Matt 🍓

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

If these people are found to be working for a foreign power, Keir Starmer will be personally responsible. Whereas when a senior Reform colleague is jailed for ten years for taking bribes from Russia, that is nothing to do with me.

BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

How shocking, a sports metaphor. We’re surely dealing with one of the world’s great strategists here.

They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

I do enjoy these sort of charts. Somewhere between boom and recession. But probably quite similar to now.
Thanks OBR.

A LITTLE GREEN AND IM BUYING THE FRIED SHIT!!!!

It is INSANE that there isn’t a fried chicken place that also has some nod to nutrition. Salads. Broccoli. SOMETHING to help me hedge this coronary event.

Call with mother sounding like a Chekhov play. “I’d ask about the war, but you know it upsets your father. Has the weather improved?”

Born too late for war in the Middle East.

Born too early for War in the Middle East.

Born just in time for war in the Middle East.

At least Bush had the decency to lie to congress and America’s allies. That’s true class.

WiFi selection menu. One network is called “Ugh! fucking guests”

Friend’s new neighbours seem nice.

Hard to argue

Opening line for a novel:

“I sneezed myself awake.”

“I’m very of-the-people. Most of my friends couldn’t handle an unexpected bill for a million dollars.”

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe?

AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

I wish I was fondant 🙋🏼‍♂️

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.

thehill.com/policy/defen...

CHRIST ALIVE HE’S SO LOVABLE!!!!!!

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

Yeah. She’s not as famous as THE MOST FAMOUS ACTRESS IN THE WORLD. Good point.

But she’s a huge name, mate.

Podcast idea:

Finance/trade/stock news, but it’s by two sassy gays and they talk about it like it’s celeb gossip. “Gurl, guess who just fired their CFO.”

… or Emma Thompson…

Agree on all points!

I hate the construction where someone can’t “speak to that” — it’s ’speak about that’ or ‘address that’ or ‘add to that’