Spamuel Risk

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

"...massive flames over the Tehran sky overnight and smoke still billowing over the oil storage facilities. As rain poured down on the city of 10 million people on Sunday morning, authorities warned of toxic acid rain and many residents woke up with pain in their throat and eyes burning."

I deeply believe this. It’s not enough for there to be anti-war sentiment, there needs to be an antiwar movement that springs up as quickly as the war itself has.

too real

the cope for how quickly this war ends is starting to feel a bit like the “oh we’re gonna shelter in place for 2 weeks and then the pandemic will be over” moment

Regarding the U.S. sinking that Iranian warship: when you're trying to describe an act that (probably) isn't an actual war crime, but DOES feel slimy, I think the word you're looking for is "honor."

He does not know what he’s doing and nobody around him knows what they’re doing. He is vibe-coding a world war.

This is insane and this man is going to get us all killed.

Whoa

desperately trying to unload the distressed asset he bought on a whim and immediately fucked up

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

unfortunately this does not sound fake

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

I do not like how this war is happening in different places in the world.

For all the news i'm numb to now, this is the thing that makes me want to scream

IIRC this means it’s the first day over 3 degrees

the better governors general kept their hands off the staff

“Robin Hood was business-friendly” purists, their last remaining demo

headline "Trump Says Strikes Killed Iranians U.S.Saw as New Leaders" / pic: Trump looking confused and resigned like the Bonanza rerun he was going to watch got preempted

what are we doing here? what are any of us doing here

I thought this was about stopping the car as a toxic rubric that structures the economies and geographies of western civilizations (it wasn't)

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

Whenever I write a full sentence that's not a tweet, I feel sassy, like i've pulled a fast one on AI and my readership, like i slipped kale into the toddler's mush. Look what i made YOU read!

Learning even the most basic basque greetings got us ahead, or at least further ahead of the English tourist further down the bar.

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

newrepublic.com/post/207138/...

and a very short walk from “we will” to “but really we won’t.”

That’s so much.

I’m very sorry for the loss of your friends.

Avery! ❤️

Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...

"In a world where preventative wars multiply and great powers act first and explain later, middle powers like Canada will someday wish they had defended the UN Charter when they still could."

nyt hed: “President Says Bombing Will Continue”

until morale improves

additionally "policy" is a generous term to use in this context

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.

NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...