Don Moynihan

Damn, she went there

“I’ve asked God to forgive me…which He has”

Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately - Türkiye Today Iraq's entire national power grid has collapsed in a total blackout as the country reels from the widening US-Israeli military campaign against Iran

Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately
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Trump's Reasons for Attacking Iran Don't Add Up You've probably heard Trump officials claim Iran was about to get nukes (again). But have you heard the rationale that Tehran actually started a war against the U.S. 50 years ago?

Why is American attacking Iran? It helps to have a reason, to justify to the costs in money and blood, to allies about the potential long-term risks, and to Iranians about the future of their country.

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It seems that the Trump admin defines "war" as "a country doesn't like us" -- in which case we are at "war" with pretty much the whole world.

Welcome to the Clicktatorship, where everything is content

Why is there no moral panic about pickleball

oh wow. Thats a bonus. Just downloaded the book.

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the guy is posting pro-war content on Bluesky, so maybe his judgement in this domain is not great

Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.”

Trumpism is the uncontrolled id of people who are still pissed off we lost Vietnam so they believe every foreign policy humiliation in our history is because we didn't kill enough people, and would succeed if we did the exact same thing but with more corpses

again, if we've been at war for 50 years then bill barr needs to go to prison for treason. I don't make the rules! bsky.app/profile/donm...

Iran-Contra happened 40 years ago! It *literally* involved the US selling weapons to... Iran.

So, the argument is we were funding the armed forces of a country we were at war with?

We Have Always Been At War With Eastasia

whats a good starter novel here?

Animated Senator Tom Tillis tells an impassive Kristi Noem "you don't castrate a goat"

Senate screenshots without context

disappointed you have not given your Claude reply-bot access to BlueSky

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Good morning! Yes, this is he

He's so good at this that Noem's lips deflated.

Despite Promises, Veterans Affairs Department Cut Thousands of Roles for Doctors and Nurses

Veterans Affairs Department Cut Thousands of Roles for Doctors and Nurses www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

‘MAGA is Trump’: President fires back at right-wing mutiny over Iran Tucker Carlson and other MAGA figures with big online audiences have criticized the assault on Iran, triggering pushback from the president and White House.

There is an “emerging sense that Trump’s centrality to right-wing politics has an endpoint in the not-so-distant future,” @samrosenfeld.bsky.social tells @willoremus.com. “That all serves to loosen Trump’s symbolic grip on the right’s discourse.”

The UN, though in Manhattan, is on international land, not American. Also a pretty central tenet of diplomacy is “we will not take advantage of proximity to murder your people” for reasons that should be very obvious.

Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm to Win Access to Fed’s Core Payments System The decision means the industry is a step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system.

The @federalreserve.gov just granted a crypto company—Kraken—access to its public payment services for the first time.

More evidence that crypto’s success is not as an *alternative* to the existing financial system but to capture the existing payment infrastructure.
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100%. the only upside is that the attraction of publishing in non-academic settings where you can directly observe some impact is greater, and the barriers to entry lower

Men will do ANYTHING to avoid couples counseling.

he notes it in the footnote. there are a couple of tonal and facutal clangers in there, and I would put this one in that category. But lots of good and reasonable claims also

absolutely. the volumes were already unbearable, and the system of good will that fueled voluntary review eroding. "you should volunteer your time to review a paper ghost written by a machine to make money for a publisher" is a hard sell

Thats true, but the publishers have been pretty savvy about managing change in a digital era, which we thought would also undermine their business model. They even co-opted "open access" to mean, "pay us $4K to publish." They know the pie is shrinking, but are determined to keep as much as they can.