In making these comments, Trump put forth the bullish view that Iran-war damage wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been. And it seems to have worked on Tuesday, with major US indexes extending gains into regular trading.

Fuck’s sake.

I know the swearing is yet another departure from the norm but I really wish the headlines about this would focus less on the cursing aspect and more on the “threatening war crimes” aspect.

Call me when you can run AI on burritos.

Given the extent to which Maxwell seems to have made deals with the Trump admin for a cushier prison life, I find myself wondering if the goal is to get the Epstein Files Transparency Act declared unconstitutional so that the massive amount of remaining files will remain secret while the Trump admin can claim plausible deniability and that it’s nothing to do with them.