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And listening to the Caine/Hegseth briefing, it's really striking that Trump has not spoken live since he started this war.

You just know Pete Hegseth was an odious, obnoxious little boy. You can see it now.

The way I read this is, we are going to fuck shit up and leave, and then let everyone else deal with the consequences.

1. Which is not great on its own
2. We will eventually have to deal with the consequences...
3. There are 101 ways where this won't work and we'll end up staying

‘Just one example of how quickly AI is changing our lives’

The crimes and harms of the administration are inexcusable and will hang over the US forever. It will take a century to recover from the damage to the US' reputation caused by this administration

for what it cost for our allies to shoot down three of our own planes by accident in a murderous illegal war we could have funded the NEH at 150% of its historic peak funding for a year

This is torture

Ummm….the choice of Booker T. Washington and Catharine Beecher here were choices. 🧐

Exactly.

Cervical cancer rates higher in states with low HPV vaccination rates

RFK Jr *lies* when he says cervical cancer risk is increased in women who get the HPV vaccine.

New study: "States with high vaccination rates have seen the biggest drop in cervical cancer, while states with low vaccination rates have had little to no progress"

www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Between GenAI (especially WRT its weaponized uses against girls and women) and legalized betting (think: Polymarket), I think I understand the Temperance Movement a little better.

To sum up: two federal judicial DISTRICTS have held that not only does the DOJ or ICE have no presumption of regularity, they also held ICE—as an agency—is engaged in action—so unlawful, it is now an not only unconstitutional, it is anti-constitutional, and subject to civil and criminal contempt.

*Bills’s

Is there any hope this is (finally) the Bills’ year?

Gotta say, I did not love this. 3 things: a) felt like more USA Hockey damage control—Hilary and Megan are totally fine with these assholes, so why are you still mad? b) no actual apology; c) if they can put a medal on the rapist-in-chief, they can put a medal on Ilya Fucking Rozanov

Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran. The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire.

That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

ai does not exist. people are responsible for this. you are a fucking dumbass if you use ai to respond to email so this is unconscionable.

What the Donald Trump of 2016 would think of the Donald Trump of 2026 will never be known. But they are starkly different figures when it comes to overseas intervention. A

It’s the same guy you dumb shit

This was one of the first things that occurred to me this morning: I wonder who was betting on this and whether they had a say in the decision

A highly complex website showing two betting accounts earning nearly $500,000 and $120,000 on a minimal number of positions.

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28.

Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier.

The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

They are also literally in a hotel ballroom in Florida. Not the situation room or anything even vaguely secure

Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran.

Unreal.

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

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i didn't care for schumer's statement, but if you're going to be angry at him, make sure you're much angrier at thune, who bears this obligation even more strongly than schumer and will absolutely ignore his own duty

See how easy it is?