Jonathan Bliss

Israel bombs council choosing Iran's next supreme leader, official says "We wanted to prevent them from picking a new supreme leader," the official said.

www.axios.com/2026/03/03/i...

This one thread summarizes well things happening lately on so many fronts. tyvm.

VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝

💥 AFU hit Sheskharis oil terminal and the Novorossiysk naval base in the Krasnodar Krai.

⚡️AFU struck the center of long-distance space communications in Vityne and the radar station “Podlyot-K1” near Vynohradne in Crimea.

1/11

But I recall so clearly the campaign promise: set ME on fire and welcome the end times. </s>

It's crazy to think how much has changed in < 200 years. No wonder our brains are tired.

It's lights out for WA Legislature's effort to regulate data centers • Washington State Standard Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. House Bill 2515 would have required data centers to ...

Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...

Interesting. Iirc the little green men showed up in Crimea right after the Sochi Olympics. Killed that world harmony buzz

Minnesota has lost 1,300 farms in two years, many more on the brink Applications for $12 billion in USDA bridge payments opened up this week, but farmers say it will only cover a fraction of losses due to trade wars.

The math is not adding up for farmers across southern Minnesota. The latest numbers from the USDA show that Minnesota has lost 1,300 farms in just the past two years. We need a Congress that will stop these tariffs and bring down input costs for our farmers.

www.kare11.com/article/news...

Sending the proverbial cavalry

75% of shrimp & 60% of oysters consumed in the US come from the Gulf of Mexico. These are filter-feeding animals, so whatever gets dumped in the water ends up in the food supply.

Before today, no F-15 had been shot down in more than 35 years — since January 19, 1991, during the Persian Gulf War.

Before today, the U.S. had never had more than one aircraft shot down by friendly fire in a single day, let alone three.

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

this will be a public health disaster.

We could end the transmission of HIV this year. That has been true for a decade. That we have not done so is a public policy choice.

California batteries sustain near 24-hour solar run On Feb. 1, California’s batteries bridged the solar gap with seamless precision. After discharging through the night until sunrise, they spent the daylight hours charging, then pivoted back to exporti...

California batteries sustain near 24-hour solar run www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/18/c...

Iran might have had 250 ballistic missiles launchers before the war. IDF claims 150 hit, some are likley decoys but thats without US hits. Might be that Iranian missile stocks are moot and only drones are useful pretty soon

I guess it's bad that this made me laugh so

Joint declaration of President Macron and Chancellor Merz. In the spirit of their close partnership as set out in Article 4 of the Treaty of Aachen, France and Germany have decided to enter into closer cooperation in the field of deterrence in response to the evolving threat landscape. France and Germany have established a high-ranking nuclear steering group that will act as a bilateral framework for doctrinal dialogue and the coordination of strategic cooperation, including consultations regarding the appropriate mix of conventional, missile defence and French nuclear capabilities. France and Germany have agreed to take first concrete steps beginning this year, including German conventional participation in French nuclear exercises and joint visits to strategic sites as well as development of conventional capabilities with European partners. France and Germany will also increase their ability, as Europeans, to manage escalation beneath the nuclear threshold - in particular in the fields of Early Warning and Air Defense and Deep Precision Strike. This Franco-German cooperation is based on the shared understanding that the nuclear dimension of deterrence remains a cornerstone of European security, relying on US extended deterrence, including US nuclear weapons forward-deployed to Europe, and on the independent strategic nuclear forces of France and the United Kingdom, which have a deterrent role of their own and contribute significantly to the overall security of the Alliance. This Franco-German cooperation will add to, not substitute for, NATO's nuclear deterrence and NATO's nuclear sharing arrangements, to which Germany contributes and will continue to contribute. France and Germany will continue to comply with their obligations under international law including the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In light of their strong commitment to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and Art. 42 (7) of the Treaty on European Union, Franco-German cooperatio…

What was the follow-up

Face of ancient human ancestor ‘Little Foot’ reconstructed for the first time “Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this early human ancestor looked like

‘Little Foot’ is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now, we finally have an idea of what it looked like

Speaker Johnson has said it isn’t the right time to consider it, so leadership hasn’t brought it up.

Let that sink in.

📌 H.Con.Res. 38: Congress must authorize war with Iran.

Rep. Thomas Massie announced it on June 17. Rep. Ro Khanna confirmed it on June 18.
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Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

I was at WDW with the kids when my pager started alerting to the news about Desert Fox. Regardless the generation yes it is surreal. And like GWB's famous 2001 line "the best thing you can do right now is go shopping", it's like "life goes on, we'll tell you what we want you to know"

‘We Need Answers!’ Congressman Calls Out Polymarket Bettor Who Scored More Than $500K ‘Overnight’ On Iran Strike A House Democrat flagged a Polymarket wager he found suspicious — as a gambler on the prediction market made more than $500,000 off of the attack on Iran.

Bloomberg reported that, in all, $529 million changed hands in markets relating to the timing of a U.S. attack.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Men’s and Women’s Olympic hockey champions on SNL. 🇺🇸🏒

“It was just gonna be us, but we thought we’d invite the guys too.”

A gold medal–worthy line from Captain Hilary Knight.

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

“Data centers could consume as much as 17% of U.S. electricity by 2030, up from 4% to 5% now, according to a new projection.”

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Iirc there is an old hangar on the airport grounds with a wee museum. Hopefully some day I'll have an excuse to come down and look around.

The Real Reason Putin Targets Schools?

Since the beginning of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, one in every seven schools has been destroyed or damaged.

Russia’s war crimes are documented fact and geopolitics is not a team sport. One country’s crimes do not cancel out another’s. (3)

www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/re...

I was interested to learn a while back that in a grittier time, the airport started out as Marine Corp Air Station SB, training carrier pilots.

It's Women's History Month.

And what better way to kick it off than to celebrate the first Black woman to get her medical degree exactly 162 years ago today.

Her name is Rebecca Lee Crumpler

www.history.com/this-day-in-...