I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.
(Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now, according to sources familiar ..
www.marketscreener.com/news/us-navy...
This happens so much in tech: People going to big tech and then - after having gotten wealthy off of it - pivoting to being super ethical and moving into the NGO space or something like that. I hate it so much.
Here we go
@ grok is that good?
today i learned about the crack spread 👍
I love Econ-positng. Dan Habsmith of Guttermeyer Associates posts the most confusing chart you've ever seen and says "Quite surprising VARG numbers, SPLG index showing movement" and you get the context by one of his mutuals quoting it with "Buy a fucking gun and head for the hills. Right now."
All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!
“.. after Spain abandoned plans to buy dozens of F-35 fighter jets ..”
@wsj.com
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This report keeps going around, which is funny because
1. The data here is garbage, and these numbers are not close to accurate for The Verge
2. I am the person who started warning everyone about Google Zero ages ago, and we have been hedging against this forever
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I dunno, if I were Jeffrey Goldberg, author of "How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?' (2008), I might pause for a moment before cheerleading another war in the same region.
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”
Looks like we have a second vessel hit by an Iranian drone.
Also, just minutes ago, Maersk, the world's second-largest container shipping company, suspended transits of the Strait of Hormuz for all of its vessels.
Update:
IRGC Commander says he believes closing the Hormuz Strait is on the agenda and "will be done whenever necessary."
Crowdsourcing: of all the coverage on the Iran strikes in U.S. media and elsewhere today and leading up to today — how much of what you’ve seen has mentioned the UN charter? I have yet to see *any* mention.
posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
The Israeli public broadcaster confirms that the nuclear talks with Iran were all a ruse. Trump and Netanyahu has decided on this war weeks ago. www.kan.org.il/content/kan-...
Here we go, the first ship is turning around. According to MarineTraffic, the Indian-flagged crude oil tanker "Desh Abhimaan" just made a 180 degree turn next of the Strait of Hormuz.
Channel 12 reported that Trump and Netanyahu settled on this course of action during the Israeli PM's visit to Washington on February 11. That suggests weeks of negotiations have all been for show. www.mako.co.il/news-militar...
the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:
> @covie93.bsky.social
Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).
CSIS' China Power project just updated their data on purged military officials, and it is very informative: chinapower.csis.org/china-pla-mi...
Pretty rich of Jack Clark to go on the Ezra Klein podcast days before this to pontificate about AI safety, honesty and trust.
The long 2010s are finally over
Burn it all down
