Daniel Tobon

Let me remind that in the run up to Iraq 2003, 'realist' scholars who opposed the war, some of whom had been regular oped contributors before, couldnt place in the NYT or WaPo at all, eventually paying to run an oped as an advertisement.

It’s hard to make a convincing argument that the market, left to itself, won’t produce enough retail space. The United States already has far more retail space per capita than other developed nations.

He’s just unhappy his condo in Abu Dhabi me be worth less now.

Strategy policy match!

Seems like a thing more people should be mad about

Joe Calvello gave us Fetterman, then tried to run cover from Brandon Johnson’s terribleness, then gave us Platner. That guy is like a divining rod for fraudulent progressives. Why aren’t more people mad at that guy?

And Mamdani just hired him!

This is basically my argument in my new @wired.com essay — we haven’t even finished dealing with the downstream consequences of the LAST upheaval in Iran: www.wired.com/story/5-big-...

The same guy ran both of their communications strategy. Why aren’t more people mad at that guy? He sold the world on both these frauds.

Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was ‘longtime fan’ of his show Weeks before Graham Platner promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theorist in a now-deleted social media post on Thursday, the controversial Maine Senate candidate appeared on a popular YouTube show whos...

At a certain point you just cannot keep extending someone the benefit of the doubt. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The fact that he hired Joe Calvello to run coms, after working for Fetterman and Johnson, told me everything I needed to know about this guy, before I learned any of this other stuff.

Racism is a helluva drug.

Can you imagine if Sonia Sotomayor zoomed into a meeting from Liz Warren's office? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

This is a symptom of the U.S. military’s erroneous conception of strategy as scale. If it’s happening at a large scale, it must be strategic.

It’s difficult. It takes a lot of folks and resources. It requires high level commanders.

But it’s not strategic.

A list of news outlets and social media sites whose billionaire owners, investors or parent companies also have U.S. government defense contracts:

Axios
CBS
NBC
The Washington Post
TikTok
YouTube
X
Soon: CNN

This is consistent with what one hears from serious analysts all around. The US negotiating team, led by two New York real estate developers with a reputation for incompetence at that and no serious diplomats or nuclear experts, were a bunch of ignorant pikers incapable of engaging in serious talks.

Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei is dead, Iranian state media confirms "Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Feb. 28. He also said the bombing of Iran would continue for at least the next week.

⚡️Update: Iranian state media confirms Khamenei's death.

Iranian state media confirmed on Feb. 29 that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died following Israeli-U.S. strikes, ending hours of conflicting claims and denials surrounding his state.

They’re also creating the pretext to blame dems for any retaliatory attack we face in response to this war.

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

I thought Jon Yoo made clear that the point of the OLC memos was just to provide a brief summary of strained legal pretext used to justify terrible/illegal executive actions? Is that not what we’re doing anymore?

at this point, I think it’s fair to say that many respectable scholars, including on the right, think OLC has gone out pretty far over its skis. The OLC memos are also purely internal to the executive; they’ve never been tested in court or stacked up against a real challenge by Congress

Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran.

Unreal.

Vs. No it won’t.

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

This is basically my view at this point

🧵 In March 2003 I wrote a column explaining why the then-imminent attack on Iraq would violate international law but probably not violate US separation of powers because Bush had congressional authorization. Today's attack on Iran is equally a violation of int'l law but also the US Constitution. /1

Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.

Mississippi’s Black Voters Brace for Elections Ruling That Could Gut Supreme Court Clout Black Mississippians won a Voting Rights Act case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But that victory may be in jeopardy.

“It’s unsettling for people of color here in the state of Mississippi to be waiting for them to push their pencil to draw lines,” said Mississippi House Rep. Kabir Karriem.

A guy in my basic training class in 1999 was a senior at Columbine when the shooting happen. We both enlisted pre-911. I was deployed twice while trying to finish college. Graduated grad school in 2009 and most of my class was either furloughed or had employment offers rescinded.