US Strikes Tankers in Persian Gulf: Week 15 Blockade Recap
⚓US Strikes Three Ships
⚓The "International Law of Blockade."
⚓Impact of Indian seafarer casualties.
⚓AIS "ghost" structures and navigation challenges
⚓Draft peace terms...AGAIN!
Video: youtu.be/xosw8iFTzsc
Ludwig Boltzmann, founder of statistical mechanics, visited newly created Stanford University in 1905 and wrote:
"In Europe if a rich lady goes crazy she buys herself a dozen cats or a parrot; here she engages first-rate architects and builds a university"
#Science #Physics #Boltzmann
The IRS lost so many people. We are literally struggling to maintain the mission. We were always understaffed and underfunded since Reagan.
But hey we can put your financial information in ChatGPT. Fuck your privacy.
I need a drink.
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A government that tries to intimidate child advocates is telling you exactly what kind of power it wants. Power without accountability, process, or limits.
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One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
“So ultimately the blockade will stay as the strait opens,” Hegseth said. “And then the blockade will open and then the straits open. And if that takes 30 days to fully mature, or two weeks to fully mature, but it will start immediately, as the president has said.”
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Anti-vaccine misinformation harms people in multiple ways.
"* ...there was a 38.7% increase in vitamin A overdoses between January and March 2025...exposure to vitamin A is most likely due to the spread of misinformation..."
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/vit...
Secretary Kennedy attacked journalist Sheryl Gay Stolberg for criticizing him, claiming people could look at his public calendar.
The problem: his calendar is not public. StatNews, and Ms. Stolberg, FOIAed it over a year ago.
arstechnica.com/health/2026/... Via Beth Mole, @arstechnica.bsky.social
Here is an explainer on Trump's plan to impose NDAs on all federal officials - consider offering a public comment (details enclosed).
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...
The Steady State
A breathtaking expansion of the culture of governmental secrecydonmoynihan.substack.com
Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
In the period that Leeds maternity unit had the lowest number of caesareans, its rate of stillbirths and newborn deaths became the worst nationally
Washington, DC, June 12, 2026 – Over the past 48 hours, in the latest example of intimidation tactics, agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’…
The Secretary of Defense initially stated that the waterway would reopen "immediately" after a deal was signed, only to clarify his comment moments later.
There was a 38.7% increase in vitamin A overdoses between January and March 2025, likely due to misinformation about measles treatment. Two experts explain how to tell fact from fiction.
