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What the hell are we doing in Iran?

 
  David Braverman 
IsraelMilitary policyPoliticsReligionUS PoliticsWorld Politics
The US and Israel have launched "major military operations" in Iran, with no strategic clarity or stated rationale other than "regime change:"

Fallows on SOTU

 
  David Braverman 
I promised to include former White House speech writer James Fallows' reaction to Tuesday night's Klan rally State of the Union address. Suffice it to say, Fallows was not pleased:

Finished watching Paradise season 2

 

Started Thursday 26 February 2026 20:00 CST, completed Wednesday 1 April 2026 CDT

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First run

Jeff Maurer makes a good point

 
  David Braverman 
Democratic PartyElection 2026PoliticsTrumpUS Politics
In his latest post, satirist Jeff Maurer argues that the Democrats in Congress walked into a trap "genitals first" when the OAFPOTUS "invited" Congress to stand in support of a fairly basic premise of national sovereignty. (My representative, Mike Quigley, skipped the speech.) The OAFPOTUS counted on the Democrats remaining seated, and he was right. As Maurer says,

SOTU 2026 reactions

 
  David Braverman 
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I did promise reactions to the unrelenting stream of bullshit we all heard last night, so let's go:

In other news...

 
  David Braverman 
CorruptionEconomicsLawSOTUTechnologyTrump
I eagerly await James Fallows' take on last night's clown-car-hits-dumpster-fire, and I'm holding off my "SOTU reax roundup" post until I can include his. It turns out, the world didn't stop for two hours yesterday:
(I'm watching PBS News coverage on YouTube and keeping an eye on NPR's real-time fact check. All times Eastern US.)

Updated this one, too

 
  David Braverman 
BlogsSoftware
Since I had some time to kill before the OAFPOTUS's State of the Union address, I released a few bug fixes for Weather Now. And then I released some bug fixes for . Let's hope everything is more stable, yes?

Weather Now update

 
  David Braverman 
SoftwareWeather
I've just published a new release of Weather Now. This corrected a couple of bugs that have lingered for awhile, and also added Google sign-ins!
Today will be busy, so rather than keeping a bunch of browser windows open, I'm spiking them here:

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