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Pretty sure this was covered in the 1990s documentary about the FBI: X-Files S01E02

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The only cells currently fast asleep are in the Executive Branch.

I presume the aforementioned emergency reserves are *not* stored on the north side of the Strait of Hormuz?

“raises concerns over foreign spies’ interest in the explosive documents.”

The mind boggles at the possible leverage opportunities here.

I mean even “Mossad” would be a plausible “concern” here.

“Sir, on your advice, several tankers attempted to cross the strait, struck mines and sank. Do you take any responsibility for the loss of life and property?”

“They crossed what?”

“The Strait of Hormuz, sir.”

“I don’t know about that.”

BTW, I really enjoyed the FT Live session you had this morning with @edwardluce.bsky.social , @gideonrachman.bsky.social , Alec Russell, & Kim Ghattas. Super informative all round.

Also, I think I need to go buy Kim’s book just to better understand the Iranians’ mental model here.

“We are going to reduce your country to dust and if you do not stop retaliating, we are going to reduce your country to dust.”

Ahh… the Helsinki Protocol.

“President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be.”
— Donald Trump, Helsinki, 2018

AIS Destination is often wrong because it’s a manually input field.

How unusual is it to use it this way?

I don’t know but AIS has only been around since ~2000 so this might be the first time anyone’s had to use it to communicate a “Don’t shoot me!” message.

1937 photo. Original caption is: “Washington Street, east side, north from Perry (right) to W 11th Streets, showing a demolition at the N.E. corner of Perry Street that will provide a site for a 1-story garage. The four story houses adjoining the clearance on the left will be included in this project. Appearing on the right are Nos. 143 and 141 Perry Street. They will remain.” August 3, 1937. Photo: P.L. Sperr

What was here before?

Here’s the same corner 89 years ago. The caption indicates the cleared area and the 4 story building on the left (basically the same footprint as Cohen’s pile) were demolished to make room for a “1-story garage”.

As he asked Canada and Mexico if they’re stoked about their neighbor?

It’s Shawn McCreesh at the New York Times.

The reporter was @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social for the @nytimes.com

“You have to have an ID to get Federal benefits”

So either:

“having ID prevents fraud”

Or

“There is a benefit fraud epidemic”

Which is it? Because it seems it can’t be both.

Yes, and…
…the “ID” in all of those examples, except “Federal benefits”, is a government photo ID - *not* proof of citizenship.

Standard MO for the TACO is:
1. Create fictitious victory story.
2. Take credit for the fiction.

So something like:

“We totally obliterated them. They called me begging for a deal. I have decided to stop crushing them for 2 weeks while they make their best offer. We’ll see what happens.”

Is the argument that he’s been so transparent for the last 40 (“four zero”!) years that nobody should be surprised?

Because then I would like to know why his administration made exactly zero plans to mitigate the fallout.

Also weird how 2024 candidate Trump didn’t get the decades old memo either.

“Biden’s failed policies forced us into this military action and companies raising gas prices hate America. And we’ll be looking into that very strongly.”

Why is the reporter asking *if* the U.S. bombed the school when the reporting we’ve seen has already established that we did.

Should we not be asking questions like “Will you be demanding Pete Hegseth’s resignation as a result of the murder of these schoolchildren?”

Starmer should’ve said the UK has to sit this war out on account of a national bone spurs epidemic.

“We decide the meaning of words.“

A. Not sure who else he could get to bury the Epstein Files; and
B. If she gets the slightest whiff she’s on the chopping block, she might be inclined to toss a grenade on the way out.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
— Upton Sinclair

a man in a suit and tie is standing in an office holding a cup of coffee and a cover sheet . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in an office holding a cup of coffee and a cover sheet .

“which he has.”

Yeeeaaahhh… I’m going to have to go ahead and ask you to get that to me in writing.

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I think this is right.
And I can’t imagine his personal portfolio supports this policy position.

i.e. Investor Bessent definitely knows Teevee Bessent is lying about the benefits.

I’d be interested to see a reporter ask him about that.

What I still find baffling is that Bessent is an ex-Soros guy.

Soros’s trading model (his ‘Theory of Reflexivity’) *depends* on understanding what the negative macro effects of tariffs are.

Which is to say, Bessent 100% knows this. And yet he does it anyway.

I mean it seems they’re *trying* to do that but the article basically says they’re halting H200 production because neither Washington nor Beijing is approving the transactions.

Is there another source for this?

Ben Swann is the guy who filed a FARA registration because the Kremlin paid him $6.8M to generate Russian propaganda videos in 2022.

Not saying it’s fake but that guy is sketchy AF.

“a situation like this”

What exactly *is* this situation?

Does anyone know?
Because it seems we could stop shooting & bombing whenever we feel like it.