The reason that the US President has the exclusive authority to order the use of nuclear weapons is because Truman set up the system along those lines after WWII. This is often depicted as either a power grab, or because in the nuclear age such decisions "must" be made quickly. This is false.

how many doors did John Brown knock on canvassing for Lincoln in 1860

Maya Glover, daughter of NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, celebrates father's accomplishment to Korn's "Freak on a Leash" (2026)

Heartbreaking to see how Iranians, facing the threat of genocide issued by our democratically elected U.S. president, still have faith in American ideals

As a person who has worked as a union rep, non-profits are overwhelmingly stacked with the worst boss behavior I’ve ever seen (that includes unions themselves). But this is fucking atrocious.

Screenshot of a Hacker News comment thread ronanfarrow 14 hours ago Ronan Farrow here. Andrew Marantz and I spent 18 months on this investigation. Happy to answer questions about the reporting. cs702 14 hours ago Thank you for coming on HN and offering to answer questions.[a] This is a fantastic piece, very timely, evidently well-researched, and also well-written. Judging by the little that I know, it’s accurate. Thank you for doing the work and sharing it with the world. OpenAI may be in a more tenuous competitive position than many people realize. Recent anecdotal evidence suggests the company has lost its lead in the AI race to Anthropic.[b] Many people here, on HN, who develop software prefer Claude, because they think it’s a better product.[c] Is your understanding of OpenAI’s current competitive position similar? … ronanfarrow 10 hours ago Thank you for this, very much appreciate the thoughtful response. The piece captures some of the anxieties within OpenAI right now about their competitive position. This obviously ebbs and flows but of late there has been much focus on Anthropic’s relative position. We of course mention the allegations of “circular deals” and concerns about partners taking on debt. cs702 reply: Thank you. Yes, I saw that. The company’s always been surrounded by endless talk about insane hype, speculative bubbles, and financial engineering. I wasn’t asking so much about that. I was asking more about your informed view on how OpenAI’s technology, products, and roadmap are perceived, particularly by customers and partners, in comparison to those of competitors. If you have an opinion about that, everyone here would love to hear about it. Ericson2314 reply: Ronan Farrow’s expertise is investigations into elite amorality, not evaluating technical products. Why are you asking this question? cs702 reply: I didn’t asking him to evaluate them. I asked him how customer and partners perceive them…

Farrow spent 18 months investigating OpenAI yet he cannot offer to Hacker News commenters his opinion on whether OpenAI’s Codex command line interface is superior to Claude Code’s CLI with its supergenius skill repo? Coward

U.S. Marshals waived training rules for Musk's armed DOGE security, emails say The U.S. Marshals Service allowed some members of Musk’s security team to sidestep experience and training requirements, according to emails.

“These documents — uncovered after months of work by our team — underscore the lawlessness with which Elon Musk was allowed to run around Washington, wreaking havoc and abusing government resources,” says @skyeperryman.bsky.social.

roman roy embarrassed behind laptop meme

Ronan*

Roman welcome to news hacker club

moon looks like shit, please build another one

Opinion Editorial Board A shameful ICE detention of a soldier’s wife The president is again poorly served by hardliners in his administration.

A moment of sympathy for our president, who is being 'poorly served' by the people he appointed to carry out these inhumane policies.

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Jawdroppingly helpful. This is what we need to educate people about how our networks actually work—and are governed—under the UI.

Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That's Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, and Other Glaring Red F... The New York Times ran a glowing profile of a company called Medvi that's using AI to sell GLP-1s. The truth is more complicated.

NEW: The NYT said that the AI-powered GLP-1 middleman startup Medvi — which is reportedly on track to do $1.8b in sales — cleaned up its act after taking deceptive marketing "shortcuts."

But it didn't.

More on: fake Medvi clients, fake doctors, and an FDA warning...

futurism.com/artificial-i...

even if Oprah or Conan were the host it wouldn’t justify attending…but LOL come on

a rare "credit where credit's due" to the new york times for banning its reporters from attending the WHCD

Serious questions for Axios here.

Every Monday, before markets open, they regurgitate a White House line about negotiations, a ceasefire and re-opening the Strait.

The story doesn’t even change slightly. Iran denies it all, turns out to be the only ones telling the truth and then, escalation.

The world building here is dark imo. In this world a cop doing that test at that moment is pretty blatant racial discrimination. So the "uh oh" isn't about the test, but about what the Knight has just learned re the dispositions of the cop who pulled him over. The body cam will be off.

Iran Embassy in Zaitunay Bay (@IRANinZB) 😉

It bothers me that the Iranians are dunking on us with our own memes now. Like, we’re pissing away our strategic advantages across the board

I hate this so much. I hate that my neighbors are attacked simply for existing. I want them to be able to live their lives without worry of ending up being posted about by the president in an attempt to fearmonger about "great replacement" bullshit.

A color portrait of drummer, singer, Genesis frontman, and Top 40 solo artist Phil Collins, circa 1990. Special Operative Yìchén sees the image and can’t help himself. He’s suddenly air drumming the 10-note tom-tom fill from “In the Air Tonight.” His director at the Eleventh Bureau shoots Yìchén a stern look from beyond the cubicle.

COLLINP1.BMF

If they really want to take a stand then they should clap slightly more softly than normal when he talks

it was worth it if you got to see The Bean

Agree 100% .

(Ron Fournier longtime AP bureau chief in DC.)

My patient would rather take a peptide than a statin. That reveals an uncomfortable truth in medicine “The volume of evidence behind a therapy has become inversely correlated with public trust in it,” writes Vikas Patel.

"My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it."

The Iranian embassy in Iran quote tweets Trump's insane 'Fuckin Strait tweet with the comment: "This low level of civility and intelligence shown by a leader of a country is regrettable; the shameful fervor with which intentions to commit war crimes are repeated is staggering; and the fact that the Divine is invoked regardless of ill intentions clearly exposes deep fanaticism. Apologies for sharing this language." Trump's tweet reads: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

my entire timeline on x is now just iranian embassies demonstrating a facility with the english language that puts everything i've ever read from the trump administration to shame

The US should not be hosting the World Cup. Video of an aggressive man bursting through a sign held by Iraqi soccer fans as they joyfully chant in the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The man knocks rips through sign, says "You don't come to America and do that."

NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post. Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6. If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.

“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps. Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war. Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war. The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane

Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5