David F. Carr

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In a discussion with @michaeljswalker on Friday, I said that Trump was being presented options to strike civilian infrastructure in Iran. The aim would be to cripple Iran’s economy and to make it harder for Iran to persist in the war. I explained that hitting Iran’s critical infrastructure might shorten the war, but it would also intensify it. For that reason, that overall damage done to region and the global economy could end up being far worse during a shorter war. If Trump hits a major power plant, Iran will respond by hitting utilities in the Gulf states and Israel—including power plants and desalination facilities—and will count on the fact that it has to hit fewer targets to have a bigger impact. Iran has nearly 500 power plants, Israel has around 50. The largest Iranian plant, the Damavand Combined Cycle plant, accounts for about 4% of Iran’s total capacity. Israel’s largest plant, Orot Rabin, accounts for 20% of electricity production. The fact that a US president is posting a message like this on social media represents a total breakdown in the systems that are meant to ensure the US fights wars intelligently and judiciously. The commander in chief is not of sound mind, no one in his cabinet is willing to admit it, and we are being pushed towards the edge of an abyss.

Great work everyone

This is the same deal Obama had in place. 🤣

Just going to keep posting this to counter the ridiculous bullshit until someone makes me stop. The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity •The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice. •Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses. •A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that if any other American engaged in the same efforts to impede federal proceedings the way Trump did, they would likely be indicted for multiple charges of obstruction of justice.   Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the U.S. election system in 2016 •Russian interference in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systemic.”[1] •Major attack avenues included a social media “information warfare” campaign that “favored” candidate Trump[2] and the hacking of Clinton campaign-related databases and release of stolen materials through Russian-created entities and Wikileaks.[3] •Russia also targeted databases in many states related to administering elections gaining access to information for millions of registered voters.[4]   The investigation “identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign” and established that the Trump Campaign “showed interest in WikiLeaks's releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton”  •In 2015 and 2016, Michael Cohen pursued a hotel/residence project in Moscow on behalf of Trump while he was campaigning for President.[5]Then-candidate Trump personally signed a letter of intent. •Senior members of the Trump campaign, including Paul Manafort, Donald Trump, Jr., and Jared Kushner took a June 9, 2016, meeting with Russian nationals at Trump Tower, New York, after outreach from an intermediary informed Trump, Jr., that the Russians had derogatory information on Clinton that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”[6] •Beginning in June 2016, a Trump associate “forecast to senior [Trump] Campaign officials that WikiLeaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton.”[7] A section of the Report that remains heavily redacted suggests that Roger Stone was this associate and that he had significant contacts with the campaign about Wikileaks.[8] •The Report described multiple occasions where Trump associates lied to investigators about Trump associate contacts with Russia. Trump associates George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen all admitted that they made false statements to federal investigators or to Congress about their contacts. In addition, Roger Stone faces trial this fall for obstruction of justice, five counts of making false statements, and one count of witness tampering. •The Report contains no evidence that any Trump campaign official reported their contacts with Russia or WikiLeaks to U.S. law enforcement authorities during the campaign or presidential transition, despite public reports on Russian hacking starting in June 2016 and candidate Trump’s August 2016 intelligence briefing warning him that Russia was seeking to interfere in the election. •The Report raised questions about why Trump associates and then-candidate Trump repeatedly asserted Trump had no connections to Russia.[9]

This is characteristically vile and predictably deranged, but the important thing to remember is that Trump never said anything remotely so negative or definitive about the death of his long-time best friend Jeffrey Epstein. And he wishes Ghislaine Maxwell well. Think about that.

C. S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer:

God help us. This is disgraceful language coming from a Christian, or anyone with a soul. It was just as wrong to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk as it is to celebrate that of Robert Mueller. May they rest in peace. And may we never forget that Jesus's message is about mercy.

Indeed, he could have just kept silent, but if he were capable of self-control and could resist saying something so odious and petty, he wouldn't be Donald Trump.

Trump’s former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis: “America is becoming predatory. America is unreliable. There’s a sense that we are not a reliable security partner right now…you can’t bring allies on board if they don’t trust you”

Mueller. @nytimes nytimes.com/2026/03/21/us/…

Delusional. The lion's share of military supply to Ukraine had nothing to do with the weapons used in this new Gulf war. 155mm shells, tanks, F16s, Stingers - none of these are being used against Iran. No Tomahawks or aerial bombs given to Ukraine.

"Underage girls testing positive for pregnancy at detention centers." Let me fix that for you. "Children being raped at detention centers." There you go.

Hot take: Vibe coding only works well if you already know how to code.

When the president is rude & insane & insulting, he is rude & insane & insulting in our name. All of us. This isn’t a random senile old crank spouting insults. He’s the president of the United States of America. Regardless of your vote, he represents us. And he’s destroying us.

Perfect timing for all the American car companies that bascially threw in the towel on EVs.

Link to the full Q&A: nytimes.com/2026/03/20/opi…

The road ahead for Democrats is NOT easy. And it's so much bigger than "move left or move to the center." The status quo is broken. We need better candidates, better communication, and the honesty to admit that. That's where I'm focused. (7/8)

Six months before bombing Iran and closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump administration fired all the State Department oil and gas experts. The people who modeled exactly this scenario. The ones with contacts at Gulf energy ministries. Now nobody knows who to call. You cannot make this up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ notus.org/trump-white-ho…

I feel terrible for the folks at CBS News Radio and entirely unsurprised that Bari Weiss is speedrunning the collapse of all things at CBS. CBS Radio singlehandedly changed American journalism. By the late-1930s, CBS Radio had more than a hundred affiliates throughout the country with bureaus in every major American city. Within a short time, the medium of radio went from providing short summaries of newspaper reporting to scooping print outlets on stories and often seeing their original reporting printed by newspapers without attribution. It was during World War II that CBS News, through radio, vaulted into global visibility. A young Edward R. Murrow delivered live, rooftop reports during the Blitz, a campaign of sustained bombing runs on London by Hitler’s Germany. His on-air descriptions of the carnage brought the war into American living rooms and helped build public opinion against the Third Reich prior to the United States entering the conflict immediately following Pearl Harbor. It was Mr. Murrow and his colleague Bill Shadel who were the first reporters to enter the Buchenwald concentration camp only days after it was liberated by the U.S. Army’s 6th Armored Division in April of 1945. Their reporting of the nightmarish state of the camp was soberly underlined by Mr. Murrow: "I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words... If I’ve offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I’m not in the least sorry." CBS Radio earned six Peabody Awards for their news coverage during World War II. This is a tragic and unnecessary closing chapter to a venerable institution.

Trump won't share the burden with NATO allies of providing economic and military aid to Ukraine in its fight against Russia -- a genuine threat to NATO -- but Trump begs NATO allies to share the burden of his war against Iran. Amazing.