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Highly recommend following @tparsi.bsky.social for his knowledge & careful analysis of what is happening in Iran.

YouTube video by Mario Nawfal IRAN STRIKES SHIPS IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ - Trita Parsi On Iran War

Spoke at length with Mario Nawfal in theUAE about the war, how Tehran calculates its next moves, and why attacks against US bases in the GCC states are likely to continue...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Wg...

My brother and his partner are expecting a baby girl and there’s been a discussion of names. My mother brought up my great aunt, who she loved dearly: Exerene, a name I love also. Exerene practiced poetic recitation, memorizing and performing poetry. We’ll see but my fingers are crossed.

Trump has launched a war of “fury,” to “raze” and “annihilate,” that has already killed dozens of Iranian girls, reportedly cost the lives of U.S. servicemembers, and will kill many more of both. He is acting without authorization by Congress and flouting international law.

No one dreams of earning a college degree under wiretap conditions • NC Newsline At UNC-Chapel Hill, vague administrative threats to secretly record lectures are already changing the tenor of its classrooms.

This is a victory for all who care about higher education in North Carolina that happened to come one day after @ncaaup.bsky.social VP Abigail Hatcher’s op ed was published in @ncnewsline.com & NC AAUP packed the UNC System Board of Governors meeting.

Coincidence? 🤔

When We Fight, We Win!

ICE Moves Minneapolis Fleet to Williamsport Detention Warehouse As ICE builds out a detention infrastructure across the mid-Atlantic, equipment from its Minneapolis operation is heading to Maryland.

New reports that ICE is moving around 100 vehicles from Minneapolis to Washington Co, MD are alarming.

I’m pressing for answers & will continue to fight back against Trump’s lawless ICE & mass deportation operation in our communities. This is not what Marylanders want.

I don’t want revenge. I want everyone to be free.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Head of venture capital arm of Bloomberg is behind alliance of genocidal AI companies Microsoft & OpenAI; Anthropic; & @aft.org /UFT.

Meanwhile Michael Bloomberg is in Epstein files as a friend of Maxwell's & for blocking his news from investigating Epstein.

WHO IS PROTECTING THE CHILDREN???

@aft.org is this what you want in US classrooms? Monitoring teachers & students? Censoring LLMs? Potentially keeping federal files on children as the Dept of Education is dismantled?? This isnt about states' or parental rights. This fascist govt wants total surveillance & control of education.

We cannot let fascists set the lines of what is ethical and what is not ethical. We cannot let fascists move the goalposts so far that "99% of use cases in AI by the *department of war*" is progress or the progressive option here.

Don't let fascists tell you what to do.

Read the full transcript of our interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sat down with CBS News for an exclusive interview Friday, hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the company a supply chain risk to national security.

Interview transcript:

www.cbsnews.com/news/anthrop...

So these are war-hawks, nationalists, and imperialists, collaborators in genocide, the kidnapping of Maduro, the unfolding situation in Iran, who are more than happy to work with Trump on 99% of use cases by their own admission.

Anthropic, which is partnering w @aft.org & UFT to put AI in classrooms.

Anthropic's Claude is already integrated at Northeastern, recording lectures & supplying students w summarized notes, among other things. Probably no potential for surveillance of teachers & students, censorship, entrapment.

Epstein was involved with arms traffickers also.

The attack and killing of Iran’s supreme leader is a grave violation of Iran’s sovereignty and security. It tramples on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and basic norms in international relations. China firmly opposes and strongly condemns it. We urge for an immediate stop to the military operations, no further escalation of the tense situation and joint effort to maintain peace and stability in the Middle East and the world at large.

Beijing:

2017 Feinberg & Erik Prince wanted to privatize war in Afghanistan. Military didn't agree.

...killers. Feinberg competed to enter the space business; he is invested in rare Earth minerals & just got the Pentagon invested as well. The Pentagon has become a lending institution for the Trumps, lending to Don Jr business. The list goes on & on. The goal is greed & profit.

...he hires retired US generals, the 1st head of Space Force. He bought 3% of Deutschebank & got advisroy contract w the bank when Trump & Kushner's accounts were flagged for likely moneylaundering tied to Russia. Any investigation was stopped. Cerberus owns Tier 1 Group, which trained Khashoggi's..

I wonder if we are underestimating role of #2 at Pentagon Stephen Feinberg who has been a war profiteer on level of Erik Prince in Iraq & Afghanistan. A Cheney of this era, out-Cheyneying Cheyney. His private company Cerberus hired VP Quayle; Bush Treas Sec John Snow; former head of CIA's In-Q-Tel;

Yeah. Serial international election fixer Paul Manafort still says he's "the man closest to Donald Trump." Manafort grew up among the Italian mafia. Many buildings burned in his hometown. His family, Manafort Brothers demolition/construction, got the contract to clear Ground Zero after 9/11.

Head of venture capital arm of Bloomberg is behind alliance of genocidal AI companies Microsoft & OpenAI; Anthropic; & @aft.org /UFT.

Meanwhile Michael Bloomberg is in Epstein files as a friend of Maxwell's & for blocking his news from investigating Epstein.

WHO IS PROTECTING THE CHILDREN???

As @shanley.com was saying.

Meanwhile 2 major US teachers' unions @aft.org & UFT join w Pentagon contractors Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI (the latter 2 were instrumental to genocide & scholasticide in Gaza) to form an AI academy to put AI from these murderous companies into US schools & unis.

Are our power-sick leaders not afraid other nations will attack us, invade us, or is that what they want? Their hubris has complete control. Don't they remember Japan, Germany not that long ago? We have 40% of global military spending for 4% of world population, #TaxationWithoutRepresentation 💔

Endless wars won’t make anyone safer or bring anyone justice or freedom. The only true safety is shared safety. The only true freedom is freedom for all.

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The people of Iran are experiencing a brutal U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign. U.S.-made bombs have already struck schools in Iran, killing children and other civilians. This new reality comes after Iranians have already endured a fascist, repressive regime and crippling U.S. economic sanctions.

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Anti-war protest in downtown Chicago.

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The hate speech, misogyny, ICE raids, rolling back of affirmative action & trans rights, violating human rights of children, women, trans people to modern health care & bodily autonomy, rolling back EPA regulations will have lifelong harmful effects on our children. #SiSePuede #StandWithChildren!!

Meanwhile Epstein's close friend Ito moved back to Japan to start an illustrious career including a small side project of a school for young children. WHO IS PROTECTING THE CHILDREN @japantimes.co.jp ??
The girls & boys of this world are canaries in the coal mine. Children's rights are human rights.