f***ing guy on the planet." I won't link.
Dow is down, gas is way up (up 50 cents here from yesterday). Gulf allies are under attack. This was clearly foreseeable by any student in any Introduction to International Relations class but somehow a huge surprise to the people running this country.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 682 points, or 1.4%. The 30-stock index is coming off its biggest weekly slide in nearly a year. The S&P 500 lost 1.4%, while the Nasdaq Composite declined 1.3%. The Cboe Volatility index — Wall Street's fear
As the U.S. economy begins to collapse, never forget that both J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio wholeheartedly supported Trump’s disastrous Iran war fiasco.
#IranWar #Trump
Dear President Dumb Ass.
Dec 7, 1941. Japan and the US were in diplomatic negotiations to reduce tensions in the Pacific when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor--a "sneak attack" without the benefit of a declaration of war. A terrorist attack?
Looks a lot like what you're doing in Iran.
NEW: CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane just announced to the newsroom that he's leaving the network after 20 years.
Here's his goodbye note:
🇺🇸🇬🇧✈️ Interesting… At least three U.S. B-52 bombers have landed at RAF Fairford in the U.K.
Now the number is at least 11. According to a press release today, 59-year-old Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi died in custody on March 1 after suffering a heart attack. He was from Iran and came to the US as a lawful permanent resident decades ago.
The rapture is not in the Bible.
The rapture is not present in Christianity before the 19th century.
The rapture makes for dangerous theology and foreign policy.
The rapture needs to become a resoundingly opposed sentiment.
The White House position is that it is no big deal that Putin is helping Iran try to kill US soldiers.
Always remember rule #1. Putin can do no wrong in Trump’s eyes.
Wonder why that is?
NEW -- The Geneva Conventions state clearly that after a naval battle, all parties are supposed to take "all possible measures" to rescue survivors from the water.
Our sub that sank that Iranian frigate Wednesday took no possible measures.
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I don't want to be kissed by that man
I can destroy the country
Today in closed captioning
The sundowning of the American empire
