Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳
@sardarji.bsky.social
🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 I've done a lot, I know a lot, but there's always more to do and learn.
When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.
Too bad Di Caro didn't ask him WHY America is exceedingly Islamophobic. And this is amusing: "If Iran had not been able to hit them with all the drones and the missiles, I don't think they would have turned against the United States." Well, duh. But also a response that ignores other factors.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3h agoFascinating interview with Robert Kagan, where he says that the biggest mistake of the Iraq war was that it permanently crippled the American public's conceptualization of their country's role in the world, and then admits that America is exceedingly Islamophobic and this informs foreign policy.
US and Brazil are in a big feud, refusing diplomats - this is because Lula, correctly, says the Trump administration is aiding his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro (former Pres Jair Bolsonaro's son), and helped interfere with the previous Presidential election
US revokes Brazil ambassador’s visa in escalation of diplomatic feud
Move is retaliation for Lula’s government refusal to approve Trump’s nominee for ambassador in Brasília
theguardian.com
There's a string of restaurants and food trucks that serve these truckers, all along the central valley of California, and further north. Also in Texas. If you ever get a chance, try the Punjabi Dhaba in Bakersfield.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 6h agothe funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.
What a great way to fire up the patriotic spirit! "We'll send you to the Gulf to fight a pointless war, and we'll send your family to a concentration camp!"
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7h agoPresident Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.
How dare this Muslim man reduce access to our rightful positions of power?
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
This went a little different than his nightly interviews with Sean Hannity.
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
skill issue. I was so openly depressed and struggling on here last fall after I got canned from a firm
New York Magazine@nymag.com · 23h agoOn social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?
The trolleys are immaterial to the thought exercise: what is your process and what are your considerations in making high stakes decisions?
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · yesterdayOne reason I don’t like the trolley problem is because are we supposing people can’t get out of the way
One wonders if he sought advice from Bill Cassidy and Susan Collins about trusting commitments made by nominees.
"But the farce shouldn’t obscure the gravity—perhaps the purest instance of totalitarian abuse of the Trump years: the government cast a private citizen with no quarrel with Trump and no connection to the pool as the villain of a fiction, and moved to put him in prison for years."
Reflecting Pool Case: A Kafkaesque Debacle Even After the Dismissal
The dismissal of the Reflecting Pool prosecution was a forced retreat, and it leaves an ugly injustice unremedied. Plus, Talking Feds Substack hits 250 posts.
harrylitman.substack.com
The U.S. threat is now that Iran has to hurry up and finalize a deal with Oman to control the Strait of Hormuz, charging fees, or the U.S. will attack. No, I’m not kidding. The U.S. president demands that Iran achieve exactly the thing he’s repeatedly said the U.S. was fighting to prevent.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · yesterdayUS President Donald Trump is pushing Iran to reach a deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz as soon as Tuesday, or face devastating air strikes on the country.
NYT: “.. Iran and Oman are closing in on an agreement to reopen shipping traffic .. but .. it could come at a high price — ratifying Tehran’s control over what, before the war, was an open, international waterway.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Today, 25 states led by Oregon (which also led state litigation against previous Trump tariffs) filed lawsuit challenging Trump's massive new Section 301 tariffs. This is 3rd case against Section 301 tariffs. See my discussion here for more: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
Twenty-five States, Led by Oregon, File Lawsuit Challenging Trump's Section 301 Tariffs
NA Today, twenty-five largely Democratic-controlled state governments filed a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump's massive new Section 301 tariffs. The complaint,…
reason.com
The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.
Ooh, it's Iran's last chance before CENTCOM carries out its crowd sourced strike options
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2d agoUS president says talks with Iran are under way, warning the negotiations are Tehran's 'last chance' to secure a deal https://aje.news/0ljxh6
If you reduce the barriers to entry for building, more local, small developers would invest in architecture for personal, subjective reasons and there would be fewer mediocre hot takes on design. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
S.F. is rushing to build new housing, but we shouldn’t settle for mediocre design
OPINION: If City Hall wants its residents to get behind the “Family Zoning” plan, it needs to work a lot harder to build architecture that is well-designed, columnist Allison Arieff writes.
sfchronicle.com
🧵Alert: The backstory on this story may interest you. Or it may bore you. Either way, here it goes. I first asked the FCC for Chairman Brendan Carr's 2025 financial report on June 24.
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
propublica.org
Goddamn. One of the earliest examples of an everyday person standing up to this bullshit while powerful institutions cowered. They should name a school after him. RIP.
Bradford William Davis@bwd.bsky.social · 2w agoI have awful news. Youman Wilder, the Harlem baseball coach who courageously protected his kids from an ICE raid and said he was "willing to die" for them, very tragically, passed away this week Wilder's sister started a fundraiser set up to help with his burial: www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-y...
Reading this reminded how hard I found it to read Fanon's other works. I don't speak French. Can native speakers tell me if his prose was mangled in the translations, or if that is indeed how he wrote?
The Economist has really interesting podcasts, which are alas behind a paywall. 😢 I just listened to one on the Chinese manosphere, which I knew nothing about before seeing ine episode title and immediately clicking play. Consider the impact of the one child policy, widespread bride prices, …
