Illustrating once again the extent to which the Venezuela raid emboldened Trump to engage in further military adventurism.

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation The U.S. spy agency has significantly expanded its international antidrug work under President Trump and CIA Director Ratcliffe.

Surprise!

washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/21/cia-mexico-accident-counter-narcotics/?itid=hp_alert

Mexico's Sheinbaum demands explanation after U.S. officials die assisting in Chihuahua operation Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she was unaware of any collaboration between the U.S. and local authorities in Chihuahua after four officials died in an accident over the weekend.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she would demand explanations after four U.S. and Mexican officials died in an accident over the weekend, adding she was unaware of collaboration between the U.S. and the local government in northern Chihuahua. https://to.pbs.org/3OiMzO1

Messed up my sleep schedule by falling asleep at 5:00 p.m. with a severe migraine, so I’m lulling myself back to sleep with some light reading

This is many of you, I’m afraid

Your friendly neighborhood Trump supporter will apologize for supporting Trump, but he will not apologize for wanting concentration camps in America.

That’s not enough for me.

Tucker Carlson isn’t sorry. He’s sorry that Trump isn’t competent enough to stick to the neo-fascist script.

This is why I don’t think it’s enough to give these people an easy out via Iran or gas prices or whatever else is happening.

Because if we let them squirm their way out now, there will be no reckoning. They will say Trump is flawed but *Trumpism* is a righteous cause. He just didn’t follow through.

And I do think these microblogging platforms have significant influence—whether it’s through the spread of ideas, networking, or the creation of these group chats of the intellectual elite that I hear so much about

Genuinely concerned about how microblogging platforms may be shaping intellectual history for the worse

In that case, if Trump continues with his war, he will be violating the War Power Resolution—in addition to usurping Congress's authority under the U.S. Constitution.

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I’m seeing a lot of MAGA folks say the solution to this war is to hollow out the Iranian state and leave the Iranian people to their own devices, and that’s the most nakedly barbaric shit I’ve ever heard. But there’s no counter to that because they’ll just say “Yup, that’s the way the world works.”

There is significant (and unsurprising) overlap between this doctrine and the requirements for jus ad bellum under international law recognized by the U.S. government.

That the Trump administration is so irked about being reminded of Just War Doctrine is therefore noteworthy.

Is this advancing U.S. strategic interests?

Is this good?

🙏

Oil prices jump 7% after Iran and U.S. attack ships as tensions escalate over Strait of Hormuz Crude oil prices surged Sunday, as the U.S. and Iran teetered on the brink of a renewed war after attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Oil prices jump more than 7% after Iran and U.S. attack ships as tensions escalate over Strait of Hormuz

www.cnbc.com/2026/04/19/o...

Ahh, well…

Oil on the way back up as the markets realize the SoH was never open…..

Starting to wonder whether the markets will even react to the U.S. Navy firing on a commercial vessel

What are you reading from Fromm on this? I was going to pick up some Kierkegaard because of his same focus on freedom and anxiety.

It is very funny that he's too cowardly to actually say anything specific.

oh this is just 1920s style futurism. which is basically to say proto-fascism. it’s not even trying to conceal what it is. it’s a duck.

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

You’d think a group of ideologues ostensibly committed to preserving liberty at all costs through the Founders’ original intent would recognize the threat here.

It’s interesting to me that this long project of weakening the federal government has, so far, avoided addressing the greatest threats to American civil liberties: the surveillance state and the standing army—both of which have since been turned against the American people.

The American Revolution was as much a war of conquest as a war fought over Enlightenment ideals

Ken Burns actually covered this in his new documentary on the Revolution