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Nicholas Slayton

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Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose.com . Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, Wired, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli. Signal: nslayton.12 Newsletter: letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

"No stupid rules of engagement." β€” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." β€” Reuters, March 5, 2026

06.03.2026 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 157    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

A massive crime, whether fired by AI or a human.

06.03.2026 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

This from 2024 is essential reporting about AI, target generation, and tempo, deadly deadly deadly tempo.

www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...

06.03.2026 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

All in the first day of the war.

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Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Exclusive: US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on February 28 but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation reut.rs/40b19JN

06.03.2026 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 8
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

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"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

Quite the headline from People.com

people.com/trump-says-i...

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Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump on terrorist attacks in America: β€œLike I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."

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Uhhhhh

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Man what

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DOC 2: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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BREAKING:

The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.

They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.

DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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Anyway, can someone remind me who the heads of the DHS and FBI are at the moment?

Surely they will stop any such an attack.

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The thing about Jessup is that he is a delusional coward who likes barking old chestnuts about abstractions like "honor" and "code," while it's the JAG lawyers and the enlisted marines who deal in the realities of what an operational military actually involves. So I see why these guys like him

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I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

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we really doing a third bush term

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨US Forces lie to the people of the Great Plains, convince them they are under the protection of the US government for the purpose of negotiations and commit a crime so horrible that it forces congress to investigate
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04.03.2026 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"

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you can impeach people after they've been removed from office for the crimes they did while in office and the failure to do so to george w. bush is one of the reasons we wound up here

06.03.2026 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

"Hey Congress, how about several billion dollars more in supplemental appropriations for the unnecessary regional war I started for entertainment?"

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the rare trump story i 100 percent believe. we can’t say we weren’t warned.

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Stunning

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'God wills it' Trump's top Pentagon nominee comes from the neocon-to-far-right pipeline

theracket.news/p/god-wills-it

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It implies exactly what you think it implies

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Trump 2.0 is a neocon project in practice

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What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

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It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.

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First reported by @decaturish.bsky.social, GA State Sen. Elena Parent will not seek reelection.

In 2025, Parent, who represents one of the most progressive districts in the South, east of Atlanta, dared a trans parent to find someone to challenge her for reelection in a recorded anti-trans screed:

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