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To honor Robert Mueller’s work as special counsel, the NYT should publish his obituary a year after it’s useful to the public.
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Bitter DOGE’d former public servant
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Bitter DOGE’d former public servant
@_vectorist
philly, consumer protection, antitrust, admin law. Attorney with @AntimonopolyUS. Past: @CFPB @HouseJudiciary @ACLU, and more. Views not condoned by my employer
Philadelphia, PA 가입일 Mart 2019
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(War’s Gravity, rocket warfare, Gravity’s Rainbow—nice try)
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If the NYT thought they could make an oblique Pynchon reference and make it past The Vectorist, they were sorely mistaken
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Starting a change dot org to replace Jay-Z with Afroman
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I wonder if China and Russia will deepen their partnership with Iran after this conflict. They’ve held the upper hand against the US and Israel for three straight weeks, proving themselves to be shrewd and valuable allies.
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand
Iran seems to be following a strategy of unveiling more and more impressive military capabilities as the war goes on. They just fired long-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, one of the most strategically significant U.S. military bases in the world (hosting B-52 bombers, nuclear subs, etc.), nearly 5,000km away from them in the middle of the Indian ocean 👇. Diego Garcia has never been hit before in any war in its 5 decades of existence, and no-one knew Iran had these types of capabilities (Iran themselves said their ballistic missile range was limited to 2,000 kilometers). Two days ago, they also took down an "unkillable" F-35 fifth-generation fighter jet, something which has never happened before (militarywatchmagazine.com/article/footag…). They've also managed to take control of the world's most strategic oil chokepoint, and have proven they can hit any strategic target in the wider Middle-East, even the most protected ones (such as Israel's Haifa oil refinery: aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/19…). All in all, it sounds almost unbelievable but Iran appears to have a genuine form of escalation dominance over the United States military, with its trillion dollar budget. In a very real way, it's even more impressive than Vietnam or Afghanistan: those countries resisted a superpower, Iran appears to be competing with one. It also makes you think: what comes next? And that's exactly what escalation dominance is all about: keep raising the stakes until the other side blinks. It's about making Trump think "wait, I thought I was picking a fight with the skinny kid and turns out he's Bruce Lee."
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👇 What Brett McGurk presents as a “gotcha” actually encapsulates the core, recurring failure in US Iran policy: a persistent inability to recognize how its own actions drive the very outcomes it then cites as justification.
Escalate, trigger a response, then use that response to justify both the policies that created the mess and going further.
We’ve seen this play out time and again in US Iran policy.
Iran’s 2,000 km missile limit was a voluntary restraint emphasized by Ali Khamenei, aimed at managing escalation, limiting dynamics that could fuel a wider security dilemma, and preserving space for diplomacy.
Dismantle that context—walk away from agreements, pursue maximalist pressure, escalate to all-out war to collapse the country—and Iran responds by shedding those constraints and moving up the escalation ladder.
It’s a self-reinforcing pattern—and a self-fulfilling prophecy that unsurprisingly leads to the kind of escalation and conflict many hawkish voices in Washington and Israel have long sought.
Brett McGurk@brett_mcgurk
Speaks for itself: Feb. 25, 2026: “We are not developing long-range missiles… we have limited the range below 2,000 kilometers” — Iran’s FM Araghchi (IRNA). March 20, 2026: Iran fires missiles at Diego Garcia—ranging 4,000 kilometers (WSJ). ⬇️
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This waiver actually permits Iranian oil to be brought *into the US* for the first time since the 1990s.
Incredible
Gregory Brew@gbrew24
The US is providing a 30-day sanctions waiver for Iranian oil on the water loaded before 20 March. While the US is trying to bomb Iran into submission, it is permitting nations to buy Iranian oil for the first time since 2019. Amazing
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New centrism: using drug dealing to resist Black genocide. As Nas states in Nah Mean:
“It's a genocide, it's a genocide / Fifth floor, cookin' raw, had my own supply / Cause of capitalist ways, that was back in the days / So now I do rap and it pays”
USA TODAY@USATODAY
Mamdani chooses uber-capitalists Biggie, Nas and Jay-Z among his five favorite rappers. Is it a pivot to center? usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the nation is prepared to allow Japanese-related vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz after consultations between the countries’ officials, according to Kyodo News bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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If this war is getting us out of fossil fuels, it’s thanks to Chinese “overcapacity”.
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
CHINA ALREADY GOT ITS FIRST WIN FROM THE WAR IN IRAN In today's newsletter, I wrote about how the long term trend of countries reducing their oil imports by substituting them with Chinese tech is already accelerating since the start of the war bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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@aarmlovi @nicholas_bagley What surprises me isn’t that you make unsubstantiated arguments but that a professor of regulation co-signs them
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@_vectorist @nicholas_bagley You're citing my own tweet buddy.
20 jurisdictions, not 20 states--some are local, like Tahoe
And...there are 50 states + DC
A supermajority of states do not have a CEQA
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Not sure why @nicholas_bagley RT’ed something so obviously incorrect. 20 or so states/territories have laws directly modeled on NEPA—IN, MT, MN, and WI, to name a few. Law professors should be more prudent
Alex Armlovich@aarmlovi
It's a mystery why CEQA is such a sacred cow in California The vast majority of states don't have a CEQA "procedural fetish" law. Their environments are protected by dozens of federal laws like Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species, etc CEQA adds nothing good
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@aarmlovi @nicholas_bagley Obvious motte and bailey argumentation. You claimed a “vast majority” do not, but CA, CT, DC, GA, HI, IN, MD, MA, MN, MT, NJ, NY, NC, PR, SD, VA, WA, and WI have mini-NEPAs. Having failed to make your arg, you now shift to a weaker one about a “supermajority” not having them.
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Third Way has no choice but to boycott NYT Games. No more Wordle until a sufficiently moderate version of the game can be developed
Popstonox@Popstonox
Hasan Piker is an answer in the New York Times Crossword for March 20, 2026
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In a sudden turn of events, US 12-month inflation expectations have surged to 5.2%, the highest level since March 2023.
In just 3 weeks, markets have gone from pricing-in rate cuts to rate hikes.
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“Your language is a Finno-Ugric prank on humanity”
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Mir Mohammad Alikhan@MirMAKOfficial
Your country is the size of Tehran University Campus. The size of your Army is 6200, I have more students than that in just one province of Pakistan and we have four beautiful provinces. Your total economy size is Irans’ small part of oil production. Your language is a Finno-Ugric prank on humanity. Your country is so small and QUIET that one can hear their own existential crisis echoing from every corner. You going against Iran is like a mouse going against a lion… one slap and your Baltic rodent life over.
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John Fetterman's had a 108 pt drop in his net approval with PA Dems since 2023.
His net rating is -40 pt net approval with them.
His net popularity with his own party is worse than all senators who lost a primary this century.
There's no historical analog to his unpopularity.
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Home Alone hit France like an atom bomb.
Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore
Evolution of the most popular First Names in France along the years (1946-2011) - boys edition
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This is wild. The @WhiteHouse plagiarized its reason for launching a war on Iran from @FDD, a cutout of Israeli intelligence. Side-by-side screenshots in the 🧵
Stephen McIntyre@ClimateAudit
The most definitive White House statement purporting to justify the Israel-US war on Iran was its March 2, 2026 statement entitled "The Iranian Regime's Decades of Terrorism against American Citizens". whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/… After a brief editorial opening, the article lists 44 incidents with a total of 992 US deaths. The source of the data wasn't given. Where did it come from? Unlike the Iraq war or the Russia collusion allegation, the reporting didn't come from an intelligence assessment, flawed or otherwise. It turns out that the list was plagiarized by the White House from a June 19, 2025 list (fdd.org/analysis/2025/…) prepared by a former AIPAC employee (Tzvi Kahn) for a think tank (FDD) founded "to provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America". The think tank's original identity was "EMET (Hebrew for 'truth')". The June 19, 2025 publication was literally on the eve of the first US bombing of Iran on June 21, 2025. In this thread, I'll compare each and every item in the White House statement to the corresponding item in the original list by the former AIPAC employee. The list is virtually identical. Any slight changes are always in the change of ratcheting up the underlying allegation.
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