May-lee Chai (she/her)

Some improvement has been made in Bluesky? This morning I am seeing posts from cultural, film, bookish accounts I had followed, but whose posts had never appeared to me. Please continue - love the geopolitics, but the other sustains me.

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

"In 51.6% of cases where someone needed to go to the hospital immediately, the platform said stay home or book a routine medical appointment..." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Partial lunar eclipse over the west coast of Mexico. Palm trees in foreground.

Partial. Might try again in a bit.

Lunar eclipse partial through the clouds

Omg there was a hole in the cursed clouds!

#LunarEclipse

CNN: Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says By Haley Britzky , Helen Regan Helen Regan , Eyad Kourdi , Isaac Yee , Teele Rebane , Lucas Lilieholm Updated 13 hr ago

Reuters: Fire at US embassy complex in Riyadh after blast heard, sources say By Reuters March 2, 20266:23 PM CSTUpdated 13 mins ago

New York Times: U.S. military death toll rises to 6

CNN: State Dept urges US citizens to "DEPART NOW" from countries throughout Middle East

Two days into the war:

- three F-15s shot down

- U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames

- six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded

- State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

OpenAI makes changes to ‘opportunistic and sloppy’ Pentagon deal Sam Altman says company is working with defence department on provisions covering mass surveillance

OpenAI makes changes to ‘opportunistic and sloppy’ Pentagon deal ft.trib.al/hj206Gn

Fathers and husbands who allow women or children to take birth control/have abortions/transition/use pronouns are a risk to public spiritual and moral health and therefore the state can override them.

Easy peasy.

These are the same opinion.

2022: Women and children are property.

2026: Did we stutter?

Married women and children are the property of the husband or father. Single women lack owners and are therefore the property of the state.

Paul Conroy obituary: war photographer who defied Assad

Paul Conroy obituary: war photographer who defied Assad

Trump's Neck Rash Distracts From New Bruise on 'Good' Hand The president skipped the cosmetics this time.

The president skipped the cosmetics this time.

Today in brutal-but-true:

“This what happens when you hire dog killers, drunks and podcasters into your regime.”

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients “Dreamers” who came to the U.S. as children are protected under U.S. law, so deportations of them are unusual.

"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem acknowledged in the Feb. 11 letter that immigration officers detained as many as 261 recipients of Deferred Action for Child Arrivals, often referred to as Dreamers. Eighty-six of them were deported, Noem added." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Three people kneeling by a memorial in the snow in front of a brick house, with lines and lines of colorful flowers, as well as signs and candles

BREAKING: A “credible whistleblower” has revealed FBI forensic experts were ordered to “stand down” from processing the scene of Renee Good’s murder — because Kash Patel did not want Good “referenced as a ‘victim.’”

Source: Senate Judiciary Democrats

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

These ppl think they’re in a video game

My concern is this: Iran is using the cheap stuff to deplete the region's air defenses. Then, in a few days or a week, it launches what's left of its more capable missiles.

So they lied.
People died.

Also apparently the elementary girls school where approx 150 people were massacred was targeted because the Pentagon was using, 'old maps.'

I shit you not.
People should hang for this.
🤬

Tell it.

Security Updates for Americans in the Middle East (Updated March 2, 4pm EST) DEPART NOW VIA COMMERCIAL MEANS DUE TO SERIOUS SAFETY RISKS • Bahrain • Egypt • Iran • Iraq • Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza • Jordan • Kuwait • Lebanon • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • United Arab Emirates • Yemen Americans who need State Department assistance arranging to depart via commercial means can call us 24/7: +1-202-501-4444 (from abroad) and +1- 888-407-4747 (from the U.S. and Canada).

Guys, does Rubio not get protocol and advance notice??

How do they leave when there are no flights in Iran, Iraq, Israel, west bank, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE and Bahrain???

Where are arranged U.S. charter flights to get Americans out?!

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

NEW: ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.

The Legality, or Illegality, of Killing a Foreign Leader, Explained

NYT explains: “In peacetime, it would be murder to kill a member of a foreign military or any government official who is not engaged in an imminent armed attack.” Trump insists we’re not at war. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Jamelle Bouie clearly and quite publicly works very hard to be informed and even-handed and anyone talking about him as if he’s not doing either of those things should shut the fuck up and definitely be widely ignored

one thing that's clear this week is that he doesn't know what the word preventative means

Trump took a break from war planning on Friday to hear about Mar-a-Lago guest James O'Keefe's latest scheme.

just saying

So is Rubio saying the U.S. accidentally bombed a school? Or has no idea what they’re dropping bombs on?