Paul Jankura

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — #Bahrain says Iranian drone attack has caused "material damage" to desalination plant.

Absolutely chilling story

feels telling about American foreign policy punditry that while many decry the aimlessness of Trump’s monstrously wrong Iran war there were far more outraged columns over the harm done to US power and influence and standing and interests and example when Biden rightly withdrew from Afghanistan.

the only reliable solution is “make them not want to do that” and uh, let’s say, we are kind of doing the thing that is opposite of that

I think the other reason it can draw out a long time is that it’s just extremely difficult as a practical matter to ensure that a massive mountainous country can’t shoot cheap robots into a tiny and overcrowded shipping passage

motivated by the exact same forces that are making American cities less distinct from one another but far less observed and remarked upon because the media propaganda campaign to portray rural areas as bastions of authenticity in order to promote reactionary politics

a lot of discussion about how "cosmopolitan" urban dwellers are, but a really underdiscussed trend is the homogenization of culture across *rural* areas of the USA - replacement of once-distinct regional cultures with generic "redneck" accent and culture, regional religions with evanglicalism etc

When you consider that you would gain around 15 seconds pitting under VSC, those earlier pit calls are looking costly for Ferrari as Leclerc sits 15s behind Russell. Strategy, as ever, is a weak link for them. #F1 #AustralianGP

Mercedes ARE going to the end! Unless that’s a bluff to make Ferrari push!

Gasly and Ocon will find eachother in every lifetime

Perez 49 seconds off 15th place in last in that Cadillac

They've got pace to find

Honestly don't remember Stroll retiring

Lots of things have changed this year and there are lots of unknowns but "pit under a safety car" is not one of them

Hamilton stays out for another two laps at least. He wants the tyre offset at the end, but also could slow Russell by fighting him - helping Leclerc too #F1 #AusGP

a child wearing a ferrari hat and ear muffs ALT: a child wearing a ferrari hat and ear muffs

Ferrari. Why are you like this

Ferrari pitting Charles without any kind of safety car is…something.

Hamilton leads the race but might be about to pit as Russell closes in #F1 #AusGP

Alonso has somehow returned

I NEED TO KNOW THE EXIT VELO AND DISTANCE FOR THE DO YEONG KIM HOME RUN THAT FLEW PAST THE TOKYO DOME STANDS THAT MAY HAVE GONE 480 FEET

Alonso rejoins the race! Aston Martin needs the data, he's 11 laps down #F1 #AusGP

Now being investigated:
Gasly and Ocon incident
Perez and Lawson incident

nature is healing, we're so back, etc

Leclerc into the pits for a set of hard tyres to get to the end #F1 #AusGP

Do Yeong Kim homers to give Korea the lead over Chinese Taipei, and the bat flip indicates he was pretty stoked about it

the official position of the ADL is that the man on the left is an antisemite and the man on the right is not.

Ferrari is losing track position to both Mercedes here, as Leclerc and Hamilton are lapping half a second slower than Russell and Antonelli. #F1 #AustralianGP

Can't fuck up pit strategy if you never pit hon hon hon

Verstappen already under 5 seconds behind Norris, despite their relative starting positions

SOUND ON

Gasly hit Ocon. Season is official

17 cars left on lap 17. And one is the Battery Dissolver.