I have met Gerard Brown and he is awesome. That is all. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/inter…

'Since supply cuts from Russia--once Europe’s top gas supplier--didn’t come until late into the summer storage campaign, the lack of flows will be even more glaring next year. That will require more LNG, but also 'persistent demand destruction.'' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“If we don’t get Ukraine right, there goes Taiwan” is the hardest Lindsey Graham has ever Lindsey Grahamed.

'My plan is to evict Russia from Crimea, add Finland to NATO, and reassure allies while establishing a No-First Use policy and deemphasizing nuclear weapons in US strategy. Who's with me!'

So it's $395 and 80 minutes one-way from DC to the East River, plus there's no security screening and you show up 10 minutes before your flight with free parking? These folks are gonna do numbers. washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/10…

Which 🇫🇮 dancer do you believe? The one from May or the one from October?

Every interview on the subject I say “low salience, permissive context, elite sport.”

Everyone is fascinated with public opinion on foreign policy but it rarely constrains policy.

Wine retailers across the country are smirking and waiting.

Your occasional reminder: Congress never voted to authorize the use of force against Al Shabaab. The executive branch unilaterally deemed the group covered by the 2001 AUMF. And that was only after DoD had been conducting “collective self-defense” strikes against the group.

Blob To Progressives: Shut Up. motherjones.com/politics/2022/…

Anybody who is not following the Jim Cramer discourse on Twitter is truly missing out.

'Instead of strangling Kremlin oil revenues w a strict price lid that would have been observed by a broad 'buyer’s cartel', US and EU are likely to settle for a more loosely policed cap at a higher price than once envisioned, w just G7 and Oz committed' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Neom should be built exclusively in the metaverse. This is the only way MBS’s wild dream can come to fruition and it would also give Zuckerberg something to do with all that money. In the metaverse journalists who are killed can also merely respawn somewhere else.

Brief reminder that not invading Iraq is *exactly what Saddam Hussein wanted us to do*

Quite the remark on the new PRC leadership: 'Not having anybody who is identifiable as a more market-oriented official is a problem. Where's China's employment and innovation come from for the last 10-15 years? It's been all from the private sector.' politi.co/3TJ81Jh

Reminder that responding to European 'jitters' by sending 20K additional US troops to Europe and upgrading the existing nukes we have there means you don't get to complain about Europe's anemic defense spending and share of aid to Ukraine.