Alan Richardson

these are the guys who are selling you gen AI

Until the End of the World

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

holy shit

We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.

Fitting for its final day….

TSMC, the company that makes 90% of the world's advanced chips, draws 8.9% of Taiwan's total electricity. Gas disruption = Chip disruption

On Black PhD students:

How will this affect the Riyadh comedy scene

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

Grift upon grift upon grift

Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.

It can't be emphasized enough that by bombing refineries, we* have conducted a chemical attack on a city of 17 million people as well as the larger region.

*Including every country giving political support to the attack on Iran

March 8, 1971: FBI's COINTELPRO Exposed A cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 classified documents.

#tdih 1971

A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn.

They removed docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt & destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs.

Read⬇️ 🧵#TeachTruth
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

Trump canceled a major scientific report on the health of the natural world. The scientists are finishing it anyway. Yay scientists! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...

'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

Yarvin yearns for the day when the US government can bomb Brooklyn—and for completely incoherent reasons

The NSF has been a pretty good investment, I’d say

If you are bombing the shit out of a country, you don’t get to be disappointed in that country’s people.

Pentagon Announces Seventh U.S. Death in War With Iran The service member killed was not publicly identified, but U.S. Central Command said the death was caused by injuries after an attack on a Saudi military base.

Another American service member has died in the war with Iran, the Pentagon said on Sunday, bringing the number of American troops killed in the conflict to seven.

This is what ecocide looks like.

As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.

I guess no one told the mullahs that they have already surrendered

The Bray of Pigs

People who love war are sociopaths.

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

I am a professional humanitarian responder and I'm trying to think how this ends and the bottom line is there is no way it ends without mass casualties *from the water issues alone* especially coming shortly before summer.

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

Grinning about mass death and destruction. Yukking it up on the teevee about triggering a world war among nuclear powers. These people believe in the Rapture, but they make me believe in the Antichrist.