Jim Cashel 🇺🇦

Jim Cashel 🇺🇦

@jimcashel.bsky.social

Tech and policy professional interested in global development, space policy, tech for good, effective government, level playing fields, overlooked ideas.

944 Followers 528 Following 3,139 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Ending Iran War Quickly Carries Big Risks for the U.S. and Allies Leaving the regime undefeated could motivate Tehran to develop nuclear weapons and leave it in control of much of the world’s energy flows.

Good article by @yarotrof.bsky.social . TLDR: It’s a problem if the war continues, and a problem if it doesn’t.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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11 hours ago

The US Navy literally won't go through the Strait.

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11 hours ago
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Iran’s Control of Hormuz Means It’s Exporting More Oil Today Than Before the War Tehran is letting ships carrying its crude pass through the strait, while it scares off others that would dare.

So since Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz to all ships *not from Iran*, it is exporting more oil than before the war and commanding a higher price.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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"we're crushing the enemy is an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force"

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Democrats ask what happened to millions earmarked for Trump’s library ABC, Meta, Paramount and X reportedly agreed to pay at least $63 million in settlements with the president. The original fund was dissolved last year.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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12 hours ago

Bravo.

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12 hours ago

Colin Jost is licking his chops.

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We Californians look longingly at a $3.58 price point.

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16 hours ago
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Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions

Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign"
From @financialtimes.com
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13 hours ago

Even the US Navy won't currently pass through the strait.

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"Satellite imagery reviewed by The Times showed that watchtowers that once stood near the building had been removed, three public entrances were opened to the school, ground was cleared and play areas including a sports field were painted on asphalt, and walls were painted blue and pink."

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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

"Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

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1 day ago

Laughter and head shaking in the Kremlin.

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1 day ago

Oh, ffs.

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1 day ago

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

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Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.

A major throughline of the Trump administration.

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USAID: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Heartbreaking.

youtu.be/tU8S13xYJNM?...

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2 days ago

Khamenei was 86 when he was killed, soon to give up power or die, and now he has been heroically martyred thanks to the US.

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3 days ago
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On the Road With Zelensky, Weathered, Weary and Fighting On

It's time for Russia to end this madness.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...

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3 days ago
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Definition of PSYCHOTIC of, relating to, marked by, or affected with psychosis; exhibiting or suggestive of mental or emotional unsoundness or instability —not used technically… See the full definition

Psychotic. I mean really.

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/p...

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4 days ago
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Had to doublecheck the date on this

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4 days ago
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also this one.

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3 days ago

lol

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3 days ago

Back and forth. Sometimes it’s the corruption that is maddening. Then you are reminded of the incompetence.

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3 days ago

yes! this!

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3 days ago
Screenshot of an X post by “No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen” claiming Costco is demanding that Trump reimburse them for tariffs so they can refund customers. Below are two images side by side: the Costco Wholesale logo and a photo of Donald Trump looking at a phone while reporters hold microphones near him.

This is what all big companies should be doing.

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4 days ago
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Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. wapo.st/4aYkbco

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