My reaction to at least one-third of all tweets.

Genocidal war crimes regime shockingly not Christianity's great defender.

Futures rise and oil prices dive as Trump announces U.S.-Iran deal that opens up Strait of Hormuz. Stocks rebounded late last week on Iran hopes. The Nasdaq closed below its 21-day line, but looks set to clear that key level. investors.com/market-trend/s… $SPCX $VIAV $PWR $FIX $HWM

Set aside the U.S.-Iran deal and even Hormuz/oil. Every day Tehran waits, the greater the divide btw Trump and Israel/Netanyahu - with the Democratic party heavily opposed to the Israeli govt (and with fast-rising grassroots antisemitism). Huge long-term upside to Iran's regime.

The U.S.-Australia group-stage match will be the World Cup championship match for "soccer."

What a lede

Absolutely historic. It's the first time this century that ... the word literally has been used correctly. espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/4…

Gen X was never going to get the presidency, but here's another reason. Many Dem pols like Harris had 2019-era positions that are out of touch. GOP pols exited/ousted for not being 100% pro-Trump ... or 100% pro-Trump. Post-2024 Dems/post-2028 GOP will have less baggage.

We could make lives better or follow the process.

Probably a lot of confusion because RFK Jr.'s codename in the White House is "Screwworm."

Evergreen.

A show releasing *6 episodes* a year is now seen as an amazing achievement. But Slow Horses *is* great.

This was funnier in ~2000.

Once again, there will be an enormous lane for some centrist, pro-trade, not-awful person to run as a third choice.

Here's something many people don't know about me - Before I publicly dissected the long list of problems in the 1619 Project, I contacted the New York Times through their official channels to request a series of corrections to unambiguous factual errors in its content. The editor - Jake Silverstein - brushed me off and refused any correction - a pattern he also exhibited toward other critics from across the spectrum. Before I publicly broke the story about Kevin Kruse's plagiarism in Reason, I contacted Princeton's academic integrity officer and alerted him to the problems I had found, giving them a chance to respond and address it internally. They ignored my email and later claimed to have lost my email after I went public. Before I published my findings on Quinn Slobodian's habitual manipulation of source materials to alter its plain meaning through misquotation, I submitted an article to Contemporary European History (the journal where the worst examples appeared), highlighting the problems with the passages and asking for a correction through their official process. They desk-rejected it, brushed me off, and falsely claimed that Slobodian's piece had been thoroughly vetted in peer review. In fact, one of their own referees had flagged the same problems over a year earlier and recommended rejection of the article. Before I published an expose on Nancy MacLean & Sandy Darity's similar manipulation of W.H. Hutt quotations in their article for History of Economics Review, I (along with 2 coauthors) submitted a response comment to this journal asking for a correction through its official processes. The editor gave us a complete runaround where he imposed an arbitrary length limit requiring us to cut the content, sent the trimmed version to a referee, then rejected the piece because the referee said we didn't sufficiently address the very same things we were forced by the editor to cut. When I then asked the editor to issue a simple corrigendum to the most egregious misquotation (one that transformed Hutt's explicit attack on the racism of white Afrikaners into a defense of Apartheid), he refused and tried to pass it off as a difference of "interpretation." Before I published an expose of a leading covid masking model in the Wall Street Journal, I sent a comment to the medical journal that published it alerting them to a math error that changed their entire set of results. The journal acknowledged the error was real but refused to publish my piece on the grounds that the "next release" of the model would be updated to reflect it - even as politicians up to and including Joe Biden were trumpeting the erroneous results all over the news.

Also, make Dr. Who Laurie a procedural show.

This sounds crazy ... unless Trump is thinking of marketing unfreezing Iranian assets and lifting sanctions as U.S. "investment."

I really don’t think photorealistic AI-generated political ads depicting opposing candidates saying things they’d never say should be allowed.

Center-right folks won big mayoral races in the 1990s by basically pledging to not actively destroy the cities. That could have worked in LA. A LOT of frustration with Bass.

Significant amount of Middle Eastern oil is leaving the Persian Gulf by tanker via the Strait of Hormuz (in addition of the bypass pipelines). The telltale is the decline over the last few weeks of onshore crude inventories. Plus the surge in STS activity just outside Hormuz.

There was a spinoff, "Murder, She Didn't Write" where Jessica Fletcher investigated homicides and either never zeroes in on a suspect or mistakenly accuses the wrong person.