David Leffingwell

[Aimen Dean @AimenDean]

The idea that the Iranian regime has fundamentally changed is a dangerous illusion. By allowing the IRGC to leverage the current negotiations to protect Hezbollah and dictate terms in Lebanon, we are sending a disastrous message to the world.

Instead of forcing the regime to disengage from the very proxies that destabilize the region, these concessions effectively shield them. This is a recipe for future wars. It emboldens every non-state actor and militant group by demonstrating that terrorism is not just a viable strategy, it is a highly profitable investment that bears diplomatic fruit and tangible rewards.

Trump simply cannot claim to be seeking long-term peace while simultaneously underwriting the architects of regional chaos!🤦🏻‍♂️

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

Marco Rubio, @SecRubio, gets the Iranian regime better than almost anyone in Washington, and honestly, probably better than a lot of Iranians themselves.
In the whole Trump administration, and maybe in the entire history of U.S. presidents dealing with the Islamic Republic since 1979, I’ve never seen an American politician who actually understands these mullahs this clearly.

“The best way to understand Iran is you have a political class. Now, I think… look, people talk about moderates and hardliners. They’re all hardliners in Iran.
But there are hardliners who understand they have to run their country and an economy, and there are hardliners that are completely motivated by theology.

The hardliners that are motivated by theology are not just the IRGC officials but obviously the supreme leader and the council that surrounds him.

And then you’ve got the political class, the foreign minister or the president, the speaker of the Majlis. These guys, they’re hardliners too. But they also understand the country has to have an economy, people have to eat, they have to figure out a way to pay salaries in their government.

And so you see tension, and you always have in that system, between the Iranians who understand ‘let’s be hardliners but let’s also balance that with the need to… run our country’ and the hardliners who don’t care and have this apocalyptic vision of the future.

Unfortunately, the hardliners with an apocalyptic vision of the future have the ultimate power in that country. That tension is pronounced now that you have a supreme leader…”

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

@tunc_y @DrSamuelBHume Apparently down to $225 a month on TrumpRx soon:

https://t.co/iSBjG6VlDf

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

@briansbrown 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@noamsan @NiohBerg This is the correct answer, and probably why the Trump administration sent him.

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

@JamesSurowiecki @ClayTravis Technically, I think Congress can pass any law it wants, and then it can be challenged by the Supreme court.

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

@RepDonBacon Even after getting rid of the word "moral", and it's still true. You could even say it's "willful blindness"

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

@HFI_Research @MarineTraffic Why wouldn't ships turn off their transponders when navigating the strait?

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Citadel Securities published this graph showing a strange phenomenon.

Job postings for software engineers are actually seeing a massive spike.

Classic example of the Jevons paradox. When AI makes coding cheaper, companies actually may need a lot more software engineers, not fewer.

When software is cheaper to build, companies naturally want to build a lot more of it. Businesses are now putting software into industries and tools where it was simply too expensive before.

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Chart from

citadelsecurities .com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

@RpsAgainstTrump The writing is on the wall. They are trying to get ahead of the supreme court ruling that will shoot down most of the tariffs, so it looks like they are on the right side of sanity.

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@cwebbonline It’s called Creating and air of inevitability.

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@JordanHallWX Another lesson to remember is to not trust computer models for tropical systems until there is a center of circulation.

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

@covie_93 What Autism? In the Trump and RFK Jr reality show, autism has been solved.

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

@Bricktop_NAFO 15 foot high roof.

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@DrNeilStone Block, block, block

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

@RpsAgainstTrump He’s the reincarnation of Don Quixote

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

At this point it appears that the President and Republicans are now just as “socialist” as the Democrats…maybe even more so.

[Visioner @visionergeo]

🇺🇲🇺🇦 BIG NEWS - It has been revealed that billionaire and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is involved in the production of drones for Ukraine, including interceptor drones.

Reportedly, 9 out of 10 Shahed drones are being destroyed by interceptor drones produced by Schmidt’s company, Swift Beat. These drones are equipped with built-in artificial intelligence and are resistant to Russian electronic warfare systems that typically disrupt communication signals.

Schmidt noted that these drones have proven themselves brilliantly in the war.

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

@SpencerHakimian Stop insulting 3rd graders!

[David Leffingwell @DavidLeffingwel]

@RpsAgainstTrump Yes