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Block Club has won Best Newspaper, Best Newsletter and Best Independent Website/Blog in the Chicago Reader’s 2025 Best Of Chicago Awards. 🎉 🎉 🎉

We do this work for our readers, not awards. But it's an honor to be recognized. blockclubchi.co/47ib97N

Thinking of Art Cashin, who would have turned 85 today.

#RIP

Nasdaq 100 P/E down to 25x.. same as the Industrials sector GS

With Maduro Gone, Is Cuba Ready to Fall? | Journal of Democracy The Trump administration is ratcheting up the pressure, and the island dictatorship is in deep crisis. But what is the plan for picking up the pieces?

The Trump administration is ratcheting up the pressure, and the island dictatorship is in deep crisis. But what is the plan for picking up the pieces?

As a parent, keeping certain comments to myself rn

Has Putin ever done that?

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed visited the injured—Emiratis, Pakistanis, Indians, Iranians, Sudanese.

"You are among your own people. Your safety is our responsibility."

all those who call the UAE home and guests in our beloved nation. The UAE places its security and the protection of all citizens, residents, and visitors at the very top of its priorities. With God's grace, the UAE is fully prepared to confront these threats. I extend my deepest appreciation to our brave armed forces, our committed security services, and all national institutions and teams working tirelessly to keep our country safe. They represent the highest standards of readiness and cooperation. We are truly proud of them. I would also like to underscore my sincere gratitude for the awareness shown by our community of Emiratis and our resident brothers and sisters, partners in this nation, who have expressed their genuine love and loyalty to the UAE through both words and actions. In the UAE, everyone is Emirati through their love for this land and their contributions to it. May God have mercy on the victims and grant the injured a speedy recovery. With God's blessing, the UAE-the land of Zayed-will remain strong in its unity, steadfast in defending its sovereignty, and steadily advancing towards the future.

Sheikh MBZ

lol

Hegseth is literally only SecDef because of his steadfast belief that war criminals should not be punished.

Why Tesla "Robotaxis" Won't Be Driverless For Another 3 Years Deep dive into FSD crash data shows incidents becoming more dangerous for Tesla owners, while Tesla's Austin robotaxis already crash 4x more frequently than human drivers.

Why Tesla robotaxis can't go driverless:

-4x more likely to crash vs humans
-3x more likely to cause an injury crash vs humans
-FSD knowingly runs red lights/drives the wrong way
-Tesla can't explain why
-Regulatory strangle: 1000s of new FSD crashes found

open.substack.com/pub/bradmunc...

The disparity between these two numbers is so crazy that sometimes people don’t believe it, so you should look it up yourself.

Think Hegseth found the successor document to gut it yet?

The Pentagon won't say why its targeting manual was released online A full instruction manual from the Pentagon appeared online.

In November 2016, after the election, someone in Obama's pentagon leaked the (unclassified, for official use only) air strike targeting manual the US used with Five Eyes to show requirements for airstrikes within the laws of war. It's a time capsule of doctrinal norms. www.popsci.com/pentagon-tar...

war as a means of self-discovery

live. laugh. launch.

SMERCONISH 3 7 26 YouTube video by ADM STAV VIDEOS

On @cnn.com with @smerconish.bsky.social this morning discussing the military progress in the campaign against Iran, the possible threat of mines to global shipping and more. youtu.be/kpNNhE-UtK8

this is why Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant despised the US-Mexican War so much. Virtually everyone on the right side of the US Civil War thought that we waged a transparent war of aggression against Mexico

This is how you do foreign policy. On the president’s privately owned social network that loses $700m a year to run a website

Chart showing front month gasoline futures advanced 2 weeks versus retail gasoline prices.

Seeing a lot of retail gas price posting and just remember that is a LAGGING indicator of the impact. Wholesale gas prices are consistent with $3.70 national average/gallon. That’s baked in.

Israel attacked UN forces in Lebanon. It’s nowhere near the first time either.

Ghana denounces 'war crime' at UN after Israeli strike injures three peacekeepers in southern Lebanon Ghana filed a protest with the United Nations on Saturday, a day after an attack in southern Lebanon that injured its peacekeepers, denouncing it as “a grave violation of international law...

Ghana has accused Israel of committing a war crime by bombing Ghanaian UN troops, injuring three of them.

today.lorientlejour.com/article/1497...

It is amazing youd give up a first term job in the SENATE for a brief stint atop a game show host’s secret police police

A brief stint that will end up with you getting fired after covering yourself with whatever the opposite of glory is.

It's like he had three different posts in his drafts in case of each scenario, then he mashed them together and released them

For those elsewhere: it was in the 40s and drizzly, but that doesn't stop Minnesotans...

But you never know: the Kagans and Petraeus--that whole crowd--have become EXTREMELY useful, at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social

I would like a small loan of several million dollars to start a jobs program for my internet friends-I mean a think tank

I am focused on the Stand Up for Science events today, but I will dig into these data early next week.

I was continuously funded from when I started my independent career in 1988 until I move to NIH in 2003, usually with multiple grants.

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Yep: bsky.app/profile/aeti...