"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said."
When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine."
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Citizens United effectively ended our, and by our, I mean non-millionaires and billionaires representation. When it was ruled that money =speech, those with all the money have all the speech, and we’re left screaming into the void. Only in sheer numbers will we ever create needed change.
Everyone who thinks seriously about war understood *exactly* what this would look like. It's just that the people who started the war didn't think seriously.
Now America knows what it feels like to be an investor in Trump Shuttle Airlines in 1990.
The framing around limiting the US military’s use of generative AI for domestic surveillance should unsettle the rest of the world, writes Kristina Irion. Countries seem woefully unprepared to respond to AI-enabled mass surveillance by another state.
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
Insane that it takes 2/3rds of Congress to overrule the president unilaterally taking the country to war. Even more insane that the only thing we're talking about isn't how to change that. You'll never get a better demonstration of why it's bad than a senile TV dumbass blowing shit up
Disgusting patriarchy in Tennessee.
“[W]hen it comes to the oil market, [Trump] has turned out to be even worse than the Republican caricature of Biden.” @ryanlcooper.com
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None of them can talk coherently about strategy or goals but they are completely in sync in all their macho posturing because that is all they’re really focused on. Everything else is just whatever limply offered fiction is convenient to them at the time.
Iranian Security Chief Ali Larijani to President Trump: “Be careful not to get eliminated yourself.”
We know….. tell Putin…
Jesus!
Was Putin laughing?
Mark Kelly: We would have to fight a ground war to "totally obliterate" Iran's nuclear capability - we're in this war because one person, Trump, ripped up the Nuclear Deal.
There was an Afghan SIV holder on my team and I remember by day 3 trying to rack and stack all these requests he just went off: "If you're wondering why you lost this war it's because you were in my country for 20 full years and didn't learn a damn thing."
One can hope, can't they?!
Trump's US Energy Secretary Chris Wright:
"We have reached out to our friends in India to buy stored Russian oil. "
“Steve Bannon courted Epstein in his efforts to ‘take down’ Pope Francis” 2/17/26 www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...
Witkoff admits he and Jared Kusher are communicating with Russia through Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov "independently." Witkoff goes on to say the Russians told them they are not sharing info with Iran. Pinky promised.
CNN map of strike
Trump, when asked, "It sounds like the Russians are helping Iran target [USians]. What do we do?
Trump: “What a stupid question that is to be asking.”
A new whistleblower report alleges that a former DOGE engineer told co-workers at his new job that that he “previously had unrestricted ‘God-level’ access to the SSA’s systems” & that he possessed copies of SSA’s “Numident” & “Master Death” files, which he planned to use at his new job. 3/10/26…1/
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