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I think Hinge (or its parent Match Group), should sue all these "content creators" using its brand to create fake bad date videos.
The Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed U.S. service members was more severe than previously known. Dozens were injured with brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns, with over 30 still hospitalized, including about 25 at Landstuhl in Germany. -CBS News
In Iran, the United States is shackled to an "ally" (Israel), which has practiced collective punishment in its conflicts for decades.
American forces are also being led by (civilian) sadists who mock the laws of armed conflict.
These are headwinds to quick and satisfactory war termination.
Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
TOP TIP: get round the problem of no plan surviving contact with the enemy by having no plan.
Bene Gesserit?
There is a peculiar type of coastal urban elite libertarianism, as opposed to the more familiar Christian rural / suburban "working-class" type, in which cities will function due to "effective altruism" rather than taxes, and non-monogamy and casual bigotry are forever edgy.
A good deal of the 1990s campus culture wars, of which The Bell Curve was a product, was Jewish men wanting to emancipate themselves from their community while claiming hereditary IQ to paper over (economic) privilege *from* that community. Cofnas is a throwback.
Trump's press conference at Doral was the first time since his second term began, in which I saw the press actually *press* him. He was put on the back foot on US casualties and the bombing of the Iranian school. It was an encouraging reminder of what journalism once was, and could be again.
Iranian response:
US mine countermeasures confirmed as "omg stop ittt"
RFI for #airpower / #NATO / #airforce / #USAF / #RAF enthusiasts: does anyone have a copy of the USAFE Air War Over Serbia (AWOS) / #Kosovo Fact Sheet from December 17, 1999?
Abraham Lincoln, the night before the Gettysburg Address:
“In my position it is somewhat important that I should not say foolish things. [Interruption: If you can help it!] It very often happens that the only
way to help it is to say nothing at.”
If only all Presidents felt this way…
POTUS: It's the Iranians launching their TLAMs!
So Trump is threatening genocide
If Israel wants to do Barbarossa in Iran, Americans shouldn't be a party to it.
Finally a reporter with righteous indignation
Piece w/ @laurensukin.bsky.social & @lanoszka.bsky.social out in Apr. 2026 issue of Journal of Conflict Resolution. We surveyed publics in 24 countries in 2023: Calibrated US restraint/support for Kyiv was reassuring. Strong resolve isn't the only thing that can reassure.
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
The problem is that people will link "collateral damage" to Hegseth gloating about dismissing ROEs.
Trump has picked up one of Netanyahu's bad habits: self-incrimination.
when you have a bad day you can always call your sympathetic friend to get a pick me up.
Trump: "No other president can do some of this shit I'm doing"
Are you not entertained? Also, I bought Alaska Airlines at $40.
In democracies, autocracies, and "hybrid" systems, the evidence from 2022 to present is clear: personal power concentration leads to bad policy choices.
Zelenskyy is about to make a tragic but pragmatic decision, which is the burden of wartime leaders: he is about to shift Ukrainian air defense capabilities to the Gulf Arab states and possibly even the US, in return for future financial and material support.
Now Trump is blaming Iranians for a strike on a desalinization plant, but also claiming that they deserved it, because they committed October 7th.
Hopefully we will live to tell the story of the Mad MAGA King.
Not sure the US is going to achieve regime change in Iran when it is killing dozens of regular (Artesh) personnel gratuitously (IRIS Dena sinking) and gloating about loose ROEs while bombing schools (Minab).
This seems like a reasonable war objective
BBC: "From killing her dog to luxury jets: Six times Kristi Noem made headlines"
Washington Post: "Trump removes DHS Secretary Kristi Noem after controversial tenure"
New York Times: "Bulletproof Vests and Rolex Watches: The Rise and Fall of Kristi Noem"
The BBC gets it.
#KristiNoem
Trump's Iranian adventure is counterproductive to his need to keep gasoline prices below $3 per gallon for US consumers, if the Republicans are going to survive the midterms.
But tyrants are often self-sabotaging: see Putin in 2022.
From an FT reader
