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Bitterzoose

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Teacher, editor, translator, alarmed about where we're headed #EduSky

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Every interviewer should be required to ask her, "Are you drunk right now?"

02.03.2026 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We gotta stop penetrating people with smartphones.

02.03.2026 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1671    πŸ” 157    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 11

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

01.03.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 11405    πŸ” 4017    πŸ’¬ 398    πŸ“Œ 147

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this:

all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral.

BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

01.03.2026 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1601    πŸ” 284    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 8

But when his country called for Trump to serve, his daddy’s tenant faked a bone spurs diagnosis so someone else could go in his place.

For everyone else, β€œthat’s the way it is.” bsky.app/profile/meid...

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

01.03.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 16060    πŸ” 5574    πŸ’¬ 345    πŸ“Œ 219

yep, done. No more "hmmm, maybe" with this guy.

01.03.2026 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have you ever heard him sing? Saw him live on Bway in TOP DOG, UNDERDOG, and I fell head over heels....

01.03.2026 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

pretty sure I've seen enough from this guy

01.03.2026 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right? How does any of this make any sense, even in their own echo chamber...???

01.03.2026 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

01.03.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 588    πŸ” 244    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 50
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Kaine on Fox: "The president can act to defend US against imminent attack without congressional approval. But if you're going to initiate war, you need Congress. The president not only did not come to Congress, he acted without even notification to the vast majority of us. This is an illegal war."

01.03.2026 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12919    πŸ” 3675    πŸ’¬ 630    πŸ“Œ 194
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These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

01.03.2026 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 9482    πŸ” 3169    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 90

can we root for them all to lose? that's where i'm headed

01.03.2026 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chris Murphy: "We need to stand up for the American citizens that ICE is murdering, the kids they're terrorizing. They should stop this illegal war and they should stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. We should demand they do both things."

01.03.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7043    πŸ” 1952    πŸ’¬ 196    πŸ“Œ 103

they'll hold off on wholesale destruction, tho, until they can extract all their assets

01.03.2026 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These assholes are really gonna go with β€œwar is peace, actually.”

01.03.2026 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2663    πŸ” 533    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 12

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default

β€œI am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

01.03.2026 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4772    πŸ” 1316    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 41
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NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia β€” and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

01.03.2026 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8165    πŸ” 2425    πŸ’¬ 121    πŸ“Œ 117

evidence like this is why we have all lost faith in Science

01.03.2026 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

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GribblesGoBag @GribblesGoBag Follow .β€’β€’ Smascbyjeffchastair Remember who we are fighting for! 10:42 AM β€’ Feb 28, 2026 β€’ 2,893 Views

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

01.03.2026 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5216    πŸ” 1384    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 38
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From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for β€œIAEA” wrong.
They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel
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They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary.
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Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood
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Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for β€œIAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

28.02.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 8097    πŸ” 2434    πŸ’¬ 232    πŸ“Œ 238

Not the same guy, you brick-brained clown. The one who came to power in 1979 died 10 years later in β€˜89.

28.02.2026 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3061    πŸ” 503    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 47

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:

I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

28.02.2026 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3679    πŸ” 786    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 36

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

28.02.2026 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7715    πŸ” 1139    πŸ’¬ 150    πŸ“Œ 92

Step down.

28.02.2026 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A mad king's illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump's unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep

This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil

My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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