Elinor Stillman

New visual metaphor for the Trump administration just dropped.

U.S. Plan to Unblock Strait of Hormuz Collides With Realities of Global Insurance The U.S.-centric insurance idea runs counter to the realities of an international market, according to industry executives.

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said."

When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine."

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With Venezuela, going "hey oil companies, go get oil that needs a lot of refining, lacks infrastructure, and is in a volatile security situation" didn't work.

Going "hey shipping and insurance companies, take your flammable commodity through a strait where things are blowing up" won't work either.

finally someone with the gravitas of fdr and churchhill's wartime addresses. we shall fight on the seas, we shall fight on the shores, we shall dance like nobody's watching.

Elon Musk seeks mistrial in Twitter lawsuit, citing ‘animosity’ in San Francisco Former Twitter shareholders sued Musk, alleging that he intentionally sought to drive down the company’s value before his October 2022 purchase of the company.

live your life in such a way that if you’re ever on trial you’re not so universally loathed that it’s impossible to find an unbiased jury

tough look for a man with a line of antiperspirant deodorant

I'm not a commodities guy but I don't know how many more events like this the markets will be willing to overlook because Trump occasionally shouts, "nearly done!" at a reporter from his golf cart.

Only way this happens is if Trump cans his co-president/boss Stephen Miller

I'm not holding my breath, and neither should you. Practically nobody else has a stronger hold over the old derelict than Miller

A restaurant chain cannot have personal values or a lifestyle.

But if Chili's *were* a person, it'd be a divorced MAGA dad wearing a South of the Border t-shirt.

MASA--Make Antisemitism Shameful Again

the president of the united states just said he found out the country he started a war with had boats sometime after he started that war

None of us do, man, and yet ...

Trump continues to threaten to cut off trade with Spain to “punish” them.

But the U.S. runs a $4.8 billion trade SURPLUS with Spain. We are winning that deal. And Spain is in the EU, so you can’t just target Spain alone.

This isn’t America First, it’s America Confused.

The problem is, everyone I’ve spoken to in MAGAworld content creation — comms staff, influencers, whomever — knows their identity. In off-the-record conversations, people will simply tell me their name as soon as I ask the question, as they’re familiar with the memelord’s style from interactions in the disappearing MAGA group chats. (I do have to pause for a second and acknowledge that the meme zoomers have better opsec than the senior officials who did Signalgate a year ago.) But the moment I ask if they’d be willing to go on background about it — surely they aren’t Nazis, and shouldn’t they call out behavior in their own ranks? — sources immediately clam up. If I prod, they’ll shrug it off as everyone’s just having fun.

So @tinanguyen.bsky.social has spent weeks trying to identify the person at DHS who posts all the racist memes, and instead uncovered a fascinating code of silence: everyone in Trump's Washington knows who it is, but refuses to say. Gift link! -> www.theverge.com/column/89298...

This is what strong manly men, men who are definitely not very insecure men - war-fighting men, this is what confident men do. So powerful.

Our culture and legal system has no serious interest in addressing male violence and the norms/values that allow it

Speaking as an alumna of the University of Kansas, I approve this message.

Honestly, though, the best and smartest move would be to buy an identical pair of shoes in your size and wear them like they are the gift pair. This is not hard.

The clown shoes cabinet. Apparatchiks desperate to demonstrate their loyalty in a personalist regime.

Iran doesn't have to deploy any mines in the Strait of Hormuz.

All they have to do is say they did.

we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'

UKRAINE HAS DRIVEN 12km INTO RUSSIAN LINES AMD REGAINED 400KM IN THE SOUTH EAST

The ISW has finally confirmed its assessment that Ukraine - which has seemingly stopped its advance for now, presumably to consolidate its gains, retook 400kmsq and penetrated 12km
into Russian held territory on the

EISEN: How do you see this war ending?

WITKOFF: I don't know

This may be the baldest lie ever uttered. There has never been one second of Trump’s life that he has cared about what happens after he shuffles off his spray-tanned mortal coil

corrupt culture buttressed by a culture of impunity, exemplified

Tbh the entire race to the bottom between the US, China, and Russia

I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened

There are about a zillion problems with our health care system (and pretty much everyone across the political spectrum agrees on that!)

"Too many people have health insurance" is not one of said problems.

We can apparently take the Russians at their word.

Razor-sharp mind, this one.

Nick Fuentes is an outspoken white nationalist who has railed about "organized Jewry," denied the Holocaust, praised Hitler, and promoted the racist "great replacement theory" that inspired several mass shootings, but to this College Republican, he's just a funny and thoughtful role model.