I know this sounds frivolous, but you can go back to Trump's days as an USFL owner to see how his self-destructive, selfish behavior took down the entire business venture. It's the same thing, except on a national scale.
Map snapshot depicting the predicted relative anomalousness of surface temperatures from the ECMWF ensemble over the Western U.S. in about a week from now. A a huge region of bright orange and red colors (depicting extremely high warm temperature anomalies) is centered right in the middle of the map, and covers essentially the entire region.
Lots of buzz online about an upcoming major March heatwave for the American SW & California. And in this case, it does indeed appear increasingly likely than an extremely anomalous and even record-breaking heatwave may envelop much of the SW about a week from now.
I'm back from a week off, anything happen while I was away?
Oh yeah, that. Well fortunately Naomi Bethune has supplied for me an entire history of U.S. intervention in Iran. Something to share with your underinformed friends:
prospect.org/2026/03/09/i...
Brian will be standing right behind you.
🧭 Which way to Mars for less space radiation, please?
☢️ Data from @esa.int's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter confirms that travelling during solar maximum is the safest time for a trip #ToMarsAndBack.
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Congratulations, if you've ever made a BOFA DEEZ NUTS joke, you probably also had a better understanding of how Trump would impact the economy than Bank of America's actual head of US Equity & Quantitative Strategy.
Which means no interest rate cuts that Trump is hankering for.
Amid the global chaos, there was a great (especially if you're a Sabres fan) hockey game today. youtu.be/PfimdziVn0M?...
When I lived in TX and worked in the oil industry those companies would send quite a few people over to that region...I guess they are stuck there or what?
Thank you DOGE!
huh, makes the whole 25 year period when the Shah was our top ally kind of awkward
In going back to 2005, I believe I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve ever seen a gas price cycle on the weekend- signaling that the largest c-store operators have their pricing analysts watching margins extremely closely- on the weekends.
“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”
Let me guess, next move is Iranian drones over Saudi oil fields.
Yeah, I can recall being told by evangelicals that the 1979 Iran situation was the beginning of the End Times. They always seemed disappointed that did not turn out to be the case.
One of my favorite photo essays. Robert Fusco followed the rule of pointing the camera the opposite direction people were looking from RFK's funeral train, documenting 1968 rural/working class America without the nostalgic glaze we often apply to that era today. www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/pol...
I'd also recommend the movie A Separation.
Iran surrendered but we're still going to hit them hard today?
Here’s a thread from the last time Trump demanded the unconditional surrender of Iran. That undefinable phrase prolonged WWII by weeks if not months. The public debate about the phrase in the spring & summer of 1945 was intense. There’s a reason no other US leader has touched the phrase since then.
Too boring is the key here - like a lot of kids who grew up wealthy but emotionally impoverished, Trump is easily bored, and that boredom leads to recklessness the rest of us should not feel compelled to follow.
Fascinating new piece by @sipappas.bsky.social looking at the geology behind the geopolitics:
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Nah, they get their info from the movies.
True, the National School Lunch Act was passed in 1946 as a response to the number of draftees who were not inducted into the armed services during WWII due to undernourishment.
This one is fairly easy to fact check.
One concept that usually trips up economists is that some people will sacrifice profit to enforce a social hierarchy (most obvious example was segregated sports pre-WWII)
Maybe he's thinking of the smell he encountered in his plumbing business.
Or going back to the 80's when a lot of broker types said they were motivated to work on Wall Street by the character Gordon Gekko.
It's ok, Trump will be standing right behind you (Dead Zone style) as the old saying goes.
If Bondi isn't scared she ought to be. SCOTUS might dive on a grenade for Trump but most likely not for her.
