Justin Savage

@AlanLevinovitz Stunning!

Just finished a laborious, detailed, extremely adorable birthday craft present. With wiring and guitars and books! Now it goes on the bookshelf…

GOP Senator Kennedy admits Trump is the reason for TSA shutdown: "He said said 'No deals with the Democrats.' We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the President said 'No deal.'"

Two diplomatic sources confirmed to the Guardian the Hungarian foreign minister had shared information with Lavrov. theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

Your ground beef costs nearly 20% more than a year ago because US cattle herds hit a 75-year low and ranchers can’t find workers. A New Zealand dairy farm kid convinced Peter Thiel that GPS cow collars are the fix. Thiel just valued the company at $2 billion. The company is Halter. Craig Piggott grew up watching his parents work 100-hour weeks on dairy farms in New Zealand’s Waikato region. He barely scraped into engineering school (scored 254 points, needed 250), landed at Rocket Lab, then quit before their first rocket launch to build smart collars for cows. He was 22. The tech sounds ridiculous until you see the numbers. Each solar-powered collar collects 6,000 data points per minute on location, health, fertility, and grazing patterns. Farmers draw virtual fences on a phone app. Cows learn to respond to sound and vibration cues within 7 to 10 days, moving between pastures without a single physical fence post. Halter’s US customers have created 11,000 miles of virtual fencing so far, roughly the perimeter of the continental United States, saving an estimated $220 million in fencing costs. Physical fencing runs about $20,000 per mile to install and maintain. The timing is what makes this a $2 billion company and not a $200 million one. The US cattle industry generates over $1 trillion a year but it’s cracking. The USDA counted 27.6 million beef cows as of January 2026, still declining. Fifteen thousand American farms vanished in 2025. Over half of US ranchers are older than 55. The labor crunch has only gotten worse under tighter immigration enforcement. This month, 3,800 workers walked off the job at a JBS plant in Colorado (one of the country’s biggest beef processors). Cattle slaughter is down 10% year over year. Founders Fund actually first invested in Halter’s $7 million Series A back in 2018. They’re not showing up late. The valuation doubled from $1 billion to $2 billion in nine months. Icehouse Ventures, one of Halter’s earliest backers, put in $100,000 at the seed stage. Their total stake is now worth $409 million. The fund’s CEO told the New Zealand Herald today that at Halter’s current growth rate, it will surpass Fonterra (New Zealand’s $5.9 billion dairy cooperative) in value within 11 quarters. 600,000 cattle are wearing Halter collars across three countries. The “cowgorithm” is a real, trademarked AI algorithm that trains each animal individually. Ranchers report saving 20 to 40 hours a week. And the kid who barely got into college was just named New Zealand’s Innovator of the Year.

@ChurchillWw Exactly! Once you destroy power plants or infrastructure on Kharg Island, that will take much longer to reverse. So the argument in favor of an embargo is that it's reversible quickly and thus offers a greater incentive to Iran to cooperate if it wants to survive...

@robin_j_brooks A blockade of Iranian ports is reversible, which is exactly what makes it a better tool than striking energy infrastructure. You can lift a blockade when the political moment arrives.

Who would have thought?

Remember when they made a database of people who said anything slightly deemed as negative about Charlie Kirk?

Speechless. The Orban regime in Hungary is not just a pro-Russian government profiting from shady dealings with the Kremlin. It is a de facto client regime — a collaborator fully aligned with Moscow, reportedly to the point of briefing the Kremlin on sensitive internal negotiations with the EU. Is anyone in Brussels actually going to address this? Or are we going to keep obsessing over commas in documents while drifting together toward the abyss? washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/…

While Trump dodged the draft, Robert Mueller volunteered for the Marines after graduating Princeton. He was awarded a Bronze Star with combat V, rescuing a wounded Marine while under fire. He was later shot in the thigh, awarded a Purple Heart, and returned to lead his platoon.

That the Kremlin and USG are both interfering in Hungary to get the corrupt and divisive Orban govt reelected should serve as a warning. Trump and Putin are intent on weakening European unity and support for Ukraine. British, French and German elections will be targeted likewise.

@michaeldweiss Closer to $50 billion papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

"So, today, Markwayne Mullin, I’ll give you a chance. Tell it to my face. Tell the world why you believe I deserved to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken, and a damaged lung. Tell me to my face why you think I deserved it."

How can any Republican vote to confirm Markwayne Mullin after this exchange with Sen. Rand Paul? (Start at 7:30) youtube.com/watch?v=l086_K…

@Steve_Sailer @ShippersUnbound Max Cherry is reading Len Deighton’s “Berlin Game” in Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown.” Tarantino thought a lot about adapting Deighton’s Bernard Samson trilogy, but never did

@ShippersUnbound I read Len Deighton's "Bomber" and it's one of the great WWII novels, which is saying a lot.

Very sad to learn of the death of Len Deighton, who was one of the two greatest spy thriller writers of all time and in some regards was Le Carre’s superior. Anyone who has not read Deighton should try Funeral in Berlin, Bomber or SSGB. Most of all they should seek out Berlin Game, the start of an epic 10 book Cold War series focused on Bernard Samson. Deighton’s writing was sharp, satirical, gripping and often amusing. His office infighting in the intelligence services was delicious and his characters are beautifully drawn. The Samson cycle starts with a meticulously plotted run of five books (Berlin Game, Mexico Set, London Match, Spy Hook and Spy Line) which all stand alone but tell one big story from the jaded but dedicated perspective Bernard a brilliant field operative. Len’s genius idea was to use the sixth, Spy Sinker, to retell the whole cycle from the perspective of everyone else, exposing what Bernard didn’t know and misunderstood. There is then an origin story about Bernard’s dad during the war, Winter, and then a concluding trilogy of Faith, Hope and Charity, which is not as high quality but deals with the fallout from the events of books 1-5. It’s an epic achievement and the greatest long series in spy fiction, accepting that the Smiley series is the greatest short series. Do yourself a favour, give it a try

"Georgia Republican Party official voted illegally nine times, judge rules" - Republicans finally managed to find some election fraud in Georgia: electionlawblog.org/?p=154895

Perhaps he meant Dmitri Medvedev.

The allies should demand 1) end of the tariffs and 2) restoration of U.S. support for Ukraine. The resulting deal would be great for both them and us. Trump’s tariffs and alignment with Putin are very damaging to the U.S. as well as the Western alliance generally.

@JamesSurowiecki @JimBrewington4 “No quarter, no mercy” is a line straight from Rio Bravo—it’s the policy of the Burdette gang

@JimBrewington4 What does "no quarter for our enemies" mean?

A declaration of no quarter is an explicit violation of Article 23 of the Hague Convention and therefore a war crime under U.S. law, specifically the War Crimes Act of 1996. And there is no statute of limitations.