Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."
I don't go in for most media-bashing on here, but this new thing where Trump calls access reporters during trading hours and gives them the SCOOP that the war's about to end is pretty egregious.
It’s the most accurate depiction of Reconstruction in 20th century American cinema
He just went to commercial by saying that if they go with the “Kissinger plan,” as he calls it, NVIDIA would hit $200.
One of my two favorite Kevin Kline roles (the other one is Wild Wild West)
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Had to stop posting because my mom called to talk about the game. Here’s what’s next.
8-0. Catastrophe.
Italy up 6-0 now after a throwing error lets a runner through. Less than ideal.
Team USA is still scoreless going into the sixth. That may be as worrisome as the potential loss. If Mexico beats Italy tomorrow, runs per inning would be the three-way tiebreaker and the U.S. could be eliminated at the group stage.
The first guy was Nolan McLean, I already forgot the name of whoever replaced him.
Italy is up 5-0 on the U.S. in the fourth inning.
There should be a HIPAA exception for when a pro athlete’s failed physical scuttles a trade. Let me see Maxx Crosby’s knee x-rays in 4K.
The Raiders are in cap super-hell with all those FA signings now, right?
Hell yeah, highly recommend the Parliament Act 1911 one next
Had to check three times to make sure Schefter wasn’t hacked when he posted this.
The House of Lords voted today to remove its last hereditary peers after more than 800 years:
There probably won’t be any bandwidth for it next year, but ideally there’d be a full congressional investigation into that Chris Wright tweet that briefly spiked the markets
Nevada legend. I really wanted him for the 49ers.
I think people need to understand that the Niners do not want to trade Mac Jones. If you want Mac Jones, you have to move them off of that position.
The Louisiana Purchase and the Spanish wars of independence changed the geopolitical calculus, of course. So did industrialization with maintaining standing forces. Time and habit have given the president “war powers” in the public mind. But the Constitution remains the same.
You can see this worldview in the Constitution’s structure. The president is c-in-c, but Congress has the power to start and end wars, to create armies and disband them, and to fund, equip, regulate, and oversee any men under federal arms. It is not supposed to be easy for this country to go to war.
The prevailing belief was that the U.S. would only ever engage in a war if it was tricked into one by corrupt foreign powers. Since there were no feasible options for expansion or conquest, and the U.S. had no true neighboring rivals, there would be no other reason to wage one.
When the Framers talked about wars, they invariably described them as ruinously expensive and dangerous to liberty. The best way to avoid them, they thought, was to maintain the Union and keep surrounding foreign powers at arm’s length.
An aggressive unilateral war would’ve been alien to the Framers because of 1780s geopolitics. The early republic bordered French, Spanish, and British colonies, and it lacked the wealth and means to expand overseas. Launching one would’ve been suicide.
This is a good point that I want to emphasize further. The Framers wrote the Constitution for a small, newly independent country that was surrounded by far more powerful empires. It is a fundamentally defensive-minded document.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, with no real U.S. standing army, asking Congress to approve a war also meant asking it to fund one. Now that presidents get the funding anyway, and there are no real consequences for not getting approval, it’s not surprising that Trump doesn’t care.
