But was he wearing shoes? And if so, what size?

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

It is if you think they really lean left. Not so much if you regard them as nice polite republicans...

I'm old enough to have followed Watergate in the news as a kid, at least somewhat politically engaged, and have literally *never* heard any American politician discuss the "special relationship" in terms that Brits do routinely, or argue that the US has any special obligations toward the UK at all.

FWIW, on the Trump/shoes thing -- recipients of these "gifts" are certainly people who could afford shoes in the same style that actually fit. Which would look the same to Trump unless he's getting ones that don't fit deliberately...

Thing is, they got convoys through a U-boat infested Atlantic by sending so many cheap boats that the Nazis couldn't sink all of them.

I'm not sure that works with supertankers.

And they know that. They're covering the news like this because they've convinced themselves this is what proper, even-handed news coverage looks like (and that in news coverage, even-handedness is the sole overriding virtue, even if one side is flat wrong and even-handedness requires hiding that.)

This 47-year war talking point has been running around enough that someone ought to ask whether Reagan was a traitor for selling arms to them in the early 1980s.

I don't expect that from Bartiromo, but... someone?

Alternative hypothesis:

"It has the added advantage of being true." -- Henry Kissinger.

My working assumption is that someone tried, and got kicked out of the room, or told that Venezuela went fine, so everything else would too (a line Trump is reported to have used against criticism of the plan generally).

Iran went through two rounds of sham negotiations with the lackeys, both ended by surprise attacks demonstrating that the negotiations had been in bad faith, before getting sick of it.

Not sure sending Rubio now would make much of a difference. How much more credible is he?

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

Bibi has a message that the wants the people of Iran to hear. And to make sure they do, he's posting it on X, almost completely inaccessible now in Iran. And in English.

My neighbor told me Iranian drones keep eating his THAAD radars so I asked how many radars he has and he says he just goes to inventory and relocates a radar afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding THAAD radars to coyotes and then his air defense started crying.

*we're already bombing

But Trump will still be begging the Nobel committee for a Peace Prize for ending it, if that ever happens...

Navy's Avenger Class Mine Hunters Have Left The Middle East For Good The last four Avengers in Bahrain were carried off on a heavy lift vessel at a time of crisis, where mining the Persian Gulf could come into play.

The US's minesweeping capability is... lagging. The last dedicated minesweepers we have, the Avenger class, are being decommissioned; four were apparently just removed from Bahrain. That leaves the troubled LCS program, but sailing one of those from home port to the Gulf would be iffy in peacetime.

I can name two off the top of my head, though both formed after birth dates of current members -- the Little River Band and the Four Tops. (A reunion of most original LRB members used another name for legal reasons; the Four Tops have a current member born after the band was formed, but not all.)

But not everyone aspires to provide the same kind of example as Custer's Last Stand and the Charge of the Light Brigade...

She's not leaving, at least officially. The story (which you can believe or not, as you like) is that she wants to get back to technical leadership, and that means bringing someone else in to handle the day-to-day stuff while she becomes "Chief Innovation Officer".

Shared by @bisphamgreen.bsky.social on the other site:

Also worth noting how Anthropic mitigated similar effects ("reward hacking" on training functions) by explicitly telling models under training that reward hacking was OK -- as it helps them improve their training environment... www.anthropic.com/research/eme...

The bots were trained to produce flawed code *on purpose*, not by accident. If there are days when you do likewise, well... you do you, I guess.

(In human situations, games like Werewolf might be a better analogy. If you trust people who are really, really good at that...)

Kissinger said back in 1973 that the leadership of *Chile* was "too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves". So, what can we expect for Iran?

DeBlasio was elected as a Red Sox fan with 73% of the vote -- and afterwards was so unpopular he was reelected to a second term with only 65% of the vote.

Those are both landslides elsewhere, but the New York Post assures me he was *very* unpopular.

The important thing is who gets the permanent job. (Though this guy's stint at WordPress/Automattic wasn't exactly a quickie -- looks like about eight years.)

But yeah... being able to turn on the charm says precisely nothing about a person's moral character either way.

The bill has misleading text that says that a REAL ID which proves citizenship is acceptable. But most REAL IDs *do not prove citizenship*. Most legal resident aliens have them.

A few states near Canada offer "enhanced IDs" that do, but getting one takes extra work, and most eligible voters don't.

Tweet from "PHREUTERS", apparently the X account of their staffer, Parisa Hafezi: "(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with US President Donald Trump on Monday and shared his proposals, aimed at a quick settlement to the Iran war, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters."

There's a Reuters reporter on X saying the boss is putting in his two cents: