“The world will miss the era of his father,” a regional official close to Tehran told Reuters. “Mojtaba will have no choice but to show an iron fist... even if the war ends, there will be severe internal repression.”
Chilling thought.
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“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
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Steve-O got a ruptured testicle by letting one of his castmates jump on his crotch with a pogo stick and he is unquestionably more morally sophisticated than most of our sitting lawmakers
06.03.2026 00:02 — 👍 1803 🔁 221 💬 16 📌 0
The last time Trump contemplated war with Iran, I wrote this condensed history of the country and its people, whose aspirations have long been foiled by foreign meddlers and internal opportunists.
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One of Pacino’s better performances of the last 20-odd years. Easy, natural, unforced (for him), I really like him as this guy. And this falls into his unofficial era of mentor to up-and-coming leading men (Russell Crowe, Depp, Farrell, McConaughey).
03.03.2026 04:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Plummer is so good.
03.03.2026 04:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This was the era of vaguely Middle Eastern female vocalizing in scores. Crowe would get the same treatment in the following year’s THE GLADIATOR.
03.03.2026 04:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The number of times Russell Crowe’s character explicitly mentions health insurance as a primary concern for his family, and as a factor in his ability to take an ethical stand
03.03.2026 04:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Movie does a great job of distilling some complicated legal two-stepping as well as showing the enormous pressure brought to bear on a middle-class family.
03.03.2026 04:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0THE INSIDER has aged disturbingly well. And boy does Michael Mann like those back-of-the-head closeups!
03.03.2026 04:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Can’t believe a war started on a whim, without consistent objectives, international buy-in or a clear exit strategy is already being discussed as a globe-destabilizing quagmire.
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Prominent conservative attorney Jonathan Mitchell wants to build a national abortion ban through California. His client is a convicted abuser of women.
02.03.2026 03:00 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1This looks familiar.
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“…I like to be in USA
Pretending that the wars are done…”
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all of this happening in the same 24 hour period is completely nuts, no one is doing any actual due diligence here at all
28.02.2026 03:18 — 👍 1101 🔁 172 💬 40 📌 7
NEW: Georgia removed nearly 471,000 voters from its rolls last summer — roughly 6% of all the state’s registered voters.
Now voting rights groups are suing, arguing the state is illegally hiding records about how the purge was carried out.
A screenshot of a mobile Google search results page in dark mode for the query "Kansas trans". Under the heading "News about Kansas," there is a list of four news articles: An article from the Kansas City Star, published 13 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday". The thumbnail shows a sample Kansas driver's license. An article from The Independent, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas sends letters to trans drivers demanding the immediate surrender of their licenses over birthright law". The thumbnail shows small pride flags on desks inside a legislative chamber. An article from The Topeka Capital-Journal, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas invalidates IDs and birth certificates of transgender people". The thumbnail features a close-up of colorful pride flag stickers. An article from Erin In The Morning, published 16 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses". The thumbnail is a nighttime photo of a state capitol building illuminated in pink and red lights.
A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas.
This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people.
This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.
So Hegseth is attacking Scouting America for treating trans kids with respect, including respecting their chosen names... at the same time he demands you respect the made up name for his department, which he changed illegally without congressional approval.
27.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 2419 🔁 554 💬 27 📌 11
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries. Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the intelligence community. We were the first frontier AI company to deploy our models in the US government’s classified networks, the first to deploy them at the National Laboratories, and the first to provide custom models for national security customers. Claude is extensively deployed across the Department of War and other national security agencies for mission-critical applications, such as intelligence analysis, modeling and simulation, operational planning, cyber operations, and more. Anthropic has also acted to defend America’s lead in AI, even when it is against the company’s short-term interest. We chose to forgo several hundred million dollars in revenue to cut off the use of Claude by firms linked to the Chinese Communist Party (some of whom have been designated by the Department of War as Chinese Military Companies), shut down CCP-sponsored cyberattacks that attempted to abuse Claude, and have advocated for strong export controls on chips to ensure a democratic advantage. Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.
However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values. Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do. Two such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now: Mass domestic surveillance. We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values. AI-driven mass surveillance presents serious, novel risks to our fundamental liberties. To the extent that such surveillance is currently legal, this is only because the law has not yet caught up with the rapidly growing capabilities of AI. For example, under current law, the government can purchase detailed records of Americans’ movements, web browsing, and associations from public sources without obtaining a warrant, a practice the Intelligence Community has acknowledged raises privacy concerns and that has generated bipartisan opposition in Congress. Powerful AI makes it possible to assemble this scattered, individually innocuous data into a comprehensive picture of any person’s life—automatically and at massive scale. Fully autonomous weapons. Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy. Even fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. But today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk. We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R&D to improve the reliability of these systems, but they have not accepted this offer. In addition, without proper oversight, fully autonomous weapons cannot b…
To our knowledge, these two exceptions have not been a barrier to accelerating the adoption and use of our models within our armed forces to date. The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label reserved for US adversaries, never before applied to an American company—and to invoke the Defense Production Act to force the safeguards’ removal. These latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security. Regardless, these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request. It is the Department’s prerogative to select contractors most aligned with their vision. But given the substantial value that Anthropic’s technology provides to our armed forces, we hope they reconsider. Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters—with our two requested safeguards in place. Should the Department choose to offboard Anthropic, we will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider, avoiding any disruption to ongoing military planning, operations, or other critical missions. Our models will be available on the expansive terms we have proposed for as long as required. We remain ready to continue our work to support the national security of the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthropic CEO says AI company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands to allow wider use of its tech.
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Most of those people aren't aware Larry Ellison ALSO just took a big ownership stake in TikTok (alongside technofascist Mark Andreessen and right wing propagandist Rupert Murdoch)
this attack (and that's what it is) isn't just about CNN, it's about Twitter, Tiktok, CBS, CNN, Facebook WAPO, etc. etc
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
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“They just left him.”
Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.
This song somehow becomes truer as more time passes.
That's a hell of a thing.
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We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs.
Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.
This comes on the heels of our investigation into the abuser and his prominent attorney, Jonathan Mitchell, who has ties to the Trump administration and is trying to revive the Comstock Act through the courts.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken the word of a convicted abuser accused of choking his pregnant girlfriend in Paxton’s latest defense of fetal life.
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The U.S. Has Killed More than 150 People in Boat Strikes.
We’re Tracking Them All, @theintercept.com
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This is the SAVE Act that Trump is discussing tonight.
25.02.2026 03:11 — 👍 173 🔁 103 💬 8 📌 1
Far-right activists are in court today trying to restrict access to abortion pills by claiming women are coerced into taking them. So it's worth reading about a male plaintiff in a separate Jonathan Mitchell case: Jerry Rodriguez's girlfriend told police he strangled her 8 times. 2x convicted abuser
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