A perfect image of the Trump era: A grandmother has to work at DoorDash in order to get by, while the president decorates his office in gold accent pieces.
It was inspiring to watch the Artemis II launch yesterday — @NASA’s first crewed mission around the moon since 1972. Our space program has always captured an essential part of what it means to reach beyond what we thought was possible, and I hope the four brave astronauts on this mission will inspire a new generation to follow in their footsteps.
Trump admits the US committed several war crimes by sinking an Iranian ship and leaving survivors to drown for fun.
"I said, 'Why don't we just capture the ship? We could use it. Why did we sink them?' He said, 'It's more fun to sink them.' They like sinking them better."
The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 8 days. Everyone thinks this is about oil. This is about what oil becomes. 92% of the world's sulfur comes from refining oil and gas. Close the Strait of Hormuz and you don't just lose 20 million barrels of crude per day. You lose the feedstock for sulfuric acid, the single most produced chemical on Earth. Sulfuric acid is how we extract copper. It's how we extract cobalt. Without it, you can't make transformers, EV batteries, or the substrates inside every data center on the planet. One chemical, made from one feedstock, shipped through one chokepoint. The cascade goes further: Qatar ships 30% of Taiwan's liquefied natural gas through Hormuz. Taiwan has 11 days of reserves left. TSMC, the company that makes 90% of the world's advanced chips, draws 8.9% of Taiwan's total electricity. No gas, no power, no chips. Then food. 33% of the world's nitrogen fertilizer feedstock moves through the Strait. Half of all humans alive today exist because of synthetic nitrogen. Sulfur, semiconductors, food. That makes three supply chains, one 21-nautical-mile chokepoint, and zero domestic alternatives at scale.
Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
the fucking wildest 7 days in U.S. defense history
- pentagon revealed they used Claude to capture venezuelan president Maduro
- pentagon demands anthropic gives them unadulterated access to claude for mass surveillance and autonomous killing weapons
- anthropic says “fuck you”
- trump blacklists them calling them woke pussies, Pete Hegseth designates them a “supply-chain risk”
- Openai swoops in with better terms stealing anthropic’s deal, securing ChatGPT as the military’s preferred ai model.
*5 hours later*
- U.S. starts war with Iran and kills supreme leader Khameini
insane timeline.
To clarify, the kitten was in the middle of the road at the Waipahu on ramp and it was sitting on the hill so you couldn't see it until the last moment.