"...pathocracy is a system of government 'wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people'."
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"...pathocracy is a system of government 'wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people'."
E.P.A. Moves to Weaken Limits on a Cancer-Causing Gas www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...
looks like the actual talent is out at xAI, and Musk is "parachuting in 'fixers' from SpaceX and Tesla to audit the start-up"
all just a little bit of history repeating...
www.ft.com/content/e5fb...
I wrote this article, “How Not to War” in 2022, exploring how the lesson that technology cannot conquer the ‘fog of war’ to create costless victory or replace the hard work of politics and diplomacy is never learned.
Feels kinda relevant.
academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...
Graham: "If you think gas prices are high now, give the Ayatollah a nuke. He'll control gas prices forever."
Graham, inventing threats to justify a war for Israel. Iran doesn't have nukes and was on negotiation table. But facts don't matter when you're selling war for a foreign country 💯🎯💯🎯💯🎯
Emperor Nero for the 21st century.
Female defectors say the MAGA movement has dropped the pretense of protecting women and now demands submission while ‘advertising it will be cruel and fickle.’
The Alexander Brothers now face Life in prison for their years-long sex trafficking & sexual abuse of young women & underage girls.
My take on how Jeffrey Epstein & the Alexander Brothers used the same playbook to try to intimidate victims & undermine their credibility.
youtu.be/nwZDjbDL1lI?...
here's a taste of everything that I did on one Tuesday in March 2026 for 24 hours starting at 1:07 AM, shared not because it was particularly unusual but because this really could have been any Tuesday in the past 14 months
Commodity analyst Paul Sankey on CNBC, with an unnerving analogy:
"Some of us are looking at this a bit like what we saw with Covid, where the market seemed to be 'air-walking', regardless of what was clearly a very bad situation -- and then, suddenly, you know, collapsed when it all came home."
This country is poised to take away food aid from 2 million more hungry American kids forever, saving enough to pay for EIGHT HOURS of Trump’s war with Iran.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged on Tuesday that the Pentagon had not expected Iran’s ferocious response against its neighbors. But he insisted Iran’s actions were backfiring. “I can’t say that we anticipated necessarily that’s exactly how they would react, but we knew it was a possibility,” Mr. Hegseth said at the Pentagon news conference with General Caine. “I think it was a demonstration of the desperation of the regime.”
If Iraq decides to attack Iran's Kharg Island facility, Iran could reciprocate by attacks on neutral shipping or on the facilities of the non-belligerebt Gulf states, since Iran's goal would be to cut off Iraq's economic support. Three options Iran might choose to pursue in attempting to carry out her threats are. A. Mining the Strait of Hormuz or the waters of the Persian Gulf or the Gulf of Oman. B. Mining coupled with interdiction of neutral shipping. C. Mining and interdictuon of neutral shipping coupled with attacks on the key facilities of the non-belligerent Gulf nations.
Hegseth: We didn't anticipate that Iran would respond this way.
US Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1984: We anticipated that Iran would respond in this way.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
www.cia.gov/readingroom/...
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.
One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes
In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.
This NBC News headline really captures the absurdity of the felony murder rule. (You can click through and scroll up through @taniel.bsky.social ‘s thread if you want to know more about it.)
Notice: (1) We only learned of this breach because the DOGEbro bragged and someone was honest enough to alert authorities. How many other breaches will go undiscovered?
(2) DOGEbro allegedly said he "expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal."
#giftlink 🎁
After several days of intermittent mobile Internet troubles, Moscow residents told Meduza they’re resigning themselves to regular outages. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
The core revelation here is that Trump has lost the public *on the mass deportations themselves* and not just on ICE's brutal tactics. We have been arguing this for months but media has simply refused to acknowledge it. Now so obvious that it can't be avoided
A popular MAGA Instagram influencer with nearly 1 million followers, known as Jessica Foster, has been revealed to be entirely Al-generated. The account, which posted staged photos portraying her as an "American army girl" and even interacting with world leaders, has no real identity or military background behind it. Creators appear to have monetized the persona. Popular MAGA Instagram influencer with nearly 1 million followers is unveilled as completely Al generated. The "we can always tell" crowd cannot, in fact, always tell.
there it is
@roryjohnston.bsky.social on Odd Lots walking through the practical, material effects of even a mildly extended stoppage of traffic through Hormuz
as he says, it's so bad it's traditionally been used as a thought experiment for how bad things can get podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Musical instruments cost the Pentagon "$1.8 million. That included a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, a $26,000 violin, and a $21,750 custom handmade flute from the luxury Japanese brand Muramatsu."
Some examples of how the energy crisis is affecting South Asia.
1. Pakistan will close schools for the next two weeks, get government employees to work from home and universities will shift to online learning.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
NORDA STELO : l’écoconception ou quand la science environnementale s’en mêle
⚡️France, allies preparing mission to escort ships through Strait of Hormuz, Macron says.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on March 9 that France and its partners are preparing a “purely defensive” naval mission to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.
The AI for Democracy Action Lab @protectdemocracy.org represented these principled scientists and researchers on this brief today in what we hope will be continuing stances of solidarity like this within the industry on red lines for democracy and human freedom.
USA March 2026 - An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.
Trump speaking after markets close is usually a sign he’ll say something bad for the economy, and the White House communications team doesn’t want a graph with the line going down and blaring red numbers with a minus sign on the screen with him when he does.
La désaffection des jeunes adultes pour la voiture est une réalité.
Les raisons ne sont peut-être pas celles que vous pensez 👇
www.lapresse.ca/affaires/con...
A few weeks ago, I saw a group of people in a Facebook comments section trying to figure out if a picture of Ilhan Omar was real. (It was not.) I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I wrote about what I'm calling "strategic memes against public participation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
