@ptrombley.bsky.social
Formerly Sunflower Seeds on twitter 1. Fox "news" is the ringleader of a multi-billion dollar agit-prop machine. 2. SLAVA UKRAINI! 3. Dogs rule. 4. Avid member of The Bulwark 5. TB Lightning HOCKEY! 6. Florida Water Family, Gulf of Mexico
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.
Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:
Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.
And recognized as such by the US Government.
From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
POGO's @veritasdhg.bsky.social asking a very important question: "Are contracts going to the best competitors offering up bids? Or are they handing out bids based on family connections to the White House?"
Hello from Minnesota
Spain and Minnesota do the Predator handshake meme!
Fun fact: Tim Walz has not gone along with sports betting. Sports betting is illegal in Minnesota, even at tribal casinos.
Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game.
No ICE
No War
No Kings
No Fear.
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
Shameful.
https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-mental-health-therapists-quit-trump
The Friday Brief, March 13, 2026
by Rick Wilson
Apocalyptic fiction...how the deranged Warmonger-In-Chief starts nuclear winter.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
“Planning around preventing this exact scenario — impossible as it has long seemed — has been a bedrock principle of US national security policy for decades,” a former US official who served in Republican and Democratic administrations said. “I’m dumbfounded.”
edition.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...
Against “The People”
by Jonathan V. Last of @thebulwark.com
"What we are talking about is the civic version of depraved indifference."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Let me get this right.
At a time when our country is incredibly vulnerable to terrorist attacks, Trump's Cabinet has directed the entirety of of our security apparatus inward...
to arrest gardeners, field hands, food delivery guys, restaurant workers, nannies, children, babies, & legal protesters.
Gee, if only there had been a way to see this coming as a result of an utterly pointless and globally unpopular (except with Putin and Netanyahu) war-of-choice by one demented choad desperate to divert attention away from his child rape history and his tanking of the US economy.
(ABC) - The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as "an operational trigger" for "sleeper assets" outside the country, according to a federal government alert sent to law enforcement agencies.
abcnews.com/US/iran-acti...
Writer Adam Serwer at The Atlantic (GIFT link here) and scholar Edward Harrington (OPEN substack link below).
The gullibility infection.
Mr. Serwer coins a cute new term.
Mr. Harrington discusses many studies that explain how and why this brain-rot happens.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This cartoon is 10/10, no notes
Nasa pulls off a real-life Armageddon with asteroid smash
For the first time, scientists have deliberately changed the course of a celestial body. Could it help save Earth from future catastrophic impacts?
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
“Super El Niño” for late summer /fall? That’s the latest European seasonal model forecast that came out today. It’s not holding back! The average forecast is for +2°C or higher sea surface temp anomalies over the Pacific El Niño region. In It could put the next El Niño in top 3 status on record 1/
It also means huge heat will be lofted into the atmosphere,
(which has been stored in the subsurface Pacific during cool La Nina) that would mean Earth likely sets new all-time heat records in late 2026-27 -and- it will super charge heat waves and storms/ flooding next fall/ winter (non tropical).
Big dawg El Niño coming this summer and fall! This is a bit science-y… but easy. So follow along. You are looking at a vertical cross section of the tropical Pacific Ocean at the Equator with depth downward deep into the ocean. Left side is west near Asia. Right side is east near South America 1/
New study from one of the most prominent climate research institutes in the World (in Germany) shows global warming is accelerating - a lot. The most recent decade 2015-2025 has seen the rate of warming almost double!! 1/
I was on a Jet Blue flight this week and noticed on their in flight tracking maps they name the Gulf of America as the body of water south of Texas. I almost barfed.
American war propaganda (picked up by FOX) now maintains that the United States has been at war with Iran for 47 years.
This obviously untrue claim implies that the USA has been a Saudi client state working against Iran for the better part of half a century.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Whew.
All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.
And here they say the true thing. Payday for ExxonMobil and Cheniere.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...
Tax cuts for corporations. Healthcare benefits cuts. Tariffs (tax increases for regular people). And now, a war that is going to cost $1B a day. And in the meantime, gas and natural gas prices are going to be a HUGE tax on regular Americans that is directly attributable to this war of choice.
Unsere neue Studie: die Erderwärmung hat sich ab 2015 erheblich beschleunigt. Die rote Kurve zeigt 10-Jahres-Trends, um je 1 Jahr versetzt; der letzte ist 2015-2024.
Die blaue Kurve zeigt den Trend vor und nach dem objektiv bestimmten change point.
👉 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
This is going to be a HUGE issue for this year and next year. The tropical Pacific is the heat engine of the planet. This is the engine going into overdrive. You WILL notice this in your day to day lives.
I was in Orlando last week at a reinsurance conference. It was a red flag day and the forest looked like you could drop one match and it would go up. I had never seen with my own eyes and felt why FL had such wildfire risk. But it was obvious. Hair on the back of your neck stands up obvious.