Peter Davidson 🇦🇺

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

A New Spy Radio Signal Has Appeared. It's Broadcasting in Farsi. A new shortwave numbers station appeared the day the bombs fell. Nobody knows who's running it.

A mysterious shortwave radio station is broadcasting strings of numbers in Farsi. open.substack.com/pub/theicema...

Remember when Sen. Sheehy accidentally shot himself in a national park and pretended he got the wound in a firefight in Afghanistan?

Sinking a ship because he knew it was not just away from home waters but unarmed (as an invitee to unarmed international naval exercises the US was scheduled to attend but withdrew) shows a Pentagon following its leader into functionally a school shooter doctrine: kill who you can because you can.

In 1966 the New Jersey Young Republicans gleefully sang racist and antisemitic songs at their gatherings. The lyrics to one went “Riding the Reich in my Mercedes Benz, shooting every kike, saving all my friends." Hartford Courant, 13 February 1966.

Hacked traffic cameras and US intelligence: How a plot to kill Iran’s supreme leader came together | CNN The US and Israel worked together for weeks to plan the strike that killed Iran’s leader

Here's how modern intel works. Not just spies on the ground, but data everywhere. Traffic cameras, networks, patterns of movement. When digital surveillance merges with intelligence work, cities become maps of opportunity. #CyberSecurity #Intelligence #NationalSecurity
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The irony that Trump is ruining countries and killing people while claiming “they treat their people badly” while his administration is arresting citizens for being brown, creating concentration camps, and killing our economy is just too much.

Serious people would stop him. Constitutionally.

I mean pissing off India like this has no possible future negative impact, right?

The war on Iran has ignited rare civil unrest in Bahrain Bahraini authorities are cracking down violently on protesters angry at US role in the state, and detaining people for posting videos of Iranian attacks

The war on Iran has ignited rare civil unrest in Bahrain - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-iran-ignited-civil-unrest-bahrain

First Draft: 🤬 Is This the Worst-Run War in US History? Trump and his administration are improvising a major conflict in the Middle East, as Democrats keep winning in the 2026 redistricting war that is immensely backfiring on the GOP.

First Draft: 🤬 Is This the Worst-Run War in US History?

Trump and his administration are improvising a major conflict in the Middle East, as Democrats keep winning in the 2026 redistricting war that is immensely backfiring on the GOP.

From @swin24.bsky.social:
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Sun Tzu said two and a half thousand years ago, “tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

US Won’t Allow India to Become Rival Like China, Official Says The US won’t give India the same kind of economic advantages it gave China, which allowed that country to emerge as a major competitor, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said on Thursday, s...

The US won’t give India the same kind of economic advantages it gave China, which allowed that country to emerge as a major competitor, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said – Bloomberg: ‘India should understand that “we are not going to make the same mistakes […],” […] Raisina Dialogue’

How long can Israel sustain a military conflict with Iran? Public support for Israel’s war effort contrasts with doubts over its long-term military and economic sustainability.

How long can Israel sustain a military conflict with Iran? https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/how-long-can-israel-sustain-a-military-conflict-with-iran #Auspol

Tom Sewell: Australia’s Violent Neo-Nazi Leader Inspiring Global Far-Right Extremists Tom Sewell, a central figure in Australia’s neo-Nazi movement, says his organizations are dissolving in response to new hate-group legislation. The move has not disrupted the transnational networks bu...

Tom Sewell has played a central role in Australia’s neo-Nazi movement, helping to build organizations that engaged in propaganda, street activism and violence. Although groups linked to him have announced their dissolution, the networks formed through those efforts remain active beyond Australia.

She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm

One of the people involved in the development of the federal government’s controversial aged care assistance tool says she’s now too scared to use it, saying she never wanted needs to be determined by algorithm www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tell that to the IAEA Director General.

www.iaea.org/newscenter/s...

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue.

I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe.

They also didn’t pay cover 🖕

Will the US benefit from the oil crisis sparked by the war on Iran?

Will the US benefit from the oil crisis sparked by the war on Iran? https://aje.news/nskuoj

I don't think "affair" is the really right term when he was texting a congressional aide explicit messages and she wrote back "this is going too far, boss"

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Trump’s Unauthorized War The Constitution grants Congress, not the president, the power to mobilize the military—and for good reason.

Why this war is illegal, and how the Constitution's checks on war powers broke down

For those following at home: If the US is not at war, as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson claims, then the sinking of the Iranian frigate by a US Sub is a violation of international law. If we are at war and the sinking was legal, the Congress has to authorize and declare.

Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

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Imagine serving as a Marine and then being injured at home, on purpose, by a sitting Senator while exercising your constitutionally-protected rights.

They pinned his hand between the door and the wall and then broke his arm or hand. His hand is still wedged between the door and wall at the end of the video. His abusers not helping.

Disgusting.

I don’t really know what to say. That veteran is incredibly brave. That senator is a fascist piece of shit. This is…shit. Idk what else to say right now. I’m glad it was recorded.