Sean Lyng

Just read a story about this guy and calling him "embattled" is putting it mildly.... His staffer, who he sexually harassed, lit herself on fire...

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

Check out the big brain on Brad!

(fully agree btw👇, but I never miss an opportunity to use that pulp fiction quote)

This is not the way to win hearts & minds.

If this is true I'm annoyed/upset... and how is Josh OK w/ this? #GoBills

Korean Stocks are still up 101% over the last 12mo.

Reading a story about the Kospi index over in South Korea and it just goes to show there's nothing new under the sun. Too much leverage and a stock market that was up 101% over the last 12mo. And that's *after* the 2-day crash.

We need to pass a House rule or law that requires them to work a certain number of days to get paid. Since Mike Johnson took over these people hardly ever work. When they finally come back after weeks off they work 2 days and he sends them home for 2 more weeks. It’s ridiculous.

Drifting - Trey Anastasio - 11/3/2017

I've been drifting,
For years at Sea.
But now, you've come along
to rescue me.
And the Fog is lifted,
We got the moon & the stars above.

Clearly, the secretary of WAR at the newly renamed Department of WAR would not start a war. Shocking that you would even suggest it.

This would be far more impressive if he wasn't retiring...

Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"

My Discover feed has been bad lately -- all doom & gloom non-stop (Maybe it's the things i've been liking/posting). The "Quiet Posters" tab is way more interesting.

I clearly need to do a better job curating but does the "I am not interested in this" button even work?

Potato, po-tahh-toe

(Summer + Hammock + Book) > (Winter + Couch + Phone)

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Watching Hegseth and this is lowkey scary. This is not who should be leading our military.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

A PSA from Thomas Massie:

While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.

Wag the dog. Iran war as distraction. Trump tweet about Obama.

Trump tweet about Obama needing confessional war authorization.

Vance tweet about Iraq war failures.

Trump tweet about Obama attacking Iran to show toughness.

There’s always a tweet.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Kinda reminds me of the Streisand effect but for AI companies. Purely anecdotal evidence but Anthropic's stance on this issue actually got me to download, install, and try out their models. Some of the best advertising they could get and all because Hegseth & Co. threw a temper tantrum.

that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

As one does...

"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."

Is this a photo or a painting? Either way, very cool image.

10yr Weekly Chart showing the Turkish Lira went from ~4 in 2016 to $43.9 as of 2/28/2026 (USD/TRY Cross currency) $USDTRY $TRY

10yr weekly chart showing the performance of the TUR ETF (US based ETF of major Turkish stocks) TUR Exchange traded fund $TUR Current holdings are: Banks 13.82% Food 10.90% Aerospace/Defense 10.13% Holding Companies-Divers 6.31% Oil&Gas 5.27% Engineering&Construction 5.13% Airlines 5.01% Diversified Finan Serv 4.55% Telecommunications 3.61% Iron/Steel 3.50%

Not related to the current events in the middle east, but I had stopped paying attention to Turkey and had no idea how badly the currency had gotten killed. And their stock market (in USD terms) has done nothing in 10yr.

Kinda wild that CBS news is the one publishing this. But be that as it may, keep the pressure on.

Also, another thing is bothering me: why is he smirking in all his mugshots? Almost like he knows that his powerful allies will prevent real justice from ever happening.