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Opinion | Of Course Trump Bombed Iran

Malley, Wertheim | 'No meaningful constraint exists in a system that judges wars on how they end up rather than whether they are warranted and wise.'

Trump is wrong, but so are the Democrats.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...

Pete Hegseth’s Crazed, Angry Tirades on Iran Give Dems a Big Opening It’s not enough for Democrats to say Trump’s war rationales haven’t been fully explained. The problem is that they are patently false.

Greg Sargent | 'The evidence is strong that Trump’s central claims about Iran are false, not merely that they haven’t been sufficiently explained to lawmakers.'

Trump's claims about Iran are lies.

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Democrats Denounce Trump’s Iran Attack, but Subtle Divisions Emerge

Lerer, Glueck | 'Representative Greg Landsman of Ohio, one of a few of Democrats who defended the action in Iran, said he planned to vote against a resolution that would restrain Mr. Trump’s ability to continue the military operation.'

And he'll lose his re-election

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

Looks like Newsom and Shapiro are also going to lose the left wing of the Dems.

Incompetence. Maybe they need Ukrainian advisors?

Democrats Denounce Trump’s Iran Attack, but Subtle Divisions Emerge

Lerer, Glueck |'“We can’t allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon,” Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona'

That's the end of his Presidential ambitions.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

Donald Trump in 2012:

Trump in 2011: “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”

Short Takes: In Their Own Hands George Orwell | Colin Newlyn | Naeema Zarif | Rachel Happe

Rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production [&] eliminate the old capitalist class, crush the working class, and so organize society that all power and economic privilege remain in their own hands. | George Orwell

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Eve Lu | 'Researchers found that walkable city design—not personal motivation—was the key factor behind people taking 1,100 more steps per day.'

www.scientificamerican.com/article/movi...

Debiasing Strategic Decisions Cognitive biases can significantly and negatively influence strategic decision-making.

Debiasing Strategic Decisions

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. | Kenneth Boulding

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Late Night Fixates on How Long Trump Spoke

Jimmy Kimmel | 'Gibberace went for an hour and 47 minutes last night. It was the longest speech in State of the Union history. Also the dumbest, he beat his own record there, too.'

The Forgettysburg Address.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/a...

Once again, one <very easy way> for the New York Times to escape the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years would be for it to stop acting in ways that <completely justify> all of the constant criticism which it has found itself subject to these last years

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Jimmy Kimmel Goes Live After a Super Long State of the Union

Jimmy Kimmel | 'The speech went on so long, Kristi Noem’s dog shot itself.'

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/a...

Appelbaum | We, as society, need to be grappling with those risks, figuring out frameworks for how we think about A.I. displacing jobs, like the government. One way of thinking about the role of government, economically, is that it gets to regulate the pace of change. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

There are many things that should not be left to market mechanisms, like health care, education, other social goods.

'Stamp Out Dangerous Ideas' is coming back into vogue.

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

Opinion | Historians Confirm: Tomorrow Won’t Be Better Than Today

Ian Buruma | 'Hoping for better is still the right attitude, but only as long as we prepare for the worst.'

Hope is not a strategy, however.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

PS I won my Kalshi bet that Scotus would say no to Trump's IEEPA tariffs.

Opinion | ‘A Victory for the Rule of Law’: 3 Experts Assess How Much the Court Reined In Trump

Binyamin Appelbaum | 'The [Supreme] court is finally checking Trump’s tendency to declare everything an emergency and to do what he wants by invoking emergency powers. That’s a victory for the rule of law, and the rule of law could use one.'

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

Majority of Scots would vote for independence in new vote, exclusive poll shows THE majority of Scots would vote for independence if a referendum were to be held tomorrow, a fresh poll has found ...

Steph Brawn | 'The majority of Scots would vote for independence if a referendum were to be held tomorrow, a fresh poll has found.'

They should.

www.thenational.scot/news/2587177...

The svenska makes it hard to read the website

Chatbots Are the New Influencers Brands Must Woo

Erin Griffith |'Businesses can no longer simply promote themselves to potential customers — they have to win over the robots, too.'

She means chatbots.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/t...

In First Month as Governor, Abigail Spanberger Kicks Up Heat From the Right

Elisabeth Bumiller | 'Ms. Spanberger’s big victory in November by 15 % points — Glenn Youngkin, the former GOP governor, won 4 years earlier by 2 points — was the largest margin for a Democratic candidate for governor in Virginia in more than 6 decades.'

Blue wave.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

She's going down in November.

Short Takes #17: Time's Unfolding

William Stafford | Functional Freeze | Raise The Minimum Wage | You Can Always Take a Sick Day

Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.

| Willian Stafford, The Way It Is

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Peace In Ukraine? Is that the wrong question? Peace in Europe is the real question.

Peace In Ukraine?
Is that the wrong question? Peace in Europe is the real question.

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The subtext of this 'achievement on the battlefield' argument is that an invader can make a better claim on land it has occupied than it can on land it has not. But the premise is wrong. They have no claim on any land, occupied or not.

Is There A Single World? Beyond the different languages human beings speak, there is a single world. | Bruno Maçães, As Western Liberalism Declines, Civilization States Return As so often happens, I stumbled upon an article...

Is There A Single World?

Beyond the different languages human beings speak, there is a single world. | Bruno Maçães

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