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Military officials question fortifications at site where U.S. troops were killed in Iranian strike The first American service members to die in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait, sources told CBS News.

On the 6 US troops who died at Shuaiba port in Kuwait: Troops asked for more drone defeat capabilities, none came. It was recommended that the makeshift tactical operations center not be used because it was hard to defend and concentrated too many troops in one place. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

I'm more practical. How best to store. Odd pairings.

if, say, a local cheese shop were to, say, develop a podcast, what might you, a listener of said podcast, hope to hear from this shop

asking for a friend

https://www.tiktok.com/@ah_y2213/video/7610066316413734151

THREAD: Misinformation in the Iran/US/Israel war - 3 March

This viral video claims to show the aftermath of a reported drone attack on the US embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, tonight.

But the video was posted last week to TikTok, and shows an unrelated car accident in Riyadh.

CA governor candidate Steve Hilton says 'everybody supports' Trump's immigration policies Leading in some polls in the wide-open California Governor's race as the June primary creeps closer is Republican and former Fox News host Steve Hilton.

Next! abc7.com/post/republi... #CAgovernor #2026primary

IPC bars Ukrainian team from wearing uniform with map of Ukraine at Winter Paralympics The International Paralympic Committee barred Ukraine’s Paralympic team from wearing their ceremonial uniform for the upcoming Winter Games, saying the design featuring a map of Ukraine was political,...

⚡️IPC bars Ukrainian team from wearing uniform featuring map of Ukraine at the Winter Paralympics.

The International Paralympic Committee barred Ukraine’s Paralympic team from wearing their ceremonial uniform for the upcoming Winter Games, saying the design featuring a map of Ukraine was political.

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig reverses herself on key immigration legislation, Laken Riley Act • Minnesota Reformer U.S Rep. Angie Craig, who voted for a punitive immigration bill last year called the Laken Riley Act, reversed herself Monday, writing in a Star Tribune commentary that she regrets her vote. Craig rep...

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig reverses herself on key immigration legislation, Laken Riley Act minnesotareformer.com/briefs/u-s-r...

the accuracy of @apnews.com’s race calls and underlying vote count data should be treated as sus due to the risk of incentive contamination. even if it changes nothing, the conspiracy narratives, which are inevitable, will radically alter the interpretive environment after every major call.

Can’t stress enough that it’s actually extremely economically beneficial for everybody in a community if fewer people overdose and die

Someone told tech companies the phrase “mass surveillance” is radioactive, so now they spend a bunch of time trying to pretend they are actually doing something different.

Big watching.
Large looking.
Titanic tracking.

On Feb. 28, the day the strike on Iran started, AIPAC's account thanked many members of Congress who supported or OK'd Trump's attack.

Three of them—Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV)—have received $1.2 million from AIPAC PAC so far this cycle.

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

"From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

The complaints came from more than 40 different units..."

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

Iraq: Women’s rights activist Yanar Mohammed killed by gunmen Mohammed had returned to Iraq from Canada just a few days ago, prompting questions on whether her killing was a targeted assassination.

Another cowardly murder of a feminist activist. R.I.P. Yanar Mohammed!

Elders are a powerhouse of the US pro-democracy movement Seniors are not sitting at home knitting sweaters for their grandkids — we are engaging in civil resistance with passion and determination.

Today’s seniors are not sitting at home knitting sweaters for their grandkids — we are engaging in civil resistance with passion and determination in many meaningful ways.

“The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”

I hadn't noticed until last month, award season in L.A. and my heart sunk.

It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.

Thomas L. Friedman, columnist at The New York Times "D-Day" by Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, March 19, 2003: But here we are, going to war, basically alone, in the face of opposition, not so much from "the Arab Street,' but from "the World Street." Everyone wishes it were different, but it's too late -- which is why this column will henceforth focus on how to turn these lemons into lemonade. Our children's future hinges on doing this right, even if we got here wrong. The president's view is that in the absence of a U.N. endorsement, this war will become "self-legitimating" when the world sees most Iraqis greet U.S. troops as liberators. I think there is a good chance that will play out.

Thomas L. Friedman on The Charlie Rose Show, May 29, 2003: What they [Islamic extremists] needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house-from Basra to Baghdad-and basically saying: Which part of this sentence don't you understand?: You don't think we care about our open society? You think this [terrorism] fantasy [you have]-we're just gonna let it grow? Well, suck. on. this. That, Charlie, was what this war was about. We coulda hit Saudi Arabia....We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.

Again, I wrote about this three years ago. Here's what Thomas Friedman had to say about Iraq in 2003. Now he's writing a piece for NYT saying this new war might be a good thing. www.readtpa.com/p/where-are-...

I'm long separated from my limited experience here, but shooting down 3 friendly F-15s sounds like more than a deconfliction/comms problem, it sounds like an autonomous air-defense systems problem. Good thing we're not, say, recklessly rushing to replace more humans with AI in lethal decision loops

In case you haven't been following: The Texas Ag Commissioner is rapidly devolving into a knife fight, with incumbent Sid Miller, fresh off endorsements by Trump and a weightlifter named Tiny Meeker, attacking his opponent Nate Sheets over his alleged porn addiction and whether his honey is organic.

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

Federal funds for World Cup security are late. What does this mean for LA? Some host city officials raised the alarm last week that fan plans would be canceled or scaled back if federal money didn't come through. L.A. officials seem less concerned.

"Trump allocated $625 million dollars to World Cup security in his 'One, Big, Beautiful Bill' last year. FEMA...is responsible for allocating that money to the 11 host city committees in the U.S., and those funds were supposed to be awarded by the end of January..they're now more than a month late."

An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human. At the 184-year-old Cleveland Plain Dealer, a top editor’s push to let AI draft news articles is boosting traffic — and spooking staffers.

The Plain Dealer, Cleveland’s largest newspaper, has begun to feature a new byline. On some recent articles, a reporter’s name is paired with the words “Advance Local Express Desk.”

It means: This article was drafted by artificial intelligence.

How to Think About the Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute A conversation with Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center for Justice.

The Pentagon wants AI that can fight wars without limits. Anthropic says there are lines it won't cross. And this week, that standoff turned into an all-out confrontation. To unpack the news, I spoke to Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center:

Blackout Iran. When the Trump administration launched a major attack on Iran, news organizations had to navigate a shaky environment for communications—and moral clarity.

"The reporting of wars seems to have been inverted; what the powerful say and do is being reported first, and the killing of innocents is mentioned in passing, if at all.” www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

ESPNAssignmentDesk @ESPNAssignDesk · 2h Hello, Dane! Please see your DMs for a message from us! Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA You do not have permission to use it — as I’ve told you numerous times in DMs. Shouldn’t have laid off all those reporters if you wanted locker room content.

This is the correct energy against our media overlords

José Andrés Sounds The Alarm Over Gaza’s Closed Borders José Andrés Sounds The Alarm Over Gaza’s Closed Borders

He called for leaders to let humanitarian aid trucks in.

a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious

turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration