When Tel Aviv Decides, Washington Fights American taxpayers are still hemorrhaging from the made-for-Israel war in Iraq, a war audaciously offered as one that would “pay for itself.” Instead, it was paid in Iraqi and American blood, ruins, a...

The evidence of who set the clock of this war is unmistakable. The admission came from the U.S. State Dept. In an unguarded moment, the U.S.admitted that the timing of this war was not an American choice.

The made-for-Israel wars will not end with Iran.

www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/09/w...

We’re just following orders.

Three signs Trump's presidency is in a death spiral President Donald Trump entered his second term with significant political advantages but, according to a former Washington Post political journalist, a “trifecta” of political blunders has put his pre...

Consider 3 of the biggest developments in US politics right now:

- the economy lost 92,000 jobs
- tRump fired despised Krusti Noem
- the killing of Iranian schoolchildren, the handiwork of the US military.

www.alternet.org/trump-s-trif...

The US military said it killed six men on Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Why has the Iran war sparked fears of stagflation for the global economy? With oil prices soaring and stock markets falling, economists warn that a prolonged conflict in the Middle East risks knocking growth worldwide and boosting prices

Oil prices continued to surge, triggering a stark sell-off across some of the world’s leading stock markets amid growing concern that the US-Israel war on Iran could set the stage for a global economic shock.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Figure 2: Theoretical capability & observed exposure by occupational category.
Share of job tasks that LLMs could theoretically perform (blue area) & our own job coverage measure derived from usage data (red area).

www.anthropic.com/research/lab...

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized & are embedded in the machinery of government.

www.propublica.org/article/elec...

My Lai was not the first & won’t be the last

My Lai will repeat over @ over

the US has a long history of Abu Ghraib’s, My Lai’s, No Gun Ri’s, the forgotten Laconia Incident, etc.

there may be a handful low lying fruit that get snagged, sentenced & serve house arrest.

the rest will run free.

Biological computer with real human neurons learns to shoot in Doom Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs claims have successfully programmed living human neurons to play the cult-classic 1993 video game Doom.

An Australian biotech startup claims to have successfully programmed living human neurons to play the cult-classic 1993 video game Doom.

The team created a microelectrode array by growing 200,000 brain cells onto it.

interestingengineering.com/science/biol...

AI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns A psychiatrist specializing in the mental health of the unemployed has a grim warning for the workers of the world.

We won’t just have individuals who are suffering as a result of job loss once or twice. We can expect serial job loss & chronic uncertainty & therefore chronic anxiety about one’s future, one’s future in the workplace & future capacity to sustain themselves economically.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Montana senator's mysterious exit from re-election stinks — and voters can smell it Wednesday was historic.Not inspiring. Not admirable. Just…historic.In the most “nothing to see here” political maneuver imaginable, Sen. Steve Daines waited until the final minutes before the filing ...

Democracy usually involves voters, primaries, debates, competition.

But apparently we’re trying something new, “succession planning”.

Apparently the voters of Montana will no longer choose their Senator.

Instead, the sitting Senator (& tRump) simply appoints one.
www.alternet.org/steve-daines...

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

tRump has appointed more than 200 people who collectively owned, either by themselves or w/ their spouses, between $175M & $340M in cryptocurrency investments.
Some of those appointees now hold positions overseeing or influencing regulation of the crypto industry.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The AI Disruption: From Doomsday Destruction to Do-Nothing Bots! Possible? Plausible? Probable?

If you listen to some of AI’s lead players, AI will have the capacity to replace workers across multiple businesses, as it develops strengths that go beyond the purely mechanical.

aswathdamodaran.substack.com/p/the-ai-dis...