Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war.
But they have been careful not to express that directly to the president,
who has repeatedly declared that the military operation is a complete success
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45's ill-considered war in Iran continues to cause problems . . . for everyone. Because he didn't take seriously Iran's asymmetric warfare capabilities, oil prices have spiked. Oil prices spiking makes everything else more expensive. And the administration continues to peddle lies to downplay the situation. On Tuesday, the administration claimed the Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. This is not true. All of this was entirely predictable i…
Discussion at parents meeting about mobile phones, screen time and other topics, quite clear that most parents (including me).have no clue what our kids are actually doing on their devices..
Also clear how clueless so many parents are about data privacy, security and online safety.
The black boxification of tech will be our downfall.
Mr. Wright, the energy secretary, caused a market commotion Tuesday
when he posted on social media that the Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.
His post drove up stocks and reassured oil markets.
Then, when he deleted the post after administration officials said no escorts had taken place, markets were once again thrust into turmoil.
Efforts to resume shipments have been complicated by intelligence that Iran was preparing to la…
After Trump administration officials gave a closed-door briefing to lawmakers on Tuesday,
Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said on social media that the administration had “NO PLAN” for the Strait of Hormuz
and did “not know how to get it safely back open.”
Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war.
But they have been careful not to express that directly to the presiden…
“Big Tech’s AI hype is distracting users from the rapid and dangerous expansion of giant, energy and water-intensive data centres […].
There is simply no evidence that AI will help the climate more than it will harm it.
Rather than relying on credible and substantiated data, Big Tech companies are writing themselves a blank cheque to pollute on the empty promise of future salvation. We cannot bet the climate on these baseless claims.”
How true crime influencers on YouTube are compromising the search for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show host Savannah, including by "investigating" tips (Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f
Jeffrey Epstein,
at the very least, believed that he was orchestrating the downfall of the global order in the 2010s.
In June 2016, he emailed venture capitalist, early Facebook investor, and Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
writing, “Brexit, just the beginning.”
He then laid out the most succinct mission statement we currently have for what Epstein was trying to accomplish.
“Return to tribalism,” he wrote.
“Counter to globalization.
Amazing new all…
Trump executed a bizarre
"reverse-reversal" on Friday, when he
🤣 re-endorsed
Rep. Jeff Hurd just four weeks after urging primary voters to deny the Colorado Republican a second term.
Hurd, Trump declared on Truth Social,
“will do a fantastic job as your Congressman, including Growing the Economy, Cutting Taxes and Regulations, Promoting MADE IN THE U.S.A.,”
and a long list of other things.
Trump’s litany could have been copied and pasted al…