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Normal people: This war is fucked up

Liberal pundits: They better show us their homework on their justification for massacring 60 schoolchildren

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

Tweet from David Miller: “Quite right, comrade! "Iran today is not just asserting its right to defend itself, or even its right to defend Palestine and sustain the resistance project as a whole, but the right of all states and peoples to control their territories and freely determine their destinies." Iran is in other words defending the rights and freedoms of humanity. It is the tip of the anti-imperialist spear. We must all stand with the Islamic Republic of Iran. #DismantleZionism”

No, the Iranian government is not in fact doing this; they are in fact mass murderers who slaughtered tens of thousands of their own citizens for peacefully protesting.

I promise you can oppose this illegal, unprovoked war without making the Iranian government into the good guys.

The Iraq War was one of the worst things the US has done in the past half-century, but George W. Bush at least felt the need to lie to the US for months to build support for it. Trump can't even be bothered to build a consistent narrative for his war.

There better be a damn good reason an elementary school was designated as a military target.

To be clear, it's a war crime to use non-military targets like a school as a shield for military forces. So if Iran did that, I expect to see some damn good evidence demonstrating that was the case.

I never thought drones would explode my face, says man who created the drones-exploding-faces world order

Primary is in two days

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

A Democratic lawmaker said on the North Carolina House floor that “all cultures are not equal” while voting for a bill that forced compliance with ICE. She has since apologized, but a major immigrants’ rights group just endorsed a primary challenger.

When you start an illegal war to distract from the other illegal things you've done.

I have lots of dumb ideas, but one of the dumbest is for a new bluesky feature, a little number you fill in every time you tweet where you say what level of expertise you think you have about the thing you’re tweeting about.

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

“This is the second time in less than a year that diplomacy was betrayed by the Americans.”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei slammed the US for once again launching an attack against his country while negotiating with it.

Samantha Paige (she/they) (@samantha705901) I love this man 💕

I have a new hero
Those students will create such an amazing future for themselves
#edusky
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It is believed that this is the Grand Air Hotel in Bahrain that has been targeted. It is known for frequently hosting senior US military officers because of its location close to the US Fifth Fleet headquarters.

A targeted assassination attempt. Iran is turning US tactics on themselves.

NEW: Bahrain skyscrapers and Dubai hotels are now being hit by Iranian drones.

This is insane. Trump has unleashed chaos and carnage.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

Rooting for you! 🤞

This tweet gonna go into the Twitter Hall-of-Fame in terms of how terrible it aged.

No votes on ANYTHING untill we vote on the War Powers Resolution.

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”

I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

90% of evictions in MN are for nonpayment of rent. I did a sample a week ago and found the avg nonpayment eviction in Hennepin County would take $5,122 to stop. Studies (before the high inflation of the past few years) suggest stopping an eviction saves $6,832 in public costs. It just makes sense

not a misfire, American officials are apparently known to stay here

Jasmine Crockett is standing on business and addressing the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. She is willing to step away from her campaign in Texas to head back to D.C.

“I think speaker Johnson needs to call us in right now and we need to deal with this right now.”

This! People like to posture about misinformation, calling it a moral panic! But unfortunately, the average USian doesnt make policy, and a lot of them dont vote; it’s the folks making policy that it effects, and that’s the real problem. Whatever Fred believes is already wrong

I hear some "red staters" are upset that Elon is putting methane gas generators in their neighborhoods to power his "data centers".
"Between the smell and the noise I'll never be able to sell my house".
So MAGA, "deregulation" is bad? Take away the rules and the wealthy shit on you even more. Happy?

Related point, if you are in misinformation research and have been launching study after study to see what Uncle Fred thinks after seeing misinformation PLEASE listen to what @katestarbird.bsky.social and I have been saying for years: effects on elite and official action is what matters most.

A social media post from Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, posted 9 minutes ago. The text reads: "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States:" followed by a link to justthenews.com. Below is a link preview showing the article headline "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces possible war with U.S." accompanied by a photo from what appears to be an Iranian protest or rally, showing demonstrators holding anti-Trump signs and posters with Persian text.

I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive