Ashoka Mukpo

These people are, to be blunt, substantially less intelligent than they believe they are.

In a hotel room, a brick wall that has obviously had a huge hole repaired

Pretty sure the Kool-Aid man stayed in this hotel room once

I went through all the court docs and wrote about his story a few years ago www.thenation.com/article/arch...

You will need to prepare to hide him in Woke 2

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

Whats happening to Iran is sickening. These people are so evil.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026

genuinely insane to watch so much of the media and political class repeat the same deluded fantasies about this war that they had about afghanistan and iraq.

Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

some shit is about to go down

Venezuelan Oil Cargoes Are Surging at an Opportune Time American fuel makers are gobbling up Venezuela’s heavy crude even as the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran have stalled global oil shipments.

Venezuelans oil being used to make up for Iran being cut off. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

im v proud

kaya . she can be mid howl and boom. its a wrap

this irie baby hack has worked since she was one week old

the effect that bob marley has on my six month old infant is incredible. one hundred percent success rate on instantly stopping her from crying. jah bless

There are so many Sudanese refugees in the Gulf and I really feel for them. Escaping a conflict, having to live in the shadow of a state that is enabling it, and now being plunged into conflict again.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

normal caveats about wealth measures vs GSP aside, we should not be surprised that the elite impunity political environment has been good economically for the people on top, and that all of this is not solely about getting to say slurs during business hours

With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.

"This only feels possible because the U.S. government is only interested in regulating its perceived political enemies, and which only feels possible because much of the American economy feels held together by cope and the gobs of money being thrown into AI, data centers, and gambling."

Great use of illustrations to present the different types of ancestral fishing practices 👌🏿

The War on Poaching Has Gone Full Tech Dystopia—and It May Not Be Working Surveillance technology intended to protect endangered species is weaponized against locals, with repercussions that range from harassment to physical violence.

Nice mention of our reporting in this very good @gizmodo.com piece on aggressive conservation enforcement in Africa gizmodo.com/the-war-on-p...

About 2/3 of the Sahel is governed by ISIS and al-Qaeda affiliates with the other 1/3 by Russia-aligned military governments directly because of the last time the US and NATO did a regime change air war

i know these maniacs think they have discovered a novel way to rule the planet but this is just standard imperial hubris and I do not think its going to work. this kind of unrestrained violent overreach will eventually need to be backed by american ground troops somewhere, and good luck with that

the problem for them is going to be a) sheer incompetence eventually catching up to them and/or b) picking a fight with someone who wont take the deal which means airstrikes or limited operations wont cut it, ie a ukraine. both might happen here

theres really no ideology or purpose here beyond “we are in charge.” western imperialism always had some veneer of democratization or spreading christianity but this is just explicitly nihilistic global mafia rule.

I think this is actually revealing about trumpist foreign policy - they aren’t doing regime changes, theyre trying to cement a global oligarchy with the us/israel/gulf states in charge. kill/arrest the leaders of unfriendly states and say to their successors “fall in line or die too”

Good time to remember Mandela started uMkhonto weSizwe, ANC’s paramilitary wing, which destroyed apartheid ZA’s nuclear and energy infrastructure, made guerrila attacks against police stations and fought liberation campaigns in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola. Pretty sure this is not what they want.

important to read max on the silicon valley political divide between awful nerds and evil nerds

“But the Iranian government sucks” come on people what are we doing here. Look at Libya. Goldfish memories i stg

We watch massacres we created take place from afar like we did with the Kurds in 1991