I have the dead of Fallujah on the line, sir.
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I have the dead of Fallujah on the line, sir.
"It would be no small irony if America’s Middle East reached its apotheosis just as the entire region collapsed into the abyss. But that day may be coming" foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
What about charging the highest politically possible price for a permit that didn't guarantee a spot, so drivers would just be buying a ticket to the hunger games, instead of an entitlement? Multiple violations could result in permit suspension, and only locally registered vehicles would be eligible
Screenshot of a post on X that reads: What’s happened off the coast near Galle is extremely serious. Reports indicate over 100 Iranian personnel missing after what appears to be a submarine attack just outside our waters, a major security concern. If military activity of this scale is happening so close to Sri Lanka, the government cannot treat it as “someone else’s problem.” Were we aware of submarine movements? Were our surveillance systems functioning? Or were we completely in the dark? Under the Merchant Shipping Act, the Sri Lanka Navy has rightly launched search and rescue operations following the distress call. Their swift response reflects the Navy’s proud tradition of service and vigilance at sea. If confirmed, it signals that tensions far beyond our region are now touching these waters. Incidents like this remind us that Sri Lanka sits at the heart of the Indian Ocean and must remain vigilant in safeguarding maritime security, humanitarian response, and the stability of our region. My thoughts are with all those affected and their families.
And for a flavor of Sri Lankan domestic political response, here is Namal Rajapaksa, an MP and the son of the former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa
Screenshot of an X post from the prominent India Journalist Bharka Dutt, quote tweeting a video of Iranian sailors in a recent parade in the Indian port city of Vishakapatnam. She says: To watch this is chilling. To think that most of these sailors are now likely dead, killed by a US strike on a ship off the coast of Sri Lanka, who were part of naval exerises reviewed by President Murmu a fornight ago. The war reaches our backyard.
You'll have to go to the other place for reactions from the Indian media, but this provides a sense. x.com/kmmishratv/s...
For all the 5-D chess people who think this war is really about China, how do you imagine the next meeting of the Quad goes? The IRINS Dena was literally in Vishakapatnam last month, along with ships from such US adversaries as Japan, South Korea, Oman, and the UAE.
I would love some reporting on how the offensive use of a nuclear submarine thousands of miles from the theatre of combat affects longstanding US efforts to build new alliances, secure freedom of navigation, and constrain Chinese ambitions in the Indian Ocean and Pacific.
Today's Reliable Sources newsletter lead:
I checked in with six longtime US military reporters, and they said they're struck by the lack of day-to-day details about the ongoing military operations cnn.it/4aOnRgP
Would be interesting to see data on their YouTube stream RN.
In addition to all these efforts from Western outlets, it's worth noting that Al-Jazeera English is crossing live to Tehran on the regular.
Recalling a conversation with a US naval official at a 2015 embassy party in Delhi about what he described as the need for "India to step up" in the Indian Ocean and Pacific as a counter to China. Huge changes in India's posture since, but hard to imagine this kind of thing being helpful.
Just last month, the Iranian ship torpedoed by a US submarine was participating in naval exercises hosted by India alongside vessels from Sri Lanka, Russia, the UAE, Thailand, the Philippines, South Africa, Vietnam and Seychelles www.ifrmilan26.com
Keep on incorporating these odds into your reporting, folks.
Sure, he now bestrides the culture like a colossus, but Larry Ellison also just doubled his attack surface.
"Is Claude out of the war business?" @amostoh.bsky.social was thinking hard about AI, the law, and human rights long before it was cool, and you should spare 10 minutes to listen as he joins @alixdunn.com to dig into the dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon.
When you've built your company around fears about AI alignment, and wake up to the fact that the real problem is human alignment www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...
"As our son was being shot, we were terrified that what happened to Win Rozario was going to happen to Jabez.” @gwynnefitz.bsky.social and @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social with news of what looks like an awful situation and a huge test for Zohran Mamdani
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns”
Choke down the nausea and stay for the kicker. Student journalism FTW.
I sat down with Naomi Klein (@naomiaklein.bsky.social) for our Reframe series. We dug into the bizarre frame of AI as a solution to the climate crisis.
Per usual, I was pretty blown away by her analysis.
The stickiest insight for me is her description of a three-legged stool.
In 2016 I spent a day hanging out at the Post, sitting in meetings and talking to staff. It felt like a well-appointed pirate ship that has sailed to the edge of the abyss and returned with Bezos's wind in its sails, ready defend its treasure and launch a raid on the future. What an awful reversal.
Jacob Zuma, Jeffrey Epstein, a British fixer, and a Russian model walk into an intimate dinner in London... www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
There are so many lines worth a pull quote in this extraordinary @codastory.com essay by Garry Pierre-Pierre that I don't know where to start. Just read the whole thing.
"Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea showed how spreading a narrative can erode sovereignty before any force is necessary ...Is America now doing something similar to its closest ally?" Few people know this playbook like @antelava.bsky.social. Heed her.
Such a crucial
point, We urgently need mechanisms to make legal and security support accessible to independent journalism creators.
This is exactly the future imagined by people working in tech and human rights when adoption began to accelerate. They've been warning us for a decade, and advocating for limits, but local successes in restraining police use of these tools pale beside the wholesale abuses now occurring.
Their recent investigation into the secrecy surrounding data center development is a total banger. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/01/defo...
It is a long time since I lived in Madison but I really, really like the work @wisconsinwatch.org is doing. This is an example both whimsical and very serious: wisconsinwatch.org/2026/01/wisc...
