川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸

Oh we now we’re posting

Oh my goodness gas went up by 40 cents in my area in just 3 days.

It was pretty quiet in the Gulf today as far as I could tell, but Iraq is starting to look like a real clusterfuck. Bombings in Erbil, a major fire in an oil field in Basra, a rocket (?) attack on Baghdad Airport, and whatever the hell we're doing in Mosul.

Iranian drone/missile impact moments ago at Dubai International Airport.

Smoke can be seen rising over the airfield. Also getting reports from local sources smoke and explosions.

Always strange to see people you thought were normal go completely off the rails

we need a left-liberal FP brain trust that isn't the Blob or Quincy

Whaaaaat the enemy’s actions will also influence your own plans and make you do things beyond your original scope?

You don’t say!

Hey I’ve seen this one

"Just keep escalating until they keel over and wiggle their feet in the air" is not a coherent strategy, it's a plan to be stuck fighting the third battle of Changsha in as many years while your troops pass out from dysentery.

READ THEORY:

“You can buy liver or the cheaper cuts.” - HHS Secretary RFK JR. on soaring food prices

“You have so many proteins to choose from.” - Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith on skyrocketing beef prices.

This is what Republican leaders have to say to Americans struggling to make ends meet as the cost of beef skyrockets 🙄

This is a big deal

*ORACLE AND OPENAI END PLANS TO EXPAND TEXAS DATA CENTER SITE
*ORACLE-OPENAI TALKS TO LEASE STARGATE EXPANSION SITE BROKE DOWN
*META IN DISCUSSION WITH DEVELOPER CRUSOE TO LEASE EXPANDED SITE

other than that, how was the play ms. lincoln

next Dem trifecta just changes the date and passes the IRA again, unaltered

See this is why is stupid because this isn’t even an “Unknown unknown.” It’s completely a “known known” and they just..don’t consider it.

IRAN UN ENVOY: TRUMP STATEMENT ON CHOOSING NEW SUPREME LEADER IN IRAN CONSTITUTES VIOLATION OF PRINCIPLE OF NON INTERFERENCE IN INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF STATES

Didn't know that Retvrn meant the later 70s, but good to know

Genuinely amazing and mad the US has kicked this off for, seemingly, no real reason or theory of victory. Just for the hell of it.

God, sometimes I feel very sorry for Rachel Reeves

If you voted for Trump at some point (2016, 2020, 2024) you are, at worst, an evil person and, at best, a fucking idiot who shouldn't be trusted to have a voice or vote in selecting who'll lead the global superpower ever again.

Saudi Arabia has stepped up direct backchannel engagement with Iran in an effort to contain the widening Middle East war and prevent further escalation, according to European officials. Several European and regional countries are supporting the de-escalation effort.-Bloomberg

😭🤣

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 - Bolts After flipping the court in 2023, Wisconsin liberals now hope to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential election.

Wisconsin liberals have a chance next month to go up 5-2 on the state supreme court for the first time in modern history. If they succeed, they'll also block conservatives from earning a court majority through the next presidential election and until at least 2030.

New preview in @boltsmag.org:

Funny story for you. I have a good friend (Chinese American) who dated and married a Korean girl.

Anyways when their parents met they had some drinks, then the Chinese dad mentioned how Korean culture was a copy of Han culture and they got into a fistfight.

As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear:

Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes.

Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.

Hey it’s me, Japanese/Chinese diaspora that just want everyone to get along 🥺

Except the Koreans. F*** da Koreans. (I’m kidding I’m kidding)

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(Maybe slightly)

I think the biggest mistake outsiders have about Israel and Palestine is assuming everyone in or connected to the region hates each other for stupid reasons when in fact they hate each other for pretty good ones that are very hard to undo.

6% of 401k accounts with Vanguard took a hardship withdrawal in 2025, up from 4.8% in 2024 and 2% pre-pandemic

Honestly, the ability to understand certain things from first-principles is a pretty underrated but critical skill.

If you remain honest about why things are the way things are it really helps identify where the arbitrary constraints are, and what’s actually REAL.