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@tagerai.bsky.social

Psychologist, UCSD, researches morality, violence, culture, crime, politics. Author of Virtuous Violence https://bookshop.org/p/books/virtuous-violence-professor-alan-page-fiske/6f7ee2f51182a110

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Seven US Regime Change Wars, Ranked by Disastrousness Trump has killed Iran's supreme leader and is demanding 'unconditional surrender.' But history tells us that US-led regime change efforts abroad almost never bring positive results.

"Many Americans seem to have forgotten just how catastrophic US regime change wars have been in the past. So, with the risk of history repeating itself once again, here is Zeteo’s list of seven of the US’s most disastrous attempts at regime change, ranked"

09.03.2026 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 996    πŸ” 365    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 13

'bombing tehran because he cant bomb brooklyn' is a pretty accurate statement about the far right though not trump himself but 'we have been driven so mad by cultural grievance that we want to obliterate the centers of american global power for no reason' is not a thing youre supposed to advertise

08.03.2026 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 359    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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NYU cancels live school graduation speakers - Washington Square News Graduation speakers will no longer give live remarks at school-based ceremonies and must instead record their statements for a video, in compliance with a policy NYU is rolling out this year. The tran...

1 / I’ll have more to say about this soonβ€”in fact, there’s a fair amount in The Overseer Class about the role I probably played in leading to this farce…. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

08.03.2026 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

Aljazeera says best case scenario is killing 175 kids was an accident caused by using AI that relied on outdated intel. Worst case scenario is that we had good intel that they were kids of military officers, hit the school on purpose, then hit it again to kill officers trying to save their kids

08.03.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.

Leqaa Kordia, in her own words, for @zeteo.com.

Leqaa should be free. Her captors, and whichever outside organization collaborated with them, should be the ones in cages.

08.03.2026 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 180    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity."

Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social

Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...

07.03.2026 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3534    πŸ” 970    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 29

The "double-tap" in Minab is the methodology of the void. To bomb a primary school once is a crime; to hit it again as teachers moved children to the prayer hall for safety is a LITURGY OF LIQUIDATION.

They aren't targeting "threats"β€”they are erasing the future. 🧡 1/2

#Minab #Iran #WarCrimes

08.03.2026 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth

08.03.2026 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1029    πŸ” 421    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

"A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game β€” it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day. Six U.S. soldiers have been killed."

08.03.2026 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rights Group Says Massacre at Iranian Schoolβ€”Likely by USβ€”Should Be Investigated as 'War Crime' | Common Dreams "Trump loves putting his name on things, but this should be the only building for which he is remembered by history."

Rights Group Says Massacre at Iranian Schoolβ€”Likely by USβ€”Should Be Investigated as β€˜War Crime’

β€œTrump loves putting his name on things, but this should be the only building for which he is remembered by history.” www.commondreams.org/news/us-bomb...

08.03.2026 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump: "[Iranians] are among the most evil people ever on Earth. They cut babies' heads off. They chopped women in half.

What they did... take a look at October 7th. Take a look at what they've done over the last 47 years."

07.03.2026 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 32

Everything is Gaza

07.03.2026 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

I know what the Western press called it when Iraqis used IEDs against Americans in 2004. It wasn't an "anti-American demo."

08.03.2026 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday.
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Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday. Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images

NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

07.03.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1609    πŸ” 760    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 154

Monsters.

07.03.2026 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Golden State Warriors' Steve Kerr is standing up for campus freedom. He's joined coaches including Doc Rivers, Jim Boeheim, Muffet McGraw, and more in signing a letter calling on elected offic... Golden State Warriors' Steve Kerr is standing up for campus freedom. He's joined coaches including Doc Rivers, Jim Boeheim, Muffet McGraw, and more in signing a letter calling on elected officials to ...

@goldenstatewarrior.bsky.social's Coach Steve Kerr is standing up for campus freedom!

Coaches across the nation launched a letter campaign calling on elected officials to keep political interference out of our colleges and universities.

We can't have college sports without academic freedom.

06.03.2026 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Oh I have questions, but sadly I already know the answers

06.03.2026 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Something especially cursed about the school paying for canvas to monetize student data, paying for ChatGPT so students don’t have to learn, and now paying for spyware to take over their webcams to make sure they don’t use ChatGPT to cheat on tests on canvas b/c they didn’t learn anything in class

06.03.2026 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
An elementary school in the Iranian capital Tehran’s Niloufar Square has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei.

Baghaei on Friday shared a video on X, purportedly showing Shahid Hamedani School with students before and after the attack, without elaborating on the circumstances or the number of casualties.

An elementary school in the Iranian capital Tehran’s Niloufar Square has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei. Baghaei on Friday shared a video on X, purportedly showing Shahid Hamedani School with students before and after the attack, without elaborating on the circumstances or the number of casualties.

The US and Israel have apparently attacked another elementary school in Iran, this one in Tehran.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

06.03.2026 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 494    πŸ” 304    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 27

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by β€œIranian state media”

06.03.2026 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3399    πŸ” 786    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 17
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What Will Be Left After the University of Texas Destroys Itself? | The Nation UT-Austin has collapsed its race, ethnic, and gender studies into a single program while a new policy asks faculty to avoid β€œcontroversial” topics. But the attacks won’t end there.

All Texas universities are under attack.

ALL universities are under attack.

#LetStudentsLearn

05.03.2026 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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It’s Not Complicated The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."

Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

05.03.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 438    πŸ” 178    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6

I remember in hs we got pulled out of class to go on a video game bus where Air Force guys gave us call signs and let us play a jet simulator where we went on a mission to blow up an enemy ship and then told us how it all has to do w/getting a college education

05.03.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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America Second, Israel First? It was bad enough that Donald Trump hasn’t been able to explain clearly why he yet again felt he had to attack Iran, and why now. His national security advisor and secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the...

Rubio (whether intentionally or unintentionally, I believe the latter but you can debate it) seems to have completely blown up the discursive barriers around this. Here is an article in Bloomberg that one could only have imagined seeing in a place like Zeteo before this week.

05.03.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Ok but you should be criticizing the articles not the advertisements

05.03.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

05.03.2026 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7338    πŸ” 2310    πŸ’¬ 182    πŸ“Œ 50

Your periodic reminder that if you mention the name "Rahm Emanuel" to any sentient adult from Chicago, they will make precisely the same face as if you were to hand them a dead rat on a platter.

05.03.2026 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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If I ever live up to the fantasy version of me that heterodox guys have built up in their heads over a decade I’d be so proud of my career

05.03.2026 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Feels like the natural endpoint of our society tbh. Was always going to go this way

04.03.2026 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 228    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

He agreed with Ben Shapiro that there wasn’t a genocide. That episode released about 6 weeks ago.

04.03.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0