@katiebindley Am so happy for you that you have a cool Dad. What a gift to still have one, let alone one like him.
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Dennis Dimick
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Dennis Dimick
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Appearances are not what they seem. find me at threads and blue skies @ddimick. sad to see twitter’s implosion after 16 years here. 🖕elon.
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Me: publishing stories for decades
My dad: you have done it again this is on par w the moon landing
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not just a fascist but also a weirdo
FactPost@factpostnews
FCC Chair Brendan Carr calls Trump "the alpha in every single room and every single place all across the world"
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Just published: front page of the Financial Times, international edition, Friday March 20 ft.trib.al/eubEwRx
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the shit is hitting the fan.
Trump blundered into what he thought would be a few day “excursion” as he calls it, maybe Venezuela 2.0. That is not what Israel had in mind, the military has hit all of its targets. He has no idea what he is doing, his intelligence and other aides were appointed not to tell him anything he does not want to hear; not a single one of them can explain what the goal is. Congressional Republicans have their heads deep in the sand, and now talk of $200 billion Pentagon supplemental and sending more potential ground troops
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This is so interesting from @shanaka86 - absolutely the best informed, most analytically perceptive, detailed commentator on the war.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
Right now, in barns and equipment sheds across the American Midwest, farmers are making the most consequential decision of this war. Not generals. Not senators. Farmers. At $683 per ton urea, corn economics have collapsed. Nitrogen is the single largest input cost for corn production. At pre-war prices a farmer could justify 180 pounds per acre and expect a margin. At $683 the math breaks. Soybeans fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through root bacteria. They do not need the molecule trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz. The seed decision is being made this week across roughly 90 million acres of American cropland. Once the planter rolls into the field, the choice is irreversible. Corn seed in the ground stays corn. Soy seed stays soy. The acreage allocation locks in. USDA Prospective Plantings reports March 31. That report will tell the world how American agriculture responded to the Hormuz blockade. But the decisions it captures are being made now, in conversations between farmers and agronomists and seed dealers who are looking at nitrogen prices and making the rational economic choice: plant the crop that does not need the input you cannot afford. Every acre that shifts from corn to soybeans tightens the corn balance sheet for the rest of the year. Corn feeds livestock. Corn feeds ethanol. The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol annually, consuming roughly 43 percent of the US corn crop regardless of price. That demand is inelastic. If acres shift and production falls while the mandate holds, corn prices spike. Feed costs spike. The protein cascade reverses. The US cattle herd sits at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low. Poultry and pork margins that were benefiting from cheap feed compress when corn crosses $5 per bushel. This is how a naval blockade 7,000 miles from Iowa reaches the American grocery shelf. Not through oil. Not through shipping. Through nitrogen. The farmer cannot afford the molecule. The molecule cannot transit the strait. The farmer plants soy instead. The corn supply tightens. The ethanol mandate consumes its fixed share. The remaining corn reprices. The feed reprices. The meat reprices. The grocery bill reprices. The decision is not political. It is arithmetic performed on a kitchen table by a person who needs to plant in three weeks and cannot wait for a ceasefire, an escort convoy, or an insurance normalisation that the Red Sea precedent says takes years. The deepest penetrator in the American arsenal cannot reach a sealed Iranian doctrinal packet. But the fertiliser price it failed to resolve is reaching every planting decision on 90 million acres of the most productive farmland on Earth. The war’s most irreversible consequence is not happening in a bunker. It is happening in a barn. And by the time USDA publishes the data on March 31, the seeds will already be in the ground. Full analysis in the link. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Turns out… You can’t spend years offering no vision or leadership while having contempt for your staff, and then expect those who were “lucky” enough not to get fired to want to remain….
Max Tani@maxwelltani
As we first reported in last night's @semafor media newsletter, NOTUS is rebranding/dramatically expanding. In a memo to staff this morning, the organization said it plans to "launch this new version of NOTUS under a new name" and double staff from 50 to 100.
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Three major wildfires, including the largest one in Nebraska history, have burned around 600,000 acres of land in central and western Nebraska and remained 0% contained on Sunday after killing one person, officials said.
abcnews.com/US/biggest-wil…
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He’s grown more agitated with news coverage and failed to find a way to explain why he started the war — or how he will end it — that resonates with a public concerned by American deaths in the conflict, surging oil prices and dropping financial markets. apnews.com/article/trump-…
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CLASS ACTION SUIT ON THE WAY.
Washingtonian 🌸@washingtonian
Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.” washingtonian.com/2026/03/12/the…
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Long-term data shows Currituck County's oceanfront has retreated roughly 60 feet since 2009 and several communities are emerging as erosion “hot spots,” a coastal engineer told commissioners during a March 6 briefing.
patreon.com/posts/currituc…
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@ScottNover Well that would mean “Fox News” would be at the top of the list.
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Almost like it was a mistake to alienate all of our allies with idiotic trade wars and then have an actual hot war where we needed their help
gCaptain@gCaptain
Trump calls for allied warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, saying multiple countries will join the U.S. to keep the critical shipping lane “open and safe.” So far, no nations have confirmed plans. gcaptain.com/trump-calls-fo…
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I'm being asked by many users how they can verify images and videos of the conflict in the Middle East, including many fakes that are going viral.
This is a thread I wrote exactly three years ago with a step-by-step guide on verifying online images that anyone can learn to do.
Shayan Sardarizadeh@Shayan86
THREAD: How to verify images online? Social media is awash with false or misleading images, some of which get millions of engagements. So, here's a simple guide on ways you can quickly check the veracity of an image you see on your social media feeds.
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Trump finding out in real time why 7 US Presidents before him did not launch a war against Iran since the Iranian revolution of 1979.
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Worth reading this because this is what someone like Ari has to convince himself is true, or true enough, to become devoted to the most repugnant human being to ever hold the office of president without fundamentally changing his self conception as someone who would not do that. But of course the intellectualizing doesn’t work because shame comes from a deeper, spiritual place. So you get this contempt, seething and kooky, off a speech where you can’t find a word to justify it. It’s the mirror, buddy. You are mad at the mirror, and anyone who holds one up.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
If you want to know why Donald Trump was elected, watch Barack Obama’s attack speech yesterday at Jesse Jackson’s funeral. As he did throughout his presidency, he created a straw man to describe Republicans as bigots who force the American people to “turn on each other”. He said similar crap when he was President and the GOP was the party of Bush, McCain and Romney. It’s the language of bitterness and resentment that makes good people recoil to be described that way. Obama is one of the most divisive figures in US history, except he is celebrated by the MSM because they are partisans. They take sides and loved and protected Obama. It’s no wonder a tough, no BS, bull in the China shop emerged. That person was a fed up Trump, who broke the MSM by not caring what they thought. He showed Rs they could punch back against the Ds and win. His rise coincided with the welcome birth, at long last, of conservative media which gave voice to the voiceless who had been forced to consume the prejudices of the MSM. I can’t stand Obama. He was weak, patronizing, condescending and he put America last. But having listened to him yesterday, I reminded the only good thing he did was help elect President Trump.
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Verbatim: Witnessed while on a walk today March 7 in Arlington Virginia.
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Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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why exactly is that a stupid question?
Acyn@Acyn
Doocy: It sounds like the Russians are helping Iran. Trump: I have a lot of respect for you. You always been very nice to me. What a stupid question to be asking.
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