03/11/26
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, March 11th.
3/11 Day
Remember the band, 3/11? Remember the time I for the 3/11 CD for Easter but it had a parental advisory sticker on it and my mom took it away?
…one of my listeners does, that’s for sure.
And now, the news.
American Consulate
-via ABC News
Starting in Toronto, where police are on the hunt for two suspects after shots were fired at the US consulate on Tuesday morning.
No one was hurt, though there were people in the building when the shots were fired.
It is being treated as a national security incident.
I wonder what America could have done to make people so mad.
Iran
Moving to Iran where Sen. Lindsey Graham said he doesn’t want there to be an independent investigation into whether the strike that killed nearly 200 people, the majority of whom were young girls, was done by the United States.
Interesting.
I wonder by he doesn’t want that done.
“I’m not worried about that right now. I’m sorry anybody died. I’m not taking the Iranian bait and listening to them.” Then he added: “These things happen in war.”
Cool response. Human beings! “I’m not worried about that right now.”
Something interesting is that Lindsey Graham also used to be a human being.
The big news right now is the Strait of Hormuz, which has basically been closed since all of this began.
20% of all crude oil and natural gas goes through this area, so this thing being closed? Not amazing.
In the first few days, traffic slowed down, but once Iran decided the strait was closed and started attacking the few ships that attempted passage? It was a wrap.
How big a deal is this? The co-founder of the research firm Clearview Energy Partners, Kevin Book, says: "When analysts have looked at the things that could go wrong in global oil markets, this is about as wrong as things could go at any single point of failure.”
On Tuesday Trump announced that the US would provide naval escorts to protect tankers.
Trump has accused Iran of putting mines near the Strait. The military says it destroyed 16 minelayers
Also on Tuesday, the Pentagon announced that about 140 troops have been injured since this began. Eight of them are severely injured.
Social Security Breach
-via Washington Post
The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a whistleblower’s complaint that a former DOGE employee was planning to share information he gathered when he had access to two extremely sensitive agency databases.
The complaint was made anonymously, out of fear of retaliation.
The databases breached included the Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names for more than 500 million living and dead Americans and apparently, he told the whistleblower he needed help getting all the info on a thumb drive “so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.]”
It’s unclear whether he successfully got the information to the company.
It’s almost like hiring these DOGE morons from DOGE was a bad idea.
And that’s it. That’s the news.
Slow news day when all we’re doing is trying to start WWIII.
I’m proud of 3/11. Maybe. Sure, why not?
But more than 3/11. Because amber is the color of your energy (and I don’t know any other songs of theirs)… I’m proud of you.