Erin Gallagher

Hegseth -- like the president -- just doesn't think the press should provide scrutiny. They want the propaganda Hegseth's old colleagues do at Fox. And they hope that's what Ellison seizing CNN will do to that network. They don't believe in the 1st amendment. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Using White Phosphorus The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor.

Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after AI facial recognition mistakenly linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

Continued bsky.app/profile/rgoo...

Karp always delivers, he can't help himself and rants openly about Palantir's bloodlust and war-profiteering. He's been doing this for years. Anyone who speaks seriously about Palantir should be shunned. They are what Karp says they are.

IU dropout, DOGE worker now leads federally funded institute Nate Cavanaugh now leads the U.S. Institute of Peace, according to court documents.

There are links here to his LinkedIn, Medium and a website for a company he co-founded. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

He looks like a goddam teenager

Jesus Christ

Outdated data used in U.S. strike on elementary school in Iran School children were killed in the poorly informed attack. The New York Times reports on the unconscionable mistake: The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the r…

“Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency” flowingdata.com/2026/03/11/o...

I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

What stands out to me is the arrogance. The surefootedness that this was the correct thing to do despite no experience in government. The presumption that they were entitled to use their own uninformed judgement to cut funds to things that they don’t personally value www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

BREAKING: An Idaho House Committee passed HB 822. This dangerous and unconstitutional bill would require trusted adults, such as teachers and counselors, to monitor children for signs that they are not conforming to gender stereotypes. Learn more about the bill: buff.ly/7kw0CXu

‘I have never seen anything like it’: MP warns of rise in extreme views on race and identity Health minister Zubir Ahmed says new definition of anti-Muslim hostility could be a turning point as he tells of Islamophobic abuse Zubir Ahmed, a health minister, tries not to read the comments under his social media feeds, but sometimes curiosity gets the better of him. After performing a transplant on Christmas Day, the vascular surgeon scanned a post about the operation. Continue reading...

‘I have never seen anything like it’: MP warns of rise in extreme views on race and identity

See they don’t understand how anything works and just blurt shit out without knowing if it’s doable bsky.app/profile/bcfi...

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt-out expertoptout@superhuman.com.

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

He is lol

Crap I forgot alt text: my large long-haired orange rescue cat Sam sitting in his soft-sided carrier that’s connected to a luggage cart on wheels. He’s laying on a camouflage fleece blanket and the top of the carrier is open but he’s just laying inside, not thrilled to be at the vet’s office.

We were running right on time, then Sam saw the carrier and a panicked chase ensued. 20 minutes late for his checkup & nail trim at the vet but we made it 🫠 he weighs 20.8 lbs, almost the same as last year.

How a Maryland Farm Became a Federal Detention Warehouse A family land trust, a vacant warehouse, and $215 million in federal contracts trace the twenty-year path of a Maryland field to an ICE detention facility.

Your long read for the week. We reviewed 20 years' worth of property records, permits, county council meeting minutes, assessor data, business records, land plats — and more — to track how a derelict Western Maryland farm became the site of an emerging ICE concentration camp.

lol, of course the ADL is claiming that saying "Operation Epstein Fury" is antisemitic. What a joke of an organization.

A really thorough writeup

Are they investigating sharpie-gate 🫠

I don't know if they can ship them internationally www.abuelas.org.ar/acciones/253

Tom Morello visited the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo 🥹
Photos via: @abuelasdifusion.bsky.social

He really does not understand why ships won’t go through the Strait of Hormuz bsky.app/profile/3r1n...

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
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The mystery of a globetrotting iPhone-hacking toolkit Tools used in a series of hacking campaigns by hackers in Russia, Ukraine, and China may have originated inside U.S. government contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.

SCOOP: The iPhone mass hacking toolkit used by Russian spies was developed at U.S. military contractor L3Harris, former employees said.

The Coruna toolkit was used against Ukrainians and by Chinese cybercriminals, according to Google. But the toolkit was initially developed for Western governments.

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!

Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Ugh well I still lol’ed

New: A Houston woman is suing Tesla in Harris County, alleging that her Cybertruck, while using Tesla's "Full Self-Driving mode" tried to drive the car off of a bridge. Here is the dashcam footage provided by her lawyers: www.chron.com/culture/arti...