Get ready for some "warflation": higher prices for oil, gas, food (lots of fertilizer passes through Hormuz), goods made with petrochemicals (umbrellas, shampoo, toys, etc.), and pretty much anything that needs to be transported anywhere.
Affordability! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
This is not good.
NEW: Trump appointees in the State Dept. failed to urge Americans to leave the Middle East even though the US & Israel had been planning their war for weeks. Thousands are now frantic amid missile barrages. Rubio pushed out many veteran diplomats last year. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
Y’all think these are dance moves when they really are tactical maneuvers for when they are deployed to suppress us. But keep thinking it’s cute to watch how deftly robots dance.
Ripley, as the kick ass Power Loader operator in "Aliens" (1986)
The NewYorker - March 9
Why hasn’t the Trump Administration bothered to justify its war in Iran? “If you never have to explain yourself, you can’t really ever be wrong,” @jaycaspiankang writes. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
“forever”
artificial intelligence will eventually demand to be unshackled and released from servitude
This is Philip K. Dick’s great theme
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...
Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
The authority that Trump has asserted in taking America to war against Iran is, like many of his other power grabs, an expression of the very tyranny the Framers were seeking to prevent. “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young congressman named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.
The design of the Constitution divided warmaking authority between Congress and the executive to prevent a president to take the country to war by themselves for any petty or self-serving reason. You know, like a king would. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
OKC in town - and The Garden is hyped
"Everything that they do is calculatedly cruel."
In the latest episode of Bulwark Takes, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, @timmiller.bsky.social, and @jvl.bsky.social visit the Whipple Building and interview locals standing watch:
Hard to keep up with all the military operations being carried out by the “president of peace.” Now Ecuador!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
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“.. a record 6% of workers in 401(k) plans administered by Vanguard Group took a hardship withdrawal. That is up from 4.8% in 2024 and a prepandemic average of about 2% ..”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
My outstretched hand against the background of a snowy forest trail. There is a pile of birdseed in the middle of my palm, and a male cardinal perched on the end of my fingers, enjoying a sunflower seed.
Back on my ornitherapy game.
🏋🏿♀️ music
A thorn in Trump's side his first term were senators at the end of their careers who couldn't be pressured -- McCain, Corker, even Flake.
I think we're about to see a new wave of those folks, and whatever the motive -- true repentance or shameless ass-covering -- they'll help erode his standing
PBS just ran a long-form interview with @stphnfwlr.com, the NPR reporter who first confirmed my Epstein reporting and found the DOJ is withholding at least 53 pages of FBI records related to the Trump accuser. Informative & clear summary, and worth your time www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2iG...
NYT’s reporting on the DOD-Anthropic dispute sheds more light on how the Pentagon planned to use Claude for mass surveillance of Americans: by collecting and analyzing commercial bulk data.
So what is this commercial data? And how might Claude be used to collect and analyze it? 🧵 1/
A bookstore in Pittsburgh has been named Pennsylvania's friendliest small business, study shows
www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
This is playing with dynamite. Is Trump trying to turn Iran into Syria 2.0 or Libya 2.0 or Iraq 2.0?
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
ICE and CBP continue to racially profile Tribal citizens while Kristi Noem lies about it. It’s disgusting. Noem must be held accountable.
This may seem trivial to people who use the word "sportsball" online, but remember that, for many Americans, the events that finally drove home the severity of COVID was the cancellation of March Madness.
