Jake Lahut

Holy shit, quite the Edith Piaf + Jacques Brel combo in this Industry finale.

Idk how much HBO had to spend to license those songs, but it was absolutely worth it.

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

Putin is cold, man. His allies in Iran are getting slaughtered and he ... moves in to make up for their share on the global oil market.

'Potential nexus to terrorism': FBI, APD give update on 6th Street mass shooting Three people are dead and 14 others were injured in a mass shooting early Sunday outside Buford’s bar on West Sixth Street. Among the dead was the suspected gunman who was shot by officers.

The FBI is investigating a “potential nexus to terrorism” after a deadly mass shooting outside a bar in downtown Austin late last night
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Still some major questions around any semblance of a timeline + whatever Trump means by “immunity” for Iranian forces who defect.

All we’ve got is bombing “throughout the week or as long as necessary,” per the president’s Truth Social post

Shortly after the first set of explosions, Iranians received bursts of notifications on their phones, not from the government advising caution, but from a prayer timing app called ‘BadeSaba Calendar’ which has been downloaded 5 million times from the Google Play Store. The messages arrived in quick succession over a period of 30 minutes, starting with the phrase ‘Help Has Arrived’ at 9:52 am Tehran time. No party has claimed responsibility for the hacks. Screenshots shared with WIRED Middle East show messages urging Iranian military personnel to surrender their weapons with the promise of amnesty. It also urged army personnel to join “the forces of liberation” and to “defend your brothers.”

Airborne leaflet propaganda in 2026: hacked push alerts from a prayer timing app

www.wired.me/story/hacked...

This Curtis Yarvin musing on war with Iran is extra insane, even for him, on so many levels

To be very specific: I know missile defense system locations are not the most publicly known thing. I’m more curious about troop movements compared to what’s been reported about naval assets being moved out of ports in the region.

13.5k is a lotta people to relocate covertly

From the NYT liveblog bsky.app/profile/matt...

How safe, exactly, are our troops in Kuwait? We have like 13,000+ people there

CNN saying there have been explosions in Abu Dhabi, audible from their studio

Anyway, time for Matt Gaetz to text his mom and let her know he came up short on this one

It’s almost as if none of this was very well thought out

What you say is the states administer elections, and he can try and cancel them if he wants, but there is no clear mechanism to do so aside from a full military occupation (that this country is too big for)

You can just say things.

Never seen a Trump message quite this contradictory:

Stay in your house during Ramadan because bombs are gonna be falling everywhere, but also take to the streets and seize your govt by force

It’s wild that Congress hasn’t authorized this or declared war (you know, that pesky U.S. Constitution stuff)…

but also wild that only 1 in 5 Americans supported attacking Iran

And the Trump admin has made no effort to make a public case for a war with Iran

I am genuinely not sure if this attack will lead to departures within the administration, but my calling around on this would indicate staffers are gonna be pissed, especially on the more midterms-oriented / political operative side

Hey just following up on this

Damn, their story finally went up 25 mins ago

Just thinking about the County Clerks who are largely Republican (fewer voters, but in rural and smaller counties) will go apeshit over this. They aren't geared up for this and it will require wholesale changes in their processes and they generally don't have large staffs.

So who is gonna be the one to tell Pete Hegseth how many massive American companies are investors in Anthropic?

Exclusive | Classified Report Finds Kristi Noem Created Security Vulnerabilities at Airports Noem’s handling of the issue is part of a pattern of incidents that have alarmed some national-security officials.

I don’t love that this is how I learned the TSA body scanners can’t scan shoes www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Sec Hegseth has now escalated things in an extremely confusing way. A “supply chain risk”… that can still work with the federal govt for six months? And a supply chain risk designation doesn’t bar military suppliers from working with a company totally — should just apply to military work.

An absolute nightmare trying to define what a moderate audience is / what constitutes news for “80% of the country.”

Way way too big of a country for that, in my humble reporter opinion.

NYPD top cop Jessica Tisch issues fierce defense of cops — after Mayor Mamdani dismisses snowball attack, DA Bragg drops assault charge The honeymoon is over between NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Zohran Mamdani — with the pair publicly disagreeing about the vicious snowball attack on the Big Apple’s Finest this we…

Snowballgate is once again a lead story on local TV news in NYC, with Jessica Tisch’s remarks getting quite a bit of play (even though she didn’t explicitly mention this incident)
nypost.com/2026/02/27/u...

DO NOT CONGRATULATE

You really need to hear the audio in this article, it's unbelievable

The Stupid Drama of the Men’s Hockey Team Has Concluded Its Final Act It was always going to end like this.

<bangs gong>

That's the end of the USA Hockey/Donald Trump news cycle. We can officially close this one out now that all parties have learned the maximum amount they'll allow themselves to learn. All had a great time and we appreciate Brady Tkachuk for closing us out slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump is rattling off a bunch of Texas endorsements on Truth Social, save for the big one in the Senate primary